[Learnosm-coord] [learnosm] Localization of images' content (#94)

[Nick Allen]

althio,

I don't know. I have no background in github or github pages. I found it 
a real headache trying to get to grips with what existed. The site seems 
to have evolved over time and some of the system we have now is probably 
not as well organised as newer sites being started from scratch.

Looking at pyrog's profile on GitHub, it appears they have far more 
knowledge on the subject than I do - have also contributed to the 
Tasking Manager software, where there are many experts who would be able 
to assess worth with more expertise than me.

I'm waiting for more input before commenting too much, but the way 
GitHub is organised I believe that someone could make major changes to a 
fork, such as a complete reorganisation of how the filing is done, and 
then offer it for assessment. You can download the fork, run it onsite 
using Jekyll and assess it - I expect there are software tools that can 
carry out other checks, but I'm not familiar with them. If everyone is 
happy with the fork, then it is merged & we have the same site, but with 
better organisation - I think............

Personally I welcome any input which may improve the organisation - 
producing pdf's that can be printed for mapathons strikes me as a good 
idea & I think that the proposed reorganisation would help this. There 
may be other benefits, but I don't know.

Regards

Nick

On 27/01/15 08:13, althio wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for the feedback... it is essential to know about the 
> limitations of our workflow.
>
> Our german translator Michael is pretty reasonable though so it is OK.
>
> But sending/receiving image files is not my only concern. From issues #94
> https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/94#issuecomment-26066235
> and #306
> https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/306#issuecomment-71317600
> I wonder what is the convention for folder and file naming on learnosm 
> github repository?
>
> althio,
>
> It didn't work as well as I would like. My private email address was 
> used, which meant when I was not available everything stalled. I was 
> in China, staying in hotels where the available wifi was poor, coupled 
> with gmail not working at all in China except under special 
> circumstances.
>
> It would be better if the attachments were sent to a generic address 
> that we could all access, so that another can take over in the event 
> that one of us is not available for a while.
>
> As an aside, if you are in China, you generally cannot access anything 
> Google & some other sites such as Facebook. There is a vast population 
> in China but as far as I know very few people or possibly none from 
> China involved in HOT. I suspect at some point HOT will appear on the 
> event horizon for students etc in China & it would be good if LearnOSM 
> was able to cater for them - no google docs if possible. Just about 
> everything I do involves gmail & google! - I didn't realise what a 
> handicap this would be - diary on phone is google calendar, translate 
> app I use is google, I had several things on google docs etc. - 
> situation was even worse on my laptop.
>
> In conclusion - we need to use some kind of generic email address that 
> several of us can access, and that accepts attachments.
>
> Nick
>
> Nick
>
> Volunteer 'Tallguy' for 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy
>
> Treasurer, website & Bonus Ball admin for 
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>
>
> On 26 January 2015 at 21:32, althio <althio.forum at gmail.com 
> <mailto:althio.forum at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Nick,
>
>     > A system for filing the images has been started & is working well.
>     > Uploading images by those not familiar with the system is still
>     slightly problematical - at the moment I am getting them emailed
>     to me, which is working well.
>
>     Is this detailed or documented somewhere? So that we all use it in
>     a consistent way for all sections and translations.
>
>


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Nick

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https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy

Treasurer, website & Bonus Ball admin for 
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