Yeah, all of that sounds good. What time do you want to do that on Saturday? I 
will set an alarm so hopefully I remember.

-AndrewBuck

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> On Sep 11, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Andrew, I was planning on doing what might be needed for the activation.  In 
> seeing these posts, I thought perhaps the activation needed some 
> supplementary training items. I really defer to activation leads. (This can, 
> of course become a new email chain.)
> 
> Here are some ideas that I came up with for HOT Digital Saturday (happy to 
> cowork):
> 
> 1. Create some supplementary training materials - even a prime list of key 
> tags like huts, mines building on 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa tips. Again, only if 
> you think it is a priority. This could be blogged or a shared gdoc. 
> 
> 2. Map the tiles in task manager (which are very important). 
> 
> 3. Update the wiki page with HOT activation milestones and any media
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response
> 
> Thanks so much
> 
> heather
> 
> 
> Heather Leson
> [email protected]
> Twitter: HeatherLeson 
> Blog: textontechs.com
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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])
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