[HOT] Request for information about common set of tags for HOT (Was: OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos)

Tue May 19 22:18:44 UTC 2015

I'll admit that a small proportion for my decline in participation a among
other factors, since there was minimal interest from others in the HOT
community.

I tentatively plan on being at the meeting

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'd like to help and my proposal is
> 1. to collect and identify most common tags specific to HOT
> 2. to mention and document them in Wiki page "Humanitarian_OSM_Tags" [1]
>

Regarding Point #1, your identification of the popular tags used in HOT
activations that aren't well documented but have been used often would be
appreciated.

I think there's been the tendency where attention and participation moves
to another crisis after some time even if its not intentional. As a result,
any new tags or tagging schemas aren't incorporated into a larger scheme
like the HOT/HDM preset.

The HOT/HDM preset page - https://github.com/hotosm/presets - hasn't been
maintained much in the past couple and I sometimes wonder if its still used
by many people. Heck, a couple of my pull requests (which aren't
controversial) have sat without any response in two years.
The lack of response and lack of visible use is a small reason that I
haven't contributed as much as I had in the past (the largest reason, a
full time paid job in an unrelated field).

As Springfield mentions, there's a few tags in there that don't make sense,
but the intention was not only just for a crises but for lower income
communities in areas that hadn't been represented in OpenStreetMap and
communities that have experienced crises in the past), and to grow
OpenStreetMap communities who use tags that don't have an obvious
connection to crises.

Lastly, Suzan, I did see your request and offer of annotating pictures for
a tagging guide in a particular area like Nepal! I hope that it is
mentioned at tomorrow's meeting!

Regards,
Will

> So, to begin collecting the candidates, I only foumd these two:
> * damage:event=*
> * operator:type=private • government • community
>
> The "idp:camp_site=spontaneous_camp" is already sub-specific to a
> disaster event.
>
> Any others tag or key candidates?
>
> Yours, S.
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
>
> 2015-05-15 22:13 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > HOT (and OSM) tagging has grown and evolved since we first started 5 or 6
> > years ago that is for sure. And given the somewhat intermittent
> > participatory nature of OSM and the wiki things can for sure get out of
> > sync.
> >
> > We would welcome any assistance with updating, streamlining and
> regularizing
> > HOT's tagging and tagging guidance and underlying data model if need be.
> It
> > is a big project for the folks in and out of HOT who developed and
> maintain
> > it.
> >
> > It was through gentle ;) feedback from the OSM community that we have
> > started use some more planned tagging schemes you mentioned so there is
> yet
> > time for some of that to catch up.
> >
> > I am excited for us to roll up our sleeves and give the tagging,
> guidance,
> > data model and rendering a timely review and updating. At the moment
> many in
> > HOT are concentrating on working with our fellow travelers in Nepal (and
> DRC
> > and Vanuatu and Guam and South Sudan and Nigeria and several other places
> > unfortunately), but when that begins to thankfully be less of an urgent
> > matter several of us look forward to joining you fully in the process.
> >
> > And like I said, any reorganization or updating and streaming in the wiki
> > you could help us with in the mean time will be very welcome and
> > appreciated. If you have any questions please just ask them here on the
> > mailing list but under a different email thread so it is less confusing
> > talking about something that has nothing to do with this thread.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Blake
> >
> >
> > On 5/15/2015 8:43 PM, Stefan Keller wrote:
> >>
> >> Salut Pierre, hi Will, dear leading HOT members, hello all
> >>
> >> 2015-05-15 18:44 GMT+02:00 Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr
> >> <mailto:pierzenh at yahoo.fr>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Such a response has brought various discussions on the HOT list on how
> to
> >>> both respond quickly and assure data quality.
> >>
> >>
> >> I really appreciate your work and the work of all contributors. So
> >> excuse me if I'm little bit too harsh now.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to to collect the minimal common set of HOT tags for
> >> specifying a renderer, for future use and for OSM quality in general.
> >>
> >> Will already answered finally in an earlier post (thanks!) - but I'm
> >> sorry to say: What we (OSM) now have in HOT pages is a tag mess since
> >> years!
> >>
> >> Please correct me if I'm wrong. Perhaps there a process on tagging
> >> mailing list I'm missing? Here's what I found:
> >>
> >> To me the potential main HOT tag page is "Humanitarian_OSM_Tags" [1].
> >> This page is very "orphaned" - it has been edited twice since 2013(!?).
> >> It prominently points to "Humanitarian_Data_Background" as "An
> >> up-to-date list of tags for HOT" - being a page which has been updated
> >> 3.5 years ago (!?).
> >>
> >> Then I see that no single wiki page with Nepal in its title - including
> >> "2015_Nepal_earthquake" [3]  - is pointing to Humanitarian_OSM_Tags,
> >> whereas the Nepal_remote_mapping_guide [4] mainly lists the usual main
> >> tags (like building=yes, natural=wood|water, water=*, waterway=river,
> >> waterway=stream, landuse=farmland).
> >>
> >> I would expect at least to see tags like damage:event and idp:camp_site
> >> - being top 20 in [6] - to show up in any wiki page related to tags
> >> mentioned above.
> >> But these aren't even mentioned in the wiki except somehow in [4] - but
> >> which was declared outdated 2013.
> >>
> >> How can we clean up this under-documented mess and "tag soup" at least
> >> for a small common set of tags?
> >>
> >> Yours, S.
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
> >> [2]
> >>
> >>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Background
> >> [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake
> >> [4]
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal_remote_mapping_guide#Tagging
> >> [5]
> >>
> >>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model
> >> [6] http://nepal-taginfo.openstreetmap.hu/keys
> >>
>
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