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Overview

There have been many requests from the community for improved downloading of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Export Tool. A generous grant from the Hewlett Foundation has now provided funding making it possible to develop and re-write the tool in Python following the Django framework in order to address key issues identified and listed in the hot-exports repository.

Deliverables

Service Enhancements

• Improve user help documentation
• Rebuild the service on the HOT server
• Provide more server space

GitHub Issues

Must Address

• Redesign the User Interface (UI) #88 #68 #58 #14
• Allow individual file formats to be selected #78
• Add OSMAnd .obf file format #77
• Garmin file format export is empty #65
• Provide projection options, or default to EPSG: 4326 #80 #76
• Include status bar displaying uploading progress #74 #83 #75

Likely to Address

• Exports search using geospatial function with a bounding box #36.
• Put interface translation into Transifex workflow #67

Update Reports

Week 1 + 2 (30th May 2015)

Week 3 (5th June 2015)

Week 4 (12th June 2015)

Week 5 (19th June 2015)

Week 6 (26th June 2015)

Week 7 (Holiday)

Week 8 + 9 (17th July 2015)

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Timeline