[Talk-ht] Mapping Request: Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Help needed!

Thu Feb 4 13:49:46 GMT 2010

Hi

Regarding radio stations:  amenity=studio is an "official" Map Feature 
with an assoicated icon. OSMdoc says that it has been used 164 times 
only. Here's an example node: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/582919072. It's not rendered 
yet on the "main map", but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be 
rendered. We can either get in touch with OSMrs working on  the 
renderers or try to contribute a patch. I have no experience in tweaking 
OSM rendering code, but see the osmarender rendering style sheet for 
zoomlevel 17:  
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/osmarender/stylesheets/osm-POI-features-z17.xml 
- doesn't look too scary, does it? Don't know whom to get in touch with, 
though, perhaps we should ask on the dev-list.

Schools (amenity=school) are already rendered, both with an icon if a 
node is tagged and as area if a closed way is tagged a school.

Thanks to the NAHO/WHO data we now have a large dataset with different 
kinds of health facilities. A subset thereof (large health facilities) 
is already tagged with amenity=hospital, but the majority isn't tagged 
with an "official" OSM tag yet. They use a domain specific tag
   health_facility_type=dispensary
   health_facility_type=health_center
   etc.
This is a Haiti specific ontology and I think we should get them 
rendered on the Haiti specific map: http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/. As 
framm suggested, lets get in touch with User:Ldp.

Regards
Karl

Am 04.02.2010 10:22, schrieb Jean-Guilhem Cailton:
> Karl, Mikel,
>
> Any idea how to get the clinics, dispensaries, schools, maybe soon 
> radio stations, etc., rendered on the main maps ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
> Karl Guggisberg a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'll take care to add it to the OSM Haiti wiki. Lets define there how 
>> to do a first import (probably automatic, there aren't a lot of 
>> already mapped radio stations, I guess, but we should check first) 
>> and how to update the data from Sandras master list later.
>>
>> Regards
>> Karl
>>
>> Am 04.02.2010 09:18, schrieb Mikel Maron:
>>> We've gotten confirmation from Sandra that we can import radio and 
>>> tv station locations into OSM.
>>> Need to coordinate with Sandra to import the data, and keep it up to 
>>> date and their db is updated.
>>> Can anyone stand up for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mikel
>>>
>>> == Mikel Maron ==
>>> http://mapkibera.org/
>>> +254 (0) 724899738
>>> mikel at osmfoundation.org
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded Message ----
>>> *From:* Sandra Sudhoff <s_sudhoff at cartong.org>
>>> *To:* David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>; Jeffrey Ollie 
>>> <jeff at ocjtech.us>
>>> *Cc:* karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch; Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
>>> *Sent:* Thu, February 4, 2010 10:37:41 AM
>>> *Subject:* RE: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio 
>>> and TV Stations _ Help needed!]]
>>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> IMS told me to go ahead and share the data, let me know what the best
>>> way is, especially as it is still in the process of being updated.
>>> We host it in Google Spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Sandra
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sandra Sudhoff [mailto:s_sudhoff at cartong.org 
>>> <mailto:s_sudhoff at cartong.org>]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:57 AM
>>> To: 'David Fawcett'; 'Jeffrey Ollie'
>>> Cc: 'karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch <mailto:karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch>'; 
>>> 'Mikel Maron'
>>> Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio and TV
>>> Stations _ Help needed!]]
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry guys,
>>>
>>> I have not forgotten about your request to integrate the data to OSM. I
>>> have re-send the request to autorise to Internews but have not received
>>> a response so far. However, as I have been informed by IMS, the
>>> organisation we compile the data for who are on the ground by now, there
>>> will be a meeting with the mappers + internews on the ground; therefore
>>> I hope I have a response soon.
>>>
>>> The good side of this, I have sent all questionable positions (many, as
>>> the Geocoding in the country side is not as advanced as in PaP) to IMS
>>> in the field and hope that while waiting for internews response we can
>>> clean up/adjust our positional errors.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your patience.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Sandra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawcett at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:david.fawcett at gmail.com>]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:50 PM
>>> To: Jeffrey Ollie
>>> Cc: karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch <mailto:karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch>; 
>>> Sandra Sudhoff; talk at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping Radio and TV
>>> Stations _ Help needed!]]
>>>
>>>
>>> Towers are also present in many of the unclassified DMA maps too.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us 
>>> <mailto:jeff at ocjtech.us>> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Karl Guggisberg
>>> > <karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch <mailto:karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Be careful with this list, we don't have the OK to import it into the
>>>
>>> >> OSM database yet. Sandra is currently investigating.
>>> >
>>> > In the case of radio & TV stations, are we looking for the locations
>>> > of the transmitters or the locations of the studios?  Finding
>>> > transmitters isn't that hard for remote mappers if you have good
>>> > enough satellite imagery but finding the studios would be difficult.
>>> >
>>> > Also, in the future can we find a format that will be easier for
>>> > people that don't have Google Earth to use?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Jeff Ollie
>>> >
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