[HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread john whelan
Could the link https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips be added to the instructions of all HOT West African projects? I wasn't aware of it before the post on Surface mines characteristics and it clarified a couple of things for me. It's certainly useful

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, We have talked about making them more widely available and we do include them in some of the W. Africa instructions or pass them out to mappers individually, sometimes as part of validation feedback. I have a short list of revisions is partly why I have not moved them out from my

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Mikel Maron
Tangentially, some of us have been working a system to make it easy to publish guides. Still in process, and no instructions. But I think this could be a great place to host Blake's guidelines on West Africa, as well as tips on huts. http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/kulna.html

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Severin, I can share all the originals ( I think/hope I still have them ). That was my main mistake, the text on the images making the translation difficult. It was a process and you can see in later items the text came out of the images and went into the caption to make translation

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Blake, This is a great tuto, would it be possible to share the original pics for translations? I have started making short screenvideos for some mapping processes. Are they are mute, they do not require translation (but bandwith). But obviously they cannot give a general overview as a