[HOT] Mali now availalbe in Osmand, any more needed?

Jaakko Helleranta.com jaakko at helleranta.com
Sat Mar 9 17:44:52 UTC 2013


Hi all,

I haven't used OsmAnd (yet) in HOT work directly but since the release of
the 1.0 version I've started using OsmAnd as my main Android map
application -- and I _love_ it!

I've personally found it smoother to add OSMBugs and tweak the edits via
JOSM as that both fits my normal work flow much better and (more
importantly) is much faster when on the go -- and produces clearly better
outcome at the end.
This _does_ require to go back to editing after field work, which _might_
be difficult for those that are not active OSM contributors already.
I also see well that marking "survey data" with the OSMBugs system would
get a bit problematic if one who gathers the data / enters the "bugs"
wouldn't take responsibility to also "fix" them (=edit into the db).

Just my 2 cents,
-Jaakko
a happy OsmAnd+ user

Ps. .. Would it be difficult to get more often recurring updates for areas
that HOT is active in? I'm thinking _ideally_ daily updates. .. weekly
would be good, too. .. But maybe such frequencies make more sense to create
locally? Thoughts?
--
jaakko at helleranta.com * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +509-37-269154  *
http://go.hel.cc/about.me


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Thanks for this.
>
> If somebody uses these tools for HOT Activations, please comment your
> experience.
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
> *De :* hbogner <hbogner at gmail.com>
> *À :* hot at openstreetmap.org
> *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 8 mars 2013 14h59
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Mali now availalbe in Osmand, any more needed?
>
> Hi Pierre
>
> Syria was already in Osmand, added DR Congo to next batch, should be on
> line soon.
>
> Application works off line, but I don't have any howto's for beginners.
> It should be easy to use. Long press on screen activates special
> location menu on which you tap and get add POI options.
>
> Currently have time only to fix countries missing.
> Sorry.
>
> Regards,
> Hrvoje
>
> On 03/08/2013 07:41 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> > Hrvoje,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for this.
> >
> > I would like to see humanitarians using such tools on the ground to
> > report various POI's. But we would have to convince them how easy it
> > would be to work, probably offline, add POI's and send this to the OSM
> > database. Do we have an HowTo for non GIS specialists?
> >
> > Other places where we have Activation presently are
> >
> > - DR  Congo
> > - Syria
> >
> > Regard,
> >
> > Pierre
>
>
>
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