[HOT] HOT New Voting Members Nomination Period Open

2015-01-21 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings HOT Community, I have just opened the nomination period for new Voting Members (existing Members should have received a separate email with instructions). If you are committed to the HOT mission and desire a greater role on the organizational side of things, I urge you to review our

Re: [HOT] Changeset Comments in JOSM

2015-01-21 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks Pierre. Best, On 1/21/15, Pierre GIRAUD pierre.gir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the report. For your information, this has already been reported. https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/513 Regards, Pierre On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread john whelan
I have difficulties with water I must confess. I'm mapping from a satellite image taken an a particular day. All I see is water, not wadi etc. If its a River I'm supposed to note which direction it flows. My eyesight isn't that good. A wide river isn't a problem but when is a Stream a River

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread Blake Girardot
I think water and waterways are some of the most difficult to map and tag features there are, even when things are simple and clear in imagery. To Ralph's points: As to the tagging suggestion, Ralph, I _think_ the current best practice is to tag an intermittent stream or river like this:

[HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread AYTOUN RALPH
I would like to raise the issue of tags for *waterway=river*, *waterway=stream* and* waterway=wadi.* The problem that exists with the existing tags is that there is no visual difference on the map for a stream (perennial) and a stream (intermittent) and the only other option is wadi which gives a

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread Russell Deffner
I probably should have specified the thread is titled waterway=wadi problem and this link is to the first (I think) message in the thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2015-January/020946.html =Russ ___ HOT mailing list

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread Russell Deffner
Hi, I'm no expert in the waterway arena, however I wanted to point out that there is currently a pretty in-depth discussion of waterway tagging (including some suggestions to discontinue using waterway=wadi) on the Tagging mailing list, you can find the thread archive here:

[HOT] Changeset Comments in JOSM

2015-01-21 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Hi, Seems changeset comments loaded via HOT taks into JOSM have spaces and other symbols replaced by their percent-ending equivalent, as recorded here[1]. I've ignored and entered correct comments several times. Anyone also experiencing this? How did you fix it? Or am missing something. 1.

Re: [HOT] OAM Pre-Project Sprint

2015-01-21 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Hi All, Really excited about this initiative. While I'm not able to join the call, I hope to participate in future calls. In the meantime, I've been doing some work on the Humanitarian UAV side, which may be of interest: http://uaviators.org http://uaviators.org/map