Dear HOT and OSM-US communities,
I was really hoping to send an up-beat, up-date regarding the Colorado, USA
wildfire situation and had just successfully posted a light-hearted diary
entry. Almost immediately after posting that, I heard horrible news.
I am once again saddened to report
Russell,
Sorry to hear this news. For those who didn't click through to the BBC
article, 19 firefighters from a specially trained team were killed by a
fire in Arizona making it one of the most deadly firefighting accidents in
US history. This is definitely not the news we wanted to see from
One thing I would request is to have all resources -- including links to
any contextual information, useful guides, and liaison contact -- on the
task manager. Also, I am continually confused as to why areas are marked
as Done when they clearly wouldn't be considered done if you read the
Well, done is basically already for review since we have a second level
of 'validated' which is supposed to weed out these erroneous tiles and
revert them back to 'unmarked' if they do not meet the standards. We
should try to work on ways of encouraging more validation work as for many
tasks,
That's RIGHT NOW o'clock!
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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
Dear all,
tl;dr June's board meeting took place via conference call at the end of the
month. A number of items, both ongoing and new were discussed, including
Working Groups (List readers, please get involved if you'd like to!), sys
admin hiring and the potentials (positive and negative) of UAV
