[HOT] Information about HOT Task #28 - Tamale (Ghana) : Digital Globe

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Blake,

Thanks for the tuts ;). I use JOSM and know how to fix the alignment 
issues. Will get back to this task later.

and it doesn't affect anyone else so no worries there.

Thanks, and that was what I did in this case.

Once again thanks for interacting.

Regards,

On 01/16/2015 08:08 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:
> Hi Enock,
>
> On that same "Background settings" tab in iD at the very bottom it 
> says "Fix Alignment"
>
> click on that and 4 "arrows" will appear, use them to move the 
> background image around until it matches up with the already drawn 
> buildings.
>
> Then just close up that background tab and start mapping.
>
> you are only "adjusting" the background alignment for yourself for 
> that session, the next time you open a task square in the task you 
> will have to "fix alignment" again.
>
> and it doesn't affect anyone else so no worries there.
>
> (if you are using JOSM, you can do the same there, here are the 
> directions for that: 
> http://learnosm.org/en/editing/correcting-imagery-offset/)
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
>
>
>
> On 1/16/2015 8:56 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
>> Hi Blake,
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.
>>
>> Yeah Bing has hi-res images for the area. But the problem is Bing is not
>> aligning with DigitalGlobe traces.
>>
>> Buildings especially are off that of Bing imagery.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On 01/16/2015 06:41 PM, Blake Girardot wrote:
>>> Hi again Enock,
>>>
>>> I should have said: Bing has good imagery from 2013 for parts of that
>>> task :)  The other parts are from 2011.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Blake
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/16/2015 6:59 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Am Enock from Ghana.
>>>>
>>>> Checking task manager to see if some tasks have been set up, I came
>>>> across this [1] Wanted to reach out to the one who set it up but no
>>>> success. The imagery url provided seems not to work and mapsforall's
>>>> website is in a language I can't tell.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me out.
>>>>
>>>> 1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/28
>>>> 2. mapsforall.org
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>

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