Re: [HOT] maposmatic.org not functioning ?

2016-04-05 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Ahasan, It is not working for me either. The GIS database has been down for a while now (at least a week) so it was not generating maps, but now I see the website is offline too. That is too bad, it was a great site. Cheers Blake On 4/5/2016 8:28 PM, Ahasanul Hoque wrote: Hi, Does

Re: [HOT] Waterway - Determining Flow Direction

2016-04-05 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, seeing the area might help a bit to see if anyone has any tips. It can be difficult to get the water flow directions right even with OCM. My general tips are, with limited effectiveness: zoom out a lot to see what the general watershed and terrain looks like whitewater points in

Re: [HOT] How to become a validator (a suggestion)

2016-04-05 Thread Blake Girardot
On 4/5/2016 3:15 PM, john whelan wrote: Blake thought my methods of validation in Nepal left much to be desired. That sounds a little strong :) I forget the question I had or the comment, but after talking with you I was good with it and agreed is all I remember. >I agreed but given

Re: [HOT] Request to those organising a maperthon. - validation support

2016-04-01 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, We do have an unused "validation" email group that was created with the idea that people who were available and interested in doing validations could share ideas, questions, tips, etc And people who were running mapathons could easily notify people who liked to do validation that they

Re: [HOT] OSM Task Manager

2016-03-29 Thread Blake Girardot
HI Saikat, There is no way to lock multiple task squares. We usually suggest to people they not work on squares that have someone working next to them to avoid conflicts. So it can be partially addressed by training or task instructions. There is a way to use custom task "squares" so you

Re: [HOT] Regarding adding new projects to Task Manager

2016-03-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, Your name in the upper right corner has a pop down menu, there should be a "create a new project" link in there. There is also a users list in that menu, you can make a user a project manager or admin by looking at their profile page in the Tasking Manager and there will be a link to

Re: [HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

2016-03-26 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Andrew, The custom imagery was only available for this most recent project so I was using Bing when I made the short video on mapping tall buildings. So yes, you need to use the WMS imagery and align it to the existing mapping or the bing imagery and then map using the new imagery. But

Re: [HOT] Field papers grids for OSMand

2016-03-24 Thread Blake Girardot
OpenStreetMap Team https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC http://www.hotosm.org/ On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com <mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Rupert, I can not say for sure, but maybe you have to download the JSON and

Re: [HOT] Field papers grids for OSMand

2016-03-24 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Rupert, I can not say for sure, but maybe you have to download the JSON and then convert that to a shapefile. JOSM can't open geojson files so you would need to use a website like: http://geojson.io/ To convert the json file to shp. That is my guess at least from reading the directions,

Re: [HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

2016-03-24 Thread Blake Girardot
at this time. Regards, Blake [1] UNHCR and Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) http://www.3rpsyriacrisis.org On 3/8/2016 5:25 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, I just posted a new project to map a small, but very dense urban area (we have a few more in the same region coming up

[HOT] Project to map with refugees in the Dunkirk, France refugee camp

2016-03-21 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, A few members of the HOT community (myself included) are going to spend 2 weeks volunteering in the refugee camp in Dunkirk France (population ~3000), generating a detailed, multilingual map of the camp in collaboration with some of the refugees currently in the camp and the

Re: [HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

2016-03-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I think it is difficult to get a more specific tag than building=yes for most buildings from aerial imagery. building=yes is generally correct because it is the most generic of building tags that can be refined when more information is available. It is not misusage to apply

Re: [HOT] OpenBadges and HOT - Here we go !

2016-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
wrote: PS: Katja designed and created all the badges for us! Nice idea using openbadges. Just to be curious (and I know gamers are that too): Can I see these HOT badges without being logged in on openbadges? :Stefan 2016-03-15 20:09 GMT+01:00 Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com>: Hi a

[HOT] OpenBadges and HOT - Here we go !

2016-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that HOT has started issuing Mozilla Open Badges compatible badges from our HOT Courses website: http://courses.hotosm.org/ At the moment they are only available for the HOT Activation Coordinator courses, but more will be coming for general mapping

Re: [HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

2016-03-14 Thread Blake Girardot
5:25 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, I just posted a new project to map a small, but very dense urban area (we have a few more in the same region coming up). This kind of mapping is a real challenge in the city center areas and it is slightly complicated due to the very tall nature of most

Re: [HOT] "connecting" buildings

2016-03-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, It is really generally true, but in dense urban areas often the buildings do share a wall. Hopefully we can get some feedback from the folks in Dar as to what is typical in that environment. One of the things that make dense urban mapping a challenge. Cheers, Blake On 3/8/2016

[HOT] New mapping projects that could use some experienced mappers

2016-03-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I just posted a new project to map a small, but very dense urban area (we have a few more in the same region coming up). This kind of mapping is a real challenge in the city center areas and it is slightly complicated due to the very tall nature of most of the buildings. It gets

[HOT] International Women's Day 2016 - One way to show your support for diversity in the OSM community - osm wiki userboxes

2016-03-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, As part of International Women's Day 2016, I took a pledge to support women, girls and gender diversity in the HOT and OSM communities. One small way to share my commitment is that I created and OSM wiki "Userbox" to show my support for women in the OSM community. If you are an osm

Re: [HOT] Protecting girls at risk of FGM in Tanzania by mapping their villages - International Womens' Day event

2016-03-07 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Max, Janet, The process for doing a mass import into OSM is pretty well defined and it takes at least a few weeks to make it happen. The guidelines can be seen here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines I think this project as presented is actually a very good way to get

Re: [HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

2016-03-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, I am not really sure what you are asking, but in looking at highway tagging in iD, it appears that iD does not use the same icon label for roads based on the tag values. I had no idea. I assumed there was an "unclassified" road icon in iD as the tag is highway=unclassified,

Re: [HOT] A Fiji project for experienced mappers interested in a new damage assessment methodology

2016-03-02 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I think the underlying methodology in the project proposed is really good and I expect HOT and other humanitarian organizations will be working on helping evaluate it and working into their workflow eventually. But it needs to be looked at to understand how in the context of how HOT

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager - Comments

2016-02-29 Thread Blake Girardot
plete does not locate it after typing the part before the space. @[blake girardot] but just @bgirardot and as I said, there is auto complete so about half the time a two word name shows up and you can just select it from the pop down list. You can also @ more than one person if more than one person c

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Accuracy ( international women's day)

2016-02-29 Thread Blake Girardot
On 2/29/2016 4:53 PM, Gertrude Hope wrote: Which is more accurate between fieldpapers and OSMtracker? Hi Gertrude, Lots of good advice so far. Fieldpapers is literally a print out on paper of either the buildings and streets mapped in OSM already or the satellite imagery. Then you walk

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps User Stats

2016-02-29 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, I can not be sure if this is the cause, but the MM website only shows user stats for contributions to projects with #missingmaps in the changeset comment. It looks like #1544's changeset comment had a typo in the default part of the changeset comments with no spaced before

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updated

2016-02-24 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Samuel, I believe at the moment we have removed the support for httpS because it was causing issues with the background map and hand off to JOSM when checking out a task. We are slated to return it as soon as possible, but it requires further investigation and testing before we can

[HOT] Projects to support Fiji relief and recovery up on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager

2016-02-24 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I have created a Project on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager to get started mapping Fiji. HOT is not officially activated yet, but our data will get used and we have started to reach out to NGOs and have been asked by a few organizations to start mapping. The current project is at the

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] HOT Fiji & 180th Meridian

2016-02-23 Thread Blake Girardot
4 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: What is the reason we are not supporting Fiji in the wake of Winston? is it because their are somewhat well off and do not need our help? I ask not just out of curiosity, but because I am likely to be asked at one of the upcoming mapathons. Mike On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:21

Re: [HOT] #1537 Missing Maps: West Swaziland - new mapper

2016-02-23 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi German, 1. Use the Bing imagery where possible. I don't see much offset between the two in the areas I checked but I know it varies. If you have to use both for some reason, just align the Mapbox imagery with the buildings drawn using the Bing imagery before you trace. In iD use the

[HOT] GISLounge article about HOT - nice article, good website

2016-02-22 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
relating to GIS as well as interesting news items, tips, and resources for the geospatial field. This site is run by Caitlin Dempsey Morais. https://www.gislounge.com/ Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] HOT Fiji & 180th Meridian

2016-02-20 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, I am not sure what mapping HOT can do to support Fiji after the typhoon, but this message to OSM-Talk is informative. If anyone is reviewing mapping or starts mapping there the below linked to wiki page seems important to review. Thanks to Richard for pointing it

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Event Calendar

2016-02-16 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, This form is the best/easiest way to get on the list on the main Missing Maps website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/174ZAAaqtRkJtyY2657RVAMbnvs8IzujWAShZy3y3_FY/viewform Cheers, Blake On 2/16/2016 3:24 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: Here:

Re: [HOT] Website down?

2016-02-16 Thread Blake Girardot
I get back drupal error for https://hotosm.org On 2/16/2016 12:47 PM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Our website (https://hotosm.org/) is down? Or is it just my connection doing difficult... Best, Jorieke ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] How newer mappers can help a lot with the validation process

2016-02-11 Thread Blake Girardot
n the field at least plan out what and where. Cheerio John On 10 February 2016 at 10:28, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com <mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, I just want to mention, that new mappers can really help with the validation process by doing what

[HOT] How newer mappers can help a lot with the validation process

2016-02-10 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, I just want to mention, that new mappers can really help with the validation process by doing what they typically do: Map in roads and buildings but into "Completed" task squares. You do not need to mark a task square "Validated", but just reviewing the completed squares and filling

Re: [HOT] Getting a project on the Task Manager

2016-02-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, Not difficult at all. Lets speak via Skype or phone about what you have in mind and then I would guess it is no problem. Cheers, Blake skype: jblakegirardot phone: 734-330-8989 skype is probably easiest for me. On 2/8/2016 6:02 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: As some of you know, I

[HOT] Field work this week - need help with validation on #1409

2016-02-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, Drishtie from the American Red Cross contacted me today. They are starting field work in Colombia this week and have a Tasking Manager mapping project that needs to be validated and fixed up a bit asap. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1409 Please only use the imagery that is

Re: [HOT] #1449 - South Africa CD:NGI Aerial

2016-01-26 Thread Blake Girardot
I am working on this problem now Mike for now, if you move further away from teh South Africa boarder does it work? There is an imagery overlap and id wants to us SA imagery, trying moving east or north in the project to automatically get bing imagery On 1/26/2016 7:42 PM, Mike Thompson

Re: [HOT] #1449 - South Africa CD:NGI Aerial

2016-01-26 Thread Blake Girardot
that it seems that all of the buildings have already been mapped, at least in the two tasks that I have looked at (e.g. #2). I am marking them as "done", but I am only having to map a couple of small buildings in each task. Mike On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Blake G

Re: [HOT] Sharing imagery for a mapathon/task - simple alternative to TMS?

2016-01-26 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Nick, If you want an easy way to create a TMS endpoint (as we geeks call it) for a map image, i use "mapwarper" http://mapwarper.net/ I usually use it for maps that already have coordinates on them, but are just scans or something so it is easier for me to "rectify" them. Hand drawn

[HOT] Swaziland mapping - incredible progress!

2016-01-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my thanks and congratulations to the HOT and Missing Maps community for their contributions to Swaziland mapping. The series of project I had planned got done so much faster than I had imagined possible, I have been behind the whole time trying to keep up

Re: [HOT] #1429

2016-01-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mike, Yes please do fix up the road if it interferes. Thank you very much for asking and mapping! cheers, Blake On 1/22/2016 7:50 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: Task #1429 calls for the collection of buildings only. If an existing osm way representing a road goes through a building I

Re: [HOT] #1429

2016-01-22 Thread Blake Girardot
questions. Mike On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com <mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Mike, Yes please do fix up the road if it interferes. Thank you very much for asking and mapping! cheers, Blake On 1/22/2016 7

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Troubles opening Tasking manager in josm and potlatch

2016-01-21 Thread Blake Girardot
I just did a quick test on ubuntu trusty with firefox and chrome. It looks like both browsers fail to hand off to josm when using httpS Chrome did not give an error message, but firefox asks is remote control is enabled in josm. Interestingly the same thing seems to happen on windows 7 too,

[HOT] Digitizing complicated buildings in JOSM - Short Tutorial from Mapbox

2016-01-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, For the JOSM users: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/fast-building-tracing/ I tend to use the X tool, but both ways illustrated are great. The only part of the text that does not make sense to me is where it says in the "area intersections" method: "then select 2 nodes of that box" My

[HOT] OSM Nicaragua's Transit Map Project blog post and their next challenge

2016-01-07 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
blog post or retweet OSM Nicaragua's tweet: https://twitter.com/osm_ni/status/67996304502532 Regards, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i

Re: [HOT] [hotosm-membership] 2015 Year in Review

2016-01-03 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Russ, Thank you for your entry. I posted mine here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bgirardot/diary/37694 Definitely just the simple "I did this and hope to do more" type of entry. cheers, Blake On 1/2/2016 8:24 PM, Russell Deffner wrote: Greetings HOT community, The HOT Voting

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Jan. 2nd, 2016, Mappy New Year Edition!

2016-01-02 Thread Blake Girardot
ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

[HOT] Our last appeal for 2015 ... two things that close tomorrow

2015-12-30 Thread Blake Girardot
doing it, I _guarantee_ it will NOT take more than 120 seconds! You don't have to rank everything, just read through and mark the couple that catch your eye. Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board

Re: [HOT] #1394 - Kinshasa Floods

2015-12-29 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Leon, That task square in particular could use some fixing up. Sometimes in the iD editor it will fail to display what someone has just mapped so things get mapped twice by the same person. As to the residential areas: I usually do the larger overall residential area and then in this

Re: [HOT] Tom Taylor passed away Dec. 24th, 2015 - Goodbye Tom

2015-12-28 Thread Blake Girardot
I am very sad to hear about Tom's passing. Like Suzan, I worked with Tom on the training working group and as a fellow humanitarian mapper. He was always kind and friendly and dedicated. The epitome of a humanitarian. Inspiring to me was how much he continued to contribute to his

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Dec. 19th QGIS Help Edition - We need some :)

2015-12-19 Thread Blake Girardot
ll. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT can't do what it does without your support! https://donate.hotosm.org/ Now also in Fre

Re: [HOT] #1393

2015-12-17 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pia, I am (and I am sure a few others) are looking now. Write you back shortly. Cheers, Blake On 12/17/2015 10:02 PM, Pia Conrad Mortensen wrote: Hi there. Since I’m new in this business I would like if someone, who knows better than me, would look at some of my (piaco) squares. . I

Re: [HOT] #1393

2015-12-17 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Piaco, It didn't take long to review because your mapping is great. Your mapping is exactly what we do :) You have mapped a ton in Swaziland, that is amazing, thank you so much! I hope you keep with us. I never mapped with Potlatch2 but you seem to be doing well with it. Please let us

Re: [HOT] Please help HOT set its 2016 Priorities - 1 minute survey

2015-12-17 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
something for the new year we will be eternally grateful. Cheers and happy surveying! Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Wed

[HOT] Twitch.tv live mapping

2015-12-17 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Polyglot, Piaco and everyone else, I just want to mention Polyglot does live mapping semi often now (evenings GMT) and it is very educational, I already learned a few tricks from him tonight. You can subscribe to his twitch channel and get a notice when he is live streaming his mapping.

[HOT] Please help HOT set its 2016 Priorities - 1 minute survey

2015-12-16 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
and you, the HOT Community. Please take 2 minutes (max) and give us you opinion about how you would set HOT's priorities for 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HOT2016Priorities Cheers and thank you in advance! Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Dec. 12th HOT Fundraising Edition

2015-12-12 Thread Blake Girardot
ers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Day / Time Set - Prototype OSM Data Quality Analysis Tool Meeting this week

2015-12-09 Thread Blake Girardot
in to the skype call if you have a regular phone number if need be, so send me that if that is your only option. Cheers, Blake On 12/8/2015 5:51 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, After some initial idea generation we are having a follow up informal chat later this week to continue our

[HOT] HOT recognized in the 2015 Nominet Trust 100!

2015-12-09 Thread Blake Girardot
-- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https

[HOT] Prototype OSM Data Quality Analysis Tool Meeting this week

2015-12-08 Thread Blake Girardot
to contribute ideas and use cases, so if you can't make this meeting, do not worry, you will have lots of opportunities for input coming up. Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors

Re: [HOT] Preparing new release - Please help us with translations

2015-12-07 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Heather, we use Transifex for all our translations now. An brief intro for translators is here: http://docs.transifex.com/introduction/translators/ HOT's organization on transifex is here: https://www.transifex.com/hotosm/ New translators should sign up for Transifex and then request to

Re: [HOT] Floods in Chennai, India - Tasking Manager Project

2015-12-07 Thread Blake Girardot
I just want to highlight what Maning said here. There is a Tasking Manager project for this on the OSM India Tasking Manager install and everyone can help do some mapping via that Project. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:50 AM, maning sambale wrote: > > We have also asked

[HOT] Projects on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - lots of them

2015-12-05 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, Dale, among others have been working to update and review all the current projects on HOT's main OSM Tasking Manager: http://tasks.hotosm.org/ After much work on their part, a lot of projects have shifted up in the list. If you have not had a chance to visit the tasking

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Dec. 5th Edition

2015-12-05 Thread Blake Girardot
ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

Re: [HOT] Bug in HOTOSM export

2015-12-02 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, Thank you for the feedback. I will take a look at it. I am not sure the thematic version takes the tags from the tag selection tree into account at all as I originally developed the thematic versions outside of the export tool and just suggested my ogr2ogr scripts to Brian so we

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Nov. 28th Edition

2015-11-28 Thread Blake Girardot
ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

[HOT] Fwd: Nominate a student or a professional you know for Women in Open Source Award - Short deadline

2015-11-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, Just wanted to forward this. It comes from the Outreachy program director, but does not really have anything to do with Outreachy. Any woman in OSS is eligible. Cheers, Blake Forwarded Message Subject: [Outreachy] Nominate a student or a professional you know for

[HOT] Fwd: [info-hotosm] Rappel : AidData Summer Fellows

2015-11-27 Thread Blake Girardot
ive_web> ​​ 2016 ASF EOI.doc <https://docs.google.com/a/aiddata.org/document/d/1WckXPlCbWYyGkmq_6oWQkdk6W9-0kzQvi6mKC0u2TsU/edit?usp=drive_web> ​ -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Direc

Re: [HOT] Translations of fundraising campaign

2015-11-26 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Vitor, I can't answer the question about the Ribbon or the message on the TM, but the Donation website can be translated here: https://www.transifex.com/hotosm/hot-crowdfunding-communications I am still not (how long have I been saying that?) very good with Transifex, but I think you

[HOT] Last day for Mapbox crowdfunding matching - Lets make sure we hit 10k!

2015-11-19 Thread Blake Girardot
help us make this 10k milestone! Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org

Re: [HOT] Activation Updates

2015-11-13 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi JGC, I think we all agree there is no substitute for experience :) I know during the last 2 activations I have been trying to add to the pool of useful information the Activation Coordinators have to work with, without clutter things up. You too I saw. It is helpful to get links to

Re: [HOT] Creating custom preset

2015-11-13 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Jorieke, I think the HOT Visual Tag Chooser creates JOSM preset files. http://visualtags.hotosm.org/ I have not used it myself, but I think it should work fine. cheers, Blake On 11/13/2015 10:40 AM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Hi all, Quick question: is there an easy way to create your

Re: [HOT] Refugee Crisis

2015-11-10 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, Like some of our other mapping, the refugee related crisis comes with sensitivities about the situation on the ground and the safety of the refugees. For me, that is what has been a bit of what looks like inactivity. However, there are some HOT community members who have been actively

Re: [HOT] Admin Boundary Extraction Service

2015-11-08 Thread Blake Girardot
y. > > Cheers > > Samuel > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype:

Re: [HOT] New OSGEO UN Committee

2015-11-05 Thread Blake Girardot
HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org ___

Re: [HOT] mounds

2015-11-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Daniel, if you could share a url from id or josm some of us will take a look. Just a wild guess here from your description, not knowing the area you are mapping in, could it be cassava fields?

Re: [HOT] HOT New Member Nominations - CLOSING THIS WEEK

2015-11-03 Thread Blake Girardot
to Membership Code also pasted in below). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk/ https://hotosm.org/sites/default/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping

2015-10-29 Thread Blake Girardot
I like to explain it in terms of land usage, people reside here on the land in some way, therefore landuse=residential that is how it works best in my experience. Fits fully within local mapping partners and people and is well understood HOT/OSM usage. It also works well for revisions in the

Re: [HOT] [hotosm-membership] HOT New Member Nominations

2015-10-29 Thread Blake Girardot
President: "Lets be awesome together." I look forward to working with everyone in the HOT/OSM community in the future (how great is it to be able to say that?) Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed for designing an OSM based project

2015-10-26 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Ahasanul, That sounds like a great project and HOT can help you evaluate all the important points that Paul raised below As always, OSM defers to local insights and understanding of what works best for the local community.based on their use cases for OSM so lets talk more about it with

[HOT] Translators needed

2015-10-25 Thread Blake Girardot
-update-oct-25-2015-1100-utc/ We are focusing our translation on this project to Spanish (es). Regards, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i

[HOT] Información y actualizaciones del Equipo de Activación por el mapeo (mapeado) de HOT durante Huracán Patricia

2015-10-25 Thread Blake Girardot
cualquiera de los enlaces de arriba para empezar el mapeo del huracán Patricia -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@

[HOT] Digital Humanitarian Network partner Humanity Road situation reports on Typhoon Koppu (Lando)

2015-10-17 Thread Blake Girardot
situation report on Typhoon Koppu (Lando), #LandoPH. It made landfall in Casigura, Aurora Province at 1:00am on 18 Oct. http://humanityroad.org/super-typhoon-koppu-landoph/ Regards, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - South Kivu DRC here we come!

2015-10-17 Thread Blake Girardot
ers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

2015-10-16 Thread Blake Girardot
kidding! As Heather is fond of saying: "Let's all be awesome together!" Cheers, Blake On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Blake Girardot <blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Community Working Group is going to start have regular projects > and mee

[HOT] Help needed with a project in the Middle East

2015-10-16 Thread Blake Girardot
ers, Blake -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

2015-10-14 Thread Blake Girardot
and the capacity for a slightly higher time commitment to be a Co-Chair :) I look forward to speaking with you all more as part of the Community WG ! Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board

Re: [HOT] OSM user diaries

2015-10-11 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pete, I am not sure how much traction it will get you, but it looks like diary related issues and feature requests are accepted at the osm website git hub repo: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website Searching the issues for is:issue is:closed diary is somewhat

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Oct. 10th Edition

2015-10-10 Thread Blake Girardot
ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

Re: [HOT] Fw: [MappingDC] Amnesty International is calling to map refugee routes

2015-10-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Mikel, HOT community members Katja and Imre have been quietly working with small NGOs and other groups in Europe to identify, locate and map refugee camps, reception and detention centers and border control points that are relevant to the migration crisis. The current output of their

Re: [HOT] Mapping task for seismic risk assessment

2015-10-07 Thread Blake Girardot
In looking at the osm gps traces and strava gps data, the current bing imagery looks quite well aligned to me. cheers, blake On 10/8/2015 12:20 AM, john whelan wrote: I think the issue is how can we make this easy for new mappers. You can select multiple buildings in JOSM by downloading

[HOT] Do not open or follow the links in "Fw: read this" emails

2015-09-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, Much like a few weeks ago, there is a spam attack on the openstreetmap mailing lists and individuals who subscribe to those lists. Please just delete the emails with the subject line "Fw: read this". We are also taking some steps to stop the flow of them. Regards, Blake

[HOT] Fw: read this

2015-09-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Hello! New message, please read <http://naileseker.com/directly.php?b> Blake Girardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Beta Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-23 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Brad, If you have not had a chance, we could use some help looking over the open and closed issues on the github repo: https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues It would really be helpful to us to have feedback and input on those items, the tool in general and give you a good

Re: [HOT] Results Map Not functioning

2015-09-23 Thread Blake Girardot
This does not help much, but it seems to be a display problem. If you view the source of the page, it looks like it returned the relevant data, the data just doesn't display for me in win7 ff, chrome, or IE Regards, Blake On 9/23/2015 10:37 PM, noah ahles wrote: Sorry forgot to add the

Re: [HOT] [HOT Tagging] Tag for community based healthcare? / Quel tag pour les sites de soins communautaires ?

2015-09-21 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Claire, It is a bit long and kind of complicated, but do you think a combination of the healthcare 2.0 proposal could address the facilities? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Healthcare_2.0 It does say part of its goal was to deal with community based services. Maybe

Re: [HOT] Highway names and abbreviations

2015-09-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pete, I would be tempted to download the data to a .osm file, use find/replace in my fav text editor and then upload to the server. I am obligated to mention the OSM Mass Edit policy of course as everyone seems to when talking about an edit like this :) Or this solution in this

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Sep 19th Edition

2015-09-19 Thread Blake Girardot
ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

Re: [HOT] Chile Eathquake alerts

2015-09-18 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Maning, I would do just what you did, which was leave the Bing imagery to the default alignment. We can fix the whole area after the mapping is done as you said. Cheers, Blake On 9/19/2015 6:16 AM, maning sambale wrote: There is small (10-15 meters) offset for bing imagery for task:

Re: [HOT] Alpha Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

2015-09-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, If we can support administrator added translation files and sql transform files that would be a good compromise and really more than a compromise, an actual improvement over v.1 with no loss of end user functionality. How does that sound to you Severin? Cheers, Blake On

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