Hi Joseph and Dale

Joseph, interesting point. I just formally nominated Dale …

As far as I know, there is no financial transactions between the ARC and HOT and the Board Position is unpaid.

If there were any financial transactions then that would be something to look at.

The ARC is a Partner in the sense that it uses the results of HOT’s efforts and requests HOTS services.

In my opinion, having a Partners viewpoint on the Board would be a very positive thing and help HOT improve the Boards Strategic Planning capability.

Should any conflict arise in Board Decisions, Dale would need to abstain from voting or resign, as Mikel did.

Cheers

Mark

Excellent set of thoughts.

I have been considering a Mobile App exactly as you describe it. I live in the Philippines and am in total agreement regarding the use of Android. My super Duper unit cost be less than $100.00 and is way smarter than me :)

Am now looking at vespucci, first I have heard of it. and what a wonderful effort on the developers part. Congratulations.

I bought my thoughts on this type of tool up for a potential RHoK effort next year with some level of interest.

here is what I think is needed.

I feel at a full on editor is not needed, but an easy to use Android app that knows you are moving on a road, can tell you you are on an unnamed road and ask for a name, knows you are walking alongside a road and can offset the track to the road centerline, asks for the type of road to tag correctly, grabs Poi’s on the correct side of the road, based on where you are standing and adjusts the position if needed, and so on.

I want to hide the use of tags from a users perspective, every day, non technical users are a HUGE source of data, especially in developing countries. I think an app can be set to work in different modes, tap for road mode, tap for poi mode. The app should know you are close to an existing node or way, check for data that is already available and prompt for needed basic data, like one way, speed, nbr of lanes, road type, all using simple and quick option buttons. I know this limits the amount of data, but these could be preset into Different Modes, Initial Mapping Mode and advanced Mode that could ask for more detailed data for power users.

I know for a fact that kids now days would gladly use a non technical app to supply data. Heck, even make it fun with Points awarded for effort and amount of data and build a community around the effort.

The idea is that the data would be dumped straight as a change-set into OSM, no intermediate editing. required

Wishful thinking, maybe, but I intend to have a shot at it next year. I was looking at adapting OsmAnd but maybe vespucci might be a better candidate.

Hi Andrew, Yes, that would be good. I use QGis, but mostly for Geo-referencing and general GDAL raster manipulations. (Analysis is not my strong point) I will have a look at what you guys are doing and then see if we can do a test tile to see how it works

I would be interested to try and tag the permanent and transient dwellings and see if we can get some useful data from that, but will need to research the lifestyle a bit more on what those isolated huts are actually for.

Cheers

Mark C

This is Great Andrew, very nice. Would there be some value in the Tharpaker Effort as well? We could possible add a tag to the landuse=residential with a building count, for example, dwellings=12

Cheers

Mark C