[HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Hi, Am Enock from Ghana, I've been a member of HOT for sometime now. Ghana have been hit by torrential rainfalls this month, in the news is the Accra Explosion [1] and the Floods [2]. The reason am sending this mail is to ask if someone here knows of any relief organizations in Ghana. And

Re: [HOT] HOT Board Minutes - May 2015

2015-06-06 Thread Martin Dittus
Many thanks for these updates! Very interesting to see the progress you’re all making. Unfortunately the last link to Tyler’s document (below) only gives me a “file not found” error — could someone send an updated link? I’d love to see the list of key initiatives. On 5 Jun 2015, at 10:00,

Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

2015-06-06 Thread Milo van der Linden
It is my personal opinion that the level of expertise is less important then the motivation for people to participate and their abbility to adapt. As an example; What is better, a geospatial expert that is conceited or even cocky or a new mapper that has a lot of time and is eager to learn?

[HOT] Google Hangout Mapping Questions and Answers - Today, Jun 6, 14:00 UTC

2015-06-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I am going to give this another try :) I will use Google Hangouts to do live questions and answers for mapping so I can give demonstrations, answer questions and share my screen to show how I would map things. Today, in a few hours at 14:00 UTC

Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

2015-06-06 Thread Heather Leson
Thank you for this conversation. I call this the digital on ramp. We collectively need to decide what kind of community we want. There are growing joys. I firmly think that if we (OSM) are going to get to the next million people mapping in this locations around the world that we need to change.

Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

2015-06-06 Thread Martin Dittus
On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:29, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net wrote: It is my personal opinion that the level of expertise is less important then the motivation for people to participate and their abbility to adapt. As an example; What is better, a geospatial expert that is conceited or

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Enock, I do not know if this answers your question or not, but this is a web page for people who would be collecting and packaging relief packages of different types: http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies Normally you would package and send them to the organization for them to

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks Blake. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.github.io | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Enock, I do not know if this answers your question or not, but this is a web page for people who would be collecting and

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Nick Allen
Enoch, This charity may be able to help as well http://www.shelterbox.org/ Nick (OSM=Tallguy) dodgy didgits as using a phone with a spell chequer. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Member On 6 Jun 2015 08:59, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Am Enock from Ghana, I've been a

[HOT] Customizable OSM editor

2015-06-06 Thread Thomas Tolloschek
Hi all, I am following the Hot Mailinglist for a while as passive reader and since Nepal more active. These last weeks I was thinking a lot how to help new mappers while achieving more standardisation and compareable output. In my opinion HOT needs a highly customizable and automatic

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks Nick. - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.github.io | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Nick Allen nick.allen...@gmail.com wrote: Enoch, This charity may be able to help as well http://www.shelterbox.org/ Nick (OSM=Tallguy) dodgy didgits as using a phone

Re: [HOT] Customizable OSM editor

2015-06-06 Thread Cascafico Giovanni
Josm is powerful editor, but hudreds tagging presets may be confusing. Take a look at josm presets [1]. I set up three, related to three Nepal tasks. You can easily customize as needed. A short josm menu tree speeds up digitizing. [1] http://visualtags.hotosm.org/collections --

Re: [HOT] Request for information about common set of tags for HOT (Was: OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos)

2015-06-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Dear HOT team Take the chance and discuss common tags, document them in the wiki, cleanup the wiki, and update the preset file [1]. -S. [1] https://twitter.com/sfkeller/status/607323469202747393 2015-05-20 15:47 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, I just want to put

Re: [HOT] Google Hangout Mapping Questions and Answers - Today, Jun 6, 14:00 UTC

2015-06-06 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Blake I have following questions regarding my thread about Request for information about common set of tags for HOT: 1. What are common tags needed by HOT and eventually specific to HOT? 2. Who is helping to cleanup and update the outdated wiki pages, starting with [1]? At 2015-05-20 15:47

Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

2015-06-06 Thread john whelan
We could also plan at the beginning of major activations to have more basic tasks to offer to the new contributors. For example, it could be a buildings only task with good imagery. This way, they would have less instructions, tags and imagery problems to digest for their first contribution. We

[HOT] Presenting HOT in a short video

2015-06-06 Thread Tony Nedkov
Hello, I have been doing HOT for a few months. The thing is, when I just started I wasn't totaly sure what HOT was about. Wouldn't it be helpful to make a short film/video what HOT is about. Everyone who want's to get more people interested can just show the video. Rather than plain text and