Re: [HOT] Volunteering

2015-02-03 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Saul: The most common activity to which you can contribute to HOT is mapping through the HOT Tasking Manager [1]. There are lots of jobs you can choose from. I would advise you to start with a job that you find easy, and follow carefully the instructions. If you need learning material, you

Re: [HOT] Volunteering

2015-02-03 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Saul, welcome to HOT As you know, our mission is all about mapping for Humanitarian responses and we have a large of activities where you can contribute. The best place to start is at http://LearnOsm.org to get you up to speed with OpenStreetMap, Tagging schemes, editors, etc We work

Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

2015-02-03 Thread Justin Temwani Ng'ambi
The Job on Tasking Manager for Phalombe and Zomba is yet to be created. I hope Severin will help us on the same. I can assist in locating the camps, We have some data for the rescue camps (for Phalombe and Zomba). On 2/3/15, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: HOT task 847 does not seem to

Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

2015-02-03 Thread john whelan
HOT task 847 does not seem to have any tiles covering Phalombe, Mulanje, Zomba or Blantyre. Is there another HOT task perhaps? Thanks Cheerio John On 2 February 2015 at 23:16, Information Manager Shelter Cluster Malawi im.mal...@sheltercluster.org wrote: All, We are currently working on

Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

2015-02-03 Thread Maarten van der Veen
There are people already mapping the camps. Mapaction has done most of that. We are mainly concerned with the residential buildings, to count the number of houses damaged. Thanks, Maarten On February 3, 2015 4:17:05 PM CAT, Justin Temwani Ng'ambi justinngambi...@gmail.com wrote: The Job on

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us upload the data!

2015-02-03 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Hi Pierre, W used in Bangladesh the following taggings, so it might be good to use the same ones. For the most common POI's: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dwbgouduhep0g5/Tags%20points%20of%20interest.docx?dl=0 For the roads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/whrd59h7r90v0ce/Tags%20roads.docx?dl=0 Pleas

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us upload the data!

2015-02-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Great Jorieke. I updated the wiki page with your content.  For the highways, I simply added a liknk to te dropbox. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Tagging_Schema_-_Common_Tags  Pierre De : Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com À :

Re: [HOT] Malawi Flood TM job #847

2015-02-03 Thread Ray Kiddy
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:08:17 +0100 Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, snip * WARNING:* sometimes the buildings have been created as a node. Please do not delete them as they generally encompass a lot of attributes from the field survey done in August-September 2014.

Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

2015-02-03 Thread Mikel Maron
 would think we want the subdivisions reflected in OSM? I think so, would just take a simple import. That would be separate from defining the AOI for the work or any OSMTM project. -Mikel  * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron ___ HOT mailing

Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

2015-02-03 Thread Mikel Maron
 would think we want the subdivisions reflected in OSM? I think so, would just take a simple import. That would be separate from defining the AOI for the work or any OSMTM project. -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Monday, February 2, 2015 8:56 PM, Stacey Maples

[HOT] Volunteering

2015-02-03 Thread Saul Karamesines
Hello, My name is Saul Karamesines. I'm a student of Environmental Studies at Utah State University. As part of one my curriculum, my Environmental Nonprofit and Volunteer Management class requires volunteer work. I learned of your organization from a previous GIS class, and I find your