[HOT] Surface mines characteristics

2015-03-13 Thread Tanu Agrawal
Hi, I am Sonali Agrawal and one of the Outreachy aspirer. I am doing the marking tips for mining sites in the west africa and have to post it on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips Can anyone tell me what are the common tags(characteristics) for the

[HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread john whelan
/917#task/98 has 27 ways marked with this. Fifteen have no other tags on them. Twelve have natural=water tags but to be honest they don't seem to tie up with the satellite imagery at all. I am aware of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prototype_Global_Shoreline but none of these have

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Meeting Summary Notes and Next Steps

2015-03-13 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Harry for your offer. We are many engaged in this organization since the beginning and willing to see it moving smoothly and keep his capacity of innovation. I am sure that those that will be elected will appreciate your offer to act upon the work of the previous Board an aussure a

Re: [HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi John PGS source, this is old imports of varying quality defining the coastal areas. Mapping the area, I also saw those polygons that seem to delimit wetlands but do not fit with the imagery. Effectively, I think that we can later revise all of this and remove.    Pierre De : john

Re: [HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread john whelan
So for the moment I'll validate it. Thanks John On 13 March 2015 at 14:18, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi John PGS source, this is old imports of varying quality defining the coastal areas. Mapping the area, I also saw those polygons that seem to delimit wetlands but do not fit

[HOT] Fwd: Surface mines characteristics

2015-03-13 Thread Tanu Agrawal
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tanu Agrawal agrawaltanu...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Surface mines characteristics To: S Volk svo...@hotmail.com Thank you . This would be of great help. On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:25 AM, S Volk

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-13 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi all, This short email to thank you Dale for your post and for sharing this information about the fact that the ARC is ok with you running to the HOT board and to thank John and Mikel for their clarifications about the handling of their past conflicts of interest in HOT. As previously emailed

[HOT] 2015 Board/Chair Election Voting Period is now Open

2015-03-13 Thread Russell Deffner
Greetings HOT, As the 2015 Board of Directors and Chair for the voting members Election continues, it is my pleasure to announce the start of the Voting Period. HOT Voting Members should have received their Ballot via the email address that I have on record for official membership business

Re: [HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread Pierre Béland
John Mapping in other zones, I see that these lines with the only tag source=PGS are part of a multipolygon Relation with the tag natural=wetland. If you do not see the relation , it probably mean that this was deleted previously by a mapper.  Pierre De : john whelan

Re: [HOT] open geology map

2015-03-13 Thread Clifford Snow
Living in an earthquake area, I understand and appreciate the need for geological maps. The problem is in the complexity of geological data. Using OSM as a base layer over which geological data is displayed is a very easy way to see if residents and office buildings are in danger zones. I've

Re: [HOT] What I want from Hot - Response

2015-03-13 Thread Cristiano Giovando
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I suggest that a Presidents report is appropriate, it is current, relevant and should cover all the ongoing efforts, what ever they are in a one to two page email, once a month. All the other material we

[HOT] HOT Community Meeting Summary Notes and Next Steps

2015-03-13 Thread Heather Leson
HI Hotties, The HOT community hosted three community calls this week to talk about the Executive Director Transition and timing. The following is a summary and some actions. Harry, Russell and Heather facilitated these meetings. Notes and audio clips can be below. All: Your support and help

Re: [HOT] What I want from HOT (was: Re: Let's make the most of this)

2015-03-13 Thread Nirab Pudasaini
Hi All, I have seen lot of talks related to HOT vision form many lately.I see that Maning and Robert have made some excellent points and i fully support them. It is good to know that everybody is in support of diversity in the HOT board. It is also very exciting to see that we have a nomination

Re: [HOT] open geology map

2015-03-13 Thread Sander Deryckere
I think this suggestion belongs more on the general OSM talk or tagging list than on the HOT list, but anyway. There are already a number of ways to tag surface, like surface=*, natural=*, landuse=*, landcover=*, ... Just read the wiki about those (f.e.

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Meeting Summary Notes and Next Steps

2015-03-13 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi Heather, I'd like to thank you, Harry, Russel and Kristen to have organized those three consultative community calls, releasing those notes in a short timeline and already started acting upon some of the below action points. Like all, I look forward to reading the future documents (TOR and