[HOT] iD news: v2.4.0 released

iD v2.4.0 was released August 25, 2017 and is now available for editing on openstreetmap.org  A few highlights from the release: NEW Esri World Imagery layer: Esri has made their World Imagery Service available for OSM use! Read more here:

[HOT] What do you want to talk about at the HOT Summit?

Hey, We have some time allocated to Birds of a Feather sessions at the HOT Summit. The sessions will be informal discussions around topics of interest. There are loads of great topics we could discuss which we don't have time for through the formal sessions, so please put your ideas for these

Re: [HOT] Analysis of when mappers joined OSM

Oops I think my response earlier just went to Janet. Adding here: I tried to extract all changesets created with the hashtag #TanzanaiDevelopmentTrust and merged with some user information for their first edit. Here's a CSV -

Re: [HOT] Analysis of when mappers joined OSM

One "simple" way to know when a user started editing is download the full history file as XML, not PBF, and look for the first changeset made by a mapper. The account_created on the user details will tell you when the account was created, and normally they start editing shortly afterwards, but

Re: [HOT] Field mapping organizer progress

Hi everyone - if you're joining for the community chat in a little less than 30 mins, we'll be covering the following: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y37yF22Ng25ULBHP0BhjZ6Qwsng_wo8i-fCdc4hEzk0/edit?usp=sharing As a reminder, you can join the call via the Zoom link here at 14:00 UTC:

[HOT] Academic study of HOT

Hi everyone, I am a third year undergraduate geographer completing my dissertation at Cambridge University. Part of my dissertation topic concerns HOT users, who we are and why we map. My ultimate goal is to compare our expectations with those of NGOs that go on and use the maps that we produce