[Talk-ht] Onboarding new mappers

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

A few suggestions:

- Help could be welcome to continue cleaning up the Haiti Health 
Facilities (HHF) list. As described on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Hospitals
a master list is available on
http://sites.google.com/a/netspective.org/haiti-health-facilities/
Version 1 has been integrated into OSM (to the extent possible, due to 
duplicates.)

Karl has prepared a .osm file containing version 2 (the last one 
currently available, with tags modified as also described on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags/Humanitarian_Data_Model
and I think he is working on scripts to import this version 2. (Which 
still contains many duplicates.)

If you are interested, I could forward to you work spreadsheets from 
health specialists, which could help bringing HHF in OSM to the 
equivalent of a version 2.5, while awaiting for version 3 of the master 
list to be released.

While dedicated tagging (particularly with health_facility:type=*) 
precisely follows the HHF master list categories, I suggest using, in a 
ad-hoc fashion for Haiti, "amenity=hospital" for the HHF in general 
(maybe temporarily), so that they show, with a red cross and at zoom 
levels allowing a sufficiently large area to be seen at once, on the map 
at www.openstreetmap.org that OSM outsiders are most likely to consult 
first.


- An important request from the government of Haiti requesting an IDP 
database was transmitted to the CrisisMappers mailing list. IDP camps 
are available from various sources (OCHA, UNOSAT, JRC, Chinese Academy 
of Sciences, OSM contributors, etc...) It would certainly not hurt to 
have them reviewed, merged and integrated in OSM.


- Mapping the slums. See :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Tasks_and_Ideas#Currently_for_Haiti_-_.22Now.22


I think this could keep quite a few volunteers usefully busy for a while. :)
(and I still have other ideas, if needed.)

Best regards,

Jean-Guilhem



Mikel Maron a écrit :
> Anthony
>
> Thanks for checking in ... I'm not sure what's the most pressing need 
> right now .. can anyone suggest more tasks? Or are we reaching a 
> plateau for now?
>
> -Mikel
>  
> == Mikel Maron ==
> +254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron
> http://mapkibera.org/
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Anthony Mintrup <tmintrup at sbcglobal.net>
> *To:* talk-ht at openstreetmap.org
> *Sent:* Fri, February 12, 2010 1:35:28 AM
> *Subject:* [Talk-ht] Onboarding new mappers
>
> I'm the point person at Crisis Camp Chicago for onboarding vols to 
> help with mapping Haiti (though have no mapping experience). I've 
> developed a 101 guide based on info I've sifted through on wiki pages. 
> For fun, I completed tutorials and attempted to practice so I could 
> field questions from vols. However, it is difficult for me to find 
> items that are not mapped. Seems like whatever I click on has been 
> mapped and tagged. What am I missing? Are people just responding 
> quickly to documented tasks and getting it done?
>  
> Tony
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