[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Re: World Ba nk, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 24 January 2010]

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Message original Sujet : [CrisisMappers] Re: World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 24 January 2010 Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:23:56 -0800 (PST) De :Chris Répondre à :crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Pour : CrisisMappers

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 24 January 2010]

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Forwarding again with this link to the original content, with flightplan figure included : http://groups.google.com/group/osm-emergency/browse_thread/thread/4d880f22777a28a9 Jean-Guilhem Message original Sujet : [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensin

[OSM-talk] Symbolic Exercise

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
People, You are cordially invited to have a look at http://ose.petschge.de/ and sign your presence there by clicking on the purple line along the coast of Haiti. Description tag: OSM-Emergency Symbolic Exercise Creative comments are welcome. Pick your node, go ! Jean-Guilhem :)

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 24 January 2010]

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Message original Sujet : [CrisisMappers] World Bank, GFDRR, RIT, ImageCAT Remote Sensing Mission to Haiti ‐ Status Report ‐ 24 January 2010 Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:24:14 -0500 De :sg...@worldbank.org Répondre à :crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Pour : undisclosed-

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping the Haiti Camps Up to Date

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Regarding Carrefour, Gressier and Leogane coverage by the World Bank's flights, there is an image of the flight plan in : http://groups.google.com/group/osm-emergency/browse_thread/thread/87a753027d155752 (click on the image to download, but it remains a quicklook) You can see that Carrefour, Gr

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping the Haiti Camps Up to Date

2010-01-25 Thread Margie Roswell
I found the google doc convenient. Not sure what the workflow would be with the GPX file. One nice trick might be finding the boundary rectangle for the various satellite images, and generating the URL link from that. (rather than only generating the Google URL, where many points fell outside of t

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping the Haiti Camps Up to Date

2010-01-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Margie, Not sure what "something else" means. I could make a GPX file which can be loaded in Potlatch. The one thing with the direct link from the Google Doc is the item you are editing in the center of the window. The newest imagery covers a larger area so it might be okay just to do another go

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Brad Neuhauser
OK, I went back and found the message referenced on the wiki: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047477.html J-G forwarded a message that included a link to the USGS maps. The message was in response to someone looking for an updated street index, and it spun off from ther

Re: [OSM-talk] Keeping the Haiti Camps Up to Date

2010-01-25 Thread Margie Roswell
I did a slew of those points-to-polygons, yay! :) The Google Doc with the links (I'm guessing you're referring to the point-to-polygon spreadsheet?) was very helpful. What do you mean by "something else?" Bring it on! Best Regards, Margie On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Karl Guggisberg
I wrote (guessed) part of what is on the wiki because there was just this list of PDF documents and no furthern info. I'm looking for confirmations/corrections from people who are actually involved in producing these maps. Discussion was to complete OSM data from the USGS maps but the way it l

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Let's try to call for a little homegrown OSM_Emergency here : Gentlemen JOSM developers, would you be so kind to get copy and paste working in JOSM on Margie's Mac, please ? :) Yeah, try to figure out how the sticky map works. Once you do, it's a snap to get anywhere. Jean-Guilhem, same her

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Margie Roswell
Jean-Guilhem, thanks for forwarding my note... I have a weird Kinesis keyboard, so I don't know if my copy/paste-in-JOSM problem is Kinesis specific, or not. Anyone else use JOSM on a mac? If so, are you able to copy and paste in the WMS setup? By the way, I'd love a session on Saturday at DC Cri

[OSM-talk] Keeping the Haiti Camps Up to Date

2010-01-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, We are doing great on moving from points to polygons with all the refugee campsites. We now have awesome 8cm imagery available from the 22nd. Was the google doc I made helpful? Would you like something else? I could add more links with other imagery. I know reloading the flash is an

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Is the whole thing on the wiki just wrong? I haven't looked extensively, but the street names appear to match up. This would make sense as the map says "Street data courtesy openstreetmap.org" If there were any other data, it would probably be from MINUSTAH, but that's already mentioned on the O

Re: [OSM-talk] haiti: use osm-matrix

2010-01-25 Thread Jan Tappenbeck
Am 25.01.2010 13:09, schrieb Simone Cortesi: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:05, Jan Tappenbeck wrote: >> so use http://projekte.eiops.de/osm-matrix/ ! >> >> regards Jan :-) > > is the source code for this now available somewhere? > Dear Simone, i modifiy the programm less and had to test - it is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Margie Roswell
I'm sure refugee=yes is going to be helpful! I think in the documentation it says S, which is why that never worked for me. (That's from memory...) Ah, here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Potlatch-cheatsheet.svg Can someone correct that? (Change S to B) On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:34 P

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Adrian Brain
Add one vote for this from me. I think I read somewhere that the World Bank imagery effort was going to be spread over several days so would it be possible/sensible/advisable to make the automated tag read "Source=WorldBank, 2010-01-22/31" or something like it? (ps note the typo below for Googl

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Margie Roswell wrote: > Are there other source codes that people are using frequently, > that we might like to request be added to potlatch? On the specific issue of source= tags, Potlatch best practice is that you select the imagery you want from the popup menu, then use the B (for 'background'

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Margie Roswell
This is a great offer (to be able to make potlatch more efficient for Haiti mapping) Can the group come to a consensus that it'll be helpful to have the following codes added to potlatch Refugee=Yes Source=Google, 2010-01-7 Source=WorldBank, 2010-01-22 Are there other source codes that people ar

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Adrian Brain
Hi Karl, I had trouble understanding what these were too. The pdf's are from Delta State University  (here) and represent the difference between the road names on the USGS maps and the road names on osm. Names present on the USGS maps but NOT in osm are highlighted in black. That is very usefu

Re: [OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Karl Guggisberg
Hi Adrian I also had a look at these maps and I still don't understand completely how they relate to OSM. The map already displays the OSMs road network, but where do the street names in the USGS map come from? They aren't taken from OSM, are they? Are there indeed two road networks in the USG

[OSM-talk] USGS map areas with street names

2010-01-25 Thread Adrian Brain
Wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Street_names contains a section called "USGS map areas with street names" which contains a list of pdf's with osm data overlain on USGS imagery with streetnames missing from osm at the time of preparation highlighted - these need ad

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Haiti Field requirement: Haiti OSM maps in PDF

2010-01-25 Thread Brad Neuhauser
In case you haven't seen these, the folks at Delta State University have been making PDFs with the MGRS grid of much of the main earthquake zone (and using some OSM data)--see them here: http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster/201001_Earthquake_Haiti/data/map_products/MISSISSIPPI_DELTA_STATE_MA

Re: [OSM-talk] The links for OffMaps and GaiaGPS were wrong in the wiki !

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Ok. Apologies for the exclamation marks. The links were wrong from the start, apparently from a good-willed person, who knew as little about wiki as I did. I shoudn't have raised the tone. Another too tired one. Jean-Guilhem Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit : > The links for OffMaps and GaiaGPS

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Haiti Field requirement: Haiti OSM maps in PDF

2010-01-25 Thread Andy Gates
Just picking up on this, the chatter I've heard suggests that it would be *very* helpful to overlay printed maps with the NATO MGRS grid. (MapOSMatic generates its own arbitrary grid: pretty, but not as useful in this situation.) @spara came up with this tidy lat/long and MGRS location finder, so

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
Cool, good to know. Igor On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Chris Browet wrote: > Funny you speak about that... > > I recently found back my ages old Wacom Tablet and tried it with > Merkaartor. > Looks like Qt has some kind of builtin supoort for tablets (or was it > Windows 7?) but it worked o

[OSM-talk] The links for OffMaps and GaiaGPS were wrong in the wiki !

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
The links for OffMaps and GaiaGPS were wrong in the wiki ! How can that be ? Don't they know that there are people leaving in a hurry for Haiti, with many other worries than running after a broken link ? I cannot believe that someone editing such essential links would not check them at least o

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
David Earl frankieandshadow.com> writes: > > I guess it depends who you ask. I think it's that Java and Windows take > a different view about what constitutes a click as a combination of up > and down events, rather than being a bug in anything. Having said that, > the Java treatment is excee

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Re: Damaged building density and gathering areas at Jacmel]]]

2010-01-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Message original Sujet : [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Damaged building density and gathering areas at Jacmel]] Date : Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:27:50 +0100 De :Jean-Guilhem Cailton Pour : crisismapp...@googlegroups.com This is a request from the ground for public avail

Re: [OSM-talk] haiti: use osm-matrix

2010-01-25 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:05, Jan Tappenbeck wrote: > so use http://projekte.eiops.de/osm-matrix/ ! > > regards Jan :-) is the source code for this now available somewhere? -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/01/2010 12:00, Igor Brejc wrote: > Yes, I noticed this clicking problem with JOSM myself, and it is > annoying. Is it Java or just JOSM-specific problem? In OS (Windows at > least), the mouse-down and mouse-up events are treated separately, so I > don't see why it would be problem if the mous

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
David, Yes, I noticed this clicking problem with JOSM myself, and it is annoying. Is it Java or just JOSM-specific problem? In OS (Windows at least), the mouse-down and mouse-up events are treated separately, so I don't see why it would be problem if the mouse moves in between. Anyway, thanks for

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Browet
Funny you speak about that... I recently found back my ages old Wacom Tablet and tried it with Merkaartor. Looks like Qt has some kind of builtin supoort for tablets (or was it Windows 7?) but it worked out-of-the-box (in tablet mode, not mouse emulation). That made me add a hand grabbing icon to

Re: [OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/01/2010 10:29, Igor Brejc wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm thinking about buying a digital tablet and use it for drawing maps > in JOSM/Potlatch/... Has anyone had any experience with digital tablets > and GIS work (or even better - OSM work). I'm considering buying > something cheap, like Wacom

[OSM-talk] Using digital tablet for drawing maps

2010-01-25 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi everyone, I'm thinking about buying a digital tablet and use it for drawing maps in JOSM/Potlatch/... Has anyone had any experience with digital tablets and GIS work (or even better - OSM work). I'm considering buying something cheap, like Wacom Bamboo (link is below), but I don't know if it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Timeline animation of Haïti map evoluti on

2010-01-25 Thread Eric Marsden
> "lz" == Liz writes: lz> That seems to be the best way to get publicity these days so I presume someone lz> needs to put them on those places. lz> Eric are they CC videos? OK, I have uploaded them you the Youtube which may make viewing more convenient for some people. Por