[OSM-talk] How can I help?

[Margie Roswell]

happy to start on that. What's the best way to determine those
lat-long points. Just internet research, or is there any other more
direct approach?

Margie

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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