Hi,
This is exactly the reason why I advocate reusing existing, proved,
known technology :
OpenStreetBugs
that has already been tried in crisis situation (see wiki/Task)
and which just needs a new NAME
As per your request there is a dedicated OSB instance for haiti
available at
2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com
So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where they can
pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be known that OSM can
do it ? Especially if they already have it with them on their GPS or
iPhones...
And let people
Pieren a écrit :
2010/1/22 Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.com mailto:j...@arkemie.com
So I'd say : if everybody is needing a central billboard where
they can pin their localized notes themselves, why not let it be
known that OSM can do it ? Especially if they already have it with
Erik Johansson a écrit :
2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es:
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
What do you think of this suggestion folks ?
I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to
forward help requests is
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Pieren,
I just entered two sample requests in OpenStreetBug, to try. At Milot
and Diquini hospitals (real requests, just withholding contact details
for now).
It looks quite good to me, and really easy to use.
Going to put a task for an OSMbug clone with a new name in the wiki.
(I guess
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
So please do not reject a usage that could turn out to be useful just
because you consider that OSM was not designed for it.
From a technical point of view, this kind of info weighs nothing
compared with the imagery and
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Erik Johansson escribió:
I always wondered if those hospitals on the OSM main map for Haiti was
really up an running. Is it really an amenity=hospital of no patients
can go there?
Hey, you're welcome to the tagging wars over here. How to define the
smoothness
I agree ! (with your beginning, not your conclusion)
This is exactly the reason why I advocate reusing existing, proved,
known technology :
OpenStreetBugs
that has already been tried in crisis situation (see wiki/Task)
and which just needs a new NAME
over waiting for specialized solutions to
El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see
it.
Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ?
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Iván Sánchez Ortega a écrit :
El Sábado, 23 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
PS : please tell me something simpler if it is already here, I can't see
it.
Maybe you missed http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ ?
Seems great, and certainly useful. But I am not on the ground
What do you think of this suggestion folks ?
I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to
forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki.
Tag specialists : please say what should be used (I am too tired to
check what other groups, ushahidi, sahana, etc are
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
What do you think of this suggestion folks ?
I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to
forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki.
Well, OSM was never designed as a note-passing platform.
2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es:
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
What do you think of this suggestion folks ?
I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to
forward help requests is mentioned anywhere on OSM wiki.
Iván
It was my understanding that OSM may not have been originally designed
with this in mind. (And my wording and typing may be awkward after the
little sleep I have had in the past week.) Yet it makes it possible,
easy and quick. And with all the maps/apps build on it, someone will
quickly
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 01:28 +0100, Erik Johansson wrote:
2010/1/22 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es:
El Viernes, 22 de Enero de 2010, Jean-Guilhem Cailton escribió:
What do you think of this suggestion folks ?
I haven't taken the time to see whether this use of the database to
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