[HOT] Video that Best Represents Our Work?

[Ray Kiddy]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:44 -0400
Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I intend to re-do this how-to I made in answer to a question on this 
> list a little while back:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042TbopS7HM
> 
> It was done without much preparation and to answer some specific 
> questions so it needs some adjustments (and I make a mistake in
> mapping if you look closely), but I think it is close to what you are
> talking about for a quick description of mapping buildings.
> 
> It also uses iD as that is what the person who asked the question
> used and it is what most new mappers will be using.
> 
> There should be one like it for JOSM as well which I will do.
> 
> I will also do a second one about roads in each editor.
> 
> Regards,
> Blake


This video is really great. I went to a presentation in Oakland CA
last week where I was introduced to HOT and my first thought when doing
something at home was "... there has to be a video that explains some
of this ..." and here it is.

Any hints on how to fix this thing with iD? One clicks on Line or Shape
and there is a __huge__ tooltip which completely gets in the way of
using the pointer. It goes away eventually but, wow. Bothersome to say
the least.

Well, I grabbed a copy of the source for iD on github. We will see.

Or, perhaps I have too much experience with other mapping tools and am
already hitting the "OMG I have to learn JOSM" point in my mapping
career. I imagine most people hit that wall and most get past it.

I am going to try to use iD for a while and see if I can find more
videos like Blake's. And as I figure things out, I might record some
myself. Onwards and upwards and all that.

cheers - ray


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> On 10/21/2014 7:58 AM, john whelan wrote:
> > So the fantasy would be a simple screen cast video using something
> > like HOT task 690 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/690 since it uses
> > the high resolution satellite imagery, Kevin Bullock's presentation
> > http://vimeo.com/91880883 covers why this type is best to work
> > from, the interesting bit starts 5 mins in to the presentation,
> > locally there have been some clean up issues with lower resolution
> > satellite imagery and mentioning the use of the JOSM building plug
> > in as mentioned by Tom Taylor
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JkiL8wlvJqdVMgGxKXPzF22YzQ-S08Q31zZQna9CTMk/edit
> >
> > To come back to the original topic I think you need an overview,
> > starting perhaps with a couple of interviews from two or three AID
> > agencies about why the OSM maps are important to them and how they
> > are used.  Then flip to the sources of data which are made free to
> > use such as DigitalGlobe, UN place names, and finally a few mappers
> > putting it altogether.  Given that the maps are useful perhaps
> > Unicef or someone might have some resources for this?  Or the BBC?
> >
> > Cheerio John
> >
> > On 21 October 2014 01:42, Kate Chapman <kate.chapman at hotosm.org
> > <mailto:kate.chapman at hotosm.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi John,
> >
> >     There are a few videos out there, but I don't know of too many
> >     recent ones. You are right a simple screencast showing how to
> > map a building for example would be really helpful. I made some
> > videos in 2010 about mapping from imagery in Haiti and people
> > really enjoyed them.
> >
> >     Having updated ones would be great.
> >
> >     Best,
> >
> >     -Kate
> >
> >     On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM, john whelan
> > <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Talking of videos are there any training videos about what
> > HOT expects?
> >
> >         The reason I ask is that although we break down to give
> > tasks can we break it down even more.  ie teach someone to do a
> > simple task of map a building using high resolution satellite
> > imagery, sounds dumb but map one in JOSM, q it to square it, tag it
> >         building=yes, select, <Crtl>c move the mouse to another
> > <crtl>v, adjust the four corners, q again etc.
> >
> >         The concept is we can teach people to map buildings on
> > You-tube, its simple and has value.
> >
> >         Another would teach people how to recognise a road and to
> > tag it or highway=path.
> >
> >         We may need expertise to map things like water bodies,
> > rivers, streams and forests but buildings and footpaths in Africa
> > are probably 80% of what needs to be mapped and you don't need a
> >         degree in GIS to do this.  Let's delegate what we can.
> >
> >         Cheerio John
> >
> >         On 20 October 2014 15:55, Kate Chapman
> > <kate.chapman at hotosm.org <mailto:kate.chapman at hotosm.org>> wrote:
> >
> >             Hi All,
> >
> >             Is there a video you think best represents our work?
> > Most videos seem to focus on one project or are a talk at a
> >             conference. Do we have anything that is less specific?
> >
> >             Thanks,
> >
> >             -Kate
> >
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