Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-23 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi, > This is exactly the reason why I advocate reusing existing, proved, > known technology : > OpenStreetBugs > that has already been tried in crisis situation (see wiki/Task) > and which just needs a new NAME As per your request there is a dedicated OSB instance for haiti available at ose.petsc

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Iván Sánchez Ortega a écrit : El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see it. Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ? Seems great, and certainly useful. But I am not on the ground to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: > PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see > it. Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ? -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega Aviso: Este e-mail es confidencial y no deber

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
I agree ! (with your beginning, not your conclusion) This is exactly the reason why I advocate reusing existing, proved, known technology : OpenStreetBugs that has already been tried in crisis situation (see wiki/Task) and which just needs a new NAME over waiting for specialized solutions to b

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Erik Johansson escribió: > I always wondered if those hospitals on the OSM main map for Haiti was > really up an running. Is it really an amenity=hospital of no patients > can go there? Hey, you're welcome to the "tagging wars" over here. How to define the smoothn

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: > So please do not reject a usage that could turn out to be useful just > because you consider that OSM was "not designed for it". > > From a technical point of view, this kind of info weighs nothing > compared with the imagery and ca

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Pieren, I just entered two sample requests in OpenStreetBug, to try. At Milot and Diquini hospitals (real requests, just withholding contact details for now). It looks quite good to me, and really easy to use. Going to put a task for an OSMbug clone with a new name in the wiki. (I guess we

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread David G. Smith PE PLS
SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !] Erik Johansson a écrit : 2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega <mailto:i...@sanchezortega.es> : El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: What do you think of this suggestion folks ? I haven&#

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Erik Johansson a écrit : 2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega : El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: What do you think of this suggestion folks ? I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM w

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread maning sambale
We made similar osmbug instance during typhoon ketsana in the Philippines http://osb.maps.jsintl.org/ Perhaps you can adapt and improve it. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > Pieren a écrit : > > 2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton >> >> So I'd say : if everybody is needi

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Pieren a écrit : 2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton mailto:j...@arkemie.com>> So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where they can pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be known that OSM can do it ? Especially if they already have it with them on the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-22 Thread Pieren
2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton > So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where they can > pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be known that OSM can > do it ? Especially if they already have it with them on their GPS or > iPhones... > > And let people decide whet

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-21 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 01:28 +0100, Erik Johansson wrote: > 2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > > El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: > >> What do you think of this suggestion folks ? > >> > >> I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to > >> forward

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-21 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Iván It was my understanding that OSM may not have been originally designed with this in mind. (And my wording and typing may be awkward after the little sleep I have had in the past week.) Yet it makes it possible, easy and quick. And with all the maps/apps build on it, someone will quickly

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-21 Thread Erik Johansson
2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega : > El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: >> What do you think of this suggestion folks ? >> >> I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to >> forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki. > > Well, OSM was n

Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió: > What do you think of this suggestion folks ? > > I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to > forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki. Well, OSM was never designed as a note-passing platform.

[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] FW: I NEED SUPPLIES NOW/ Location of Functioning Hospital : OSM PIPELINE SUGGESTED !]

2010-01-21 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
What do you think of this suggestion folks ? I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki. Tag specialists : please say what should be used (I am too tired to check what other groups, ushahidi, sahana, etc are usin