Re: [HOT] Faster activations with disaster.ninja

2019-06-24 Thread Harry Wood
Disaster Ninja! http://disaster.ninja/live/  looks interesting. I really like the population vs OSM data-density basemap on there. It shows we need more mapping in India and China! :-) In fact i wanted to ask if we could put an image of that on the wiki as a "featured image". For that it needs

Re: [HOT] [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Tool update from HOT: MapCampaigner

2018-10-07 Thread Harry Wood
Well this is drifting off the original topic but... Greg Morgan wrote: > This is nothing more than an uneducated attack on my favorite part of the > US tax code, 501.c3. This is also nothing more than an attack on a group > trying to build the OSM community. Seems a bit strong. Some folks need

Re: [HOT] A new tool for spotting buildings that overlap by more than 50%

2017-11-25 Thread Harry Wood
It's funny, I was having the same idea recently while using the JOSM validator on "finished" areas of TM projects. JOSM validator already has a big red error category for duplicate buildings (where there is 100% overlap). This crops up a bit in our finished projects, but it shouldn't really.

Re: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

2017-05-17 Thread Harry Wood
I certainly have noticed this. It drives me nuts to be honest. I remember during the Nepal response mapping I did nothing but fixing up ugly square bits of forest. I think a few other people joined in with this too, because these days I can see we've mostly eliminated them across that massive

Re: [HOT] Request for enhancement to the Task Manager

2016-06-23 Thread Harry Wood
The idea of letting only JOSM users be validators was discussed and rejected here: https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/598 Linked to that is the idea of only allowing validators who have been granted validator permissions. I made a suggestion here which is less heavy-handed

Re: [HOT] missing maps badge account

2016-05-09 Thread Harry Wood
> I think that happens for people who haven’t mapped yet _after_ the tool was > released No that basic issue has been resolved. See here: http://www.missingmaps.org/users/#/3442203 User 'piaco_dk' is in the system with lots of edits, but something else is going wrong. I have logged an issue

Re: [HOT] Changes not being saved

2016-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
Hi Susan. We can see some of your OpenStreetMap edits (changesets) being saved here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SReed/historyThat all happens independently of the Tasking Manager, so it's these OpenStreetMap edit displays we should look at to investigate. But I'm not sure what has

Re: [HOT] maposmatic.org not functioning ?

2016-04-05 Thread Harry Wood
I reached them on github https://github.com/maposmatic/maposmatic/issues/5#issuecomment-205977352 and apparently it's just temporarily offline. Harry From: Blake Girardot To: Ahasanul Hoque ; "hot@openstreetmap.org"

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps User Stats

2016-03-02 Thread Harry Wood
> Are you working on the site, or know where to report bugs? > The page JS is getting an error when I click the search icon: I reported that bug here: https://github.com/MissingMaps/missingmaps.github.io/issues/78 There's been some work on it, but that's still a bug. Harry

[HOT] Fw: read this

2015-09-28 Thread Harry Wood
Hello! New message, please read <http://tastetiger.com/single.php?21pal> Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Chile Eathquake alerts

2015-09-17 Thread Harry Wood
I've made a wiki page for this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Illapel,_Chile_earthquake including links to those task manager projects Not a major activation. It's a small death toll, I guess because Chileans are well prepared for earthquakes. Also don't forget there is an active

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [info-hotosm] Open Data Awards 2015: you have been shortlisted in the Social Impact category!

2015-07-09 Thread Harry Wood
://awards.theodi.org if you fancy it. The awards should be happening at 19:20 UK time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150709T1920p1=136 So fingers crossed for an award! Harry Wood From: Tyler Radford tyler.radf...@hotosm.org To: Heather Leson

Re: [HOT] OSMCompare Before / After map

2015-06-02 Thread Harry Wood
Ah yeah. The before server is a bit broken: http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html (on my fadey version too) http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/before-after.html The before server is actually FOSM the server set-up by the license change denying folks. It's

Re: [HOT] HELP - JOSM on MacbookPro OS 10.6

2015-05-01 Thread Harry Wood
Yes here specificallyhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Mac#InstallationPlease link mac users to this. It would save on email traffic apart form anything else :-) At mapathons I've been heading there and using the JOSM version 7000 download link as quick way to get older mac users going.

Re: [HOT] Info on Nepal earthquake for NGOs?

2015-04-30 Thread Harry Wood
improvements to bigmap2. I need to test that a bit more and chase down a bug I was experiencing. I like the nice sputnik style and the 'contours' transparent overlay which we can play with on there. Harry From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk To: Sarah Johns sjo...@bond.org.uk; hot

Re: [HOT] Info on Nepal earthquake for NGOs?

2015-04-29 Thread Harry Wood
agree we could also do a HOT blog post focussed on the maps and downloads. Maybe I'll begin drafting something: https://hackpad.com/Blog-post-Nepal-earthquake.-We-have-maps-jCyVr9LMoRP Harry Wood (in London UK) - Original Message - From: Sarah Johns sjo...@bond.org.uk To: hot

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
Wiki page for this earthquake:  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake Let's hope our friends a the Kathmandu Living Labs are all safe today. Because the community is strong in Nepal (and particularly Kathmandu), the map is already pretty good. Let's hope aid agencies will

Re: [HOT] Image not loading !!!! Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-04-20 Thread Harry Wood
Looking at the area in this funny old bing analyzer tool would suggest the same. The area used to be hi-res and is not now hi-res, hence you can zoom in on some patches of green here, and they turn

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Harry Wood
We have a wiki page for Vanuatu so I've added details to that and links to the TM projects on there http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vanuatu For your second TM project, Pierre, I've tweaked the description to say that Bing is only available at hi-res on the northernmost squares.(Bing

Re: [HOT] Conflicts of Interest

2015-03-12 Thread Harry Wood
I believe conflicts should be handled in the follow 2 basic ways. 1. Potential conflicts should be talked about and acknowledged well before any actual conflicts arise. 2. Board members should completely recuse themselves from any conversation. They should not listen to or be a part of the

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Calls reminder (this Wednesday and Thursday)

2015-03-11 Thread Harry Wood
So the first of these is... RIGHT NOW Join us on mumble From: Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org To: 'HOT community' hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 3:06 Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT Community Calls reminder (this Wednesday and Thursday)

Re: [HOT] Recap of Community Call 1, reminder of CC 2

2015-03-11 Thread Harry Wood
OK. so the next meeting is starting on mumble RIGHT NOW. Talk to you there! Harry From: Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org To: hot hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 19:53 Subject: [HOT] Recap of Community Call 1, reminder of CC 2 !--#yiv5451498926

[HOT] Executive Director transition plans

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
Dear Hotties, With Kate’s announcement, we have a busy few weeks ahead and we very much want to ask for your help in pursuing next steps. And, we want to assure you that the HOT Board is here to make this transition go well. First off, Kate, from all of the current board members, let me say

Re: [HOT] Executive Director transition plans

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
say we are intervening by making this suggestion, but... is this an unwelcome intervention for any particular reason Pierre? Harry From: Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr To: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Sent

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Harry Wood
Many people will know that Kate has been at the core of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team from the beginning, doing a very professional job of building the organisation as a whole, and particularly the side of the organisation which does things like giving staff contracts and salaries,

Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

2015-03-07 Thread Harry Wood
See this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Mac Sadly apple and oracle seem to be conspiring to make running java software on mac quite difficult. Java version 6 may be easier for some mac users, in which case the link to the older version 7000 of JOSM will work. Harry

[HOT] Stepping down from the HOT Board

2015-03-05 Thread Harry Wood
shall continue with technical, community, and mapping contributions, and representing in London as HOT member. Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Call for HOT Photos

2015-02-17 Thread Harry Wood
I try to remember to use the tag 'hotosm' on flickr (as a subset of those tagged 'openstreetmap') https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=hotosmsort=date-posted-desc ...on my own so far Get yours on there Jorieke! (and any other flickr users) Harry From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-12 Thread Harry Wood
I think it's good to raise these concerns, so that we are setting the tone of our communication channels correctly, but let's not stress about it too much. LinkedIn is just another channel. I think we can all agree that it will never come anywhere close to being a main channel of communication

[HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 13:00 UTC

2015-01-08 Thread Harry Wood
We're going to have another meeting of the HOT Community Working Group on Saturday at 13:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150110T1300p1=136ah=1 On IRC (how to use IRC? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats ) The wiki page about

Re: [HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 12:00 UTC

2014-10-11 Thread Harry Wood
Reminder. This is in 15mins - Original Message - From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 9 October 2014, 1:18 Subject: Community Working Group Saturday 12:00 UTC We're going to have another meeting of the HOT Community

Re: [HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 12:00 UTC

2014-10-11 Thread Harry Wood
/Working_groups/Community/2015-10-11 Harry From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2014, 12:45 Subject: Re: [HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 12:00 UTC Reminder. This is in 15mins

[HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 12:00 UTC

2014-10-08 Thread Harry Wood
We're going to have another meeting of the HOT Community Working Group on Saturday at 12:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141011T1300p1=136ah=1 On IRC (how to use IRC? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats ) The wiki page about

Re: [HOT] Interview on Mapping for Ebola for Serbian TV

2014-09-30 Thread Harry Wood
about it tomorrow. I failed to follow my own tip recently. Missed out on a BBC radio appearance because I didn't respond to an email until four hours later. Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[HOT] Community Working Group Saturday 1:30 UTC

2014-09-18 Thread Harry Wood
We're going to have a meeting of the HOT Community Working Group http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140920T1430p1=136ah=1 On IRC (how to use IRC? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats ) The wiki page about the community working group is

Re: [HOT] Satellite imagery interpretation examples - looking for suggestions

2014-09-11 Thread Harry Wood
I think it's a great idea to have some more bing imagery example images in our tagging docs e.g. the 'Highway Tag Africa' page. There's some copyright concerns which might hold us back, but I think that would be a shame. I've just added some thoughts to that discussion

[HOT] Earthquake in China

2014-08-06 Thread Harry Wood
There was an earthquake in China a few days ago, which killed at least 410 people. I don't know if it warrants much attention, but Katpatuka was pointing out that we haven't responded at all. https://twitter.com/katpatuka/status/496971779056082944 No requests from aid responders but, in the

[HOT] Report from the HOT In Person Board Meeting - Day 2

2014-07-26 Thread Harry Wood
HOT In Person Board Meeting - Day 2 summary We spent our second day in productive meetings and break-up groups facilitated by Allen Gunn.  Agenda 1 Calendar timeline 2 Defining HOT projects 3 Steps to improve the bylaws 4 Growth strategy 5 Conflict resolution 6 Missing Maps 7 Communication

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation

2014-07-07 Thread Harry Wood
Thanks for kicking that off Pierre, and thanks for the blog update. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-07-06_reactivation_of_hot_for_the_ebola_epidemic   (I made some minor english corrections) I guess we'll be focussing on those tasks at our little Mapathon event in London tomorrow

Re: [HOT] Floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-05-19 Thread Harry Wood
I've created a wiki page about these floods: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Southeast_Europe_floods I included a couple of cautions familiar from the UK floods response: 1) Bosnia and Serbia have active mapping communities. We need to take care to do remote armchair mapping only if

Re: [HOT] London HOT Congo Mapathon, reflection

2014-05-08 Thread Harry Wood
Blogged: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-05-08_london_hot_congo_mapathon Before that I will be writing a blog post about the event. I also promised a blog post for the ODI (hosts) Blogs coming soon! ___ HOT mailing list

Re: [HOT] London HOT Congo Mapathon, reflection

2014-05-07 Thread Harry Wood
Some good reflection from Dan and Nick about our event on Saturday. There were several factors which made it feel like a great success, as Dan listed. On his third point about the teaching, we need to say a big *thank you to Dan and Nick!* At the event we had a good balance of OSM beginners,

[HOT] The London HOT Congo Mapathon

2014-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
work in the Congo, and in particular there's a plan to get people digitising Field Papers data which Jorieke was involved in collecting recently. Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order for SotM-US

2014-03-12 Thread Harry Wood
I won't make it to SOTM US. Would be great if you could fly back with one for me! From: Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com To: Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com Cc: hot hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 10:02 Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order

Re: [HOT] London hack weekend

2014-02-28 Thread Harry Wood
I shall swing by the hack event, but I have to keep my weekends free for wedding preparations really, so I can't stick around unfortunately. But I'll see you there Dan Katie. I've been putting together a list of general OSM hack ideas recently:

Re: [HOT] UK Flooding

2014-02-15 Thread Harry Wood
On the topic of UK flooding, I've created a wiki page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Floods_2014 As you can see, I agree that this should not be treated as anything like a normal HOT crisis response mapping exercise for the reasons given there. But there's lots we can do to help

Re: [HOT] Imagery Petition

2013-12-17 Thread Harry Wood
political pressure to call for faster imagery release. Can we pick up the (polite!) discussion from there please? Harry Wood Many in the field have 'pet projects' or initiatives that they are attached to, and will have used a great deal of personal energy to carry them forward

Re: [HOT] In Person Mapathons

2013-11-14 Thread Harry Wood
I've organised another mapathon event in London TONIGHT!  If you're in this part of the world, details and sign-up on eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1bqmZqs  I've also listed events here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan#Mapathon_events Obviously that could do with having some more

Re: [HOT] Earthquake in western Pakistan kills hundreds and creates island off coast

2013-09-27 Thread Harry Wood
I've created a wiki page now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Pakistan_Earthquake There is actually quite a lot of improvements we can make from bing. On the day of the quake me and few others jumped on there are added some stuff, but it's a big sparse landscape. Lots of dry tracks

Re: [HOT] HOT stick (Portable Apps) for Training/Workshops

2013-09-26 Thread Harry Wood
Blurting out some thoughts on this. Dane Springmeyer worked on a Installer thing a long time ago: https://github.com/hotosm/installer Looks at bit old and Mapnik oriented (and Mapnik's moved on a lot!) It makes reference to a HOT Package page:

Re: [HOT] printing HDM map from osm

2013-09-16 Thread Harry Wood
Hi Laurent An easy (crude) way to do a high quality printout is to generate a very high resolution raster image just by stitching tiles. I don't know if it's helpful for you because you're on a slow internet connection, but I've just made a big image if Kalemie for you It's 9216 x 15360 pixels.

[HOT] HOT house hack - Mon-Fri next week near Worksop

2013-09-04 Thread Harry Wood
If you'd like to join in, you can edit the hack pad to put your name on the list. Maybe drop us an email too. Hope to be seeing some of you soon! Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Designing a big HOT poster

2013-08-24 Thread Harry Wood
To: Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com Cc: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2013, 20:54 Subject: Re: [HOT] Designing a big HOT poster I'm with Dan in agreeing that the current poster is well-suited to an A1 format. My only

Re: [HOT] Kenyan or African OSM community?

2013-08-22 Thread Harry Wood
During the Mali mapping work a wiki page was created: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/North_Africa_Tagging Originally a 'Mali tagging' page was planned, but I suggested generalising more. I guess the process of spotting things in aerial imagery in rural North Africa will be very similar to

[HOT] FieldPapers JOSM plugin. Docs

2013-08-08 Thread Harry Wood
I was trying out the new FieldPapers JOSM Plugin last night, and I've documented it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/FieldPapers  (translations welcome) It seems to work well. Does this make Walking Papers obsolete? Should we update our HOT training materials to point

Re: [HOT] next HOT tech chat

2013-07-16 Thread Harry Wood
in that direction? Harry Wood  A disadvantage is that they only cache what has been requested. I think a remote team with sporadic internet connection.  on the topic of HOT usb stick https://vine.co/v/b0DvTPnpPtw  The entire word rendering on the fly

Re: [HOT] HOT Tech Meetup

2013-07-01 Thread Harry Wood
That's RIGHT NOW o'clock! Join us on the #hot channel http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC From: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 29 June 2013, 7:33 Subject: [HOT] HOT Tech Meetup Hey

Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

2013-06-23 Thread Harry Wood
Guys, I already announced a wiki page coordinating a response to this disaster a day and half ago: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods Thanks to Reneman and AndrewBuck who responded quite rapidly by investigating mapping possibilities and adding more info to that page.

Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

2013-06-23 Thread Harry Wood
out now to give a training course in OpenStreetMap to some people here in London. Maybe I'll get them all to do some mapping here. Harry From: Ishan Chattopadhyaya ichattopadhy...@gmail.com To: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk Cc: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com

[HOT] North India floods

2013-06-21 Thread Harry Wood
I've created a wiki page for North India floods http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods ...in accordance with http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_activation#Start_a_wiki_page Harry ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] HOT/HDM web rendering

2013-06-21 Thread Harry Wood
wouldn't necessarily want to install mapnik diff updating somewhere though, because we have a free Mapbox account, so that would be easiest. To be discussed. Harry Wood ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [HOT] Activation Protocol!

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Wood
I think we agreed in the meeting yesterday, that HOT Activation should be developed/documented on the 'HOT Activation' wiki page (?)  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_activation I'm going ahead and clearly label the hackpad with a MERGE notice

Re: [HOT] Update on Kunduz mapping

2013-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
Excellent. I'm noticing some other jobs have reached 100% too. Great progress! http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/211 RD Congo, Sud-Kivu, Nextview imagery *** Cholera 100% http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/198 Mali Activation, South of Mopti, Trace infrastructures (Input : Crowdsource Image Recognition)

Re: [HOT] China quake in Sichuan

2013-04-22 Thread Harry Wood
Sev Mike were asking about the china quake. I took a quick look and have set up a wiki page. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Lushan_earthquake (same name wikipedia's given it) But it's not a drop-everything activation I don't think. 200 deaths. This is not another Haiti.  My guess

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and hundreds hurt in Sichuan

2013-04-22 Thread Harry Wood
OK. I've put those links on our wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Lushan_earthquake ...but haven't had time to try them myself. Anyone want to add a quick assessment of where there's interesting mapping to do? From: Jean-Guilhem Cailton

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat 25th February 13:00 UTC

2013-02-25 Thread Harry Wood
So thats in 5 minutes! From: Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com To: hot hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 1:56 Subject: [HOT] HOT Chat 25th February 13:00 UTC So it looks like we have agreement on the Doodle for 25th February 13:00 UTC:

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager Interchange

2013-02-05 Thread Harry Wood
Oh yeah. I came across Pybossa the other day for some other reason (and  http://crowdcrafting.org which I guess is a site deploying it in various ways)  Another one to add to your list is http://mapmill.org (the one we used for Sandy) which is closer to Pybossa style tasks. They are more mini

[HOT] Bing coverage analyzer Syria overview

2013-01-30 Thread Harry Wood
Hopefully the bing imagery analyzer (green and red coverage map) is now giving a more helpful overview of coverage in Syria: http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=33.9lon=38.7zoom=7 The system gets a bit confused when bing adds new imagery in an area. You can zoom in on a red

Re: [HOT] Jakarta Flooding

2013-01-18 Thread Harry Wood
There is a large group of people in Jakarta trained in OSM who are currently providing assistance. This includes a team of students working 24/7 shifts to provide mapping support. You're being quiet understated there Kate. But that's fantastic (not the disaster, but the fact that there are

Re: [HOT] Congratulations to our new voting members!

2013-01-03 Thread Harry Wood
I think we're agreed that we should try to make HOT membership mean more. But we will have to recognise that this will be a gradual transition. At the moment it doesn't mean much. I suggest in the near future we need to always offer voting with three options. yes or no or abstain.  This lets

[HOT] HOT Strategy Document

2012-12-16 Thread Harry Wood
Back in May the HOT board met face-to-face for a two day long strategy meeting. We made some decisions on changes to enact immediately (as described on this blog post at the time:  http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2012-05-14_update_from_hots_strategic_planning_meeting\ ) but we were mainly

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Harry Wood
I agree. I don't think rolling over and complying is a good idea. It doesn't really fit well with the principles of OpenStreetMap to my mind. We want free and open data, and the right to re-use and re-distribute it freely. Doesn't it go without saying that we also stand up for the right to

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-26 Thread Harry Wood
all the GPS traces you guys have been gathering. Great stuff! So I'm sad to hear about these new laws halting your progress. Let us know if you can see anything HOT or OpenStreetMap organisations could do to help. Harry Wood From: Faisal Chohan fai

Re: [HOT] Senegal - Dakar Flooding Activation

2012-08-31 Thread Harry Wood
Saw these too in Dakar. There's quite a lot of them. I was imagining them to be like quite like town squares / piazzas, so I went with the accepted tagging approach for these: highway=pedestrian, area=yes  Maybe it's not quite right, because we see cars parked in some of them. I draw roads

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat, later today / tonight / this morning?

2012-08-29 Thread Harry Wood
Yes. Thanks Joseph. I was meaning to reply saying I'm up for it, and hopefully a few others will join in? See you on #hot IRC in 9 hours time.  We have Tutorships as a chat topic. Anything else? : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats Harry

Re: [HOT] Editing grids

2012-06-23 Thread Harry Wood
Yes I think editing conflicts are something that technical people naturally worry about, but it's never been such a big problem actually. Back in the early days I remember people would often say that mappers should be treating it like checking code into CVS:  Do downloads regularly to update

Re: [HOT] Re : Blog post about last weeks Camp Roberts/RELIEF Mapping

2012-05-31 Thread Harry Wood
Tasking Manager ideas Chat rooms could be good. As with the polygon areas you've been developing, it does remind me more and more of the tool called MapCraft which already exists, and which we *could* already use for HOT stuff in fact.  We use it London mapping parties.  It's quite neat

[HOT] HOT chat in 2 hours time

2012-05-23 Thread Harry Wood
HOT chat today! Join us in the chat room in 2 hours time. An easy way to try this is to go to http://irc.openstreetmap.org . Choose a nickname and choose the #hot channel More details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats

Re: [HOT] 50cm imagery available over Tierralta, Colombia

2012-05-10 Thread Harry Wood
I've set up that info on this page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tierralta ...which is linked from the Colombia page (currently in bright yellow) I think it's fine for that to be in English, and somebody could set-up 'ES:Tierralta' to mirror the same content in Spanish.  The bit where

[HOT] HOT chat in half an hour

2012-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
Join us for HOT chat in half an hour http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats An easy way to try chatting, is to go to http://irc.openstreetmap.org . Choose a nickname and choose the #hot channel.___ HOT mailing list

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] USIP Call for Proposals: Participatory Digital Mapping, Local Media, and Community Engagement

2012-03-27 Thread Harry Wood
Given that we clearly tick the box for Participatory Digital Mapping, and have a lot to say about community engagement too, I'd say it would make sense for HOT to be submitting a grant application to USIP. There's a little more information about the mapping side of things within a PDF linked at

Re: [HOT] Yale Law Talk next Tuesday the 27th

2012-03-25 Thread Harry Wood
We talked about this Yale thing at the HOT chat: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Chat_March_14_2012 The session is March 27. 2-4pm   (EST I presume) From: nicolas chavent nicolas.chav...@gmail.com To: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com

[HOT] HOT Chat in 6 hours from now

2012-02-08 Thread Harry Wood
We've got a HOT Chat scheduled for just under 6 hours from now (11pm GMT : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+chatiso=20120125T23 ) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats HOT Chats are meetings that occurs every other week to discuss what

[HOT] HOT Chat now!

2012-02-08 Thread Harry Wood
We've got a HOT Chat scheduled for NOW! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats HOT Chats are meetings that occurs every other week to discuss what is going on with theHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. These are open to anyone who is interested. We use IRC to chat,

Re: [HOT] Padang image problems

2012-01-26 Thread Harry Wood
Due to a Y origin for these (TMS) tiles different from what is used    usually in OSM (and Gogol and...), I think you can't use the Padang   images in Potlatch (unless things have changed recently). This is    why a - or a ! is required in the URL for JOSM (depending on the    version),

Re: [HOT] Padang image problems

2012-01-26 Thread Harry Wood
.  But it works Harry - Original Message - From: Harry Wood m...@harrywood.co.uk To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2012, 15:18 Subject: Re: [HOT] Padang image problems Due to a Y origin for these (TMS) tiles different from what is used    usually

Re: [HOT] logo permission?

2012-01-17 Thread Harry Wood
of it in anything like this. Not sure what the best legal way to express that is. For the avoidance of doubt in this instance: as a member of the HOT board I hereby grant you permission to use the HOT logo in your presentation. Harry Wood From: Richard Welty rwe

[HOT] HOT Nomination and Vote Results

2011-12-15 Thread Harry Wood
Thanks everyone for taking the time to vote for the HOT board elections. Ballot period ended yesterday. We had 41 votes. 40/41 accepted the new bylaws and amendments. 41/41 accepted new members. The results of the Board election are: Kate Chapman: 40 Mikel Maron: 39 Nicolas Chavent: 36 Dane

Re: [HOT] Call for volunteers: Somalia roads import

2011-08-22 Thread Harry Wood
have one) e.g. 'Harry Wood Import'   Verify email address etc. back in JOSM  Edit preferences. 'Connection Settings' panel. Swap to new username and password Click upload. Set the source=MadMappers-SOM-2008-01  on the changset I had 13,000 objects. This took 20 or 30 minutes to upload

Re: [HOT] Printable Version of the Map Features Page?

2011-04-26 Thread Harry Wood
Took me a while to find this again. See this page, and particularly the top external link in the 'Examples' section: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cheat_sheet A nice single page PDF designed by some guys in the Philippines when they were organising a mapping party.