[HOT] Training WG meeting today at 15:00UTC

2014-11-24 Thread Claire Halleux
Hello, Small reminder for anyone interested in improving OSM/HOT training materials. We'll be meeting today at 15:00 UTC on IRC, #hot channel as usual. Current agenda (at the moment there's still potentially some space for additional points) is: https://hackpad.com/u6VFosnUuyb All welcome,

[HOT] nadeem fareed invited you to check out Dropbox

2014-11-24 Thread Dropbox
Hi there, nadeem fareed wants you to try Dropbox! Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos with you anywhere and share them easily. Get started here. https://www.dropbox.com/l/OgDGnU3YvOg0pDK08ansFk?text=1 Thanks! - The Dropbox Team

[HOT] HOT Summit 30th April - 2nd May 2015 (Save the Date)

2014-11-24 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, The HOT community has grown tremendously over the past few years. We have sometimes had HOT meet-ups and sessions at other events, but never our own gathering. Next year in collaboration we are going to have a HOT Summit in Washington DC hosted at the American Red Cross on 30th April -2nd

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit 30th April - 2nd May 2015 (Save the Date)

2014-11-24 Thread Hannah Sender
Hi Kate, Happy to help coordinate. Any promotions I can do, please let me know. I'm in London. Best, Hannah On 24 November 2014 at 21:18, Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org wrote: Hi All, The HOT community has grown tremendously over the past few years. We have sometimes had HOT

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread john whelan
I wonder if #777 is a little too ambitious? To view buildings you need to zoom in fairly closely, each tile covers an enormous area, 101 has already been mapped in detail so its not possible to download the tile from OSM. Many of the high resolution images have cloud cover. I accept the need but

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi John, a quick followup and thanks for bringing this up. I added an Issue for the developers to look at re marking tiles with Cloud Cover in GitHub and added the following in the instructions for the Task #777 *Note: These tiles are relatively large as it is a large area to cover. please feel

[HOT] Zverik diary on FieldPapers

2014-11-24 Thread Pierre Béland
WeekyOsm reports Zverik Diary about FieldPapers. He makes interesting propositions that it would be interesting to discuss. see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zverik/diary/26107   Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Bouke Pieter Ottow
Hi all, The maximum of splitting is reached while the tile is still to big in my sense for detailed mapping. How to solve that? Cheers, Bouke On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:02 Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, a quick followup and thanks for bringing this up. I added an Issue for the

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Bourke, I was able to split twice, which is plenty I think. If your issue is downloading the OSM data, then try using the Mirrored Download Plugin on JOSM http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/mirrored_download Regards Mark Cupitt If we change the world, let it bear the mark of

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Bourke Some more information to help you, we are not after detailed mapping at the moment, just basic transportation, roads, rivers, forests, etc. Also, some of this area is very sparsely populated and lot sf it is covered by Tree Canopy and there are a lot of Clouds covering the area as well.