[OSM-talk] How can I help?

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Margie,

Even before learning OSM tools, you can be very useful by looking up the 
coordinates of Haiti hospitals.

Please see :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/News

There is a shared spreadsheet to fill. And people that already know OSM 
can then use the coordinates you could find into OSM.

Thank you,

Jean-Guilhem


Katie Filbert a critic :
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Margie Roswell <mroswell at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mroswell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've got a GIS background. Happy to get up to speed on OSM. What can I
>     do to help Haiti relief and mapping efforts?
>
>     I plan to be at the CrisisCamp DC on Saturday. I can attend in the
>     afternoon.
>
>     Margie
>
>
> Margie,
>
> I will be there and can give a tutorial on Saturday.  If you want to 
> help with OSM before then, then the new mapper guide might help:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/New_Mapper
>
> What we've done up until now is digitize streets and features, looked 
> for collapsed buildings (less priority now), and for camps (high 
> priority now).  We used imagery from GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, but the 
> resolution was only so good.  We now have access to .15 m resolution 
> imagery from Google, with their permission, we can trace from in 
> OpenStreetMap.
>
> What I'm doing now (and you can do) is going back through what's been 
> done in Port-au-Prince and other areas and identifying camps. We 
> missed many before, but are apparent in the new imagery. 
>
> I am using Potlatch, the web-based editor (the edit tab on the OSM site).
>
> We have a couple video tutorials that might help you with using Potlatch:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oio1jY8WNig
>
> For camps, I am simply drawing them as polygons.  Tags I use are:
>
> * tourism = camp_site
> * refugee = yes
> * source = Google
>
> (others on this list may be able to suggest better tags that these, 
> but these work)
>
> We can also do cleanup of the existing data, using the new imagery 
> (e.g. some roads need to be fixed).
>
> If you have questions, you can e-mail the osm-talk list.  Or feel free 
> to join us on live chat: http://irc.openstreetmap.org and we can 
> answer questions and help you out.
>
> Thanks again for willingness to help out with mapping!
>
> Regards,
> Katie Filbert
> @filbertkm
>
>  
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