Hello,

Do you have any screenshot that shows the error during installation?

Maybe we can help.

Cheers.
On Jul 3, 2013 6:50 AM, "Andrew Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have had our second meeting of the experimental support team assisting
> the ground team in Togo.  We plan to continue meeting once per day
> continuing forward to keep the community informed of the situation on the
> ground.  Even though the email about the first meeting yesterday was late
> in getting our to the list (and therefore has only been up for a few hours)
> we have already had some interest in helping with the ground team, so thank
> you to the people who have already offered support.
>
>
>
> Overview:
>
> There was less to discuss tonight as the situation has not changed on the
> ground from yesterday.  Most of the discussion was focused on preparation
> for future deployments and collaboration.
>
>
>
> Current Needs:
>
> The ground teams are trying to set up QGIS on windows and are having
> problems with crashes in the install process (seems to be related to Visual
> Basic).  If there are HOTties who have experience with this issue help
> would be appreciated.
>
> They are moving forward with discussions with the national forestry
> department of Togo, however discussions are still in their early stages and
> the forestry reps are unfamiliar with OSM.  It was suggested that general
> mapping of landuse is good but no specific goals for the forestry project
> have been established.  Nicolas is going to try to get us an area to use as
> a "test area" for forestry mapping tomorrow.
>
> The solicitation for translators put out yesterday continues (one response
> so far).  We still don't have a list of what to translate but it will be
> blog posts (French to English) and other similar kinds of text.  The list
> should be ready tomorrow.
>
>
>
> For discussion:
>
> Internet is quite slow in these developing countries and so the idea was
> discussed of preloading the JOSM imagery cache with Bing (and possibly
> other) imagery data for the area where the computers will be sent.  These
> imagery caches would not be shared publicly, just loaded onto our field
> computers and then sent out so that they make fewer requests over the net
> for imagery tiles as most can be met by the cache.  We would like to know
> if this is OK to do as per the license agreements we have with Bing.
>
> Finally, before the field team moves on to Burkina Faso to set up the next
> volunteer mapping team they will have access to high speed internet to
> prepare the computers they will deliver to Burkina Faso.  We should try to
> preload these computers with as much software as they are likely to need,
> as well as any large files that would make sense to load on them so they do
> not have to be downloaded "in country".  We have started a wiki page at the
> address below to aggregate a list of these things.  Please contribute any
> suggestions you think may be useful.
>
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Preparing_field_mission
>
>
> Thanks again to those who contributed since the last summary email went
> out and we look forward to hearing your feedback going forward.
>
> Signed,
> The Members of the Togo Experimental Support Team
>
> Pierre Béland
> Andrew Buck
> Will Skora
>
>
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