"Nothing is urgent here. Nobody will suddenly suffer because a pharmacy is missing from OSM. You are just making up an urgent task because you sit at home with nothing else to do." said by Frederik Ramm to an Openstreetmap volunteer who is confined at home due to #COVID19 completing pharmacies in a zone, yesterday.
Is this the way to promote HOT tasks or promote local mapping in OSM. I don't think so. Now, more necessary than ever, Health and maps (Salut i mapes) yopaseopor On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 3:04 PM Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Dear HOT Community, > > We have been receiving more and more inquiries about our response to > COVID-19, also known as the Corona-virus, so we thought it prudent to put > together a message of what we are doing, and willing to do, regarding > mapping for this response. > > NOTE: HOT suggests remote mapping events only while COVID-19 remains a > significant threat to public health. We have some guidance on how to > conduct a successful remote-mapathon > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Shy05ZnRJp5xSbZWcUH_41caBNaV2yzazECbN5ngwOU/edit?usp=sharing> > from our partners in Missing Maps. Heed local warnings and restrictions > before attending any mapping events in person or mapping in the field. > > As always, we respond to formal requests, typically from partners such as > Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, the Red Cross/Red Crescent > societies and others to our Activation Working Group email and Slack > disaster-mapping channel. This does not guarantee an Activation by HOT as > we still need to assess that what we ask of our volunteers - you - is > obtainable in a timeframe that will result in assisting the response. > > In regards to COVID-19, HOT has not yet received an official request. In > light of that, we are suggesting that local OpenStreetMap Chapters & > Communities make the discovery and launch projects to map those resources > that are lacking in your area. HOT is here to assist with identifying those > resources and where they are lacking, getting projects set-up on the > Tasking Manager, or if needed, getting you trained and on-boarded to create > projects for your community, as well as communication/recruiting mappers > from the crowd to help with your mapping efforts. > > NOTE: For healthcare and aid organizations looking for geospatial data, > we continually push OpenStreetMap extracts to the Humanitarian Data > eXchange (HDX) <https://data.humdata.org/>. We are currently working to > ensure updates for the most impacted countries are available. Do let us > know if you have data needs not being met! > > In order to make an impact on COVID-19, HOT will rely heavily on local > communities. While we work with partners to identify things that can be > achieved on a global scale; we encourage you to look for things you can do > locally to assist health care and aid workers nearby. Here’s a short list > of things you and your local OSM community can do to prepare for and reduce > the longevity of COVID-19... > > > 1. > > Start by comparing the completeness of healthcare facilities in > OpenStreetMap here:https://healthsites.io/map > 2. > > You can also use healthsites.io to directly input missing healthcare > facilities and attributes. > 3. > > Look at the road network in your area, often in large disease > outbreaks it is of critical importance to have a complete road network. > Consider using the MapWith.AI <https://www.mapwith.ai> site to speed > up the process by having AI assist your road network mapping. > 4. > > See if there are other data-sources available (and compatible) for > bringing into OpenStreetMap, such as healthcare facilities, major > transportation network features, or even buildings in general; follow the > import > guidelines <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> for > including 3rd party data. > 5. > > Or, map the ‘old-fashioned way’ by digitizing features from satellite > imagery. > > > And reach out either directly, or by replying to this list, if you need > guidance; > > =Russ > > Russell Deffner > > russell.deff...@hotosm.org > > Disaster Services Coordinator - Activation Working Group > > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) > > hotosm.org > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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