<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:13px"><div style="" class=""><br style=""></div><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Hi John</span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div>Your experience could also be used for some import tasks.<br><br style="" class="" clear="none"><span style="" class=""></span><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class="">For
 the West Ebola oubreak response, we have Import tasks that we reserve 
to experienced mappers. They are private jobs. If you are interestd to 
contribute to these tasks, simply answer me providing your OSM account. 
 You will find detailed instructions in the Task Jobs. Plus a group of 
experienced mappers is there to support for this.</span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="" class="">To
 revise the place names, the contributor have to compare in JOSM layers 
from various sources. There is the Bing Imagery, GNS places names and 
actually for Liberia UNMIL place names. You have to decide which name to
 attribute and
 revise the tags.</span></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><span style="" class=""></span></div><span style="" class="">regard</span><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br style="" class=""></span><br style="" class=""></div>  <div class="" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <hr style="" class="" size="1">  <font style="" class="" size="2" face="Arial"> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> john whelan <jwhelan0112@gmail.com><br style="" class="">
 <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Kate Chapman <kate.chapman@hotosm.org> <br style="" class=""><b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> "hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org> <br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Samedi 18 octobre 2014 14h01<br style="" class=""> <b style="" class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Where to start?<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv8063139696"><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">I had a look at a couple of those, drop roads in, even looking at those I get the impression that most roads/tracks had been input or at least all the
 ones I could see although the tiles were not marked completed.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">I'll have a look at the tasks towards the end perhaps I can find a bit of blank map there.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Thanks John<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div><div style="" class="" id="yiv8063139696yqt74556"><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">On 18 October 2014 13:36, Kate Chapman <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org">kate.chapman@hotosm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class=""
 style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Hi John,</div>
<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Even though you are an experienced mapper perhaps start with a beginner task. It is harder to identify feature of places you have never been though really it is just a matter of practice.</div>
<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Best,</div>
<div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Kate</div><div style="" class=""><div style="" class="">
<div style="" class="">On Oct 18, 2014 10:23 AM, "john whelan" <<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">I've picked up a task, <br style="" class="" clear="none"><h1 style="" class=""><font style="" class="">699 - Ebola Outbreak, ETC Locations Context - Experienced Mappers Only
</font></h1> so started up JOSM and imaged with Bing, the square I'm looking at looks as if the basic road network is in already and many of the buildings are in as well.  I can see a need for tags but short of being on the ground I can't think of a way to find out the information.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Perhaps I'll try another task.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Thanks John<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class="">On 18 October 2014 13:07, Kate Chapman <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org" target="_blank"
 href="mailto:kate.chapman@hotosm.org">kate.chapman@hotosm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="" class="" dir="ltr">Hi John,<div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">Have you taken a look at the Tasking Managner? <a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/">http://tasks.hotosm.org/</a></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">If you login there with your OSM account you'll see instructions for various tasks. You can then pick one it checkout an area to work on.</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">Does that make sense?</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">Best,</div><div
 style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class="">-Kate</div></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:03 AM, john whelan <span style="" class="" dir="ltr"><<a style="" class="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"></span><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span style="" class=""></span><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Probably sounds dumb but I'll ask the question anyway.  I'm a fairly experienced OSM mapper mainly doing CANVEC imports and tagging details working in JOSM so if I have have a bit of time available where is the most
 appropriate place to start thinking in terms of CANVEC isn't available so the process will be different, so where/how do you suggest I start?<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Thanks John <br style="" class="" clear="none"></div></div>
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