Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

2012-06-02 Thread john whelan
Igor added a export-tag command to Maperitive that creates a local CSV file that can be brought into a spreadsheet. You need a local copy of the .OSM file or possibly .pbf version should work as well. It's very useful for spotting tags that are misspelt. Once there you can concat red tape to

Re: [HOT] Where to start?

2014-10-18 Thread john whelan
OSM account you'll see instructions for various tasks. You can then pick one it checkout an area to work on. Does that make sense? Best, -Kate On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:03 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Probably sounds dumb but I'll ask the question anyway. I'm a fairly

Re: [HOT] Where to start?

2014-10-18 Thread john whelan
. Best, Kate On Oct 18, 2014 10:23 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I've picked up a task, 699 - Ebola Outbreak, ETC Locations Context - Experienced Mappers Only so started up JOSM and imaged with Bing, the square I'm looking at looks as if the basic road network is in already

[HOT] building=house

2014-10-19 Thread john whelan
Looking at several bits of mapping in Africa it seems to be normal to use a rectangle tagged building=house. Would a simple POI tagged building=house be acceptable? Most rendering systems will drop an icon on a tagged POI, they take up a little less room in the database and its faster to drop a

Re: [HOT] Video that Best Represents Our Work?

2014-10-20 Thread john whelan
Talking of videos are there any training videos about what HOT expects? The reason I ask is that although we break down to give tasks can we break it down even more. ie teach someone to do a simple task of map a building using high resolution satellite imagery, sounds dumb but map one in JOSM, q

Re: [HOT] Video that Best Represents Our Work?

2014-10-21 Thread john whelan
:59 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Talking of videos are there any training videos about what HOT expects? The reason I ask is that although we break down to give tasks can we break it down even more. ie teach someone to do a simple task of map a building using high resolution

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Missing Maps article in New Scientist

2014-10-24 Thread john whelan
Interesting what sort of smart phones / process are they using and can we get some to other areas? Thanks John On 24 October 2014 12:28, jc...@mail.com wrote: Hi This week's New Scientist magazine (no 2992) has an article about the Missing Maps project. You can read it in full on their

[HOT] Working with people on the ground.

2014-10-29 Thread john whelan
Just an idle thought but if we had some idea of what to map as a priority and some feedback on how a particular area was being mapped ie what was more useful and what would be useful to have we might be able to do a better more tailored approach. It wouldn't be through the mailing group since

Re: [HOT] bother adding source=Whatever to each object?

2014-11-03 Thread john whelan
To take this slightly further in JOSM when you upload it takes the title of the imagery so where I'm working its DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 however I have noticed some mapping being done that is consistently out compared to the DigitalGlobe imagery but matches up exactly with the available Bing

Re: [HOT] unknown structures are buildings?

2014-11-03 Thread john whelan
I suspect they are fenced areas for cattle or cattle pens. In Cameroon I've been using the JOSM building tool to map them then changing the tags to barrier=wall. Contact with a mapper on the ground would help enormously with these sort of structures. Cheerio John On 3 November 2014 19:41,

Re: [HOT] Fwd: mapping standards

2014-11-09 Thread john whelan
I'm currently mapping #684 - Polio outbreak and Ebola preparedness, Meiganga, Cameroon and I must confess I have questions about the project. I can understand French especially a European or African accent so the video was useful to some extent. To me HOT is different to normal OSM. In normal

[HOT] Trees

2014-11-12 Thread john whelan
I know they're nice but why would anyone spend time mapping trees rather than buildings in a HOT area? Or did I miss something in the tasks? Thanks Cheerio John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-23 Thread john whelan
I've found picking out rivers and streams to be slightly problematical. If I zoom out then I can see a string of green which I assume is trees and vegetation along the bodies of water. Could someone knock up a video training guide on how to pick things out for us city dwellers on You-Tube or

Re: [HOT] Polio Outbreak and Ebola Preparedness - East Cameroon - New Task Announcement

2014-11-24 Thread john whelan
I wonder if #777 is a little too ambitious? To view buildings you need to zoom in fairly closely, each tile covers an enormous area, 101 has already been mapped in detail so its not possible to download the tile from OSM. Many of the high resolution images have cloud cover. I accept the need but

[HOT] Is there a Page up and down in JOSM?

2014-12-09 Thread john whelan
Looking at the imagery it would be nice to be able to scroll up and down vertically when inspecting it. Using the mouse is fine but I tend to drift as I scroll down and my aged mouse hand starts to ache after a time. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list

Re: [HOT] Is there a Page up and down in JOSM?

2014-12-09 Thread john whelan
Perfect. Thanks John On 9 December 2014 at 13:49, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: On windows 7 I use ctl-arrowkeys to move left,right,up,down in JOSM It works with both dedicated arrow keys and the number pad arrow keys. cheers, blake On 12/9/2014 7:44 PM, john whelan wrote

Re: [HOT] Task manager description/instructions #591

2015-01-02 Thread john whelan
Just a comment on what is required, If its HOT then I assume there is normally some urgency and that implies a time frame. We don't have unlimited resources, they might be free but knowledgeable mappers are not unlimited. How can we make the best use of what we have? I wonder if some sort of

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] Questions regarding Missing Maps Mapping Party in the Netherlands

2015-02-05 Thread john whelan
You can make a case for both, but if bandwidth or Internet connection is an issue then I understand iD is more sensitive to this so JOSM might be more appropriate and if you have more experienced mappers present to assist they will almost certainly be more familiar with JOSM. Raspberry Pi ain't

Re: [HOT] Waterway Tags

2015-01-21 Thread john whelan
I have difficulties with water I must confess. I'm mapping from a satellite image taken an a particular day. All I see is water, not wadi etc. If its a River I'm supposed to note which direction it flows. My eyesight isn't that good. A wide river isn't a problem but when is a Stream a River

Re: [HOT] #777 Hi-res imagery for Cameroon (was Mapping Northern Nigeria ?)

2015-01-15 Thread john whelan
What is the specific need at the moment?? I don't think there is one, its more a matter of quite a few tiles had cloud cover on them and the hope was for one or two new tiles with different cloud cover or no cloud cover. It's an overview project and there is still a lot of detail that can be

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-22 Thread john whelan
Is there a setting to make the GPS traces stand out more in JOSM, ie purple or some such? Thanks John On 22 January 2015 at 12:40, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: I am going to work on this a little bit so please upload and download often to avoid conflicts and minimize losses in

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian Mapping for a class

2015-01-22 Thread john whelan
I wonder if a quieter HOT task might be easier? Something like http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/687 where it would be easier to spot the work, possibly a tile or split tile per student and if you ask nicely some one can validate it plus there aren't lots of other mappers swarming over it. Cheerio

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-22 Thread john whelan
!) Cheers, Pete On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:19 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I've some experience in making GPS traces near high buildings, in Ottawa the trace could be up to 30 meters out. ie I walked a straight line but the GPS trace was definitely not a straight line

[HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread john whelan
Project 892 task 23 is an example. The following question got sent to me probably because I've been validating merrily away. What is the minimum diameter for a Helipad (leisure=common)? Based on my own experience of visiting a remote Scottish Island the local football pitch, being smooth, level

Re: [HOT] leisure=common (Helipad)

2015-02-19 Thread john whelan
the common leisures, the GIS specialists from the international organizations can easily extract this info and examine further. Pierre -- *De :* john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 19 février 2015 6h31

Re: [HOT] building=hut task 892

2015-02-16 Thread john whelan
a circle. - You add the building tag. You can then copy / paste to add other buildings around. Pierre -- *De :* john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Lundi 16 février 2015 19h03 *Objet :* [HOT

[HOT] building=hut task 892

2015-02-16 Thread john whelan
Dumb question will these be found? What is the recommended way to map them? I quite like the idea rather than drawing a building shape. Found whilst validating. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Validation

2015-02-16 Thread john whelan
can move on to validate more tasks. That might be a good simple start, just stop sending the 'invalidated' notices. Thank you for bringing it up, the validation process is tricky and subtle. Cheers, Blake On 2/16/2015 12:55 AM, john whelan wrote: Mapping in Africa from satellite

Re: [HOT] Fwd: huts.

2015-02-16 Thread john whelan
there are a lot of huts, sometimes just out in the forest with no rectangular buildings or clearings nearby. Are these for storage? Temporary housing? Dan Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:55:45 -0500 From: john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: [HOT

Re: [HOT] LearnOSM - updates

2015-01-27 Thread john whelan
Having worked with translators and translations on technical matters I found that the best translations were done by a native speaker who worked in the subject area. When you try and translate a technical subject you first have to understand the subject matter. I once spent two hours explaining

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-23 Thread john whelan
for tomorrow! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zfr232e8ig93icl/AAAED_YY60sZqU-tQ9_OO6gFa?dl=0 Kumar and Shupo also took a load of points for landmarks, if you're interested Cheers all! Pete On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:33 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: When used

Re: [HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?

2015-02-01 Thread john whelan
If you can't find someone with experience locally then I seem to recall that there have been some training sessions using Google+? The advantage is that you can see the remote area and how its mapped but I don't recall the software exactly. I do know you have to be in the software continuously

[HOT] The number of projects we have open and the completion rate.

2015-01-11 Thread john whelan
I switched from doing villages to an overview project and then came back to the villages. The tiles around the villages are often the first to be done. The ones in the centre where the buildings are are the last to be done. Buildings don't seem to be popular. Many tiles haven't been touched in

Re: [HOT] Mapping in Dhaka, Bangladesh!

2015-01-12 Thread john whelan
There seems to be an alignment problem, the Bing imagery doesn't exactly match the Next View imagery. Cheerio John On 12 January 2015 at 18:10, Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi HOT mappers! Next week HOT will start mapping in the field again! Under the umbrella of the

Re: [HOT] Mapping in Dhaka, Bangladesh!

2015-01-12 Thread john whelan
I just raise issues, this one looks challenging to say the least. Thanks John On 12 January 2015 at 21:15, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2015 2:57 AM, john whelan wrote: There seems to be an alignment problem, the Bing imagery doesn't exactly match the Next View

Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin

2015-02-09 Thread john whelan
Just a comment having done a fair bit of HOT mapping in Cameroon I'm quite interested in this project. However my written French is a little rusty and in some ways I feel a bit isolated from the OSM mappers in Cameroon and a few mappers on the ground to tag would help enormously. Also a few GPS

Re: [HOT] Mapping UNMEER's geo-information resources in Liberia

2015-02-15 Thread john whelan
It's nice to see the data we added to the OSM map being used. Cheerio John On 15 February 2015 at 11:10, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: As usual, Credits are attributed to the various providers. Here OSM for the Basemap and Esri to power the map with the Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS.

[HOT] Validation

2015-02-15 Thread john whelan
Mapping in Africa from satellite images I find I'm adding perhaps half a dozen settlements when I validate, they're quite quick and easy to do. Some are huts and are not quite so easy to spot. Question at what point should I invalidate? The question arises when perhaps I've added a dozen

Re: [HOT] Questions regarding Missing Maps Mapping Party in the Netherlands

2015-02-04 Thread john whelan
I seem to recall that JOSM can be run from a USB stick. Cheerio John On 4 February 2015 at 15:24, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.net wrote: Why go through the trouble of installing? People are doing remote tasks and have no gpx files, field papers or geotagged photos. Because then I would

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-06 Thread john whelan
. Cheerio John On 6 March 2015 at 15:07, Ray Kiddy r...@ganymede.org wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:12:21 -0500 john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed

Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

2015-03-09 Thread john whelan
java software on mac quite difficult. Java version 6 may be easier for some mac users, in which case the link to the older version 7000 of JOSM will work. Harry From: Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net To: john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com Cc: hot

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-09 Thread john whelan
here? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-learn-adapt- developing-public-policy-with-randomised-controlled-trials Accuracy, speed, and volunteer retention are quantifiable. Are there any other characteristics people want? All the best, Hazel On 2015-03-08 23:05, john whelan

Re: [HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

2015-03-06 Thread john whelan
Thanks John On 6 March 2015 at 08:29, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, You can just type it in directly with square brackets around the name: @[First Last] for example That should do it, it just will not auto complete. cheers, Blake On 3/6/2015 2:21 PM, john whelan

[HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

2015-03-06 Thread john whelan
How do you do it? GEES +NN so looks like a student group of students but making fairly basic mistakes I'd like to catch early. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-08 Thread john whelan
. It is certainly daunting at first but, OMG, for buildings, JOSM is fantastic. Well, onward and upward. - ray On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:30:59 -0500 john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Right the basic idiot guide. First write down your OSM userid and password. For task 917 we

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-08 Thread john whelan
In Canada a lot of addresses have been imported from CANVEC, generally the corner house is numbered with the street name and a way that renders in a dotted line joins the numbered houses. Certainly in Ottawa. In OSMAND you can search for a street then it will give you a list of numbers that have

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
Personal view only, there are no standards in OSM so both are acceptable. HOT has guidelines but they are guidelines and given the mixture of people mapping there is not the same consistency as you might get from civil servants mapping to standards. Is there any reason why you can't add them as

[HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
I did a post here talking about an idiot guide to JOSM and then got asked about Mac OS and installing it. Any suggestions other than the JOSM web site and the Mac OS links? I run Win 7 and have no experience with Mac OS. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
. - ray On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:30:59 -0500 john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Right the basic idiot guide. First write down your OSM userid and password. For task 917 we only care about highways, settlements and buildings. Buildings if only because if there is one in isolation

Re: [HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
got some very good ideas there. I've created issue https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/334 for learnOSM so we don't lose it can incorporate when we get the chance. Thanks again. Nick On 07/03/15 12:02, john whelan wrote: Thank you for testing it. The grab handle needs

Re: [HOT] Installing JOSM on Mac OS

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
The user thinks he has an older version of Mac OS and wondered if it would even take JAVA 7. I'm sure it will get sorted out in time. Cheerio John On 7 March 2015 at 18:12, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 3/7/15 12:32 PM, john whelan wrote: I did a post here talking about

Re: [HOT] Mayendit task

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
Looking at it I would concur that the imagery could be better Also the expectations are not clear to me, is a generic hut ie CrtlV in JOSM or do you want the real size of the hut? Some tiles have the imagery listed in the instructions and some tiles do not. There seems to be a variety of

[HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread john whelan
/917#task/98 has 27 ways marked with this. Fifteen have no other tags on them. Twelve have natural=water tags but to be honest they don't seem to tie up with the satellite imagery at all. I am aware of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prototype_Global_Shoreline but none of these have

Re: [HOT] Source=PGS issue on 917 task 98

2015-03-13 Thread john whelan
with the imagery. Effectively, I think that we can later revise all of this and remove. Pierre -- *De :* john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 13 mars 2015 13h37 *Objet :* [HOT] Source=PGS

[HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread john whelan
Could the link https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips be added to the instructions of all HOT West African projects? I wasn't aware of it before the post on Surface mines characteristics and it clarified a couple of things for me. It's certainly useful

Re: [HOT] open geology map

2015-03-14 Thread john whelan
So probably the best place for it would be a separate database that could be combined with OSM data. There is no reason why it couldn't use OSM format and tools such as JOSM though. I worked in a library for a while and we had a theory that if you asked five classifiers how to classify a book

Re: [HOT] validating tiles

2015-03-25 Thread john whelan
systematically but I've had to add much less than I have when validating sometimes. I get the feeling some mappers don't feel confident enough to mark a tile as done. Cheerio John On 25 March 2015 at 07:47, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: But on the other hand we have some mappers whom I'm

Re: [HOT] validating tiles

2015-03-25 Thread john whelan
Needs another look? maybe, both incomplete and invalid are slightly negative. I like the idea of sending someone a more positive message when their tiles have been validated, could it include the comment by the validator? Cheerio John On 25 March 2015 at 11:27, James Conkling

Re: [HOT] validating tiles

2015-03-25 Thread john whelan
of this! Cheers, Pete On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:36 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Needs another look? maybe, both incomplete and invalid are slightly negative. I like the idea of sending someone a more positive message when their tiles have been validated, could it include

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Mapathon - Going on now

2015-03-28 Thread john whelan
What is the basic road supposed to be mapped? I'm assuming highway track as its mostly fields as most other squares seem to be using it. Is Skype available? I have it up johnwhelan3316 Thanks John On 28 March 2015 at 13:36, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, There is

Re: [HOT] Validating

2015-03-27 Thread john whelan
Hello, I read your message about validating, I am new, I have digitized a lot of buildings for Malawi, and the Vanatu. I thought I should just jump in, work as completely as possible and then leave it to be validated. I don't feel confident enough to say its done. Is that the wrong way to go

[HOT] Gentle grump

2015-03-03 Thread john whelan
Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed buildings, lots of highways separated by a few inches etc. Do we need an idiot guide? A sort of this is how to provide the maximum benefit for the least effort.

Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

2015-03-04 Thread john whelan
those fields. Someone with more specific knowledge of farming in coastal water areas like that can enlighten us I am sure. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/9.84993/-13.81084 Cheers, Blake On 3/4/2015 8:49 PM, john whelan wrote: There appear to be fields with buildings in the middle

Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

2015-03-04 Thread john whelan
with all the paths in the farms. regard Pierre -- *De :* Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com *À :* john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mercredi 4 mars 2015 15h36 *Objet :* Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

Re: [HOT] H2OpenMap

2015-02-22 Thread john whelan
This is personal view, from the existing mapping I've been doing the first question I would ask is what is the data quality like for the data you wish to import. A lot of what I've seen is poor quality. Does the area you're interested in have decent satellite imagery? See if you can find it on

Re: [HOT] validating tiles

2015-03-25 Thread john whelan
But on the other hand we have some mappers whom I'm confident their tiles will contain only very minor errors, and given the large number of projects that could do with mapping I'm not sure that spending time validating these is the best use of our very limited resources. If we are going to spend

Re: [HOT] image server

2015-04-19 Thread john whelan
Are we talking Bing or something else? Thanks John On 19 April 2015 at 01:39, Daniel Specht danspe...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be a problem with the image server. It serves images to JOSM at the current zoom level. The user can zoom in or out, but only to a limited extent. -- Dan

Re: [HOT] URGENT: Need OSMand files for Nepal

2015-04-26 Thread john whelan
OSMAND is available for blackberry and i understand apple devices these days. The .obf format files are much smaller than .osm files would be. Cheerio John On 26 April 2015 at 19:50, Dion Houston dionhous...@gmail.com wrote: Quick question - is this data available in anything other than OBF?

Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!

2015-04-28 Thread john whelan
On the wiki page it refers to *JOSM Style 'HOT-OSM-Validation'* does this refer to the HDM style? Thanks John On 28 April 2015 at 06:44, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: NIck and I made this wikipage about it:

[HOT] Slow time - adding addresses to all the buildings

2015-04-30 Thread john whelan
It's a commercial idea by what3words but it might add value. What he did was to divide the world up into 3m-by-3m squares, and assign each a unique combination of three words. Could we come up with an open data equivalent of a postcode? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32444811 Cheerio John

Re: [HOT] Question just to be sure.. Residential landuse areas should have at least 20 buildings?

2015-05-02 Thread john whelan
I have been routinely mapping groups of say half a dozen huts in West Africa as landuse=residential and its the first time I've seen a minimum number of twenty buildings. Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 16:38, Tom McDonald tmcd...@gmail.com wrote: I encountered a tile with many small (2 or 3

Re: [HOT] Newbie: Maps closer than 500 ft are blurry

2015-05-02 Thread john whelan
Try a different tile, some imagery is better than others. Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 17:19, Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com wrote: Can't get images closer than 500 ft using BING (totally pixelated) or MapBox, the only two options that show images. Someone with experience, please help so I

Re: [HOT] How to locate places without addresses? Open location code

2015-05-02 Thread john whelan
what3words is nice but is commercial. I was hoping for some sort of open data prem code postcode idea. UK prem code is the house number so a prem code followed by the postcode is a unique address. Example 10pr82az is 10 weld road southport pr8 2az. Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 17:42, Mark

Re: [HOT] URGENT Post-disaster Job for east of Kathmandu - For experienced mappers

2015-05-03 Thread john whelan
Probably sounds daft but do you have a sample of what to look for? Thanks John On 3 May 2015 at 20:50, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: We are glad to announce that the imagery provider where able to provide us today imagery for east of Kathmandu. We added this new task to assess the

Re: [HOT] HELP - JOSM on MacbookPro OS 10.6

2015-04-30 Thread john whelan
Look on the JOSM home page about Mcss and Java (7?) you may need to use an earlier version of both. Cheerio John On 30 April 2015 at 20:11, Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com wrote: I am having difficulties getting JOSM to install and launch on a MacBookPro running 10.6.8. Help?

Re: [HOT] Remote area mapping, clouds, six questions

2015-04-30 Thread john whelan
small buildings building=yes, let some on the ground say its a house etc. If a building is not a triangle then change it to a rectangle. JOSM building tool is fast and very easy to use. Some projects want all buildings, some want residential areas and highways, all buildings are nice but there

Re: [HOT] HELP - JOSM on MacbookPro OS 10.6

2015-05-01 Thread john whelan
Dig on the JOSM page there is a way to run java 6 and a specific earlier version of JOSM, it is known about and it is documented. Cheerio John On 30 April 2015 at 23:59, Suzan Reed su...@suzanreed.com wrote: Thank you everyone. I can't run Java 7 on 10.6.8, so no JOSM for me. Really

Re: [HOT] Google Chrome Browser

2015-05-02 Thread john whelan
JOSM is stand alone and doesn't use a browser. However HOT task web page uses a JOSM plugin for remote control which might be affected. Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 19:08, AYTOUN RALPH ralph.ayt...@ntlworld.com wrote: I thought it might be useful to share this. I do not yet know how it will

Re: [HOT] Google Chrome users

2015-05-02 Thread john whelan
On investigation JOSM appears to be remote controlled by HOT project tasks in Chrome whether or not NPAPI is enabled or not. Cheerio John On 2 May 2015 at 20:22, Pierre GIRAUD pierre.gir...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if it's a stupid question but, when are the java plugins required (in the

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Training Video Suggestions

2015-05-07 Thread john whelan
I don't think it's reasonable to expect new mappers to be able to take quick start training and jump into contributing, at least for those who have not mapped before. If we keep the tasks we ask them to do simple then I think its doable. Mapping rectangular buildings is fairly simple and many

Re: [HOT] JOSM people validating / mapping in Nepal, please run JOSM's validator before finishing a tile

2015-05-07 Thread john whelan
There are a number of issues and trade offs. First JOSM actually does do validation but many new mappers use id which apparently does not. If you look at the numbers about half of the mappers are new mappers to OSM on this project so we get a great deal of mapping from them. Some know very

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

2015-05-07 Thread john whelan
Microsoft have a free program called Movie Maker which would enable you to cull the first 26 mins or so. Cheerio John On 7 May 2015 at 09:13, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize for the blinking video. I will get that minimized for the next one I hope. Thank you for

Re: [HOT] Should Newbies (Me) keep mapping houses and easy features?

2015-05-05 Thread john whelan
For the building_tool press escape if it plays up. Generally its OK but if its if the static levels are high I sometimes find a moist or damp cloth helps wiped across the pad. ie hardware issue it doesn't seem to play up with an external mouse. Cheerio John On 5 May 2015 at 18:32, laura

Re: [HOT] Technical question can JAVA be run from a USB stick?

2015-05-10 Thread john whelan
with JAVA JOSM. Nick On 10/05/15 17:10, john whelan wrote: I know JOSM can be and if it could then it could address the concern about having to install software on the machine besides having it available with the right plugins. Thanks John

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread john whelan
John, that’s worrisome. Is it because buildings are oddly shaped or people are just being sloppy? I repeatedly see an area of buildings labeled building=yes rather than landuse=residential, typically square buildings are mapped with four nodes but an odd shape and typically larger than the

[HOT] Validation tools

2015-05-03 Thread john whelan
When I validate I may notice an area tagged as a building. Occasionally I'll search the entire tile for more buildings by the same user and normally I'll find three or four areas tagged as buildings. When I validate a project I try to validate tiles as soon or shortly after they are done and

[HOT] Technical question can JAVA be run from a USB stick?

2015-05-10 Thread john whelan
I know JOSM can be and if it could then it could address the concern about having to install software on the machine besides having it available with the right plugins. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

[HOT] LookAtTheWorld

2015-05-08 Thread john whelan
On project 1018#task/755 there is some odd mapping by this user in that they have combined more than one building within a building=yes. They haven't completed a tile and I don't seem to be able to find them in HOT users but they do exist in OSM users and it looks like they have made three

Re: [HOT] Worried about task 1018

2015-05-09 Thread john whelan
I think I'm moderately experienced in mapping. In West Africa I'm very comfortable validating, in Nepal I'm happy I know what a building looks like but paths, streams etc I'm not so comfortable with, there is a lot of distracting detail on the images. Do I validate and clean up the building and

[HOT] slow time mapper productivity

2015-05-08 Thread john whelan
This is definitely slow time and not something to distract HOT at the moment. Mapping buildings is not my favourite occupation. I reward myself by breaking off and sending the odd email etc from time to time so the figures below are not head down hard mapping of buildings. However I noticed

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

2015-05-16 Thread john whelan
is if someone splits the task you lose the comment. Cheerio John On 16 May 2015 at 08:37, Andrew Patterson andrew...@gmail.com wrote: Like John Whelan, I feel that although I have done some mapping, I am not sufficiently competent to map tracks, nor also to upload the new imagery

[HOT] Idle thought time drones

2015-05-13 Thread john whelan
There is something mysterious called precision farming or basically flying a drone over a field then increasing crop yields based on the information obtained. Essentially mapping but mapping fertilizer deficiencies etc. It's not HOT mapping in the conventional sense but if someone could manage

Re: [HOT] TM server down/struggling

2015-05-15 Thread john whelan
Since OSM is up could you map by using the coordinates then pracelling up the area to the mappers but get them to sync often. Not as nice as HOT but it might be possible to do some mapping. Cheerio John On 15 May 2015 at 07:01, Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Harry...

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Question on Task #1043 roads

2015-05-14 Thread john whelan
Let's avoid to map highway = road since the routing software wont use this information. Sounds like there is quite a bit of clean up to do on the highways many are tagged road. Cheerio John On 14 May 2015 at 06:33, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Let's avoid to map highway = road

[HOT] Project 684 Polio outbreak and Ebola preparedness, Meiganga, Cameroon

2015-04-15 Thread john whelan
I don't know who the coordinator is but it's mapped. I've done 247 tiles to a reasonable standard and validated the other fourteen. If you wait for someone to come along and validate my work you'll probably be waiting a year or more so I suggest this project gets archived. I sincerely hope that

[HOT] 917 - Ebola Outbreak, Guinea, Boffa Prefecture, Road network and settlements - done

2015-04-16 Thread john whelan
If I haven't mapped it I've validated it so I suggest it gets archived. Thanks John ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread john whelan
Perhaps we should set that as a protocol for a survey requirement, an HTTPS address that is recognisable as a university url? One of the problems with surveys is selection criteria of the sample and having picked your sample the response rate. Working for a few years at Statistics Canada you get

Re: [HOT] SPAM? MALWARE? Fwd: Survey Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. Department of Human Geography

2015-04-12 Thread john whelan
I opened the link and did the survey. Looks legitimate, I have various bits of software that check for things. It would probably be more secure if it didn't ask for javascript to be enabled and I'd be happier with a https connection. Cheerio John On 12 April 2015 at 14:27, Charlotte Wolter

Re: [HOT] Mapping IDP camps in Maguindanao, Philippines

2015-04-04 Thread john whelan
I've had a quick look, the houses are often low density and there are lots of them which makes mapping a cluster awkward, it also means that marking a tile done is difficult if any buildings are not mapped. The tracks / roads can be difficult to pick out which again makes marking the tile done

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