Hi Mhairi Thanks four invitation. I'm sorry that I can't attend the Technical WG meeting today at 17:00 UTC. But I assume and hope Blake can. It seemed to me that he's leading a process since he wrote:
2015-05-20 15:47 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot <[email protected]>: > I just want to put a small slow down on this process. > > HOT is in the midst of discussing its over all tagging strategy and needs to > do so on the public lists shortly here. Cheers, Stefan 2015-06-08 6:33 GMT+02:00 Mhairi O'Hara <[email protected]>: > Hey Stefan, > > We are currently working on a project aimed at tidying and enhancing the > Export Tool and are drafting a usability questionnaire as part of it in > order to address some of these issues you have mentioned in your messages > linked to the tweet. > > This is exactly what is needed and what we would like to achieve. I am going > through your proposed lists, but would love more of your input and was > wondering if you will be attending the Technical WG meeting today at 17:00 > UTC? > > Kind regards, > > Mhairi O'Hara > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Stefan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear HOT team >> >> Take the chance and discuss common tags, document them in the wiki, >> cleanup the wiki, and update the preset file [1]. >> >> -S. >> >> [1] https://twitter.com/sfkeller/status/607323469202747393 >> >> >> >> 2015-05-20 15:47 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot <[email protected]>: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I just want to put a small slow down on this process. >> > >> > HOT is in the midst of discussing its over all tagging strategy and >> > needs to >> > do so on the public lists shortly here. >> > >> > quickly as to the potential helicopter landing sites: >> > >> > aeroway=helipad >> > >> > Is _only_ for confirmed helipads. That tag means something and it is not >> > for >> > guesses. If something is marked aeroway=helipad it is because there is a >> > Circle H there or someone on the ground has confirmed it is a helipad. >> > >> > Even something like emergency=landing_site is too concrete for the >> > potential >> > landing sites we have been mapping. >> > >> > We have settled for now on: >> > >> > emergency:helipad=potential >> > damage:event=nepal_earthquake_2015 >> > >> > To emphasize these are just potential sites and literally nothing more. >> > It >> > is not easy to properly identify actual, for sure, emergency landing >> > sites >> > via aerial imagery. We have been getting feedback from on the ground >> > that >> > some of the areas we identified are in fact acceptable and we can then >> > change potential to yes. >> > >> > So I have started the process of going over the wiki pages Stefan >> > pointed >> > out and thinking about how the requests for our mapping have evolved >> > since >> > then, which is really what drives all our mapping and tagging, requests >> > from >> > our field partners. >> > >> > Speak with you all soon, >> > Cheers, >> > Blake >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 5/20/2015 2:14 PM, Andreas Goss wrote: >> >>> >> >>> there seems to be little information related to the emergency relief >> >>> effort. In over 366,000 records there are only 19 marked as aeroway = >> >>> helipad. >> >> >> >> >> >> I already brought this up on the tagging mailinglist. The problem is >> >> that someone had the great idea to tag those as leisure=common, which >> >> is >> >> honestly one of the worst defined and most abigious OSM Tags in geneal >> >> (in my opinion this is a UK only tag due to legal implications), just >> >> check out the Wiki. >> >> And what makes it really bad is that you can correctly tag places as >> >> leisure=common where no helicopter can land. >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dcommon >> >> >> >> Now aeroway=helipad probablay wasn't used, because it's really meant >> >> for >> >> places designed and designated for a helicopter to land not just where >> >> it could land. Even though the decription isn't that clear, I think it >> >> was the correct move not to use it. >> >> >> >> The question is why not have a new tag? >> >> And then it actually turned out that in Poland they are already using a >> >> Tag that could have been used by HOT: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Dlanding_site >> >> >> >> __________ >> >> openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 >> >> wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 > > > > > -- > Mhairi O'Hara > Technical Project Manager > Mobile: +62 822 4701 1475 > Email: [email protected] > twitter | linkedin | facebook | website > > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Using OpenStreetMap > for Humanitarian Response > & Economic Development _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
