Re: [HOT] Addresses in Africa
El onsdag 31. august 2016 08.29.01 CEST usted escribió: > "bottle area codes" > > I like the idea but [...] A bit like net neutrality I think postcode would > be more neutral. I kinda disagree. Postcodes won't be neutral, because (as we've seen from previous conversations) post offices/agencies tend to squeeze money from that kind of data if they can. Call me crazy, but I think beer (with local breweries and more than one brand, AFAIK) might be the most neutral commodity for this scenario, as it reaches and is demanded by illiterate population (unlike post!). I'm thinking crazy experiments such as "beer census" - fill a form that comes with the beer cases, those get bundled up the hierarchy, then you compile the info, then you can send one free **addressed beer** back to everyone. All of a sudden you create a demand for addressability. Of course, people in the ground will have the best knowledge, but I stand in my point: it's unwise to consider post offices/agencies the prime (or only) source for any kind of survey of area codes. -- Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es> <i...@geonerd.org> <i...@mazemap.no> ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags
El Jueves 22. enero 2015 01.18.52 Blake Girardot escribió: As to the tagging suggestion, Ralph, I _think_ the current best practice is to tag an intermittent stream or river like this: waterway=river (or stream) intermittent=yes or seasonal=yes I think we should follow the example of the abandoned: namespace, as in http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Key:abandoned , and use something like: intermmitent:waterway=river or seasonal:waterway=river This instantly solves the problem of roads that can be driven only on dry seasons: seasonal:road=secondary And solves the semantics problem of which aspects of the feature are seasonal and which are not (e.g. the name of a waterway or road doesn't change through seasons) As this has already been done to abandoned and disused features, I guess that all the data conversion tools are ready for something like it. Cheers, -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es i...@geonerd.org ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise
El Martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013 12:10:28 Jonas Shorn escribió: If you could point me to a project which we could contribute to particularly at the moment, i would be very happy and grateful! Pick your poison: http://tasks.hotosm.org/ Best, -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise
El Martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013 14:30:39 usted escribió: Thanks Ivan :-) I thought there might be a patricular project very urgent at the moment! But then, i will just pick a task for the students! If there is a very very urgent HOT project, and newcomers can help, there will be a task set at the tasking manager. :-) IIRC, urgent or important tasks are shown at the top of the list. Best, -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Job vacancies at AidInfo
Hi all, If you excuse me the mild off-topic, I stumbled across two job vacancies involving Open Data and Intl' Aid, that might be of interest: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-development/2013-February/000549.html Best, -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es i...@geonerd.org I can only assume that these things are somehow deeply magic Rails incantations that will provide good Karma for the requests to come. -- Frederik Ramm, about the OpenStreetMap Ruby on Rails API ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Activation to Map Libyan Health Facilities
On Lunes, 19 de Diciembre de 2011 17:35:29 Mikel Maron escribió: Under the License/Origin column, you will see different data sets with different licenses for any individual point. Some are ok to use with OSM (VRAM_WHO, ICRC), and some are clearly not (gmapmaker). WHO is not as concerned about this, and just want whatever data can be collected. OSM, of course, wants data thats free and open license wise. So as HOT, we can also contribute by finding an open source for places already mapped in un-free sources. We will also want to document the different sources and license schemes on the other sheets So how 'bout importing the existing data, or creating a .gpx file of the places there to assist in the JOSMing? -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es i...@geonerd.org http://ivan.sanchezortega.es MSN:i...@void.sanchezortega.es Jabber:ivansanc...@jabber.org ; ivansanc...@kdetalk.net IRC: ivansanchez @ OFTC freenode ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Call for volunteers: Somalia roads import
On Lunes, 22 de Agosto de 2011 11:02:28 Schuyler Erle escribió: [...] However, the data does still contain issues in some places, such as the occasional set of doubled/overlapping roads. Also, these files still need to be merged in with the data that's already in OSM. I also noticed that the ways that overlap the boundaries of each box are duplicated at each side. Which means: if you can, please work in a file that is not adjacent to any other file in progress. That'll simplify the process. -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es i...@geonerd.org Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Somalia admin boundaries import
Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know that I just imported admininstrative boundaries for Somalia, as Schuyler asked for in the HOT mailing list. See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2011-August/000917.html Basically, Schuyler took some UNOCHA PostGIS data, put it in ogr2osm, and I did the manual work of snapping that data to existing OSM data. The Somalia national border is untouched, and the OSM coastline is now part of the region/province borders. Some bits of the Kenya and Ethiopia borders were fixed (missing multipolygon members). Besides that, I don't think this import will clash with the existing data. Next step: Fix the admin_level=9 ways in Mogadishu. Best, -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es i...@geonerd.org Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
