[HOT] Major Earthquake in Iran

2012-08-11 Thread Andrew Buck
Hello Hot members, There has been a major earthquake in northern Iran. USGS has two earthquakes recorded, a magnitude 6.3 and a 6.4. Here are the links for the relevant information. BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19226500 USGS:

[HOT] Locations in DRC, Tanzania

2012-09-15 Thread Andrew Buck
Aaron, I started looking at OSM and bing imagery in the Moba area. Initially I just cleaned up the roads, but I did a bit of looking around at the rest of the town. Someone has imported all the school loctions in Moba as nodes, and looking at the imagery for buildings which are not obvious

Re: [HOT] Update: Gulu / Lira mapping exercise

2012-10-10 Thread Andrew Buck
Robert, If the pictures have GPS coords in their exif data tags then uploading them to a site like flickr will allow them to be shown on a map so that the HOT team can use them to add further information to the map (maybe things you hadn't thought of like building heights, building construction,

Re: [HOT] looking for OSM data to put on my GPS

2012-10-13 Thread Andrew Buck
Samuel, Here is our wiki page detailing the garmin systems and how to convert our map data to it. You can find links there to preformatted garmin map files ready to load onto your device, or instructions on how to start with raw OSM data and convert it to the format garmin uses. If you decide

Re: [HOT] Re : RDC-Congo Pre-Activation : Lac Kivu

2012-12-11 Thread Andrew Buck
The buildings to the south of Sake are beginning to look very good. I have been doing some further building mapping around the central part of Goma and that is coming along nicely. I have found quite a few old US Army maps (and other assorted public domain maps) of the area on the

Re: [HOT] HOT activation update: Call for assistance with georeferencing place names

2013-02-10 Thread Andrew Buck
I am not sure what the situation in Syria is. In Mali I am currently manually merging in the GNS place names file for the country which has a name for almost all the populated settlements in the country. These place names are not well located (usually within a few hundred meters of the town but

Re: [HOT] [Tagging] Tagging 'averaged' paths in rural Mali

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Buck
No, mapping one down the middle is all that should be done. When you drive a car across the desert it breaks up the crusty surface layer and the track is visible for years even if only one car drives that exact route once. Therefore mapping more than one track does not make sense. You are just

Re: [HOT] Trouble with HOT Exports?

2013-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
There was some problems with the server hard drive filling up. Harry cleaned out a few files but it didn't free up much space so it is probably full again. -AndrewBuck ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] HOT/HDM web rendering

2013-06-21 Thread Andrew Buck
One additional thing you might use in differentiating paved vs unpaved is doing something like putting a dotted line down the middle of paved roads (like what they look like in reality), having kind of a grey patchy texture overlaid on the unpaved roads, to make them look bumpy, and then omitting

Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap HOT's work in Haiti featured as Editor's Pick in Medium.com today

2013-06-26 Thread Andrew Buck
That is a very well written article. Thanks for sharing it. Not sure if HOT has a 'media coverage' page, but if it does, this is one that should go on there. -AndrewBuck ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Use cases, documentation and methodology around the use of OSM and GIS in Forestry

2013-06-28 Thread Andrew Buck
It is not an example of a use case per se, but last summer I spoke to several of the GIS and similar departments in my city regarding OSM. Among the people I spoke with was one from the city forestry department (which looks after trees along roads) and one person from the parks department (which

Re: [HOT] Central African Republic import of WRI data

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Buck
In answer to your question on imports, I think the general consensus is that tracing from bing and then copying attributes from this dataset would not be considered an import, it is merely a second source of data used in manual mapping. One other thing to consider is the 'utilsplugin2' which has

Re: [HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Buck
To elaborate on this idea further, the idea of liaisons is to be a person (or group of people) who will be a permanent link between OSM/HOT and a specific NGO. The purpose of the liaison group is to meet regularly with their NGO contacts and discuss problems/feedback for the relationship with HOT

Re: [HOT] Central African Republic import of WRI data

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Buck
Severin, The nodes are re-used by the 'replace geometry' tool. So what it does is when you select the two ways and run the tool it takes the old way and tries to 'move' as many of the old nodes (with their ID numbers in the DB) to the positions you chose for your new way, as well as copying over

Re: [HOT] Liaisons for Activations

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Buck
Yeah a change of thread topic seems appropriate for the liaison discussion. This was all going to be discussed in more detail over the next couple days but now is fine too (it is still being worked out in detail but the basic framework has been figured out). The idea of the liaisons is similar

Re: [HOT] Colorado Wildfire Update

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Buck
Russell, Sorry to hear this news. For those who didn't click through to the BBC article, 19 firefighters from a specially trained team were killed by a fire in Arizona making it one of the most deadly firefighting accidents in US history. This is definitely not the news we wanted to see from

Re: [HOT] a more extreme HOT task manager

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Buck
Well, done is basically already for review since we have a second level of 'validated' which is supposed to weed out these erroneous tiles and revert them back to 'unmarked' if they do not meet the standards. We should try to work on ways of encouraging more validation work as for many tasks,

[HOT] Meeting results from the Togo Support Team

2013-07-02 Thread Andrew Buck
Support Team Pierre Béland Andrew Buck Will Skora ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Central African Republic import of WRI data

2013-07-02 Thread Andrew Buck
Oh, I forgot that the tasking manager was being used in this import. Since that allows us to track the progress of the import and easily keep track of what is not yet imported then I withdraw my previous objection to a partial import. My concern was mainly that we would lose some of the data

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 2, 2013

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Buck
Kate, We will not do the caching then. That is why we asked on the list to confirm if it was possible or would cause problems. If it causes problems we won't do it. :) Emir, No screenshot. I can try to have them get more details at the next meeting. We were on text chat so it was a bit

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 2, 2013

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Buck
Excellent post Emir, I can't say if it will help until tonight (21:00 GMT is when we meet with them) but I will be sure to pass this along. Thanks very much. This is exactly the kind of support we were hoping to see with this kind of daily meeting schedule. -AndrewBuck

[HOT] Indonesia Earthquake magnitude 6.1

2013-07-03 Thread Andrew Buck
Earlier today there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia the epicenter is the link below. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.6978mlon=96.6871zoom=16layers=M Although 6.1 is reasonably powerful, Indonesia experiences many earthquakes and so the damage from this one is somewhat moderate.

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 9, 2013

2013-07-09 Thread Andrew Buck
I played around with that garmin service a bit as well and it looks like what we need, although I don't have a GPS to try it out. I did notice that if you include the optional Mapnik TYP file that the file is available for download immediately. I am not sure what this does but it seems like

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 9, 2013

2013-07-09 Thread Andrew Buck
The translation of the two documents posted has now been completed and the results sent back to Togo. Thank you to Tom Taylor for his work translating the documents. -AndrewBuck ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

[HOT] Small but VERY URGENT mapping job in Central African Republic

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew Buck
We got a request from a Doctors Without Borders ground team in the Central African Republic. They have already started tracing some buildings themselves along two roads and want us to help them so they can get back to helping people. I have set up a task manager job. We should try to have this

[HOT] Update on the India flooding priorities

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew Buck
We had a skype chat with the ground representative working with MapAction and SEEDS in India on the Uttarakhand flood response. The discussions are still informal yet, and we don't have firm commitments that the data will be used by people on the ground, however progress toward this front is

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 9, 2013

2013-07-10 Thread Andrew Buck
We have received another request from Togo to have another document translated. This one is a bit longer, several pages, and it is in English now, and needs to be translated into French. The document is attached to this email. It is in .docx format but Open Office seems to open it with no

Re: [HOT] Meeting of the Togo Support Team - July 9, 2013

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Buck
:14 AM, Michael Duprey mike.a.dup...@gmail.comwrote: Awesome. I'll work on translating this piece. —mduprey On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Andrew Buck wrote: We have received another request from Togo to have another document translated. This one is a bit longer, several pages

[HOT] Continued work in Uttarakhand, India

2013-07-18 Thread Andrew Buck
Hello again HOT list, We are continuing to map the Indian state of Uttarakhand in response to the early mosoon flooding that occurred there and which has so far claimed an estimated 5,000 lives. We have had some meetings with several groups who are responding to or coordinating this effort in

Re: [HOT] UAVs

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew Buck
It is not the rendering and serving of the tiles that is the problem with the imagery processing, it is the orthorectification that is tricky. UAV's are required to fly quite low which means that the individual frames are quite small, requiring tens or hundreds to cover even a small town. At

[HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-08 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to report that we have been getting a great response to the Tacloban tracing task to respond to typhoon Haiyan. The task manager has been very busy, and we are just passing the 24 hour mark since the job was first set up. So far there

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress - suggestions for wider areas

2013-11-09 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are some skype discussions happening with various orgs, but for us to discuss strategy of our own group the best place is probably the IRC channel or this mailing list. - -AndrewBuck -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress - suggestions for wider areas

2013-11-09 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I think this is a reasonable plan of action. I looked a Guiuan during my initial assessment and concluded that although it would likely be hit hard the focus should be on Tacloban for two reasons. 1) the storm surge will likely have been higher

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress - suggestions for wider areas

2013-11-10 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you can come up with a list of areas that need mapping done what needs to be done in in each area we can create task manager jobs. We need to be careful not to get too spread out though. We can certainly do some work in Vietnam and but it would

Re: [HOT] Tagging scheme for damaged buildings

2013-11-10 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The damage assessment can be done very easily in josm. I expect it will only take 3 or 4 people a few hours to assess the damage on all the the ~30,000 buildings in Tacloban. Since we have already traced all the buildings from Bing, we can just

[HOT] Typhoon Haiyan - New Task Manager Job - Santa Fe

2013-11-10 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I have put up another task manager job. The island that Santa Fe is on was heavily affected by the storm. Please trace the roads and buildings on the island. There are a few small towns there which shouldn't take all that long to

[HOT] Typhoon Haiyan - Three new task manager jobs

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again everyone. I have a few more jobs for affected areas farther west along the storm's path. The Cebu job (number 347) is probably the highest priority but the others are important too. The goal is to map both roads and buildings. For most

[HOT] Sharing Fixme tags with Humanitarian Organizations

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been talking to various aid organizations about how we can better coordinate our remote mappers with their field teams. One of the ideas discussed was the issue of 'fixme' tags. Currently we have a lot of things marked 'fixme' that can easily

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been removed from the Featured tasks list but there is really no way to remove it without deleting the job I think. I wouldn't worry about it though, in theory there could be conflicts but that is unlikely since 340 is basically done. -

[HOT] Some results of OSM data analysis for Tacloban

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. We have been working with the American Red Cross who have put together an online map showing some results based off of OSM data. Another group published shapefiles of a neighborhood level damage survey done shortly after the

[HOT] A note about fixme tags

2013-11-11 Thread Andrew Buck
I have been talking to various aid organizations about how we can better coordinate our remote mappers with their field teams. One of the ideas discussed was the issue of 'fixme' tags. Currently we have a lot of things marked 'fixme' that can easily be queried with tools like overpass turbo.

Re: [HOT] Splitting of mapping tasks

2013-11-12 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you want to do road work as a separate thing then that is probably alright. Just have a look at the task manager to see where people are working and try to work outside of those areas as best you can to avoid conflicts. I frequently do road,

[HOT] New Task manager job - Typhoon Haiyan - Masbate Island Roads

2013-11-12 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I made a task manager job to do the main roads on Masbate Island. Everyone has been doing an amazing job tracing buildings so far with something like 130,000 buildings traced in the area since we started. Since we have been doing so many buildings

Re: [HOT] New Task manager job - Typhoon Haiyan - Masbate Island Roads

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Buck
2013 00:36, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: I made a task manager job to do the main roads on Masbate Island. Everyone has been doing an amazing job tracing buildings so far with something like 130,000 buildings traced in the area since we started. Since we have been doing so many

[HOT] Mumble chat with Red Cross

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a chat between the American Red Cross who we have been working very closely with, and the volunteers working with HOT who have either traced roads, buildings, landuse, or place names

Re: [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-16 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Totor, The best thing to do with these kind of issues is after the people have stopped working in the area, just have 1 single person download the whole area and look through it. Even for a very large city like Tacloban, you can look over the whole

[HOT] NGA Damage assessment report

2013-11-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. I have recieved a copy of a damage report in the form of a shapefile from the US NGA (National Geospatial Agency). You can open it in JOSM with the OpneData plugin and it will prompt you to load a particular layer from within the zip

[HOT] Fwd: flickr dump

2013-12-09 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, Jason has recently traveled to the area affected by typhoon Haiyan to provide satellite communications assistance to aid organizations working in the affected areas through the use of satellite communications equipment. While there

Re: [HOT] MAPPING GOMA/DRC

2013-12-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stéphanie, It is possible we may be able to help out with your work in Goma, but you have to keep in mind that our resources are already spread a bit thin with the response to typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the ongoing civil war in the Central

Re: [HOT] MAPPING GOMA/DRC

2013-12-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stéphanie, I just typed out a long reply to your message but when I hit send my email client crashed so I will just give a short summary again here. I would recommend we voice chat on either Skype (my username is andrewbuck40) or on a program called

[HOT] New task manager job for Goma, DRC

2014-01-17 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I set up a new task manager job to trace all the buildings in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/406 Goma is a fairly large town so this job will take a while. We have been asked to do some tracing

Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] Mapping South Sudan on OSM

2014-01-17 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, Just an update on the status of several of the villages mentioned in the thread below. The following BBC article lists several recent developments in the areas we are mapping. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25771597 We should

Re: [HOT] HOT Projects

2014-03-06 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph, Thanks for your interest in helping out with the project, we always need more volunteers and people like yourself with cartography experience are especially valuable. In answer to your question regarding job priorities the best way to follow

Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

2014-03-06 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, this video is amazing. After mapping literally hundreds of these wells we have still never seen one up close. What's more, we now know what causes the 'fans', it is the animal walking away from the well to pull up the bucket. This video is

[HOT] Help digitize walking papers info

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, Over the last several days a huge effort has been put forth by the remote mappers to map portions of the city of Lubumbashi. The mapping there was in support of a ground survey organized by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and using

Re: [HOT] Help digitize walking papers info

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick followup to my last message so you have a bit more context on what is being done here. The twitter timelines below show a bunch of pictures of the surveying team over the last several days. The survey is being led by Jorieke from OSM

Re: [HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark, If you install mumble you can speak with Pierre and I and we can get you started managing the mapping project. The instructions to install and set up mumble are on the wiki below. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble - -AndrewBuck

Re: [HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Buck
. === On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, If you install mumble you can speak with Pierre and I and we can get you started managing the mapping project. The instructions to install

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

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Buck
, Joseph On 24 Mar 2014 22:08, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Audrey, I will create a task manager job for Gueckedou right away and begin shifting people there immediately. It would be good if you could install the mumble program and join us to discuss this in more detail via voice

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

[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,

[HOT] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping the broader area

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again everyone, The task manager jobs for all of the main cities are coming along very nicely. I have been amazed at how quickly the community responded to these jobs. In addition to the jobs in the cities, there is also some mapping that

[HOT] Population estimate task.

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a reminder to have a look at this task for the Guinea activation. It is to map buildings in selected small villages to develop population statistics. Please read the instructions carefully and then be sure to map

Re: [HOT] Population estimate task.

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can put the source on the changeset. Also, most of these will use Bing imagery so put whatever source tag is appropriate for the one you did. - -AndrewBuck On 03/28/2014 02:06 PM, Nick Allen wrote: Sorry my french is not very good. Is it

Re: [HOT] Population estimate task.

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick update on the progress of this task. I did a bit of preliminary analysis to see if the method is sound and wrote a short diary entry about it. Please have a look if you want to see the results of some of the building mapping done for

Re: [HOT] Population estimate task.

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Buck
, il est important d'ajouter la date à laquelle vous cartographiez et la date de l'imagerie. merci 2014-03-28 17:21 GMT+00:00 Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com: Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a reminder to have a look at this task for the Guinea activation. It is to map

[HOT] Need 5 to 10 volunteers with josm and mumble.

2014-03-29 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, Pierre mentioned I am doing a study about population densities in the villages in this area. I need help tracing buildings and huts in select villages around the area. I would like to get a small virtual mapping party going using

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, thanks for your email; very interesting to hear from someone who has worked for this agency. We make heavy use of the GNS data around the world. I will explain what we are doing in this particular case in Guinea. We are currently start by

Re: [HOT] Spot-6 images of Guinée / Northern Liberia available, job 489

2014-04-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This second spot layer is really useful, not only roads and vegetaion are much easier to see, but the buildings are easier to see as well. I highly recommend using this one. Here is the address below.

Re: [HOT] Spot-6 images of Guinée / Northern Liberia available, job 489

2014-04-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And of course I copied in the wron URL to the message, here is the correct one. :) tms[22]:http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/guinee_liberia_spot6_nir/{zoom}/{x}/{y} On 04/04/2014 11:45 AM, Andrew Buck wrote: This second spot layer

[HOT] More ground survey work in Lubumbashi, remote mapping needed during the next week

2014-04-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. I spoke to one of the mappers who lives in Lubumbashi who was involved in the field survey work they did there last month with fieldpapers to record the names of roads and POI data. They plan to go out and map a new neighborhood next

Re: [HOT] Valparaíso, Chile Fires Response / Respuesta a Fuegos en Valparaíso, Chile

2014-04-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I spoke for a couple hours on skype screenshare with Álvaro Monares who is local to Chile and we made some progress on situational awareness for this response. Most importantly, there is a satelite image posted online taken the 13th of

Re: [HOT] Valparaíso, Chile Fires Response / Respuesta a Fuegos en Valparaíso, Chile

2014-04-16 Thread Andrew Buck
-Original Message- From: Andrew Buck [mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:45 AM To: Banick, Robert; HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team); Julio Costa Zambelli Subject: Re: [HOT] Valparaíso, Chile Fires Response / Respuesta a Fuegos en Valparaíso, Chile Hey

[HOT] Improving elevation data with OSM data

2014-04-16 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, Here is a blog post I put together about making elevation data on a much higher resolution and also using OSM to improve the quality of the elevation data. I hope to try to get a processing pipeline set up for this so I can do large

Re: [HOT] FW: Message OSM + points villages MSF

2014-04-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We don't have any WMS servers for any of the layers that I am aware of. Most of the rendered layers are accessible as a TMS tile layer, which is what google and bing and others use. The TMS url for the HDM tiles is below (you will need to replace z,

Re: [HOT] FW: Message OSM + points villages MSF

2014-04-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I have finished merging in the names from the shapefile you sent me. The changeset for the merge is listed below. I added source=MSF-CH to both the changeset and the nodes themselves (maybe a bit redundant but that was what I did). The

Re: [HOT] FW: Message OSM + points villages MSF

2014-04-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, so the Center actually does have a meaning then and should stay as part of the name in the database. We may want to tag these towns with an additional tag and then maybe possibly remove the 'Center' from the actual name since there would be

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian Mapping

2014-04-26 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom, Another university doing work is Heidelberg University in Germany. There are several professors there who teach OSM in their classes, as well as do research and statistics about the OSM database and its contributors. Pascal Neis, who runs the

Re: [HOT] HOT Tech WG Meeting X+11

2014-04-30 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since this is a meeting of the tech working group, would it be possible to have the meeting via mumble, instead of IRC? Is there anyone who would like to attend the meeting via IRC but would not want to use mumble? Not only would this make the

[HOT] Looking for tagging experts or Humanitarian Workers - Help needed

2014-05-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, A farily long explanation below, to just see how you can help, just jump ahead to the end of the email. I am working on an ontology for OSM concepts and tags. An ontology is basically a set of true statements about some domain.

Re: [HOT] HOT Tech WG Meeting X+11

2014-05-05 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had actually been considering adding support for something like this to the todo plugin. We can talk about it in more detail in the meeting but I have the UI preety much worked out for it it just needs to be coded up. - -AndrewBuck 1) Will the

Re: [HOT] Invitation - HOT Imagery requests coordination service

2014-05-20 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, this tool looks like exactly what we need. I played around with it a bit and the initial impression looks very good. One thing I would suggest is that on the main map on the first page, it is very hard to see the current areas (because they are

Re: [HOT] Requesting a Task for mapping forest tracks in Portugal

2014-07-07 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I added Marcos as an admin on the tasking manager so he should be able to just create the jobs himself once he knows the areas. - -AndrewBuck -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation

2014-07-16 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph, Yes, feel free to use whatever imagery is available. Sometimes there are small overlaps with Bing that we either don't know about ourselves or we just don't mention because there is not much there. For non-square buildings you can select a

Re: [HOT] Hot Job #591 South Sudan Crisis, Cholera outbreak: Imagery link not finished

2014-07-23 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know who fixed it, but I do see a real imagery link there so it is apparently ready to go. Just thought I would ping the list to let people know that it is ready. I am not coordinating this job myself so I don't know any other details about

Re: [HOT] Upload discouraged message from josm

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here are the full details about the relevant issue. https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/251 - -AndrewBuck On 08/04/2014 01:31 PM, David Schmitt wrote: Hi, I'm working on task#611 using josm v7347 (current stable). After

Re: [HOT] Question about background image alignment

2014-08-13 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes looking at the GPX traces in the area the current Bing looks very well aligned (by the way that imagery layer is awesome, thanks for the url on that; been looking for something like that for a while). Regarding the things which are offset and

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

2014-08-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am aware of the problems with using residential areas for village outlines, however using the place=* instead of landuse=residential on the outline doesn't really solve the problem either. Many African towns are composed of numerous clusters of

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

2014-08-16 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, it is not that, it is because the task tile itself was split and we don't have a file for that. Blake Giradot has worked out a solution and will do these squares himself. - -AndrewBuck On 08/16/2014 08:07 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: Ralf, if

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

2014-08-17 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For these I have just been making sure it gets in as an alternate name and not been putting a fixme on them. The spelling of these names is not generally fixed, and the names seem to be fairly fluid over time. Without local knowledge to know which

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nice work so far Fran; one thing I would add though is that you should include the OSM id of the object and whether it is a node, way, or relation (can omit this of course if they are all for nodes only. An additional thing to include would be the

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 These do look like good maps, unfortunately they are labeled as copyrighted to the Sierra Leone Government in 1972, which means they are still protected by this copyright. Without a clear statement from them that we can put them into OSM then I don't

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Keili-Coomber is a Civil Engineer who is currently serving as a Paramount Chief for Mandu Chiefdom Kailahun. He is a crack engineer who is very familiar with GIS and has local knowledge of the district of Kailahun in particular. It may be

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28

2014-08-19 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering 2 things: 1. Is there a process in place or materials we can use to actually try and obtain that permission? The legal working group has looked at things like this in the past when there is some question, but as far as I know

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Note that in order for the instructions that Pierre gave you will need the 'mirrored download' plugin in josm. That will put the 'download from mirror' option in the file menu. The [place=*] thing is optional, without it it will work just like the

Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, AMS I think is Army Maps Service, not sure what the 2 means, but I think those are the white, US Army Topo Maps in that other layer. - -AndrewBuck On 08/20/2014 08:45 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: The work I've done so far has been easy because

Re: [HOT] HOT Exports: time gap with the OSM Database

2014-08-31 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have already openend an issue on this and there has been some discussion there already. Here is the issue link: https://github.com/hotosm/hot-exports/issues/74 Given the design of the system I am not sure if it can be done or not. - -AndrewBuck

Re: [HOT] New HOT mapper welcome message?

2014-09-02 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think this would be a really good idea. Someone of course would need to work out the exact text of the welcome message, but in priciple I think it is a very good idea. - -AndrewBuck On 09/02/2014 09:08 AM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi, In the

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Activation : follow-up

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Buck
and count on our support. We receive constantly messages of gratitude, people saying how useful is this information for them plus all the export services provided. Plus a vast plan of support by the various UN Agencies is presently organized. Andrew Buck and I ha today a meeting with GIS staff

Re: [HOT] Mapping

2014-09-03 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ron, Thanks for offering to help. I don't have anything specific for you to work on, other than to just point you t the task manager (address below) which is where we list the work needing to be done for the activation. Just have a look through

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