[HOT] Emergency Mapathon in Burlington, VT - Ecuador Earthquake

Mon Apr 18 23:24:45 UTC 2016

Please let me know if there are any glaring errors! Suzan 

3 steps to mapping buildings using iD 
Look for videos by Blake Girardot on Youtube for more information. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042TbopS7HM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042TbopS7HM>

Read the Introduction AND the Instructions carefully before Contributing. 

Using either a mouse or a trackpad (if you are accurate with your fingers), select a tile in the Tasking Manager and begin mapping. 

Zoom in to 40% using the + key. This will increase your accuracy. 

1. Using the Area tool
a. Trace the exact outline of the building touching all four corners. Accuracy is important. 
b. Identify a Building by the shadow it casts and the color of the roof. 
c. Buildings are often close together so be sure the corners do not touch (gray dot). 
d. Draw your Building as square as possible. Don’t make odd shapes. 

2. On the left side of the Tasking Manager look for Building Features. 
Scroll down to Building and click. 
a. This will designate your trace as a Building. 

3. Next, while the Building is still selected, press the ’s’ key. 
This squares the building and is an important step that must be done. 
a. If the building isn’t selected when ’s’ is pressed, “shed” will show. Go back and reselect the building and then press ’s’ again. 

Tips: 
Always square buildings!
Save your work after tracing 10 to 20 Buildings. Save often! 
Keep track of your time. Log out (Stop Mapping button on the previous tab) every hour. 
You can then log back in to continue working on that tile. 
Don’t go off of your tile! Stay within the magenta square. It’s OK to map a building 
that’s slightly over the line. 
Work on a tile at 40% zoom for accuracy. 
Use your right hand to trace buildings and to click on Building while your 
left hand hovers over the ’s’ key. 

Any questions? Ask!

A PDF of these instructions is available. Please email me. 

Hope this helps! 
Suzan 

On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:09 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>> wrote:

There has been much discussion about mapping buildings recently in HOT and the Ecuador projects are for the most part buildings.

If you are supplying machines then please install JOSM with the building_tool plugin which also implies JAVA.  Mapping with the JOSM building_tool is fast and accurate, the validators will love you.

Mapping with a mouse is much more accurate so if possible have some spares.

If you're mapping in JOSM with the building tool just power it up, grab a tile and split it, then split it again, edit with JOSM and show them how to map the first building.  That's about all the training they need apart from the up arrow on the top left to upload.

My personal advice is if you're mapping with iD split the tiles twice again, if you have someone with JOSM around don't square in iD it doesn't always work get the JOSM person to go into the tile, search <Crtl>f building nodes:-7 then press q and upload the changes.  You might want to have the mappers inspect the squared buildings afterwards. 

If you are mapping with iD roughly every hour save and press the stop mapping button.  Then select the tile again, this appears to be important as I see duplicate buildings from different mappers and it is suspected the first mapper times out and a second mapper grabs the tile so two mappers are mapping the same area at the same time.

If you have any experienced mappers available then get them to read this bit on validating.  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager/Validating_data> and if they can validate as people map and give feedback that improves the quality enormously.

learnosm.org <http://learnosm.org/> is a very useful resource.  The training guides have been much improved over the last little while. 

Have fun.

Cheerio John

On 18 April 2016 at 12:19, noah ahles <noah.ahles at gmail.com <mailto:noah.ahles at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi All,

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated the coastal region of Ecuador on Saturday, April 16th. This major event was followed by several aftershocks and has caused significant loss of life and damage to infrastructure (http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/americas/ecuador-earthquake/index.html <http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/americas/ecuador-earthquake/index.html>). 

Join us to create digital maps of the most affected areas, providing rescue operations with valuable information to save lives and distribute supplies to those in need. 

Where: Aiken Center, UVM Campus - Computer Lab, Room 101
When: Wednesday April 20th, 6pm - 9pm

Here is the event page for the event: http://tinyurl.com/jjo7lu5 <http://tinyurl.com/jjo7lu5>

The most vulnerable people are those in rural areas, which are the hardest to reach due to roadways that have been destroyed. Having an up-to-date map of the area is crucial to helping as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

Anyone can join, even if you have no experience. There will be computers provided but you can bring a laptop if you'd like. Feel free to tell some friends and stop by for as long as you have time for. There will be pizza!

This is the most time sensitive project we have worked on all semester. Even if you have only a half hour to stop by it will go a long way. If you would like to work on the project remotely, there are instructions on how to get going at the bottom of the page. We will be using the hashtag #MapEcuador to track our edits. Send me an email if you have any questions.

When thousands of people around the world contribute to mapping areas together we can rapidly produce actionable datasets when they are needed most.

Best,
Noah

OpenStreetMap Instructions
	• Start by making an account using FireFox or Google Chrome: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ <http://www.openstreetmap.org/> and make sure to check the allow public domain button
	• Zoom in somewhere and press the edit button in the upper left corner
	• Start the Walkthrough, (the walkthrough can also be accessed by clicking the help button on the right hand side of the screen)
	• Once you have done that head to the task manager and choose a task by searching for 'Ecuador'
	• http://tasks.hotosm.org/ <http://tasks.hotosm.org/>
	• Read the instructions carefully and then go to the contribute tab to sign out a tile, select the ID Editor from the drop down arrow, keep the instructions tab open to refer back to
	• Remember to save every 10 edits or so and use the changeset tag that is generated automatically and anything else that is requested in the Instructions tab e.g. source = Bing (this is found in the upper left corner after you press save)
	• Click, hold and drag the screen to pan around while editing
	• Click, hold and drag nodes on a feature to reshape it
	• When creating lines drag a node back into the previous node to delete a section
	• Control + Z and Control + Y work well for going back or forward respectively 1 edit (e.g. if you accidentally erase something hold Control + Z to bring it back)
	• Change brightness to 100% in "Background Settings" on the right of the ID editor, activating the minimap button may also be helpful for keeping track of where you are editing
	• When finishing up a tile (press ‘Stop Mapping’ if there is more to do in the tile or ‘Mark as Done’ if it is finished) it is a good habit to write a short comment about the features that you edited within that tile or if the imagery is missing a section, cloud cover etc.
	• If you forget to classify a feature and try to save it, there will be an error. Click on the error message to return to the untagged feature to classify it
	• Square buildings with the 'S' key after classifying them (create area, classify it as building, then press 's')
	• Make sure buildings do not overlap each other, zoom in very close if you think they may be touching
	• The 'W' key will turn data colors on and off so you can see under edits that have already been done
	• If you are just starting out, try not to delete data that others have created
	• Hotkeys for lines and areas are 2 and 3
	• If the imagery is offset, there is a 'fix alignment function' in background settings on the right of the screen
	• keep the Task manager INSTRUCTIONS tab open to refer back to whenever needed, this tab details how to classify features
	• If the tile is too big you can split it using the task manager
	• When creating road networks it's important that the roads are actually connecting to each other as it shows in the line segment of the walkthrough, try not to connect these road networks to other polygons (e.g. landuse = residential or administrative boundaries)
	• Add the hashtag #MapEcuador to the changeset comments that are automatically populated (after clicking save edits it is in the upper left hand corner of the screen)

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