[HOT] recording damage

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 09:28:03 BST 2010


oops,
and there would need to be another column to indicate the link to the
'non-commercial use' icon, then another column for the 'public domain
icon', so that people dont use the wrong icon for their maps.


cheers,
sam

On 9/25/10, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> cool, one of my aims for having all main tags listed in an open acess
> spreadsheet is to be able to list all of the available varients of
> icons, organized by style theme.
> So the best way to proceed would be t make a simple spreadsheet, and
> list the columns
> -key
> -value
> -tag render descriptin
> -mapnik icon - png (incerted image)
> -option2 icon png (inverted image)
> -option3 icon png
> -url link to svg file download
> -maxzoom level
> -minzoom level
>
>
> Once that is done, i can go into the chart and add a new column for
> 'Tag Theme Category', but that wont be for another month until im
> finished sorting the other datasets map features.
>
>
> Unfortunatly i dont know a way t autmateit, but furtunatly it's only
> 200 or so icons that need to be made. .... and we can croud-source the
> fine detais.
>
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 9/24/10, Chris Blow <cgblow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> is anyone working on icons for the taxonomy?
>>
>> I do not see any at all here:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model
>>
>> So presumably the defaults from the main features page are being used?
>>
>> I worked on some custom icons for the Ushahidi Haiti taxonomy:
>> http://unthinkingly.github.com/ushahidi-haiti-icons
>>
>> I would like to expand these to align with the HOT data model.
>>
>> My experience with creating a bunch of icons by hand has been a bit
>> tedious,
>> so I think the best way to proceed would be to A) do more custom vector
>> design work and the B) write a script to generate completed, standardized
>> icons using those vectors (with customizations to the
>> border/background/color/size etc.) Ultimately I want a large, beautiful
>> icon
>> set that can be customized to work well with various basemaps and
>> cartographic themes. As far as I am aware, many icons already exist, but
>> they are inappropriate, ugly, or inflexible -- and even if we just used
>> those there is not a library for scripting the generation of customized
>> icons.
>>
>>
>> I would appreciate advice on how to best proceed.
>>
>> gratefully,
>>
>> c
>>
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Shoaib Burq wrote:
>>
>>> besides xsl there are "blank" shapefiles too. Also there are 2 versions
>>> of
>>> UNSDIT: Light and Comprehensive
>>>
>>> maybe start with light?
>>>
>>> http://www.logcluster.org/tools/mapcentre/unsdi/unsdi-t-v2.0/UNSDIT_v2.0_Draft_Light_Shapefile_Template.zip/view?searchterm=
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I guess I just volunteered ;-).  Happy to help.
>>>> I can consolidate any disparate sources of tags and start putting
>>>> together a
>>>> proposal for new map features.   I'll take a look at those UNSDI-T
>>>> xls',
>>>> the
>>>> JOSM presets, the current Humanitarian tags on the wiki and anything
>>>> else
>>>> people send my way.  I'll start with a spreadsheet that organizes
>>>> everything
>>>> I can find and post it out to the hot and tagging mailing lists.
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 20:24, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My best suggestion would be to start a Humanitarian Features page on
>>>>> the
>>>>> OSM wiki that copies the format of the Map Features page. I'd then
>>>>> collect
>>>>> as much of the existing discussion as you're willing to devote time to
>>>>> doing, and put it all on that page. In point of fact, I think this
>>>>> would
>>>>> be
>>>>> a tremendous service to HOT (unless anyone else feels otherwise and
>>>>> wants to
>>>>> pipe up).
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean, are you volunteering? :-D
>>>>>
>>>>> SDE
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Sean Horgan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like the push to define Humanitarian OSM tags in the wiki
>>>>>> stopped in February but from scouring the web, it looks like the HOT
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> very
>>>>>> active (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where is the right place to review the current
>>>>>> damage/disaster-related
>>>>>> tags?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:59, Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I've been in Galveston Texas for the last week and I've been trying
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> add some POIs as I've ventured around the island.  One thing I've run
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> is that some of facilities are either permanently destroyed or
>>>>>> temporarily
>>>>>> out-of-use due to storm damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008.  Little to
>>>>>> no
>>>>>> tagging of this damage exists.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've searched around trying to find some precedent for damage-related
>>>>>> tags and found the following, all related to Haiti:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg26308.html -
>>>>>> discussion on the talk mailing list
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Haiti_Strategy_And_Proposal
>>>>>> - Haiti proposal
>>>>>> http://tagstat.hypercube.telascience.org/search.php?query=damage -
>>>>>> tagstats on damage
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are the best forums to both understand current practice as well
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> discuss tagging of damaged features, i.e. storms, earthquakes, riots,
>>>>>> conflicts, etc?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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