[HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Severin,

I can share all the originals ( I think/hope I still have them ).

That was my main mistake, the text on the images making the translation 
difficult.

It was a process and you can see in later items the text came out of the 
images and went into the caption to make translation easier.

That is also the style Nick has implemented in LearnOSM: Numbered arrows 
for detail and clarity in the illustration, and then text explaining the 
details of the illustration and they look great.

As to the videos: I also have a few of those, not silent unfortunately 
:) But I have recently thought about doing short animated gif 
illustrations and passed around the Training WG email list a few tools 
that do that well.

Here is an example of tutorial with animated gifs that used something 
like the tools I passed around to the Training WG.

This example is busy ... maybe a bit too crowded for all the activity on 
the page, but gives a good idea of what someone can do with short 
animations for tutorials. Laid out better like Mikel's example of 
Bangladesh mapping and it could be very educational and low bandwidth.

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapillary-mapping/

Cheers,
Blake





On 3/14/2015 2:05 PM, Severin Menard wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
> This is a great tuto, would it be possible to share the original pics
> for translations?
> I have started making short screenvideos for some mapping processes. Are
> they are mute, they do not require translation (but bandwith). But
> obviously they cannot give a general overview as a before/after does.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com
> <mailto:bgirardot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi John,
>
>     We have talked about making them more widely available and we do
>     include them in some of the W. Africa instructions or pass them out
>     to mappers individually, sometimes as part of validation feedback.
>
>     I have a short list of revisions is partly why I have not moved them
>     out from my personal page yet in the wiki and called them "done"
>
>     As to the huts: It can go either way, but it is my understanding we
>     usually try and map the building footprints as it provides just a
>     little bit more data, approximate size and can help when working
>     physically on ground for orienting yourself a little better than
>     just a point on a map.
>
>     But it is up to the project manager to determine what data they need
>     v. how fast it can be generated. In one circumstance just getting a
>     building count and structures represented on the map quickly could
>     be a lot more important than whatever else we gain by an actual
>     building footprint.
>
>     And sometimes the circumstances of mapping affecting things. If you
>     are working in the field on a smart phone collecting building
>     locations off line and entering data for each building, outlines
>     would be impossible.
>
>     As to drawing the huts quickly, you might already know these things
>     in JOSM, but just in case:
>
>     When you copy/paste, where you hold the cursor will be the center of
>     the pasted object. So hold your mouse pointer directly in the center
>     of the hut to paste.
>
>     Then with the newly pasted building selected, hold control-alt keys
>     down and you can resize the object you just pasted based on the
>     center of the pasted object. That lets you quickly get the pasted
>     hut the correct size.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Blake
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     On 3/14/2015 12:35 PM, john whelan wrote:
>
>         Could the link
>         https://wiki.openstreetmap.__org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West___African_HOT_Mapping_Tips
>         <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips>
>         be added to the instructions of all HOT West African projects?
>
>         I wasn't aware of it before the post on Surface mines
>         characteristics
>         and it clarified a couple of things for me.  It's certainly
>         useful when
>         validating to have a reference to point enthusiastic mappers to.
>
>         If possible could an image showing two or three small
>         settlements of say
>         three or four huts joined together with what I would normally
>         think of
>         as footpaths to show how these should be mapped and the connecting
>         highways tagged.  I've noticed some variation between the
>         mappers when
>         validating.
>
>         Could we also have a guideline on huts?  I've seen them mapped as a
>         single point and as a circle.  In JOSM its very quick to copy
>         and paste
>         a hut but that does mean slight variations in size are not
>         mapped correctly.
>
>         The other issue would be isolated buildings, I tend to map the
>         building
>         rather than tag it landuse=residential again a guideline would
>         be useful.
>
>         Rather than overwhelm the mapper with the idea that everything
>         guidelined needs to be mapped I suggest somewhere it says
>         perhaps in the
>         instructions "For this project please map the roads and settlements
>         according to the guidelines here:
>         https://wiki.openstreetmap.__org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West___African_HOT_Mapping_Tips
>         <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_African_HOT_Mapping_Tips>"
>
>         Thanks John
>
>
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