<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks John. Pete posted a training guidance for new OSMers. <br><br></div>This writing is great. If anyone can help taking off all the great training tips and add to the hackpad, we might collectively have more docs in just a short time<br><br><a href="https://hackpad.com/HOT-Nepal-Earthquake-Training-Support-3GupUkChA1n">https://hackpad.com/HOT-Nepal-Earthquake-Training-Support-3GupUkChA1n</a><br><br><br></div>Heather<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Heather Leson<br><a href="mailto:heatherleson@gmail.com" target="_blank">heatherleson@gmail.com</a><br>Twitter: HeatherLeson <br>Blog: <a href="http://textontechs.com" target="_blank">textontechs.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:05 PM, john o'l <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ol.john.el@gmail.com" target="_blank">ol.john.el@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The last couple of days I've had my share of struggles getting going with HOT OSM platform, so I decided to share them with a couple of folks I work with... more struggling ensued. Eventually I got to where (I hope) my contribution is outweighing the fact that I locked up a square for a certain amount of time. This is my most recent go at instructions for colleagues - offering it here in case it helps anyone else (apologies if formatting gets screwy) --<div><div><br></div><div><h4 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60);font-weight:normal">Step
by step instructions to get started in OpenStreetMap </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60);font-weight:normal">[adapted from</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://datameet.hackpad.com/Nepal-Earthquake-Mapping-YDjLauUK0Ek" target="_blank">https://datameet.hackpad.com/Nepal-Earthquake-Mapping-YDjLauUK0Ek</a></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60);font-weight:normal">, the </span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">HOT
E-Mail List</a>,</span></span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60);font-weight:normal">and instructions for Project</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)"> </span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1018" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:normal">#1018</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60);font-weight:normal">]</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal"></span></h4><h4 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
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<pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">To contribute IMMEDIATELY to ongoing Humanitarian Mapping efforts for Nepal through Humanitarian OpenStreetMap.org, <u>please do the following 1st:</u> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)"> </span></pre>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> 1. </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Go to the <a href="http://learnosm.org/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">learnosm</span></a>
site and go through the first three items in the Beginner’s Guide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">2.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> 2. </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(59,58,60)">Sign
up for an account on </span><span><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(59,58,60)">
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (easy to do, <a href="http://learnosm.org/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">learnosm</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(59,58,60)">shows you how if unsure)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
<pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">3.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">If you have not mapped with OSM before [or tried and really sucked at it like me], please TAKE THE TIME to follow tutorials. Go through the 30 minute training on</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> <a href="http://mapgive.state.gov/" target="_blank">http://mapgive.state.gov</a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">to learn the basics of humanitarian mapping using OpenStreetMap.org </span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">4.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(59,58,60)">Being new to OpenStreetMap, <u>use the in-browser <a href="https://openstreetmap.org/edit" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(59,58,60)">iD</span></a></u> editor.</span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">5.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Review the <a href="http://learnosm.org/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(66,139,202)">learnosm</span></a><span> </span>site again (for instance, there is a button to change brightness of background in iD editor!) and check out the HOT Remote Mapping item in the Beginner’s Guide (best to do all this <u>before</u> you join in with the current tasks). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></pre><pre><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Then</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> go to the HOTOSM Task Manager at <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/</a> and select a job that you feel comfortable contributing to. </span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Read the directions carefully for the job </span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">2.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Select one of the squares next to one that is marked as complete -This will allow you to pan to the completed square so you can see how others are digitizing the features and mimic their work. </span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">3.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Click start mapping to lock the area</span></pre><pre style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">4.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Don’t be too surprised if there are little glitches and difficulties as you get used to the platform, try to do what you can and unlock the square if you get stuck or called away for more than a few minutes.</span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">**It doesn't matter how long you work, or how many features you digitize. There are currently hundreds of people mapping on HOTOSM for the Nepal Earthquake. Every edit counts. **</span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Cheers!</span></pre></h4></div></div></div>
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