Re: [HOT] Refugee Crisis

Hi all, Like some of our other mapping, the refugee related crisis comes with sensitivities about the situation on the ground and the safety of the refugees. For me, that is what has been a bit of what looks like inactivity. However, there are some HOT community members who have been actively ma

Re: [HOT] Admin Boundary Extraction Service

___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblak

Re: [HOT] New OSGEO UN Committee

rg > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org ___

Re: [HOT] mounds

Hi Daniel, if you could share a url from id or josm some of us will take a look. Just a wild guess here from your description, not knowing the area you are mapping in, could it be cassava fields? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips#Cassava_.28Manioc.29_

Re: [HOT] HOT New Member Nominations - CLOSING THIS WEEK

nk to Membership Code also pasted in below). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk/ https://hotosm.org/sites/default/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStre

Re: [HOT] [hotosm-membership] HOT New Member Nominations

, HOT US Inc.'s President: "Lets be awesome together." I look forward to working with everyone in the HOT/OSM community in the future (how great is it to be able to say that?) Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tea

Re: [HOT] Quick question on village mapping

I like to explain it in terms of land usage, people reside here on the land in some way, therefore landuse=residential that is how it works best in my experience. Fits fully within local mapping partners and people and is well understood HOT/OSM usage. It also works well for revisions in the future

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed for designing an OSM based project

Hi Ahasanul, That sounds like a great project and HOT can help you evaluate all the important points that Paul raised below As always, OSM defers to local insights and understanding of what works best for the local community.based on their use cases for OSM so lets talk more about it with people

[HOT] DHN Partner Humanity Road released their first situation report on the earthquake

Hi all, Humanity Road released their first situation report: http://humanityroad.org/afgquakesitrep/ Easy to share by retweeting here: https://twitter.com/humanityroad Regards, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

Hi Taichi, Pierre Beland gave your account edit access to the dev and the main tasking managers so you should be able to edit any projects.on the servers. Thank you very much for the assistance! Cheers, Blake On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Taichi Furuhashi wrote: > Hi Robert and HOT members

[HOT] Información y actualizaciones del Equipo de Activación por el mapeo (mapeado) de HOT durante Huracán Patricia

cualquiera de los enlaces de arriba para empezar el mapeo del huracán Patricia -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@

[HOT] Translators needed

a-hot-update-oct-25-2015-1100-utc/ We are focusing our translation on this project to Spanish (es). Regards, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Conta

[HOT] Digital Humanitarian Network partner Humanity Road situation reports on Typhoon Koppu (Lando)

situation report on Typhoon Koppu (Lando), #LandoPH. It made landfall in Casigura, Aurora Province at 1:00am on 18 Oct. http://humanityroad.org/super-typhoon-koppu-landoph/ Regards, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice

Re: [HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - South Kivu DRC here we come!

Hi everyone, I forgot to include this link if you want to see some of the people and the places you will be mapping in DRC https://msf.exposure.co/congo-in-100-images Regards, Blake On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Hi all, > > As you might know HOT hosts some

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - South Kivu DRC here we come!

Cheers, Blake ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] Help needed with a project in the Middle East

Cheers, Blake -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

kidding! As Heather is fond of saying: "Let's all be awesome together!" Cheers, Blake On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Hi all, > > The Community Working Group is going to start have regular projects > and meetings and we need you :) > >

[HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

desire and the capacity for a slightly higher time commitment to be a Co-Chair :) I look forward to speaking with you all more as part of the Community WG ! Cheers, Blake -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HO

Re: [HOT] OSM user diaries

Hi Pete, I am not sure how much traction it will get you, but it looks like diary related issues and feature requests are accepted at the osm website git hub repo: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website Searching the issues for is:issue is:closed diary is somewhat illuminatin

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Oct. 10th Edition

ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HO

Re: [HOT] Fw: [MappingDC] Amnesty International is calling to map refugee routes

Hi Mikel, HOT community members Katja and Imre have been quietly working with small NGOs and other groups in Europe to identify, locate and map refugee camps, reception and detention centers and border control points that are relevant to the migration crisis. The current output of their prog

Re: [HOT] Mapping task for seismic risk assessment

In looking at the osm gps traces and strava gps data, the current bing imagery looks quite well aligned to me. cheers, blake On 10/8/2015 12:20 AM, john whelan wrote: I think the issue is how can we make this easy for new mappers. You can select multiple buildings in JOSM by downloading the

[HOT] Do not open or follow the links in "Fw: read this" emails

Hi all, Much like a few weeks ago, there is a spam attack on the openstreetmap mailing lists and individuals who subscribe to those lists. Please just delete the emails with the subject line "Fw: read this". We are also taking some steps to stop the flow of them. Regards, Blake

[HOT] Fw: read this

Hello! New message, please read <http://naileseker.com/directly.php?b> Blake Girardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Results Map Not functioning

This does not help much, but it seems to be a display problem. If you view the source of the page, it looks like it returned the relevant data, the data just doesn't display for me in win7 ff, chrome, or IE Regards, Blake On 9/23/2015 10:37 PM, noah ahles wrote: Sorry forgot to add the spec

Re: [HOT] Beta Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

Hi Brad, If you have not had a chance, we could use some help looking over the open and closed issues on the github repo: https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues It would really be helpful to us to have feedback and input on those items, the tool in general and give you a good sens

Re: [HOT] [HOT Tagging] Tag for community based healthcare? / Quel tag pour les sites de soins communautaires ?

Hi Claire, It is a bit long and kind of complicated, but do you think a combination of the healthcare 2.0 proposal could address the facilities? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Healthcare_2.0 It does say part of its goal was to deal with community based services. Maybe w

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Sep 19th Edition

ed to join and ask questions or just chat. Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HO

Re: [HOT] Highway names and abbreviations

Hi Pete, I would be tempted to download the data to a .osm file, use find/replace in my fav text editor and then upload to the server. I am obligated to mention the OSM Mass Edit policy of course as everyone seems to when talking about an edit like this :) Or this solution in this person'

Re: [HOT] Chile Eathquake alerts

Hi Maning, I would do just what you did, which was leave the Bing imagery to the default alignment. We can fix the whole area after the mapping is done as you said. Cheers, Blake On 9/19/2015 6:16 AM, maning sambale wrote: There is small (10-15 meters) offset for bing imagery for task: h

Re: [HOT] [info-hotosm] World Bank project - Seismic Risk in Kyrgyz Republic - Create OSM mapping task

55 4310 > > www.arup.com > > > > ____ > Electronic mail messages entering and leaving Arup business > systems are scanned for acceptability of content and viruses -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Alpha Release of the Redeveloped Export Tool

Hi all, If we can support administrator added translation files and sql transform files that would be a good compromise and really more than a compromise, an actual improvement over v.1 with no loss of end user functionality. How does that sound to you Severin? Cheers, Blake On 9/15/2015

Re: [HOT] Request for mapping: Colombia - Venezuela border crossings / solicita HOT por crisis en frontera colombo-venezolana

his a task for more experienced mappers? I consider myself an average OSM/HOT mapper but I have no experience in displaced persons crisis. I read the instructions, from what I understood the goal is to map possible areas for shelters or camps, is that correct? Regards Katja On 12/09/15 23

[HOT] Request for mapping: Colombia - Venezuela border crossings / solicita HOT por crisis en frontera colombo-venezolana

Greetings everyone, HOT member and coordinator in Colombia, Humberto Yances, received a request from a local OCHA Colombia official to map some border areas that are currently dealing with a displaced persons crisis. Humberto provided this overview of the situation (machine translated): Unde

Re: [HOT] street view for Liberia

permitted by law. No representation is made that this > message or its attachments are without defect. > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- -

Re: [HOT] South Sudan mapping - abandoned / destroyed buildings / settlements

Hi Andrew, Yes, please map buildings and settlements that are visible but damaged or destroyed. It is really helpful to map things you come across that you think are interesting or important (man made towers, bridges, dams, etc) but are not in the instructions. You are never limited by the in

[HOT] South Sudan mapping - nice feedback and some new projects

Hi all, We received a very nice email from the Information Manager working at the South Sudan NGO Forum Secretariat, a group of national and international NGOs working in South Sudan. http://southsudanngoforum.org/ He expressed how helpful the mapping Missing Maps and HOT have done is to t

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 29th Edition

ivation Coordination encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___

Re: [HOT] key problem with RS333

Hi Dan, It is because of the ID=* key. I would just ignore the warning. I don't know why the ID is there, but I assume whoever included it had a reason so before doing anything about it you would have to research what why the key was there in the first place, it looks like it has been there

Re: [HOT] New JOSM Plugin - Imagery Brightness/Contrast, Sharpen, RGB Adjust - among others

quot;look" into the shadows. MIke On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 4:25 PM, FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA mailto:fofana.13b...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Blake, i just try this plugins but as you say it don't work very well 2015-08-22 19:12 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot mailto:bgirar.

[HOT] New JOSM Plugin - Imagery Brightness/Contrast, Sharpen, RGB Adjust - among others

Hi all, A very useful plugin was released last week for JOSM that should allow for the adjustment of imagery to make it easier for mapping. The Plugin is called "RasterFilters" because it applies "filters" to "raster" layers, but for us non experts, that just means we can adjust brightness/c

Re: [HOT] Knight Prototype Fund Brainstorm

Hi everyone, The result of this brainstorming session is HOT's completed application to the Knight Foundation Prototyping August 2015 Round which we now have up for review and comment by interested individuals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aE4Rk0D7QUpbrsVo3QHNDGNKDh8rUW5kKJo4TZ2pw80 T

Re: [HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Oops, Aug 15th Edition I mean :)

Sorry for the double mail, today, Augh 15th is what I meant :) On 8/15/2015 4:00 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, As you might know HOT hosts some informal get togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons once in a while, and one is happening today. We use the HOT "Mumble&qu

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 8th Edition

r projects and setting up some new projects not related to Myanmar. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot

Re: [HOT] Adding "Buddhist", "Hindu", and Muslim to the tags

Hi Suzan, I think multiple tags are required to map them completely. If you look over: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:denomination I think you can mark them pretty well. A stupa seems to most likely also include m

[HOT] URGENT Myanmar Landslide Affected Villages ** New Updated Project **

Hi all, Thank you to all the mappers who helped with the first Myanmar project, it got done amazingly well and in record time and the requesting organization asked me to pass along their thanks and appreciation for all the contributions we have made so far. There was a real lack of detailed,

Re: [HOT] double buildings

Hi Dan, I made a quick 30 second video demonstrating what I was trying to explain. I worked to the north and south of the task area, but I downloaded the OSM data before I did anything in those areas. https://youtu.be/QS3WIH-8WGk Cheers, Blake On 8/12/2015 10:44 PM, Daniel Specht wrote:

Re: [HOT] double buildings

Hi Dan, When you work in JOSM you should be downloading the data outside the area that was automatically downloaded. Just make sure you un-check the box "create a new layer" in the download dialog box. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I am misunderstanding something. Ch

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 8th Edition

d in Activation Coordination could join up too since that is essentially what we are working on at the moment. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype:

Re: [HOT] leisure=common

Hi John, If it is a one of the "traditional" areas that HOT tags as leisure=common then we can tag it as one. Those areas are large, short grass or ground/grass areas in villages or settlements, often with paths walked across them. They are typically common areas for the settlement. It sho

Re: [HOT] Difficulty with the Task Manager

I would try clearing all your cookies for the Tasking Manger and the main openstreetmap.org website if you haven't tried that yet. cheers, blake On 7/6/2015 10:01 PM, Suzan Reed wrote: I've had to wait a few minutes, up to two or three, then I have to login each time. Switched to Chrome a

[HOT] Saturday "Mapternoon" 4th of July Edition - Now and the next 3 to 4 hours

Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons, and one is happening today. We use the HOT "Mumble" server, you download a simple client (windows, andriod, ios, linux) and connect and thats it, all the info you need i

[HOT] HOT Newsletter - Getting started

Hi all, This is a call to all of the people here who organize, participate in, or are just aware of mapping that is related to HOT mapping. These mapping efforts could be using the HOT Tasking Manager or other local groups that you feel fall under the category of humanitarian mapping using

Re: [HOT] Quarterly Newsletter?

Hi, The general newsletter idea has been around in various forms for a while now. What it needs is someone to step up, take ownership and commit to doing it. It does not have to be complicated or extravagant, just collect some snippits of info from as many of the different groups doing huma

Re: [HOT] OSM Damage Assessment

Hi Michal, This is a somewhat complicated topic. Just for clarity: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and OpenStreetMap (OSM) are closely related, but separate organizations. HOT would be the group actually doing any damage assessments. We probably would be using OpenStreetMap (OSM) to st

[HOT] Support HOT by supporting the OpenStreetMap Foundation

Dear Fellow HOT Community Members, I wanted to take one moment to remind everyone that HOT and the work we do relies on a good strong OpenStreetMap ecosystem. One great way to help ensure that OpenStreetMap stays strong is to join the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF). https://wiki.osmfoundat

Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

On 6/24/2015 12:12 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: The Replace Geometry functionality in JOSM can be used to redraw rapidly the buildings. Adding instructions in the Task Manager, it should be easy for the contributors to follow the workflow using the Replace Geometry. I did a rapid test, moving the

Re: [HOT] Map-a-thon getting 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error

Hi Nick, Just to be complete for future reference as I had not heard of it before and I can see it happening to other HOT mapping groups in the future: We think this is not related to HOT or the Tasking Manager. We suspect that it is related to OpenStreetMap in general and the process of d

Re: [HOT] humanitarian font

wow, nice, thank you for pointing that out. those look really useful. On 6/16/2015 3:20 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: For those that need to integrate icons in applications, you might be interested by this Humanitarian Font collection available from Github. http://unhcr.github.io/Humanitarian-Font/

[HOT] HOT Tagging - Temporary Working Group - please join

join the email list, more info will be posted there. Cheers, Blake -- ---- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HO

Re: [HOT] Saturday "Mapternoon" is happening today and in full swing!

On 6/13/2015 5:09 PM, john whelan wrote: Saturday afternoon is when? I'm EST Thanks John On 13 June 2015 at 11:03, Blake Girardot mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Satu

[HOT] Saturday "Mapternoon" is happening today and in full swing!

Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons, and one is happening today. We use the HOT "Mumble" server, you download a simple client (windows, andriod, ios, linux) and connect and thats it :) http://wiki.openstr

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Student Survey Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Goethe-University Frankfurt

Hi all, All of the people involved in sending the survey request have contacted me and followed up with the HOT Board. They have all expressed their sincere apologies for the concerns they caused and stopped their current method of contacting people. Because HOT and OSM in general are alway

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Student Survey Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Goethe-University Frankfurt

Hi Katja, I am investigating this further, to my knowledge HOT has not given this University nor any one else permission to use our systems and data for anything other than HOT mapping. Random contacts from people and organizations you do not know should always be treated with great caution

Re: [HOT] HOT Working Groups

Hi Dan, Glad you are here! You are encouraged to join any of them you think would be interesting and rewarding for you, they all need additional members. Feel free to drop in on any of the meetings and introduce yourself and see how they go and if you think you can find an enjoyable way to

[HOT] Hi everyone, just doing a simple test, please ignore

Sorry for the interruption. -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

I think it is a great idea. Most of our meetings are in irc and meetbot makes nice work of the meeting minutes. There are a few people in the irc channel most of the active hours, I don't think anyone needs to be a board member. We might want to adjust the output to include a mediawiki markup

[HOT] Activations Working Group Meeting Today, 14:00 UTC (now :)

The Activations WG is meeting today Tuesday, Jun. 9th 2015 at 14:00 UTC via IRC Hi all, Sorry for the late reminder but the Activation WG is meeting on IRC as we speak. Logs will be available of course if you can't attend. I will be giving an upda

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

Hi Enock, I do not know if this answers your question or not, but this is a web page for people who would be collecting and packaging relief packages of different types: http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies Normally you would package and send them to the organization for them to distr

[HOT] Google Hangout Mapping Questions and Answers - Today, Jun 6, 14:00 UTC

Hi everyone, I am going to give this another try :) I will use Google Hangouts to do live questions and answers for mapping so I can give demonstrations, answer questions and share my screen to show how I would map things. Today, in a few hours at 14:00 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldc

Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

On 5/29/2015 9:37 AM, Suzan Reed wrote: Routing newbies to tasks where they are reviewed by mentors? I would have liked that. This is an interesting idea. While every project needs to have its task squares reviewed and validated (at least once), the idea of creating some projects that new

[HOT] Activations Working Group Meeting Today, 14:00 UTC

The Activations WG is meeting today Tuesday, Jun. 2nd, 2015 at 14:00 UTC via IRC Hi all, I do not have much of an agenda document yet, but I anticipate the meeting will focus on the Nepal activation and the challenges that it has presented as well

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat on Mumble

Hi John, Label: This is just a name for the server for yourself, enter: HOT Address: The actual address of the server, enter: talk.hotosm.org Port: The port that the server uses, leave this at the default value of: 64738 On 5/30/2015 6:30 PM, john whelan wrote: And the server name is? Tha

[HOT] HOT Announcements Only email list reminder

scriptions and see all the other interesting lists around the OpenStreetMap community, including discussion and help lists in many other languages at this web address: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo Cheers, Blake -- -------- Blake Girardot Hu

Re: [HOT] Database, OSM & HOT (Was: Request for information about common set of tags for HOT)

Hi Springfield, Here is how I get useful thematic layers out OSM: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/How_To_Convert_osm_.pbf_files_to_Esri_Shapefiles And here is an example files generated through what I would guess is a similar process every 30 mins: http://nepal.piensa.co/

Re: [HOT] Request for information about common set of tags for HOT (Was: OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos)

Hi everyone, I just want to put a small slow down on this process. HOT is in the midst of discussing its over all tagging strategy and needs to do so on the public lists shortly here. quickly as to the potential helicopter landing sites: aeroway=helipad Is _only_ for confirmed helipads. Tha

Re: [HOT] Accidentally marked square as "Done"

Hi Laura, you can just invalidate it yourself, that is the only way to "un done" it. No worries, those accidental "done"s happen all the time :) Cheers, Blake On 5/17/2015 10:34 PM, laura brittain wrote: Could some kind person please go into task 1047 and find tile #275 and mark it not done

Re: [HOT] Request for information about common set of tags for HOT

22:13 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot wrote/a écrit: ... We would welcome any assistance with updating, streamlining and regularizing HOT's tagging and tagging guidance and underlying data model if need be. I'd like to help and my proposal is 1. to collect and identify most common tags specifi

Re: [HOT] Issue with new mapper invalidating my task

Hi, I agree with John, a lot of the mapping of roads/paths/waterways in Nepal is very very difficult both due to the actual terrain and the imagery. I edited this task square and marked it complete. When I got to it, it was actually pretty well mapped. Almost everyone, myself included, maps

Re: [HOT] OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos

Hi Stefan, HOT (and OSM) tagging has grown and evolved since we first started 5 or 6 years ago that is for sure. And given the somewhat intermittent participatory nature of OSM and the wiki things can for sure get out of sync. We would welcome any assistance with updating, streamlining and

Re: [HOT] How to fully cover a grid square.

Hi Pete, I have really wanted something like has been discussed in this thread for a while now. Your opaque indicator of reviewed areas reminds me of an idea we had for a JOSM plugin to help with these scanning type mapping tasks: One of those overhead "spotlights" that follows you around a

Re: [HOT] How to fully cover a grid square.

I have been looking for something like an adjustable grid for a while. Adjustable because sometimes I am doing scanning at different zoom levels depending on the features I am looking for. Java is the one language I just never even got a toe hold on, I can barely get the development stack goi

Re: [HOT] Nepal recap

Hi John, I'd go with: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1018 Basic roads and buildings and still being requested by people on the ground. Cheers, Blake On 5/13/2015 12:16 AM, john whelan wrote: Can someone remind me which projects are the ones we think are the simplest and most suitable for

Re: [HOT] Again task 1088

Hi Barbara, I know you already have your question worked out, but I thought I would just follow up on the list to hopefully catch someone's attention. The NE portion of the task square in question: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1018#task/2777 Really could use the hand of someone who has a

Re: [HOT] Live, interactive video training for mapping available

s. - Phil On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Blake Girardot mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, So I think I can do a Google hangout to do some mapping training. I think I have all the issues worked out. It might not be ideal but if anyone wants to give it a try just

[HOT] Live, interactive video training for mapping available

Hi all, So I think I can do a Google hangout to do some mapping training. I think I have all the issues worked out. It might not be ideal but if anyone wants to give it a try just let me know. I'd like to start with an introduction to JOSM, but really I am glad to do any mapping help/trainin

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

Hi that is an excellent example. Between the buildings you are right I don't see a path and more over, we don't really need a path between those two individual buildings if that is what you were referencing. But I do see a path going off into the woods to the NNE that I would map, even thou

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

I am going to answer some of this via irc. Cheers, Blake On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, Katja Ulbert wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie coming up with a few questions, It would be great if someone with more knowledge could take the time to answer them. They don´t have to be answered here and now or via maili

[HOT] One quick report from the HOT Summit

Hi Everyone, Sitting here in the airport waiting to get back home after the HOT Summit 2015 I had some time to reflect on the Summit and the one thing that I wanted to share with everyone as soon as possible in light of the Nepal activation is how much good will there is toward HOT and OSM in the

Re: [HOT] Revisiting task tiles marked done.

Hi Pat, you can just "Review the Work" button and map away and then unlock it when done. You might leave a comment on the task that says you revised it with whatever imagery you used. Thank you for helping map! Cheers, Blake On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Pat Tressel wrote: > What's the prop

Re: [HOT] Urgent Request - Nepal Earthquake - What data can be shared on the maps?

> HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit 2015 Program Announcement

tend I'd like to ask if there is video streaming of the talks planned? > I know this is quite a lot of work to do, and I could perfectly > understand if this is not going to be possible. But in case it is, I'd > not like to miss quite some of the talks. > > Thank you. &g

Re: [HOT] Nepal Activation Summary Update April 28, 2015

com/maningsambale > ------ > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

Hi Heather and Nama, Currently projects 994 and 1001 cover several of Nama's priority areas, especially 994. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/994 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1001 I have updated those projects to show the priority areas Nama has identified. However, those projects are f

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

Hi Pierre, I can get the initial files in place tonight and hopefully get it handed off to someone to cover it during next week. Cheers, Blake On 4/25/2015 8:44 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: The road network info is very important for this response. Any volunteer to setup a Daily OSMand daily u

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

Hi everyone, In addition to the tasking manager projects, we are coordinating some very specific and important infrastructure mapping via the HOT mumble voice server. If you want to learn more about detailed mapping that goes on in the early hours after an emergency like this, joining us in

Re: [HOT] Installing tasking manager in AWS

Hi Maning, I have done this and I think it works fine on a micro for a few number of people. You can try the now slightly out of date TM2 ami I have here: Debain7.6.aws.2 with OSM HOT Tasking Manager 2.7 - ami-66a9280e This is a Debian Wheezy image with OSM HOT TM 2.7 Root device type: ebs V

Re: [HOT] Slum mapping project need help to imagery stitching

This whole process is another example of why I love HOT: Community members learning about mapping and working with or forming local mapping groups to address local needs. Trying new things and learning new technology, sharing and learning locally. Reaching out to the larger community for col

[HOT] HOT Summit 2015 Early Registration Reminder

gistration-15938457355 Please let us know if you have any questions! Best wishes, Blake Girardot HOT Summit 2015 Organizing Committee Member -- -------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ H

[HOT] Communications Working Group Meeting Tomorrow, Friday, April 3rd

The Communications WG is meeting Friday, April 3rd, at 20:00 UTC via Skype --- Just like all our working groups, it is open to everyone to join and participate in. The main focus is communication to audiences outside the immediate HOT and OSM communities. If

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