What are you planning for sat morning? I am away from home but could skype or mumble and could easily put JOSM on a computer here. If you just need examples and advice on how to interpret stuff that works fine for me.
-AndrewBuck Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. I am going to ping Andrew Buck. this is something I could do Saturday > morning if I have a complete list of what is needed. > > H > > Heather Leson > [email protected] > Twitter: HeatherLeson > Blog: textontechs.com > >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Claire Halleux <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi Heather >> Definitely! That's the kind of material currently pushed by Blake Girardot >> and the Training WG, even if it's not done in a Gdoc but likely through the >> wiki, we are still gathering pictures and investigating licensing issues. >> Anyone who wants to help on this is welcome to join our discussion or >> meetings. >> >> Huts had been a bit part of a recurring discussion, which explains the >> specific posting. >> Thanks, >> >> Claire >> >> >> Claire Halleux >> Volunteer and Member of the Board >> +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> >> http://www.hotosm.org/ >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response >> >>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> Nick and others, >>> >>> Last week Andrew was helping someone identify and tag mines. Today, Nick is >>> explaining huts. >>> >>> Do you think that it would help to have a basic compilation of tags, >>> satellite screenshots and pictures to help guide new mappers for this >>> region? We could simply start a google doc for pictures, tags and just keep >>> adding it. >>> >>> It might help with accuracy. >>> >>> Let me know and I can help. >>> >>> heather >>> >>> Heather Leson >>> [email protected] >>> Twitter: HeatherLeson >>> Blog: textontechs.com >>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Nick Allen <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> A recent post on this list led me to investigate the tag building=hut. >>>> >>>> I'm not entirely sure that I remember it's history within HOT, but I >>>> believe many of us started using it on round thatched dwellings at the >>>> start of the Ebola outbreak. I've been creating a circle of the correct >>>> size and tagging the way as 'building=hut' in much the same way as we >>>> create a rectangle / polygon on a square sided structure and tag it >>>> building=yes. The info on the main tagging wiki at >>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building shows the tag being used >>>> on an area, not a node. >>>> >>>> I've had a quick look on overpassturbo for part of Liberia, and there are >>>> clusters of the tag, in some places on a node & in others on a polygon - >>>> on at least one occasion the node has a comment similar to '7 huts'. >>>> >>>> A quick query on taginfo for building=hut; >>>> All 832415, >>>> Node 8113 >>>> Way 824247 >>>> Relation 55 >>>> >>>> The purpose of creating the polygon was for the clever GIS folk to analyse >>>> and create population estimates, when used in conjunction with the >>>> landuse=residential polygon which needs to be traced fairly closely around >>>> the perimeter of the cluster of buildings to allow accurate estimates >>>> of population for a village / hamlet / town (Something to do with area >>>> calculations). I suspect that it is still being used for that purpose, and >>>> will continue to do so. Also if the building is traced it appears on the >>>> map, but if it is a node it does not. On the basis you can do a more >>>> accurate calculation on the area from the polygon & you can't do it on a >>>> node that could represent an unknown quantity of buildings I think we need; >>>> * When remote mapping an area, unless the task description says otherwise, >>>> create a polygon for the round dwelling and tag it building=hut >>>> * To ensure our own training & reference sites, such as wiki pages, >>>> LearnOSM and slide shows or other materials are up to date - if it's wrong >>>> & you can't fix it, at least highlight it so someone can. >>>> -- >>>> Nick >>>> Volunteer 'Tallguy' for >>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team >>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy >>>> Treasurer, website & Bonus Ball admin for >>>> http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ ([email protected]) >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
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