[OSM-talk] HOT Mapping thoughts

[john whelan]

Unfortunately it was a passing conversation at a local OSM meet up in
Ottawa and I'm not even sure I'd recognise the young gentleman again.  I
just thought I'd tag it as it seemed odd to me and if it was the case then
perhaps something could be done.

Probably with low bandwidth availability it could have been some one was
using off line data?

Cheerio John


On 5 August 2014 15:54, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> It might be helpful to know which tools the person was using. Perhaps it
> was one that wasn't updated very often.
>
> Best,
>
> -Kate
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your input, that was roughly in line with my expectations
>> but for some reason didn't seem to match the person's experience in the
>> field, it could have been some time ago.
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
>>
>> On 3 August 2014 12:40, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> In general, the tiles are updated to the minute. Looking at my edits
>>> this morning after a few minutes, tiles were refreshed both for the OSM and
>>> Humanitarian layers. I press F5 to refresh the screen and obtain the new
>>> tiles in the navigator.
>>>
>>> For OSMAnd, updates may vary. For major activations such as Ebola, we
>>> ask contributors to provide daily updates. For Ebola, see
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response#Offline_Navigation_on_Small_Devices
>>> For custom OSMAnd updates, see
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response#Custom_Android.2FOSMAnd_offline_file
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>>   ------------------------------
>>>  *De :* john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
>>> *À :* OpenStreetMap talk mailing list <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>>> *Envoyé le :* Dimanche 3 août 2014 12h28
>>> *Objet :* [OSM-talk] HOT Mapping thoughts
>>>
>>> I was talking to someone who worked with one of the Agencies that used
>>> the data in the field and he was saying how great it was.
>>>
>>> However he said that the map started to appear after three of four days
>>> which struck me as a little odd.
>>>
>>> I understood HOT starts very quickly within hours and since we have
>>> mappers around the world working odd hours there should be something
>>> happening very quickly in the database.
>>>
>>> However the rendering means that tiles have to get refreshed, data has
>>> to be packaged for OSMAND etc.
>>>
>>> Is there a way the tiles and packaging for HOT areas given priority and
>>> done more frequently or is this already being done?
>>>
>>> I also note that in Haiti a sensefly eBee UAV has been used to collect
>>> aerial imaging for OSM mapping.  I assume that the procedures have been
>>> worked out to use this device.  Could one of the partner agencies UN, or
>>> someone with a bit of cash, be approached to arrange for one to be part of
>>> the initial deployment when a new area to be HOT mapped is decided on?
>>>
>>> Many Thanks
>>>
>>> Cheerio John
>>>
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