[HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?

Peter Chin Peter.Chin at redcross.ca
Thu Sep 11 03:59:14 UTC 2014


Hi  Claire,

I can add OSM layers in my arcgis online account. You'll need to have an arcgis online account and then login at maps.arcgis.com, then in your Arcgis home page, click on My Content, then click "Create Map", then
in the top left corner click "Add", Add layer from Web, and choose "A WMS OGC Web Service", then enter a valid WMS/Web map service OGC URL.  

There are a few free OSM WMS Servers. One is http://129.206.228.72/cached/osm?
which is hosted by the folks at osm-wms.de m(Univ. of Hiedleberg).  When you've entered http://129.206.228.72/cached/osm? click "Add" and you'll get a basic OSM base map (not the OSM Humanitarian layer) but a basic OSM base map.   

You should be able to find other free WMS OGC servers of OpenStreetMap base layers at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS If you're stuck, send me a private email message and I'll see if I can help some more. 
If you want the HOT style basemap, you'll need to request that the WMS providers add this basemap to their hosting service.

Best Regards,


Peter Chin
Canadian Red Cross Volunteer
E-mail: peter.chin at redcross.ca
www.redcross.ca | www.croixrouge.ca
Canadian Red Cross Shelter Cluster Project:  www.sheltercluster.org/Asia/Philippines/Pages/default.aspx


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Today's Topics:

   1. OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap? (Claire Halleux)
   2. Re: OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?
      (Sander Deryckere)
   3. Re: OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap? (Paul Norman)
   4. Re: Satellite imagery interpretation examples - looking for
      suggestions (Ralf Stephan)
   5. Re: OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap? (Brad Neuhauser)


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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:25:27 +0200
From: Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
To: "HOT at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?
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Hi All,

In case anyone of you would be using OSM basemap in ArcGIS 10 and would know some details about it... people involved in mapping DRC Ebola emergency are currently looking for those informations:
- is it possible to change the standard OSM layer to the humanitarian layer in ArcGIS and how?
- what is the exact frequency of WMS refresh (think it's daily but not confirmed and when exactly)?
- it often happens that the software doesn't properly load the tiles, displaying some tiles from different zoom levels, even with a good Internet connection (maybe the cache?), how to avoid this issue?

Thanks for them,

Claire

Claire Halleux
Volunteer and Member of the Board
+243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

http://www.hotosm.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:50:14 +0200
From: Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
To: Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
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Don't know ArcGIS, but I'm pretty sure tiles above a certain zoom level are only rendered when they are needed (so that's where the lag comes from), and they are re-rendered when  the data in that region changes (again depending on the zoom level and whether that tile has been queried or not).
The tiles aren't refreshed at once (this would not be possible).



2014-09-10 17:25 GMT+02:00 Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>:

> Hi All,
>
> In case anyone of you would be using OSM basemap in ArcGIS 10 and 
> would know some details about it... people involved in mapping DRC 
> Ebola emergency are currently looking for those informations:
> - is it possible to change the standard OSM layer to the humanitarian 
> layer in ArcGIS and how?
> - what is the exact frequency of WMS refresh (think it's daily but not 
> confirmed and when exactly)?
> - it often happens that the software doesn't properly load the tiles, 
> displaying some tiles from different zoom levels, even with a good 
> Internet connection (maybe the cache?), how to avoid this issue?
>
> Thanks for them,
>
> Claire
>
> Claire Halleux
> Volunteer and Member of the Board
> +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC)
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>
> http://www.hotosm.org/
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response
>
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:04:04 -0700
From: Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?
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On 9/10/2014 8:25 AM, Claire Halleux wrote:
> In case anyone of you would be using OSM basemap in ArcGIS 10 and 
> would know some details about it... people involved in mapping DRC 
> Ebola emergency are currently looking for those informations:
> - is it possible to change the standard OSM layer to the humanitarian 
> layer in ArcGIS and how?
It should be possible to add a layer. I don't know ArcGIS, but you want to add a TMS layer, and the URLs are something like http://{switch:a,b,c}.tile.openstreetmap.fr/hot/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
> - what is the exact frequency of WMS refresh (think it's daily but not 
> confirmed and when exactly)?
The layer is not a WMS layer, but a TMS layer. Data is consumed minutely, but it uses a standard tile cache/tile store setup where it stores previously rendered tiles and re-renders them when updated. Thus there is no guarantee of currency. In general, it will behave the same as the Standard layer on OpenStreetMap.org
> - it often happens that the software doesn't properly load the tiles, 
> displaying some tiles from different zoom levels, even with a good 
> Internet connection (maybe the cache?), how to avoid this issue?
I understand the server has been at 100% usage lately



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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:13:41 +0200
From: Ralf Stephan <gtrwst9 at gmail.com>
To: Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>
Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [HOT] Satellite imagery interpretation examples - looking
	for	suggestions
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As the Mapbnox imagery doesn't seem good enough to illustrate the photos I collected, I stumbled upon this post by Pieren:

"The answer is 'no' for a mass use of Bing screenshots but I think there is some place for occasional and limited amount of images, especially when it is used to illustrate how "to trace from their imagery into OSM". (ideally, the uploaded images in the wiki should be downgraded with JOSM lines, making the image reuse for other purposes impossible)."
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=23405

Since I'm planning exactly that, i.e., composing new images containing a photo and a tagged satellite excerpt, and this for about two dozen pictures in the Wiki only, I have the strong hope this may go through with our legal team.

Please raise objections now.

Regards,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh those pictures are really cool, ty.
>
> On 9/10/2014 6:15 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:
>>
>> There are precious few photos in Wikimedia Commons showing forest 
>> roads and hamlets in West Africa. I started to collect those I could 
>> localize and associate with a tag. Only primary roads so far. Some 
>> from DRC.
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rwst/Commons_photos_roads_ha
>> mlets_w-africa
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Sander 
>> Deryckere<sanderd17 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some pictures on the Africa highways wiki page wouldn't hurt either.
>>>
>>> Quite often, a road can look too narrow to be classified as 
>>> "unclassified", so people put "path" on it. But that's in a lot of 
>>> cases because the treetop makes it seem narrow, but at the bottom, 
>>> it's wide enough for vehicles to pass.
>>>
>>> 2014-09-10 9:21 GMT+02:00 Nick Allen<nick.allen.54 at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Blake,
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping you can come up with a way of sharing the screenshots on 
>>>> these subjects. As well as the wiki or LearnOSM article you 
>>>> develop, the basic screenshots could be of enormous help for those 
>>>> who produce items on twitter, facebook, press articles, slideshows 
>>>> for presentations etc..
>>>>
>>>> Personally I'm currently attempting to work on a series of slides 
>>>> used when delivering training at events, and I like to include 
>>>> screenshots from iD&  JOSM and in each I like to have the scale 
>>>> visible.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are many others on this mailing list with more experience on 
>>>> the subject of sharing the information, but this could include a 
>>>> shared folder in GoogleDrive, or Dropbox.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>> (Tallguy)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/09/14 02:32, Blake Girardot wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You might have read in a few emails I was hoping to put up some 
>>>> satellite imagery that shows things we often map in W. Africa.
>>>>
>>>> Originally and still mainly, I wanted some examples of schools and 
>>>> roads of different types.
>>>>
>>>> I am open to any suggestions for things to include and if you find 
>>>> any good examples with MapBox imagery please send them my way.
>>>>
>>>> Or if you find something that you don't know what it is, please 
>>>> share it here and we'll get it identified.
>>>>
>>>> For users of iD, just center on the thing in question and then 
>>>> copy/past the url from your web browser into an email.
>>>>
>>>> JOSM users can click in the lower left corner of their window and a 
>>>> location box will pop up, you can just copy/paste the url from that 
>>>> box into an email.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Blake
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>> Volunteer 'Tallguy' for
>>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team
>>>>
>>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy
>>>>
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>>>> http://www.6thswanleyscouts.org.uk/ 
>>>> (treasurer at 6thswanleyscouts.org.uk)
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:26:58 -0500
From: Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>
To: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian layer as an ArcGIS basemap?
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If you're adding OSM to ArcGIS as a Basemap, it looks like those are provided through ESRI's ArcGIS Online. They might consider adding more options to those, but I doubt it'd be anytime soon.

Other options:
1) Adding the Humanitarian layer using ArcGIS Online. You can get the basic idea here:
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/04/01/using-stamen-and-mapbox-tilesets-as-basemaps-in-arcgis-com/
2) There's an ArcGIS addon called ArcBruTile (
http://arcbrutile.codeplex.com/)  which has a larger list of TMS services to add, including all the standard OSM layers...except Humanitarian. :( You can't seem to add services on your own, but they have added services on request (added osm.fr by request in May)

Cheers,
Brad

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/10/2014 8:25 AM, Claire Halleux wrote:
>
>> In case anyone of you would be using OSM basemap in ArcGIS 10 and 
>> would know some details about it... people involved in mapping DRC 
>> Ebola emergency are currently looking for those informations:
>> - is it possible to change the standard OSM layer to the humanitarian 
>> layer in ArcGIS and how?
>>
> It should be possible to add a layer. I don't know ArcGIS, but you 
> want to add a TMS layer, and the URLs are something like http://{switch:a,b,c}.
> tile.openstreetmap.fr/hot/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
> <http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/hot/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png>
>
>> - what is the exact frequency of WMS refresh (think it's daily but 
>> not confirmed and when exactly)?
>>
> The layer is not a WMS layer, but a TMS layer. Data is consumed 
> minutely, but it uses a standard tile cache/tile store setup where it 
> stores previously rendered tiles and re-renders them when updated. 
> Thus there is no guarantee of currency. In general, it will behave the 
> same as the Standard layer on OpenStreetMap.org
>
>> - it often happens that the software doesn't properly load the tiles, 
>> displaying some tiles from different zoom levels, even with a good 
>> Internet connection (maybe the cache?), how to avoid this issue?
>>
> I understand the server has been at 100% usage lately
>
>
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