Re: [OSM-talk] Export Tool Community Chat | 30th March

2017-03-29 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi, I can't speak for Mhairi, but HOT's slack channel is open, retains a record of the conversation, and while this specific discussion is time boxed, discussion takes place continually among the interested parties and developers asynchronously. An email list is not the same as a real time text c

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM help

2017-06-01 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Enock, You need to disable "Viewport Following", please see attached. View menu -> Viewport Following Cheers, Blake Blake[image: Inline image 1] On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > Hello OSMers, > > Kindly help resolve the issue attached in the GIF. Basically m

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Yves wrote: > So, no OpenSparqlMap, then? :( > Sad, this policy definitely broke something. > Yves > I agree 100% Respectfully, blake > Le 17 septembre 2017 12:58:12 GMT+02:00, Blake Girardot > a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> How does this relate to the new draft tr

Re: [OSM-talk] Name challenge - what to call the new OSM+Wikidata service?

2017-09-17 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Mappy McDataFace is a serious suggestion, please include it in any official lists of proposals. Cheers Blake On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > One thing we should consider is the domain name. I doubt we can afford > woq.com :) > > These names were proposed > woq 2 > wdo

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Christoph, We can not win if we do or if we do not :) It clearly says the HOT Tasking Manager, which it is. We were asked to change it from OSM Tasking Manager because people felt that was misrepresenting, it was not the OSM Tasking manager, it was HOT's Tasking Manager, so I changed that in T

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > This is a honest question; I would really be interested in the, if I > may, "American version" of what Christoph has written. One that does > express how you're upset while at the same time *not* being "combative" > and all those bad things

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
2017 at 1:04 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Monday 23 October 2017, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote: >> >> It clearly says the HOT Tasking Manager, which it is. We were asked >> to change it from OSM Tasking Manager because people felt that was >> misrepresenting, it was not the OS

Re: [OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

2017-10-29 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Greetings, I SomeoneElse mentioned this in our HOT IRC channel. I have already asked the project creator to take a look. But, are you sure they are bad edits? did you use the 2016 imagery specified in the mapping projet? For example, change set 53330616, the first one i randomly looked at from

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-30 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote: > Thanks again and I'll reply when there is something on our staging > site for folks to look at. Hi, We have updated the text on the HOT Tasking Manager in light of the suggestions from this email thread. They will

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoChat

2018-01-07 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Ilya Zverev wrote: > Nice to hear somebody uses it :) > > Ilya I love GeoChat, not so much the chat part, but the seeing other users in the JOSM viewport "on the ground" part. I love that, it is like exploring together. Cheers blake -- --

[OSM-talk] Seeking local, active mappers in Sweden

2018-07-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Greetings, I did not see a local Sweden talk email list, so my apologies for the email to this list. HOT was contacted about mapping to support fire fighters working in Sweden on the current wildfires there and I would like to connect with active local OSM mappers in Sweden to see if they are int

Re: [OSM-talk] Seeking local, active mappers in Sweden

2018-07-23 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
_.26_informationhttps://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=4 > #OSM.se on irc.oftc.net > http://openstreetmap.se > https://twitter.com/openstreetmapse > > and even a tasking manager instance http://tasks2.openstreetmap.se/ > > Best of luck, > > Ben - althio >

[OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Dear Friends, In case you missed it, Dale Kunce tweeted this out yesterday: The day of Machine Learning and OSM/Humanitarian mapping reckoning is getting closer. Very excited for the possibilities these new methods have for @hotosm @RedCross. Next frontier is making HOT and @TheMissingMaps more v

Re: [OSM-talk] Learning to Use Machine Learning - A learn along for folks who want to be using ML in their work.

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Christoph, Thank you very much adding that notice, I was sure someone would :) There are also a tremendous about of use cases for these tools that do not involve putting data in OSM. But rest assure, myself and everyone I interact with know about the guidelines and no one suggests ever not fo

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-09 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Vao Matua wrote: > The Tanzania Development trust has calculated the Plus Code addresses for 17 > million building points in Tanzania and have added a sample village (1800 > points) as a test. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/59213224 > > The Python code on

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > The idea of tagging encoded coordinates is so ridiculous to anyone with > a bit of understanding of computer programming, data processing and > data maintainance that even after ignoring all the arguments in > substance that have been vo

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Frederick, I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I think for the most part we all agree on the technology solution really looking like the best option. But it is the best option in the medium and long term. In the short term, putting a few thousand plus-codes in as addresses, while the local com

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > > While the goals sound worthy, it is unclear if any of the grid systems > (w3w, plus codes and so on) deliver on their promises and have any > traction outside of people in countries with established addressing > systems trying to push them as

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-10 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> > I think it will work like this - a dispatcher at an ambulance service says > during a call: "We will not go to your house unless you provide the > plus-code. Bot the Google Maps and OpenStreetMap websites allow to generate > the plus-code for a house." I mean it will not work without a leadersh

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Blake Girardot wrote: >> Also: No one is getting paid for anything related to this at this >> point. I personally would like to see Google donate to the OSMF >> and let the OSMF grant it out to help OSM core and eco system >> tools imple

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-13 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Tom, This is an example of the first way I and I think others in the humanitarian world need to use OLCs to evaluate them for what they can or can not solve for humanitarian and other use cases: https://twitter.com/BlakeGirardot/status/1028689726088388609 We need to deal with them at scale, n

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-13 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/13/2018 06:46 PM, Daniel Koć wrote: >>> I also don't see a reason to add the OLC codes in tags in the >>> database, even if marked on a building. > >> Since buildings are not guaranteed to fit into OLC rectangles and they >> not