Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Peter Barth
Hi Kate, Kate Chapman schrieb: > I fail to see how machine readable hashtags are "not useful". They allow > statistical analysis which can be used to inform future recruitment and > other activities. but as Frederik suggested: Why do these hashtags have to be in the changeset comment? Your stati

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, Surely this is a case of “more is better”. As Kate suggests, the hashtags are a great tool for downstream analytics we can use to learn about and improve our work. At mapathons I always instruct newcomers to add their personal comments to the pre-loaded tags from the tasking mana

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: GIS Day in Lomé and Haiti in the middle of two OSM and GIS capacity building missions

2015-11-18 Thread Jo Walsh
Remember that GIS Day is an ESRI trademark. Some of us prefer to celebrate PostGIS Day, which falls the following day. OSGeo4ever, zx On November 18, 2015 11:56:54 PM GMT, nicolas chavent wrote: >Hi all, > > >Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from crisis mappers and >hot >this no

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Frederik, I fail to see how machine readable hashtags are "not useful". They allow statistical analysis which can be used to inform future recruitment and other activities. Often we make assumptions about OSM contributors not backed by statistics this allows improvement in one corner of the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2015-11-18 21:11 GMT-03:00 Frederik Ramm : > This is *not* useful. First of all, we're not Twitter; we don't evaluate > these hashtags. I don't know if there are some downstream services that > do, but if so, please switch to using a secondary tag (remember, > changesets, like other OSM objects, ca

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Warin
On 19/11/2015 11:52 AM, john whelan wrote: HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a simpler more standardized approach. Many of their volunteers often do not know enough English to write a meaningful change set comment. HOT tends to map in areas that do not have a great

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread john whelan
HOT and OSM are slightly different, HOT maps on OSM but uses a simpler more standardized approach. Many of their volunteers often do not know enough English to write a meaningful change set comment. HOT tends to map in areas that do not have a great deal of OSM mapping already in place so I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Warin
On 19/11/2015 11:11 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I would like to draw everyone's attention to a long-standing community recommendation: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments It explains why you should use sensible changeset comments that describe what you (think you) h

[OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I would like to draw everyone's attention to a long-standing community recommendation: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_changeset_comments It explains why you should use sensible changeset comments that describe what you (think you) have been doing. I don't know exactly who encour

[OSM-talk] Fwd: GIS Day in Lomé and Haiti in the middle of two OSM and GIS capacity building missions

2015-11-18 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi all, Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from crisis mappers and hot this note for those still active mapping this GIS Day 2015. Sharing a short wrap up of how the GIS Day looked like for two collectives of mappers active in Lomé and Port Au Prince which might be of interest. "GI

Re: [OSM-talk] Seek support for worldwide mapathon on Dec 3rd for places accessibility

2015-11-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
We'll see what we can do in Iceland. Þann 18.11.2015 12:30, Holger Dieterich reit: Dear fellow OSM members, I'm the cofounder of http://wheelmap.org [1] and want to ask for your advice and support for a mapathon we are planning. The worldwide mapathon #MapMyDay will take place on December 3 an

Re: [OSM-talk] Seek support for worldwide mapathon on Dec 3rd for places accessibility

2015-11-18 Thread joost schouppe
For ad hoc promotion, the local OSM Twitter accounts can be of great use. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_centric_Twitter_accounts ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Seek support for worldwide mapathon on Dec 3rd for places accessibility

2015-11-18 Thread Simon Poole
Holger, I suspect that the regional OpenStreetMap organisations would be good partners for setting up local events and press coverage even though it is a bit short term (there is no one complete list but http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters#Existing_local_chapters and sear

[OSM-talk] Seek support for worldwide mapathon on Dec 3rd for places accessibility

2015-11-18 Thread Holger Dieterich
Dear fellow OSM members, I'm the cofounder of http://wheelmap.org and want to ask for your advice and support for a mapathon we are planning. The worldwide mapathon #MapMyDay will take place on December 3 and the goal is to mark as many wheelchair accessible places as possible. The World Health O