happy to start on that. What's the best way to determine those lat-long points. Just internet research, or is there any other more direct approach?
Margie On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]> wrote: > Margie, > > Even before learning OSM tools, you can be very useful by looking up the > coordinates of Haiti hospitals. > > Please see : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/News > > There is a shared spreadsheet to fill. And people that already know OSM can > then use the coordinates you could find into OSM. > > Thank you, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > Katie Filbert a critic : > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Margie Roswell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've got a GIS background. Happy to get up to speed on OSM. What can I >> do to help Haiti relief and mapping efforts? >> >> I plan to be at the CrisisCamp DC on Saturday. I can attend in the >> afternoon. >> >> Margie >> > > Margie, > > I will be there and can give a tutorial on Saturday. If you want to help > with OSM before then, then the new mapper guide might help: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/New_Mapper > > What we've done up until now is digitize streets and features, looked for > collapsed buildings (less priority now), and for camps (high priority now). > We used imagery from GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, but the resolution was only so > good. We now have access to .15 m resolution imagery from Google, with > their permission, we can trace from in OpenStreetMap. > > What I'm doing now (and you can do) is going back through what's been done > in Port-au-Prince and other areas and identifying camps. We missed many > before, but are apparent in the new imagery. > > I am using Potlatch, the web-based editor (the edit tab on the OSM site). > > We have a couple video tutorials that might help you with using Potlatch: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oio1jY8WNig > > For camps, I am simply drawing them as polygons. Tags I use are: > > * tourism = camp_site > * refugee = yes > * source = Google > > (others on this list may be able to suggest better tags that these, but > these work) > > We can also do cleanup of the existing data, using the new imagery (e.g. > some roads need to be fixed). > > If you have questions, you can e-mail the osm-talk list. Or feel free to > join us on live chat: http://irc.openstreetmap.org and we can answer > questions and help you out. > > Thanks again for willingness to help out with mapping! > > Regards, > Katie Filbert > @filbertkm > > >> >> -- >> Margie >> http://www.BaltimoreUrbanAg.org >> http://www.FarmersMarketVideo.org >> http://www.FriendlyCoffeehouse.org >> http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-5-views-recipes/book >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Margie http://www.BaltimoreUrbanAg.org http://www.FarmersMarketVideo.org http://www.FriendlyCoffeehouse.org http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-5-views-recipes/book _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
