[HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, The website allows now a multilanguage support. Currently French and Japanese have been already requested, but I guess many other languages would be good to be added. You can request extra languages here: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/fieldpapers/ Sincerely, Severin

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Severin, There is ongoing work to improve Field Papers, a major part of this is to make it possible to translate it. I would suggest waiting until that is finished before beginning translation. Unless I missed an announcement somewhere looking for translators. Best, -Kate On Tue, Mar 3,

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Severin, Okay, than I guess they are looking for translators. I wasn't aware we were at that stage yet. :) -Kate On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kate, I have been alerted by this GitHub ticket:

Re: [HOT] Translating FieldPapers in now possible

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kate, I have been alerted by this GitHub ticket: https://github.com/fieldpapers/fieldpapers/issues/4 Is it a different multi languages platform project? There is already around 10 people who joined the translation team. Sincerely, Severin On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Kate Chapman

[HOT] Geotagged pictures (was Malawi Floods)

2015-03-03 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Kretzer, I created this Flickr group with geotagged photos: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2830215@N22/ If you click on the Map tab you can see them as markers over the imagery, unfortunately you cannot zoom close Here is a uMap using the georss from the Flickr group: you can zoom, but no

[HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-03 Thread john whelan
Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed buildings, lots of highways separated by a few inches etc. Do we need an idiot guide? A sort of this is how to provide the maximum benefit for the least effort.

[HOT] [FieldPapers] Development Update

2015-03-03 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello Hotties, Following up from the e-mail sent out earlier by Severin, we just wanted to let everyone know that the Stamen team are working hard to enhance the Field Papers application [1] and have made great head way with its internationalisation [2]. It is now in a state where people can

[HOT] Updates on GSoC and Outreachy

2015-03-03 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Hello, Google announced the list of organizations accepted in this year GSoC, but unfortunately HOT did not make it. We have such a big and awesome community of mappers, but we may need more active coding in our projects to have better chances in these programs. We are still very excited to see

Re: [HOT] Updates on GSoC and Outreachy

2015-03-03 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello Hotties, The participating organisations have now been announced on the Outreachy website [1]. We are happy to say that OSM and HOT have joined forces again, and are listed as OpenStreetMap. Please take a look at the list of finalised projects on our Outreachy landing page in GitHub [2],