Re: [HOT] JOSM "mini tasking manager" Plugin

2020-09-23 Thread Andrew Buck
> > > I would support being added directly to the TODO plugin as additional > functionality. > One other thing that should be changed in the TODO Plugin to make this > work is that the current version expands the bbox of the object being > zoomed to (one reason is that you never want to try to

Re: [HOT] JOSM "mini tasking manager" Plugin

2020-09-23 Thread Andrew Buck
you're thinking about, or at least useful for your > purposes? > > > On 23/09/2020 16:42, Andrew Buck wrote: > > Its a good idea, and something the TODO list plugin was originally > intended to do, in addition to its current functionality. I am the one who > came up with th

Re: [HOT] JOSM "mini tasking manager" Plugin

2020-09-23 Thread Andrew Buck
Its a good idea, and something the TODO list plugin was originally intended to do, in addition to its current functionality. I am the one who came up with the original idea for the plugin, but I am terrible with Java so Gnonthgol coded it up based on my idea. I wanted to also add the "area

Re: [HOT] Tasking manager database out of date

2020-05-13 Thread Andrew Buck
to use going forward. -AndrewBuck On 5/13/20 7:31 AM, Andrew Buck wrote: I see the new tasking manager software has been deployed and so far I really like the look of the new interface.  However it looks like the database that got loaded into it is out of date. I have been working

Re: [HOT] Tasking manager database out of date

2020-05-13 Thread Andrew Buck
if there is anything missing in particular. Cheers, Felix On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:32 PM Andrew Buck <mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: I see the new tasking manager software has been deployed and so far I really like the look of the new interface.  However it looks like the

[HOT] Tasking manager database out of date

2020-05-13 Thread Andrew Buck
I see the new tasking manager software has been deployed and so far I really like the look of the new interface. However it looks like the database that got loaded into it is out of date. I have been working on task 8299 https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/8299/ And all of the tiles I marked

Re: [HOT] JOSM plugin / Replace geometry

2020-04-30 Thread Andrew Buck
There's actually already a plug-in that does this. It used the Java conflation suite to make matches and then each match was combined by automatically calling the replace geometry tool. It was a bit finicky and kind of hard to learn how to use, but it did work. Here is the wiki page for it. I

Re: [HOT] HOTOSM in Syria

2020-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
Looking forward to collaborating on the work in Syria. I have done quite a bit of mapping of the power grid in the northeast part of the country. Since you are with WFP I am guessing this is not particularly useful to your group specifically but likely useful to other development efforts

[HOT] Tasking manager issue

2020-04-24 Thread Andrew Buck
Could someone who works on the tasking manager admin (coder or DB admin) hop on mumble for a few minutes and talk with me there. I have noticed something weird and would like to report it but it is not appropriate to mention it in a public channel like this. -AndrewBuck

Re: [HOT] Request for solving a mumble issue

2019-03-11 Thread Andrew Buck
I have emailed Ahasan privately and we have gotten his account reset, however the server will not let me re-add him to the board of directors group. Apparently this is a big in the mumble server and restarting the server fixes it. Is there someone who has access to the server who can restart

Re: [HOT] leisure=common replacement for urban public areas in Africa]

2019-03-05 Thread Andrew Buck
This has been discussed before. I have also created a great many of these and agree a better tag could be used but we never found one to switch to. I would accept anything the community comes up with as long as it renders or the rendering rules are updated before the change. We don't map for the

Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

2018-08-26 Thread Andrew Buck
, 12:32 pm Andrew Buck, wrote: This won't actually give you useful data. A signifigant number of the schools in Mali and elsewhere in Africa are not actually located in the town they serve, but rather about 1/2 km or so outside of the town, or about halfway between two or more towns. So a signific

Re: [HOT] Overpass and schools in Mali

2018-08-26 Thread Andrew Buck
This won't actually give you useful data.  A signifigant number of the schools in Mali and elsewhere in Africa are not actually located in the town they serve, but rather about 1/2 km or so outside of the town, or about halfway between two or more towns. So a significant number actually

Re: [HOT] Connecting it all up

2017-11-03 Thread Andrew Buck
A more systematic way yet would be to make a map where you pick a grid of points, say 1 every mile, and then calculate a route from each point to a spot 10 miles east and 10 miles north of that starting point and then sum the distances and store that sum as the value for that point. Anywhere you

[HOT] Hurricane Maria - Puerto Rico dam failure

2017-09-22 Thread Andrew Buck
The BBC is reporting the failure of a major dam in Puerto Rico. The OSM object for the dam is below: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/261127467 Here is the BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41368478 My suggestion would be to map all the buildings in a strip aprroximately

Re: [HOT] HOT carto, Re: Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Buck
at have been left area=yes. Some of these are more >> than a month or two old. >> >> Personally I'd like to see more use of the JOSM building_tool plugin >> because at the moment there are many areas where you cannot depend on all >> the buildings having been mapped,

Re: [HOT] HOT carto, Re: Buildings and residential areas: Buldings as nodes (Q1)

2017-05-25 Thread Andrew Buck
The real solution is to "upgrade" these nodes into properly mapped buildings with a way. We really should be discouraging people mapping as nodes like this as it is largely a waste of time since someone has to map it as a way later on anyway and when they do they either need to delete the

Re: [HOT] How to save 'empty' squares?

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
Actually I found your username on the task manager. There were 16 nodes that you had added like this that were unconnected and untagged. An easy fix. -AndrewBuck On 04/13/2017 05:17 PM, Andrew Buck wrote: > Also, if you have done this on tasks already you should let us know your &g

Re: [HOT] How to save 'empty' squares?

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
Also, if you have done this on tasks already you should let us know your osm username. Someone can then do a query for all of your work and run it through the validator to remove these "notes" you left in the database, since they are not really map data. This is not difficult to do, and we won't

Re: [HOT] an in your spare time project. Cleaning up the imports.

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
f projects HOT could do, not just this specific one. -AndrewBuck On 04/13/2017 04:55 PM, Andrew Buck wrote: > This is an interesting idea, go over the whole continent and do a very > rough QA process. Only clean up the most egregious problems like vmap0 > roads that are only accurate

Re: [HOT] an in your spare time project. Cleaning up the imports.

2017-04-13 Thread Andrew Buck
This is an interesting idea, go over the whole continent and do a very rough QA process. Only clean up the most egregious problems like vmap0 roads that are only accurate to 1 km; buildings mapped as area=yes; and a run through the josm validator to get the biggest problems resolved. (Note that

Re: [HOT] How bad is mapping from offset imagery?

2017-04-04 Thread Andrew Buck
For almost everything HOT does, and really OSM in general alignment is really not that big of a deal. Today, almost any imagery we get access to is aligned to within at most 10 meters (and lots of it is within 2 or 3 meters) of reality and in sparsely populated areas a few meters offset is not a

Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for less?

2017-02-26 Thread Andrew Buck
> I think this is a different conversation, I would prefer mappers take a > little more time and care, some buildings I've seen mapped have little > relationship to the size or shape of the building. > > Cheerio John I agree on this. Especially with respect to buildings. Roads are fairly easy

Re: [HOT] Mail list Removal

2017-02-22 Thread Andrew Buck
Click the listinfo link at the bottom of the list and enter your email on the unsubscribe form. -AndrewBuck On 02/22/2017 09:59 AM, Collier Anderson wrote: > Can you please take me off the mailing list. > > Thanks, > Collier S. Anderson > 361-649-9791 > > > >

Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread Andrew Buck
The towns don't look that big so mapping them would be quite easy to do, however nether Bing nor MapBox has imagery of imagery of the area that is high enough resolution to map them. If you can find a source of imagery where the license allows us to use it for tracing then it shouldn't be

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2016-12-21 Thread Andrew Buck
I agree with what the others have said so far... this probably won't be used to feed into the main database but could have other uses. One place where it could be good is in very sparsely populated areas like northern Africa, where there are huge areas of empty space with a few isolated

Re: [HOT] I want to open a task for Jamaica

2016-10-04 Thread Andrew Buck
Before we enter this data we need to be clear on the license and source of the information. It can't be put in OSM. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Milo van der Linden wrote: > > I can really use help mapping shelters for Jamaica. > The goal is to make a

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

2016-09-06 Thread Andrew Buck
The linked task covers an enormous area, not only are the task squares themselves very big but the bounds of the entire task are quite large as well. It is not going to be possible to do meaningful map coverage over such a large area in the time in which the data would be relevant to first

Re: [HOT] Friendly reminder not to upload sample.osm during a mapping training

2016-04-06 Thread Andrew Buck
The upload=never idea is a very good one. Would be cool if that got implemented. -AndrewBuck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Management metrics

2016-03-02 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would be good to put together some stats on these things, I don't think we know them. All are fairly easy to do as database queries on the task manager database though. Would be nice to have a page on the task manager that showed these summary

Re: [HOT] building, construction, ruins, livestock pen or?

2016-02-02 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would tag it as building=construction. These kinds of buildings are seen commonly all over Africa (we see them in other countries as well but everywhere in Africa I have mapped has had similar features to these). They are buildings which are not

Re: [HOT] umbrellas

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hard to say what it is for sure due to the low resolution of the imagery. My guess would be tents for people who are tending animals that they move from valley to valley to forage on what little vegetation lies along the valley floors. You can see

Re: [HOT] umbrella

2015-11-06 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Your link does not seem to be working. Can you send the lat/lon of the object to the list so we can have a look directly? In josm you can press ctrl+j or double click on the coordinates in the lower left corner to get the location. Not sure how to

[HOT] Cyclone Chapala

2015-11-02 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, It has been a busy couple of weeks for HOT and it looks like our work may not be done yet. Tropical cyclone Chapala is predicted to make landfall on the southern coast of Yemen later today. The storm is currently a category 3, but

Re: [HOT] 1264 - Afghanistan EQ Response - Task 351

2015-10-30 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The highways from the AIMS import only very roughly follow the path of the actual roads and in some cases there doesn't seem to be a road at all that corresponds to the one from AIMS. Feel free to delete the incorrect AIMS ones, or better to use the

Re: [HOT] Tools in iD offsetting

2015-10-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also try hitting CTRL+0 (that is control-zero) in your browser which will reset the page zoom to standard size. I know I have had weird issues like this in the past where I accidentally zoomed the page a bit without noticing and then got weird

Re: [HOT] South Sudan mapping

2015-09-01 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is definitely worth mapping. In Nepal they were using landuse=brownfield for the area around a village which had been destroyed (like what we do with landuse=residential). If you want to map the buildings themselves you could do something like

[HOT] URGENT Mapping Task - Myanmar Landslide Affected Villages

2015-08-10 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again everyone, We received via the activation mailing list a KML file of villages in Myanmar affected by landslides from the monsoon flooding happening now. We would like to do detailed mapping of the buildings and roads in these villages, as

Re: [HOT] URGENT Mapping Task - Myanmar Landslide Affected Villages

2015-08-10 Thread Andrew Buck
: project failed permission check Let me know when it's opened up. Thanks John On 10 August 2015 at 18:39, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again everyone, We received via the activation mailing list a KML file of villages in Myanmar affected by landslides from the monsoon

Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you Alfred for introducing yourself to the mailing list and for your interest in joining our community. Just to let everyone know, Alfred and I spoke via skype last week and discussed his mapping of the town of Bo. He has contributed hundreds

Re: [HOT] Customizable OSM editor

2015-06-20 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, that is really cool. Interesting to see the idea moving into an actual useable (at least for demonstration purposes anyway) piece of software. I think this is definitely something that could be useful for certain tasks, so it is good to see the

Re: [HOT] Epworth Field Papers - The Zimbabwe Connection. Advice on JOSM categorisation.

2015-06-14 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rupert, What would really help us in this discussion is a few examples each of the various kinds of addresses. If you could provide us with the full text for a few addresses (all the way out to the country level), and a description of what they mean

Re: [HOT] Questions regarding metrics from taskprojects, tasks and volunteers.

2015-06-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See responses below... Can any of you help me with the following questions: 1. In pre-crisis taskprojects; Do you think it is important to have a person or organisation publishing announcements and attracting volunteers to a task? The more

Re: [HOT] Help.

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just click the 'listinfo' link at the bottom of any of the messages (including this one), and then look at the bottom of the page it takes you to for the 'unsubscribe' function. - -AndrewBuck On 04/30/2015 07:00 AM, Lorray Ann wrote: I

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do agree with you in principle, and actually suggested using the information on the task manager linke number of tiles a user has completed to do things like flag new users tiles for extra caution in validating and such. Whether we want to restrict

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread Andrew Buck
to our monitoring tools. We should surely continue to look at this and assure we have the possibility to both keep our reactivity and produce quality mapping. regard Pierre -- *De :* Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le

Re: [HOT] Nepal major road validation

2015-04-27 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The OSRM distance table calculator is documented here... https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Server-api#distance-ta bles Basically you feed it a url with a bunch of lat/lon pairs are parameters (say for the 10 largest cities in the

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-27 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I understand the frustration. Some times the newbies do very bad, but some produce very good data as well. One thing that we can also do is load large sections of the country in JOSM with the 'mirrored download' plugin. You can then scan over a

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wouldn't add a fixme to the node, as there is nothing wrong with the node itself. Either just outline the area or do nothing. It is trivial in josm to do a search for place nodes that are not inside residential areas with the search string below:

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is no reason not to mark these as well. The instructions currently don't list them but you can mark them if you feel like it. Unfortunately so much of the jobs have already been done that it is too late to change the instructions as we wouldn't

Re: [HOT] Nepal Stats: almost 800 mappers, 24000 roads, 10000 buildings

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Interesting stats, although they are actually an under-estimate of the work done. It looks like you are only counting changesets with certain hashtags but many people (myself included) don't use the hashtags. You really should do a bounding box or

[HOT] Nepal topo maps. Mapwarper volunteers needed

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone. We are going to try to bring in the GNS place names of villages for Nepal like we did in west Africa. The first step in this process is uploading a series of old topographic maps onto mapwarper, rectifying them, and making them into a

Re: [HOT] Nepal topo maps. Mapwarper volunteers needed

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
can Help! Gus El dom., abr. 26, 2015 13:52, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com escribió: Hey everyone. We are going to try to bring in the GNS place names of villages for Nepal like we did in west Africa. The first step in this process is uploading a series of old topographic maps onto

Re: [HOT] GeoFabrik Downloads

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I already added the link, although it could maybe be formatted a bit better. On 04/26/2015 02:54 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: Cheers Thanks to geofabrik. we will update the wiki page. Pierre De : Robert Soden robert.so...@gmail.com À : hot

Re: [HOT] GeoFabrik Downloads

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
the osmand obf 2015-04-26 22:24 GMT+02:00 Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com: I already added the link, although it could maybe be formatted a bit better. On 04/26/2015 02:54 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: Cheers Thanks to geofabrik. we will update the wiki page. Pierre De : Robert Soden

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal - Photos

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just looking for something we can use on the wiki for the Wiki article for the HOT response. - -AndrewBuck On 04/26/2015 02:05 PM, Wm Snyder wrote: What type of public license are you referencing? --- WILLIAM SNYDER CEO / Founder

Re: [HOT] URGENT: Need OSMand files for Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
in 30 minutes. On Apr 26, 2015 8:04 PM, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, We just got an urgent request from Red Cross. They have people getting on planes in 3 hours to leave for Nepal, and they want to upload up to date OSMand maps onto their phones before

Re: [HOT] Nepal Stats: almost 800 mappers, 24000 roads, 10000 buildings

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
of the requested changeset comments (with hashtags, as listed in the instructions) should be encouraged. All the best, Dan On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting stats, although they are actually an under-estimate of the work done. It looks like you

Re: [HOT] URGENT: Need OSMand files for Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
at FEMAC.INFO , butnot in OsmAnd data format. I read that you cold use google Docs? Maybe we should add that to our server. --- WILLIAM SNYDER FEMAC.INFO On 26.4.2015 2:04 pm, Andrew Buck wrote: Hey everyone, We just got an urgent request from Red Cross. They have people getting

Re: [HOT] URGENT: Need OSMand files for Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, we offer the data in many formats. The .OBF format is specifically for an Android (and no IOS) app called OSMand, which is a navigation and routing app that works offline (i.e. the data is stored right on the phone in the .OBF file so it doesn't

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OSM actually has a lot of helipads mapped in the area already. These are 'proper' heli sites marked with a circle and an H, not just open areas like we have been doing in west africa. I went through this morning and upgraded almost all of them from

Re: [HOT] Situational awareness regarding weather events

2015-04-21 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ethan, HOT doesn't really have any formal monitoring that we do per-se, although there is a lot of informal monitoring simply because we are many people who all follow the news and current events to some degree. So generally anything we might be

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The tag natural=beach is the recommended tag for actual beaches. The common areas are different. Generally they are rectangular area that is covered in grass like a small park. I don't see so many of these in Vanautu like we do in west Africa

Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

2015-03-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is quite common for paths to be run along the edges of fields or other cleared out areas but don't worry about mapping them if they don't obviously connect up to a wider transportation infrastructure. We don't need to map every little footpath in

Re: [HOT] H2OpenMap

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Importing data like this is always a possibility. There are two considerations that are important, the first is the copyright license of the data (you would need to get permission from that group to include the data in OSM). The second is the

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Pierre has noted we map what is on the ground, not what how we think it should be mapped. If there is a common area then we tag it as such, if there is not then we should not 'invent' one that is close by simply for the purpose of having one. It

Re: [HOT] building=hut task 892

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, mapping them as a circle does entail a bit more data storage requirements but it also means that we get the size of the hut which is useful for lots of things. The extra storage is not unreasonable and buildings entered as single points are not

Re: [HOT] #868 - Missing Maps: Epworth, Zimbabwe

2015-02-13 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As others have said, unsplitting is not possible. However the general rule is people are not supposed to choose tasks to work on when there are other people working on the next task over so you can just lock one of the small ones, do as much mapping

Re: [HOT] imagery offset in task #878?

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the stuff I did I aligned it to Bing. There is already roads traced in aligned to that as well as the river. Generally Bing is very well aligned and the newer stuff agrees with GPS everywhere I have seen so I trust that unless we don't have

Re: [HOT] [Off-Topic] Just for fun aerial image identification

2014-12-25 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, definitely a fun read. - -AndrewBuck On 12/24/2014 07:34 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: Blake, Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Mike On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Not directly

Re: [HOT] HOT #777 (East Cameroon) feature identification: residential or farmyard?

2014-12-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to clarify on the buildings, they should be building=yes, not residential since we don't know what they are used for. Regarding the tracks, I think the animal interpretation is correct. Areas like this often have herds of smallish animals like

Re: [HOT] Simple address codes for buildings

2014-12-21 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is definitely an interesting idea. I have looked at 'what 3 words' before and thought it might be useful for numerous things. Identifying buildings as you have suggested is one interesting idea and there are others as well. It would be

Re: [HOT] Task #817 - Guinea, Kankan East - A thecnic to Add Huts simply

2014-12-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you copy paste a hut you can resize it by holding down Ctrl+alt while in select mode and then left-dragging the mouse (ctrl+shift will rotate the selection). This lets you quickly reuse the pasted building and then scale it to the appropriate

[HOT] Invitation: Training Working Group Meeting @ Every 2 weeks from 11pm to 12am on Sunday (Andrew Buck)

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Andrew Buck;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Membership;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:members...@hotosm.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN

[HOT] Invitation: Training Working Group Meeting @ Every 2 weeks from 11pm to 12am on Sunday (Andrew Buck)

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Andrew Buck;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Membership;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:members...@hotosm.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN

[HOT] Invitation: Activation Working Group Meeting @ Monthly from 1am to 2am on the second Tuesday (Andrew Buck)

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Mark Cupitt;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:markcup...@gmail.com ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:severin.men...@hotosm.org ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Andrew

[HOT] Cancelled: Training Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Training Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Led by Claire\nMeets every 2 weeks on Monday at 15:00 UTC\nhttp ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Traini

[HOT] Cancelled: Training Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Training Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Led by Claire\nMeets every 2 weeks on Monday at 15:00 UTC\nhttp ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Traini

[HOT] Cancelled: Training Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Training Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Led by Claire\nMeets every 2 weeks on Monday at 15:00 UTC\nhttp ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Traini

[HOT] Cancelled: Tech Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tech Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:17:00 UTC On the first Monday of the month\nLed by Drazen Odoba sic\nhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_grou

[HOT] Invitation: Tech Working Group Meeting @ Monthly from 11am to 12pm on the first Monday (Andrew Buck)

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
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[HOT] Cancelled: Tech Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tech Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:17:00 UTC On the first Monday of the month\nLed by Drazen Odoba sic\nhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_grou

[HOT] Cancelled: Tech Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tech Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:17:00 UTC On the first Monday of the month\nLed by Drazen Odoba sic\nhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_grou

[HOT] Cancelled: Tech Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tech Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:17:00 UTC On the first Monday of the month\nLed by Drazen Odoba sic\nhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_grou

[HOT] Cancelled: Training Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Training Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Led by Claire\nMeets every 2 weeks on Monday at 15:00 UTC\nhttp ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Traini

[HOT] Cancelled: Training Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Training Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Led by Claire\nMeets every 2 weeks on Monday at 15:00 UTC\nhttp ://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Traini

[HOT] Cancelled: Tech Working Group Meeting

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID://Yahoo//Calendar//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:CANCEL BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tech Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:17:00 UTC On the first Monday of the month\nLed by Drazen Odoba sic\nhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_grou

[HOT] Sorry about all the calendar messages

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone. Sorry for blasting the list this morning with all the calendar messages. I think I have sorted out the issue now, but I wanted to explain shortly here what happened. There were .ics files sent out for the various workgroup meetings.

Re: [HOT] Super Typhoon Hagupit (International Name Ruby)

2014-12-03 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the heads up Mark. It is definitely good to start watching these things as soon as possible and planning the response. Below is a link to Jeff Masters most recent blog post about the typhoon; Jeff is an expert on hurricanes/typhoons and

Re: [HOT] Mapping Africa's National Parks, Game Reserves and Nature Reserves

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Then we need someone with HOT admin access to setup the job. Any takers? Excellent work so far on this project John. Getting stuff like this organized is sometimes half the battle. I would recommend that you be given access to the task manager.

Re: [HOT] Tracing the clan boundaries in Liberia

2014-11-22 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not sure this is worth doing, at least not manually. GIS software can draw enclosing polygons around the common clan entries and then these could be used to the same effect, with a lot less manual work. However in any case, I think we need to

Re: [HOT] [Feature Interpretation] #765 - Mali, Kouremale

2014-11-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The second one does not look like a well to me. I would mark it as landuse=brownfield. It looks like a building which used to be there was demolished and that is what is left of the foundation, etc. - -AndrewBuck On 11/18/2014 10:46 AM, althio

[HOT] Interesting Isochron Map From WHO

2014-11-14 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, Just got this link to an interesting map put together by WHO using OSM data and wanted to share it with the list so that you can all see how your work is being used in the ebola response. The map at the link below (note, the link may

Re: [HOT] [Feature Interpretation] #751 - Beni, DRC/RDC

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For A) I am not sure what these are. The location near the airfield makes me think they are related to that but I don't know what they would be. For B) Your interpretation on the bridge is correct. We are either seeing a bridge under construction

Re: [HOT] Validating - Take a Task at Random

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Buck
:11 -0600 Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, this definitely is an issue, 'take a random task' should not offer validation squares. I did not see this issue in the TM's issue list. Just FYI. https://github.com/hotosm/osm

Re: [HOT] Validating - Take a Task at Random

2014-11-12 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, this definitely is an issue, 'take a random task' should not offer validation squares. As for criteria on who can validate, it might be worth setting up something like you need to have completed at least 5 squares and had at least one validated

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Speak About HOT at Missing Maps Mapathon in DC on Friday

2014-11-03 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would be able to speak via skype, which I have done for a few mapathons already, but I won't be there in person. If this sounds reasonable, send me the time you would like me to speak so I can add it to my calendar. - -AndrewBuck On 11/03/2014

Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

2014-11-01 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is also this report from CartONG: http://cartong.org/news/msf-case-study-gis-support-epidemic-operations That page is just a short summary, there is a link to the full PDF on the bottom of the page. - -AndrewBuck On 10/31/2014 08:25 PM,

Re: [HOT] hotosm-task#711-Kayes: black spots = pools of water

2014-10-29 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sergio, The object in picture 1 (on the left side) and the same object in picture 2 is definitely a well. For the others I am not so sure about these: they could be small holding tanks as you suggest but I am not so sure that is what they are.

Re: [HOT] Working with people on the ground.

2014-10-29 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Usually when there are multiple phases to map an area and something should be done first due to time considerations we make separate jobs for each phase of mapping. A common practice is to do just roads and landuse areas over a large area of interest

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