Hey there I'd like to second Severin's on the overall appreciation of the OpenDRI guide We opened up a conversation around translation towards French that could be facilitated by TWB thanks through the partnership HOT/TWB Sev opened up. I last joined Sev in enhancing the contexts of the 3 to 4 years of work around OSM in Haiti to better highlight what made both possible and special (an outcome in itself) the ARC/HRC project around OSM in Northern Haiti; happy to help out with those involved in OSM work in Haiti on an enrichment of the HT story I look forward to hearing back on John's talk tomorrow at SOTMUS on this topic.
++ Nico On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Severin Menard <severin.men...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear John, > > Sorry to get back on this topic a few weeks after the release of the first > draft of this report, but time ran quicker than I hoped before finding > enough time to read it properly. > First, I would like to say to express my opinion about the report: it is > really impressive. It is written in a concise, understandable, educational > way that make it easy and pleasant to read and it is a great, flexible tool > to advocate for and set open data, disaster resilience and community based > mapping. It also describes in a very detailed, open manner the OpenDRI > project organization and staff. > > I have one question, one suggestion and a few feedback points. > > The question is: will this report be soon translated into various > languages (French, Spanish, etc.) to be largely disseminated? > > The suggestion is about the past OSM community experiences in Haiti > mentioned by Robert in the Community Mapping with the Red Cross in Haiti > insert. The resources that allow such programs to happen are based on > various training + community building projects that have started since > March 2010, encompassing IOM embed projects, USAID funded projects (for a > total of USD 1 million, I would say at least) + voluntary remote and/or > field supports of many individuals (Nicolas Chavent, Jaakko Helleranta, > Brian Wolford, Sebastien Pierrel, Pierre Béland, Robert Baker, Delphine > Bédu, Emilie Reiser and me but I am certainly forgetting people - please > forgive me). It would be worth to include and analyse them as OpenDRI > related pioneering initiatives and regarding the lessons that have been > learned from them. What do you think? > > My feedback points: > > Regarding OpenData and France, this slideshow provides I think some the > main past and future milestones: > http://www.slideshare.net/laurelucchesi/france-open-data-national-action-plan-g8 > > Regarding community building, the report emphasizes chapter 6 (first > collection) the importance to maintain a sustainable, fun spirit and > involvement among the mappers (I prefer this word rather than surveyors, > because it seems related to the "traditional survey techniques"), but > chapter 7 (Catalyzing) does not describe not much how this can be > maintained, what is actually an important issue whose solution is likely > not unique. > > Page 56, the second step is called Import data what seems a bit as import > of existing data may not happen (if there is none) and because it > encompasses as well the remote, crowd-sourcing mapping that is likely to > bring more data than the potential import. > > I also found a few typos that may have been already found by others: > > The Open Cities Toolkit will available in mid 2014: be is missing > > visualize the likely impacy of a hazard on schools: impact, not impacy > > geographic data from the UK's Ordinance Survey: Ordnance, not Ordinance > > users to fuse data from data catalogues, community mapping platforms: use > and not fuse? > > Learning happens quickest when failure is transparent to all and s team: s > to be deleted? > > [optional] Inubator or Accelerator services to the OpenDRI initiative: > incubator and not inubator > > Connections between stakeholders who have umet challenges: I guess unmet, > not umet > > COSMHASTM: they prefer COSMHA-STM > > > > Sincerely, > > > Severin > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I wanted to point out to you that the "Open Data for Resilience >> Initiative: Field Guide" was released yesterday(1). This is an >> exciting report authored by John Crowley and our friends at the World >> Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. You'll also >> see many HOT volunteers, partners and members are listed as providing >> input to the report. >> >> The power of having what we do codified into reports like this is an >> important aspect to the work HOT does. Every time it happens it makes >> it that much easier to coordinate with traditional institutions and >> interest them in the power of open data. >> >> Best, >> >> -Kate >> >> (1) https://www.gfdrr.org/ODRIFG >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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