Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-26 Thread Claire Halleux
Hey, I think that what Michael wanted to point out is the following: when you have 2 different tasks covering the same area that are published simultaneously in the tasking manager, conflicts between them are possible. And that is a bit of a different issue as mentioned by Pierre and Andrew (whose

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-26 Thread nicolas chavent
Thanks Claire, you are spot on about editing_conflict-related issues we faced with the TM, while waiting for enhancements (selection of tasks you outlined for example), in mapping parties using the Tasking Manager, we avoid taking tasks close to on-going tasks, this works out relatively well. On

Re: [HOT] Fwd: How to creat task on OSM Tasking Manager

2014-03-26 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Samuel: Thank you for your e-mail. What area or areas do you need to create a job in the tasking manager? Just one task for the whole Kano state or several for some small areas? You should decide what you need to map in that job. All kind of

[HOT] Job 469 without Pleiade imagery

2014-03-26 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: User PierZen set a new task for the Guinée ebola outbreak: tasks.hotosm.org/job/469 It refers to Pleiade source, but no imagery link provided. Cheers, Rafael Ávila Coya. - -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ravilacoya -

[HOT] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Following the Ebola outbreak, MSF Switzearland needs rapidly maps of three towns. Thy are requesting since this area is actually unmapped. New imagery have been obtained. We have prepared Task Manager jobs for the three towns to be mapped. We consider this of high priority for the next few

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-26 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, High resolution Pleiades 1A images for Gueckedou (2014-02-05), Macenta (2013-12-10), and Kissidougou (2014-02-07) were bought for MSF by CartONG, with a web licence that allows tracing in OSM, that you must accept before accessing the images. The full text is at

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks to Jean-Guilhem who is correcting me about the priority The first priority is for Guekedou http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/469 The two other cities to map are Kissigoudou http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/470 Macenta http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/471 The link for imagery in JOSM is

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 26/03/2014 12:23, Pierre Béland wrote: Following the Ebola outbreak, MSF Switzearland needs rapidly maps of three towns. Thy are requesting since this area is actually unmapped. New imagery have been obtained. Could you please point to that imagery ?

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Heather Leson
Morning, I started a draft blog post about this activation. Can you help edit? I'm at work and would need someone to help lead curate the right content. This will help with our wider outreach. I'll circle back in 3 hours and post it to the blog.

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Heather, The custom is more the people leading the Activation post on the blog, with a bit more context and past/current/coming activities. Actually, it has not been decided if it is an official HOT activation or a simple monitoring, and who is leading it. I just initiated the very beginning

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread nicolas chavent
Hey there, getting back online, and very much second Sev on this reminder of our practices about blogging in activation. Ciao Nico On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote: My mistake, I forgot to mention Fred who has provided a great help for the

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi all, The custom is more the people leading the Activation post on the blog, with a bit more context and past/current/coming activities. I don't care who does the blogging, but could someone do it as soon as possible? ;-) I have wanted to link to *something* about our work here, but a few

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Plus Jean-Guilhem as usual who as taken care of processing the imagery. It seems to me a bit early in the process to send  a Blog update.  For these first steps, I sent emails to HOT and Crisismappers plus twitter note.   Pierre De : Severin Menard

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
It seems to me a bit early in the process to send a Blog update The idea of a blog post would be to ask people to help. It will reach people that perhaps don't read the mailing lists or Twitter. I don't see how this can be done too early. In addition, it gives users of other services

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Mikel Maron
Good point Severin. We don't actually have a clear guideline or common understanding written up on our customs and practices when it comes to blogging, blogging and activation, and activations generally. This is a mandate we can bring to appropriate working groups (activation, communications)

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Banick, Robert
I like the idea of a short blog post that can reach potential contributors who aren't following our mailing list. We have to remember that not everyone is as engaged as us when it comes to following mailing lists. Like Joseph said, it gives people something to link to (like me, tweeting, for

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre and I would be fine with leading this one if others are ok with that. Amadou can definitely help out with the local mappers, however his internet connection is not great so it is difficult to stay in contact with him, but we will definitely

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi Robert, Agree with your email. I think on this point, however, I don't think that anything should go out without the full endorsement of the activation leads, since they have to own it At the moment, things such as activation leads, or even the activation status, are fluid. My point is

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
Following a brief conversation on IRC I copy / pasted the Gdoc into the blog: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-03-26_mapping_guinea_help_wanted Heather, thanks for getting us started, I hope getting this posted earlier wasn't bad form! Cheers, Joseph On 26 March 2014 14:24, Joseph

[HOT] Tasking Manager updates

2014-03-26 Thread Dražen Odobašić
Hi all, we've just deployed a new feature on the Tasking manager. Admin users can now update Imagery Offset for every job, which will be shown to users if available. Dražen ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updates

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks for this Pierre and Drazen. I will check this   Pierre De : Dražen Odobašić dodo...@geoinfo.geof.hr À : hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 13h08 Objet : [HOT] Tasking Manager updates Hi all, we've just

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updates

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
Imagery offet X Imagery offet Y change offet for offset   Pierre De : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr À : Dražen Odobašić dodo...@geoinfo.geof.hr; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 13h36 Objet : Re: [HOT]

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updates

2014-03-26 Thread Dražen Odobašić
Hi Pierre, I'm not sure that I understand your message. Dražen On 26.03.2014 18:45, Pierre Béland wrote: Imagery offet X Imagery offet Y change offet for offset Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

2014-03-26 Thread Dr. Franz-Josef Behr
I published the call at http://www.gis-news.de/. Regards, Franz-Josef Am 26.03.2014 14:10, schrieb Heather Leson: Morning, I started a draft blog post about this activation. Can you help edit? I'm at work and would need someone to help lead curate the right content. This will help with our

[HOT] 2014 West Africa Ebola Response

2014-03-26 Thread Russell Deffner
Dear HOT(ties), On behalf of the 2014 West Africa Ebola Response Coordination Team, I ask you to review the Activation wiki-page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response Of course the situation is still developing and much more information needs to be added,

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager updates

2014-03-26 Thread Pierre Béland
just the spelling. the s is missing for offset.   Pierre De : Dražen Odobašić dodo...@geoinfo.geof.hr À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 26 mars 2014 13h50 Objet : Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager

[HOT] Polio project

2014-03-26 Thread Kazeem Owolabi
Afternoon, I am a staff of ehealth Africa, we are currently working on Polio eradication in Nigeria, We believe your OSM Task Manager will make our digitizing of roads in Nigeria, for now Kano Sate more effective and efficient. Though, A staff have been given access to create job on the testing

[HOT] Guinea Ebola Mapping - Call for Landuse

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, The mapping in Guinea in response to the MSF request has been fantastic so far. We have already mapped 2 of the three largest cities in the area in less than 12 hours from recieving the imagery. This is an amazing rate of progress,