Re: [Talk-us] Tampa/Clearwater Building Import to aid in Irma Recovery Efforts
Seems to be a lot of concerns for an import that is meant to bolster data available prior to a major hurricane strike, when HOT does a task in Africa I often don't see the same level of concern about the armchair mapper's local knowledge. That's just my observation, and I have worked some tasks for HOT, and I have also done editing for places in the Middle East in relation to a project I was doing for a customer and I have never come close to stepping foot in any of those countries. I know there are many in the global community that have aversions to imports but if the process can be held to a great standard, and in the face of a natural disaster, I think we can put aside our own biases on how the map is made better. As to the Texas statements, I have lived in Texas my whole life and have worked for several local/state governments/parties. There is a strong backlash within some communities about sharing anything that cannot have cost recuperated. It is a stance that is slowly changing due to the strong push from communities such as OSM, but it hasn't reached the level of other states or countries. Part of the problem is that there isn't a central authority in charge of data. You have council of governments that produce data, counties that produce data, the state that produces data, state agencies that produce data, and local governments that produce data. Much of the data could be said to be duplicated efforts but there hasn't been a strong push from the legislature or the governor to have anything close to a centralized data portal. You can add to that problem the inability for many counties and towns to afford GIS (something I'm hoping to help with as part of my business) or GIS professionals to make data, let alone to purchase data when it is offered. The other issue is licensing. I live in North Texas and when the different communities up here get together to fly aerials and derive planimetrics the operation is carried out by the North Central Texas Council of Governments, which hires a company to do the work. When the work is done the cities that signed up for the project pay the COG for the data and the COG pays the contractor. In this process the data is licensed so that only those who pay for it can use it. That means that many of the building footprint data sets are prevented from being listed as open data because of the license involved. With TNRIS releasing LiDAR data openly hopefully some of this will change but for now it is what it is. That's my two cents worth on this, I think getting the data in is important, especially as many of the government entities and news organizations are using OSM data backed maps for base maps in the disaster management process. For example NOAA used a MapBox basemap for their post Harvey aerial map (https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/harvey/index.html) I think it would be important with the high visibility the map is getting in the US to make sure that it accurately reflects reality on the ground. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Clifford Snowwrote: > Frederik - I'll attempt to answer your questions below. This is part of > the effort to help in recovery efforts for hurricane Harvey and Irma. My > tasks are using the Microsoft provided building footprints to hard hit > areas. There are two separate, but with common individuals involved. The US > community is working on tasks in the US while HOT OSM is working on the > Caribbean Island recovery efforts. > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Frederik Ramm > wrote: > >> >> >> could you share some thoughts about your general process with these >> imports? I notice that you seem to be working on a lot of them. - Have >> you forgotten to raise Tampa/Clearwater on imports@ or was the Corpus >> Christi one assumed to be a kind of template for all Microsoft building >> footprint imports? >> > > I wanted to get the word out to the US community first. By now I expected > to have it posted to the import list, but i'm having problems with my cloud > storage. > >> >> I'm unclear about the status. Your posting simply says "the wiki page >> for the import is available". What does that mean? The wiki page for >> Corpus Christi says "Pending acceptance", the "stats" tab on >> http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/118 says "0% complete" yet the >> "activity" tab says "Glassman marked #233 as done about 6 hours ago". >> Was that a test edit, or is the import already started? >> > > Task 233 was just a small test. ( and I forgot to use my import account) > This task has relatively low priority since the major flooding was in > areas east of Corpus Christi. The 0% is just a rounding error. One of a few > thousand tasks have been completed. I've updated the wiki page to remove > the pending acceptance. > >> >> Do you have plans to prepare further regions for imports? Since you're >> not local to the areas in question (would it be fair to say you're on >> the other
Re: [Talk-us] Tampa/Clearwater Building Import to aid in Irma Recovery Efforts
Frederik - I'll attempt to answer your questions below. This is part of the effort to help in recovery efforts for hurricane Harvey and Irma. My tasks are using the Microsoft provided building footprints to hard hit areas. There are two separate, but with common individuals involved. The US community is working on tasks in the US while HOT OSM is working on the Caribbean Island recovery efforts. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Frederik Rammwrote: > > > could you share some thoughts about your general process with these > imports? I notice that you seem to be working on a lot of them. - Have > you forgotten to raise Tampa/Clearwater on imports@ or was the Corpus > Christi one assumed to be a kind of template for all Microsoft building > footprint imports? > I wanted to get the word out to the US community first. By now I expected to have it posted to the import list, but i'm having problems with my cloud storage. > > I'm unclear about the status. Your posting simply says "the wiki page > for the import is available". What does that mean? The wiki page for > Corpus Christi says "Pending acceptance", the "stats" tab on > http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/118 says "0% complete" yet the > "activity" tab says "Glassman marked #233 as done about 6 hours ago". > Was that a test edit, or is the import already started? > Task 233 was just a small test. ( and I forgot to use my import account) This task has relatively low priority since the major flooding was in areas east of Corpus Christi. The 0% is just a rounding error. One of a few thousand tasks have been completed. I've updated the wiki page to remove the pending acceptance. > > Do you have plans to prepare further regions for imports? Since you're > not local to the areas in question (would it be fair to say you're on > the other end of the country?), do you undertake any efforts to enlist > local mappers besides posting on talk-us? > Yes we want local mappers involved. To your point, yes i'm far removed from Florida. But I've been fortunate to have spend quite abit of time in the state. Not only my travels for business but close relatives living throughout the state. I even used to host a conference just outside of Clearwater. > > Do you have any statistics about who the participants in these imports > are? As you know, the reason we're doing these "community imports" is > that we hope to bring local knowledge to the table; do wo know if this > works, or is it the same people (potentially from the other end of the > country) that perform the majority of import tasks on each? > I can't answer that question unfortunately. Some of the mappers I know to be very experienced and others less so. Where they are located and what local knowledge they have is not information that I have access to. We have a number of people volunteering to help with these tasks. Building imports are lower priority task. Getting roads updated and working in hard hit areas are high on our priority list. Texas is an interesting state - not much open data and a government that likes to cut corners in my opinion. What government data is available to help recovery teams is an unknown. We have put out a call for locals to help with specific tasks, but I'm not actively involved with those efforts. > > I'd also be interested in how long it takes for these imports to > complete; obviously if we should notice that people add 10k buildings in > an hour we must assume that the necessary diligence was not applied. -- > I know that when HOT apply their tasking manager they often have a step > where a second person verifies the data added (or maybe just spot-checks > it). Is that a feature that the imports you run also have? The wiki page > for Corpus Christy says "QA: Validation: Use of validation tools in the > Tasking Manager process", but I assume that just refers to usual > automatic checks done by JOSM, not a second person inspecting the result? > The US Tasking Manager is the same version 2 of HOT's Tasking Manager which includes a second person's validation step. It's one of the great features of TM. If you look at the tasks that are near completion, you can see that work is being validated. -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Tampa/Clearwater Building Import to aid in Irma Recovery Efforts
Clifford, could you share some thoughts about your general process with these imports? I notice that you seem to be working on a lot of them. - Have you forgotten to raise Tampa/Clearwater on imports@ or was the Corpus Christi one assumed to be a kind of template for all Microsoft building footprint imports? I'm unclear about the status. Your posting simply says "the wiki page for the import is available". What does that mean? The wiki page for Corpus Christi says "Pending acceptance", the "stats" tab on http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/118 says "0% complete" yet the "activity" tab says "Glassman marked #233 as done about 6 hours ago". Was that a test edit, or is the import already started? Do you have plans to prepare further regions for imports? Since you're not local to the areas in question (would it be fair to say you're on the other end of the country?), do you undertake any efforts to enlist local mappers besides posting on talk-us? Do you have any statistics about who the participants in these imports are? As you know, the reason we're doing these "community imports" is that we hope to bring local knowledge to the table; do wo know if this works, or is it the same people (potentially from the other end of the country) that perform the majority of import tasks on each? I'd also be interested in how long it takes for these imports to complete; obviously if we should notice that people add 10k buildings in an hour we must assume that the necessary diligence was not applied. -- I know that when HOT apply their tasking manager they often have a step where a second person verifies the data added (or maybe just spot-checks it). Is that a feature that the imports you run also have? The wiki page for Corpus Christy says "QA: Validation: Use of validation tools in the Tasking Manager process", but I assume that just refers to usual automatic checks done by JOSM, not a second person inspecting the result? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] Tampa/Clearwater Building Import to aid in Irma Recovery Efforts
The Tampa/Clearwater building import [1] wiki page is available. Basically this import is to add building outlines provided by Microsoft [2] to aid in Irma Recovery efforts. It will use the Tasking Manager for the import process. The import, like the Corpus Christi import, requires JOSM. For people familiar with JOSM, this is a fairly easy import. I expect to have the Project available shortly. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tampa,_Florida_Building_Import [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us