Re: [OSM-talk] Why the HOT obsession with low quality buildings in Africa ?

Many humanitarian groups use buildings as a rough proxy for population (density), or to ensure every household is covered during a vaccination campaign, or simply to navigate. Likely they use them for a combination of the three. As Phil says, it’s best to read the specific task. As a side note,

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

HOT will probably never find a formulation of our mission and tools that satisfies the entire OSM community. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. My two cents: How about a simple blurb describing and linking to OSM on the About page? And perhaps the title banner could be rephrased to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

Really interesting conversation and tips here. My team at the GFDRR has been tiptoeing in this direction for a while. To date we’ve mostly been involved in one-off data creation projects that demonstrate OSM’s value the governments we work with and

Re: [Talk-us] Join us for another import party at the L.A. Times June 25

trofit/ > Story: > http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-quake-risk-20160415-story.html > New github repo to track this idea: > https://github.com/socal-osm/earthquake-risk > > Jon > > On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Robert Banick <rban...@gmail.com> wrote: > &g

Re: [Talk-us] Join us for another import party at the L.A. Times June 25

Hey Jonathon, This looks great, it’s fantastic to see the LA Times leading on this work. Adding buildings to LA is super cool. Having grown up in suburbanized Atlanta I know it’s a lot harder to wander about and add buildings than in, say, New York or Berlin. Quick question: do you all have any

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

HOT eases people into OSM and gives them an easily understood purpose to begin mapping. Some HOTties go on to be power OSMers outside of HOT; some never step away from HOT. Both reflect individual preferences, not any isolating tendency by HOT. HOT tries to build communities and encourages

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

Hi all, Surely this is a case of “more is better”. As Kate suggests, the hashtags are a great tool for downstream analytics we can use to learn about and improve our work. At mapathons I always instruct newcomers to add their personal comments to the pre-loaded tags from the tasking

Re: [OSM-talk] Help with JOSM and OS X Yosemite

Hi Susan, In a Mac OS X you can search for Console under Spotlight (the spyglass on the top right of your computer, reachable by CMD-Space). Open the program that shows up and you'll have the log for all your system messages. Great for looking into mysterious errors. Best, Robert On Thu, Jul

Re: [OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

Hi All, First off, let me say that I’ve really enjoyed this discussion. I admire the mixture of passion and overall civility on a really difficult topic. I’ve honestly learned some things reading all your replies. I have a lot of thoughts about remote mapping vs. on the ground mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

+1 to Dave. OSM is universal, full stop. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Dave Corley davecor...@gmail.com wrote: I am honestly stunned this thread has gone on for as long as it has. In regards to On 05/28/2015 09:19 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: What I would not support in OSM, and like to

Re: [OSM-talk] BBC License Violation?

Agreed with all the above. No sense coming across very small in a disaster, but it is an opportunity to tell our story. Whether the BBC bites or not is really out of our control.  — Sent from Mailbox On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Harry could you

[OSM-talk] BBC License Violation?

Hi All, I was reading the below linked article on the BBC today and came across the map. It looks like they’re using OSM-derived internally displaced person (IDP) camp data without attribution. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20039682 Based on what I’m reading in the relevant coordination

Re: [OSM-talk] BBC License Violation?

at 9:46 PM, SomeoneElse li...@atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 01/05/2015 22:18, Robert Banick wrote: Hi All, I was reading the below linked article on the BBC today and came across the map. It looks like they’re using OSM-derived internally displaced person (IDP) camp data without attribution

Re: [OSM-talk] BBC License Violation?

This: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32551499 Map at bottom — Sent from Mailbox On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: same problem with me.    Pierre De : Simon Poole si...@poole.ch À : talk@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 1 mai

[talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] HOT Summit 2015 - Scholarship Program Announcement​

FYI all. I know many of you have been involved with HOT in some capacity in the past.  — Sent from Mailbox Begin forwarded message: On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com, wrote: Greetings everyone! The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [HOT] is hosting

Re: [OSM-talk] Use of OSM by municipalities

I know that some municipalities in the Philippines are using OSM data as a foundational dataset. You should check with Jay-Ar (osm: jay-ar) for more info, he was telling me about it. — Sent from Mailbox On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is

Re: [OSM-talk] How We Map

Agreed with all of the above, this is a great, concise, and friendly piece. I would love for this to be accessible not just for new signees but available for old timers looking for a nice refresher — Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Ed Loach edlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 11

Re: [talk-ph] [Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby] Visual tagging guide.

I agree with Andrew. We did one of these tagging guides back in 2012 when we mapped Gulu, Uganda, and it proved super helpful. It would be great to have this hosted somewhere as an example of best practices in humanitarian mapping. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Andrew Buck

Re: [talk-ph] Mappy Hour Yolanda Anniversary (Nov 7?)

All, I'm really bummed to say I'll miss this, as I'll still be in Tacloban. Dale and I have created a Missing Maps task for Red Cross work in Leyte, I hope you all can make a dent in it. Take lots of photos and share back any presentations from Nick! On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:28 AM, maning

Re: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers

Hi Nick, You should check out the private data store pioneered by HOT in Indonesia. That was used to link private household data to OSM polygons. We're looking to do something similar with American Red Cross data -- still at the whiteboard stage though. Cheers, Robert On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at

Re: [talk-ph] Fwd: [HOT] A new, very good, article about HOT from Fast Company

Hi All, There's also a nice article about the Missing Maps project out with Fast Co Design: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3037423/how-the-missing-maps-project-is-crowdsourcing-data-on-hundreds-of-uncharted-cities The article makes it sound like we're already up and running, when in fact we're

Re: [talk-ph] Missing Maps Project

really like the idea of partnering with local OSM communities and y'all have really built a good one here. Any takers? Best, Robert Banick On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Saw this in the Guardian and thought I'd share it http://www.theguardian.com/cities

Re: [talk-ph] Missing Maps Project

interest on your side. We really like the idea of partnering with local OSM communities and y'all have really built a good one here. Any takers? Best, Robert Banick On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Jim Morgan j...@datalude.com wrote: Saw this in the Guardian and thought I'd share it http

Re: [OSM-talk] NY Times OSM Credits

Hi all, I'm forwarding this to contacts at the NYT graphics desk. I know the NYT team are big fans of OSM and even attended this year's SOTM-US, so it's probably an honest mistake. I'll ask them to respond directly. Cheers, Robert On Sep 15, 2014 10:49 PM, Cristian Consonni

Re: [talk-ph] Guagua mapping progress and tagging evacuation centers

So the idea is that evacuation centers are marked in OSM and additional, time-sensitive data are linked externally to these features? On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:58 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Very interesting discussions, which I think will be very helpful for many DRR

Re: [talk-ph] Guagua mapping progress and tagging evacuation centers

HI all, Just to reiterate Chad's points, finding a way to tag evacuation shelters would be a huge step for humanitarian uses of GIS. The Red Cross would definitely use that data and in fact already has plans to contribute such data on the drawing board. A few thoughts on the specific tagging

Re: [Talk-cl] Tarea en HOTOSM

Parece que hay 9932 en este momento 2014-04-16 10:00 GMT-04:00 Álvaro Monares G. amona...@dcc.uchile.cl: Prueba esta consulta http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/35l Son todos los building=yes que son way y que fueron creados después del domingo a las 16 hora de Chile. Saludos Álvaro Monares G.

Re: [OSM-talk] Appeal for a JOSM fieldpapers plugin

Indeed, I can't stress enough how useful this would be On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Douglas Musaazi douglasmusa...@yahoo.comwrote: +1 A week ago, the same issue was raised on a mapping event where the field papers were used, so i totally agree with the appeal for a JOSM fieldpapers

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)

Sorry to jump in only so briefly, but a small point struck me reading this discussion: I don't accept that an image is a beneficial replacement for the text. When I say beneficial, I mean beneficial to OpenStreetMap. As a cartographic project, isn't the whole point of OSM visual? It seems a