[HOT] @DigitalGlobe #opendatachat on twitter today!

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Friends!

If you ever wanted to talk to the folks who point satellites and share
with them and hear from others the impact open data has on your
volunteering, your work, your community, etc today is a great chance.

12:00 Noon EST
17:00 GMT

DigitalGlobe who enable and enhance so much of our work with their
satellite imagery, are hosting a "Twitter Chat" today about #opendata.

And it is not just DG who will be there, the Director of the UN Office
for Outer Space Affairs Simonetta Di Pippo will be there too! How cool
is that?

How can you participate?

Well, that is a good question. I am a total twitter newbie, but I am
told you just need to "follow" the twitter hashtag #opendatachat and
then to ask a question or make a comment, you just tweet and include
that hashtag at the end #opendatachat

This link will let you "listen" in at least:
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets=default=%23opendatachat

If you google "twitter chat" you will find lots of info and some
applications that make being part of a twitter chat easier.

I look forward to "seeing" you there and figuring out how to do this
twitter chat thing along with you!

Cheers
Blake

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Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for less?

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you use 'w' in JOSM there is hardly ever a need to delete user's
> contributions. It's really easy to drag the corners where they need to be,
> then finish of with 'q' to square the building.
>
> Polyglot

This is a good tip, I forgot about this one for fixing up mapping.

If I do feel the need to re-map from scratch, I do it on a blank
layer, then merge the layer with the existing mapping layer, then use
Replace Geometry for each building pair (old and new). I estimate it
takes only about 10% longer than just totally re-mapping from scratch,
but that is worth it to me to keep the history and original mapper's
contribution.

Video demonstration of that process: https://youtu.be/Kv5AOmX8M9g

Thanks again Polyglot for reminding us about Improve Way for improving
building mapping.

Cheers
Blake







> 2017-02-26 20:00 GMT+01:00 Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>:
>>
>> On this topic, there has been concern over validators doing so much
>> deletion of recently mapped objects.  This triggers a few monitoring sites
>> that watch for 'suspicious changesets'; it doesn't mean much in the
>> immediate, but thinking longer term for the OSM project, those algorithms
>> could be used for automatic warnings or blocks.  I think no matter what,
>> we're always going to be dealing with poor mapping, so we should also look
>> at some best practices/rules of thumb for when to delete versus improve a
>> previously mapped feature.  Although I do find myself deleting and
>> re-drawing sometimes, I try to minimize that as there is something to
>> preserving the original mappers contribution.  This can also be an issue for
>> trying to calculate mappers contributions for a mapathon or project if a
>> validator unnecessarily deletes the objects.
>>
>> To quickly touch on project creation; I think roads and
>> settlements/residential areas go well together - they both should be done
>> with larger task squares than for building projects, but not sure it matters
>> too much which one comes first, but for disaster response as an example, I
>> would think roads and settlements are first priority followed by buildings.
>>
>> Happy Mapping,
>> =Russ
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Andrew Buck [mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:20 AM
>> To: hot@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for
>> less?
>>
>> > I think this is a different conversation, I would prefer mappers take a
>> > little more time and care, some buildings I've seen mapped have little
>> > relationship to the size or shape of the building.
>> >
>> > Cheerio John
>>
>> I agree on this.  Especially with respect to buildings.  Roads are
>> fairly easy to add refinements to by doing them one at a time and using
>> the replace geometry tool in JOSM, however poorly mapped buildings take
>> longer to clean up than simply deleting them and mapping them fresh.
>>
>> I would rather see a user add 10 buildings that are high quality then
>> 100 or even 1000 that have to be remapped by someone else.  Having to
>> map something that has already been mapped poorly by someone else is
>> really disheartening.  On the one hand you spend your whole time mapping
>> thinking about how your work is duplicating that of someone else, and on
>> the other hand you feel bad about removing their contribution from the
>> database.  So you get hit with it on both fronts.
>>
>> -AndrewBuck
>>
>>
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Re: [HOT] Matthew

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Fred,

Thank you for the feedback.

It would help if you provided an actual area and not just an generic
link to osmose.

I did review all of NW Haiti for duplicate buildings which is what
seems to be the biggest issue and out of 68,000 buildings over
approximately 1500 sq/km found 470 duplicate buildings. ( graphic
https://screenpresso.com/=2eYrd )

Which is pretty good in my view, less than 0.7% error rate. Still it
would be good to fix them, especially since it is pretty easy to fix.

For an experienced mapper, it should take about 1 hour to fix them all.

I fixed 100 of them in about 15 mins the slow way :)

I would be happy to share my work flow for fixing them if that would
help you at all.

My only other comment is that if you are really interested in getting
the errors corrected, being a bit more understanding and respectful of
the volunteer mapper's efforts might motive people to dive in and
help. Phrases like "clean up your mess" is not a good approach in my
experience. "Hey, I found a lot of duplicate buildings, could we find
a way to get them corrected?" would probably have generated a lot more
volunteers to jump in and help.

Cheers,
Blake


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:39 AM, FredM <frmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are in training with student from Universite Nouvelle Grande Anse
> http://universitynouvellegrandanse.org/ and we are using drone et OSM.
>
> However, it is a lot of mistake done after the cyclone
>
> Have a look on osmose and check all  to see all duplicate building and other
>
> http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/
>
> Not so funny to start cleaning an OSM database when you start the mapping.
>
> All the best FredM
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Re: [HOT] Error with the TM Dev Server

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Thank you again Rafael.

Your email and then Ethan's follow up with Alejandro got this issue
fixed for at least 4 installs of the Tasking Manager that had the
problem.

Cheers,
Blake

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The OSM-es community had a similar problem for their TM, and they solved it
> when they realized that OSM had changed the SSL certificates for those
> provided by Let's Encrypt for connecting to the OAuth server [1]. I've seen
> this issue in other TM's too. Maybe that's the same issue for all...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-es/2017-February/014935.html
>
> On 20/02/17 15:56, Claire Halleux wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was trying to test some tasks set up on the dev instance of the
>> Tasking Manager this afternoon.
>> However, it seems impossible to log in or out anymore. It gives me an
>> error ("An error occured") and asks me to log out manually (which does
>> not work).
>>
>> Not sure where it is best to report this... Any support would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> Claire Halleux
>> +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
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Re: [HOT] Error with the TM Dev Server

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Thank you Rafael, very helpful!

Cheers
Blake

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The OSM-es community had a similar problem for their TM, and they solved it
> when they realized that OSM had changed the SSL certificates for those
> provided by Let's Encrypt for connecting to the OAuth server [1]. I've seen
> this issue in other TM's too. Maybe that's the same issue for all...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-es/2017-February/014935.html
>
> On 20/02/17 15:56, Claire Halleux wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was trying to test some tasks set up on the dev instance of the
>> Tasking Manager this afternoon.
>> However, it seems impossible to log in or out anymore. It gives me an
>> error ("An error occured") and asks me to log out manually (which does
>> not work).
>>
>> Not sure where it is best to report this... Any support would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Claire
>>
>> Claire Halleux
>> +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
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Re: [HOT] Error with the TM Dev Server

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Claire,

I get the same error. Hopefully it is something easy to fix, I will
pass it on to David.

In the mean time, this testing site should also work for you It will
look slightly different, but should not affect testing projects.

http://tasks-staging.hotosm.org/

Cheers
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Claire Halleux
<claire.hall...@hotosm.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was trying to test some tasks set up on the dev instance of the Tasking
> Manager this afternoon.
> However, it seems impossible to log in or out anymore. It gives me an error
> ("An error occured") and asks me to log out manually (which does not work).
>
> Not sure where it is best to report this... Any support would be welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Claire
>
> Claire Halleux
> +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
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Re: [HOT] Bad Gateway

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

This has now been resolved and the Tasking Manager is back up!

Thank you for your patience.and thank you to Nate and David for their help!

Cheers
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Katelyn Woolheater <
kwoolhea...@clintonhealthaccess.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an ongoing mapathon and we are all seeing the same ‘Bad Gateway’
> message.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know why this might be happening? When it might be back up?
>
>
>
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Re: [HOT] Bad Gateway

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Friends,

We are working on bringing it back up asap.

We sincerely apologize for the downtime.

Respectfully,
Blake

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Katelyn Woolheater <
kwoolhea...@clintonhealthaccess.org> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an ongoing mapathon and we are all seeing the same ‘Bad Gateway’
> message.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know why this might be happening? When it might be back up?
>
>
>
> Katelyn
>
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Re: [HOT] HOT Tasking Manager Instance migration to new hardware tonight

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Friends,

This has been completed and everything seems to work well.

If you still get the maintenance page, that should resolve it self
shortly, or you can clear your browser cache for the past day and it
should fix the issue.

Please let us know if you see any issues, a quick email to
sysad...@hotosm.org or the slack channel in my signature below.

Thanks to the HOT Sysadmin folks, David, Ethan, Nate and Pierre Giraud
in getting it migrated!

Cheers,
Blake

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> We are migrating HOT's installation of the HOT Tasking Manager in
> about 2 hours (Feb 9, 2017, 23:00 GMT).
>
> The new server is up and running now, we will be switching the DNS
> entries in about 2 hours.
>
> You might still visit the previous server while the address change for
> the server gets spread around the world.
>
> This should resolve itself in about an hour. You can try clearing your
> browser cache or a different browser, but for the most part it will
> just take a little time.
>
> If you can not map for a brief time, HOT"s YouTube channel will still
> work fine and has some great videos to help learn to map or more about
> other humanitarian mapping projects:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/playlists
>
> And when you are done, I hope you are excited to map and the Tasking
> Manager will probably be working better than ever for you.
>
> Please report any problems (which there should be few) here via email,
> HOT IRC channel, or HOT Slack channel
>
> Cheers
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[HOT] HOT Tasking Manager Instance migration to new hardware tonight

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Friends,

We are migrating HOT's installation of the HOT Tasking Manager in
about 2 hours (Feb 9, 2017, 23:00 GMT).

The new server is up and running now, we will be switching the DNS
entries in about 2 hours.

You might still visit the previous server while the address change for
the server gets spread around the world.

This should resolve itself in about an hour. You can try clearing your
browser cache or a different browser, but for the most part it will
just take a little time.

If you can not map for a brief time, HOT"s YouTube channel will still
work fine and has some great videos to help learn to map or more about
other humanitarian mapping projects:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/playlists

And when you are done, I hope you are excited to map and the Tasking
Manager will probably be working better than ever for you.

Please report any problems (which there should be few) here via email,
HOT IRC channel, or HOT Slack channel

Cheers
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[HOT] Fwd: Re: The purple project square

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

There is an ongoing issue with the task square's purple outline not
loading in the iD Web Editor.

Nick from the Training Working Group provided a work around and Bryan
Housel, the lead iD developer, knows about the issue and is working on
getting a fix out as soon as possible.

Below is a brief summary of Nick's work around and link to a short
video walk through of the process.

Respectfully,
Blake

-- Forwarded message --
From: Rebecca Firth <rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:49 PM
Subject: The purple project square

Hi,

Thanks for getting in touch. Unfortunately this is an issue which was
introduced recently, we're working to get it fixed. In the mean time
you can follow the below steps to get it working;

1. Load the square you want to map in iD

2. On the Tasking Manager Tab, beneath the 'edit with ID editor'
button will be a section that reads "Tip: Download the following .gpx
file and load it in JOSM in order to see the current task boundary"
right click on ".gpx file" and select "Save link as" - I put mine in
my downloads folder.

4. Back to the iD tab in your browser, and have file manager open as
well - drag & drop the downloaded .gpx file onto the window of ID --
then wait...

5. If all goes well you now have the square on your iD screen. It can
take a minute or so to load.

Here's a quick video which walks through it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGfzF32ssmk=youtu.be

Thanks, and hope you're enjoying mapping :)

Rebecca


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Marianne Thorsen <m...@online.no> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> sorry to bother you With such a small detail, but the square showing the task 
> in the Project is gone. Do you have any idea how to get it back?
>
> Kind regards,


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Re: [HOT] Bounding box not in iD Editor anymore

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Nick!

Your work around is great and working for people! Thank you very much!

Pierre Giraud, just put a hotfix on the Tasking Manager to make your
solution easier. This is live now.

The link to the .gpx file now shows up on the iD Editor menu
selection, you do not need to try josm and have it fail. Just go back
to the page and dowload the .gpx file from the iD Editor selected
dialog.

A screenshot is attached to make it more clear.

Thank you again Nick and Pierre!

Respectfully,
Blake


On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Nick Allen <nick.allen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> A quick but dirty workaround
>
>
> 1. Load task in iD
>
> 2. return to Task on TM, go back to 'edit with' and select JOSM
>
> 3. You will get an error message about JOSM remote control, but it will give
> you access to a section of the JOSM menu
>
> 4. From the section that reads "Tip: Download the following .gpx file and
> load it in JOSM in order to see the current task boundary" right click on
> ".gpx file" and select "Save link as" - I put mine in my downloads folder.
>
> 4. Back to the iD tab in your browser, and have file manager open as well -
> drag & drop the downloaded .gpx file onto the window of ID -- then wait...
>
> 5. If all goes well you now have the square on your iD screen. It took a
> while to load on my setup & a message about waiting or closing appeared -
> but it has loaded each time I've tried.
>
>
> I'll try to put together a quick howto with images on LearnOSM and make it
> downloadable. Feedback as to whether this works for everyone would be
> appreciated in case I have to make amendments.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Nick
> (Tallguy)
>
> On 06/02/17 11:36, Donal Hunt wrote:
>
> Can confirm. Have noticed that the bounding box doesn't always display.
> Usually closing the tab and relaunching 1-2 times results in it appearing.
> If logs / javascript console output is useful for tracking down the issue,
> let me know and I'll share. :)
>
> d.
>
> On 6 February 2017 at 08:09, Rebecca Firth <rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just to add in on this one, there are quite a lot of mapathons going on
>> over the next few days, including a group of students in Botswana mapping
>> from today for the next two weeks.
>>
>> @Bryan - I had noticed over the past few months that sometimes the pink
>> box didn't load immediately when you loaded a square, and you needed to wait
>> quite a while or reload the square to see it. Not sure if others had seen
>> the same.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> That does look like a bug!   I will try to get a fix merged in by your
>>> event Wednesday…
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Orla McManus <omcma...@esri-ireland.ie>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I am unable to see the square bounding box in iD Editor when I lock and
>>> open a task/grid square e.g.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2477#task/58. My
>>> understanding is that this bounding box enables the digitiser to ensure that
>>> they are working only in their grid square so that they can mark it as done
>>> in the Tasking Manager.
>>>
>>> Has this been removed with a recent update of iD Editor? Will this
>>> functionality be added again?
>>>
>>> We have a mapathon organised for Wednesday with all beginners and it will
>>> be much more difficult to coordinate our progress without this bounding box
>>> in iD Editor.
>>>
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[HOT] OSM Zambia is fighting Cholera and we can help

[Blake Girardot]

Dear friends,

Lusaka Zambia had a very bad cholera year in 2016 and is still dealing
with the aftermath.

Local authorities, NGOs and the local community are making a lot of
progress improving the infrastructure to dramatically reduce cholera
cases going forward.

Field work in the most impacted area, the Kanyama district starts in
just over a week and will go much better if they have building
footprints.

Trudy Hope from OSM Zambia will be leading the local OSM community's
contribution to the field work. Both she, and the organizations she is
working with, have asked the HOT community to help generate the map
data they need.

Please visit http://tasks.hotosm.org/ and help get the first half of
the priority settlement mapped.

It is a slum area so a lot of small, closely packed buildings, but not
as difficult mapping as it could be, so please, jump in, do your best
and be a critical part of this field work. Time is of the essence.

Respectfully,
blake
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[HOT] Thank you very much! Re: Request for an experienced road mapper for a few hours this week

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Greetings,

Thank you to the folks who offered, this is all set now.

As I said, there will be more to this project - waterways is next
which we will need more help for, but this small AoI for the city
itself and roads would have been too difficult to do as an open
project, the area was just too small for roads only and multiple
mappers.

Cheers
Blake



On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We received a request to support some field work in Kenya starting this week.
>
> Their priority area of interest is a small town and their priority
> feature is the road network.
>
> This is really best for 1 person who has a few hours and is
> experienced in Highway Tag Africa and loves to map roads.
>
> Imagery is great, the road mapping is very straight forward and when
> done will be a really cool mapped town.
>
> Please just email me off list and I will get you started.
>
> There is a lot more fun/cool mapping to this project that will open up
> later this week, but right now they need the town's roads mapped asap.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
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[HOT] Request for an experienced road mapper for a few hours this week

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Greetings,

We received a request to support some field work in Kenya starting this week.

Their priority area of interest is a small town and their priority
feature is the road network.

This is really best for 1 person who has a few hours and is
experienced in Highway Tag Africa and loves to map roads.

Imagery is great, the road mapping is very straight forward and when
done will be a really cool mapped town.

Please just email me off list and I will get you started.

There is a lot more fun/cool mapping to this project that will open up
later this week, but right now they need the town's roads mapped asap.

Cheers,
Blake

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Re: [HOT] Issues with HOT export tool

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi,

I will see if I can work around it and get the shapefile out Calist. let me
know if Paul's qgis solution does work for you.

Regards,
Blake

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Paul Uithol <paul.uit...@hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Hi Calist,
>
> I'm afraid this might be yet another instance of the issue in
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues/129 manifesting itself.
> Work will be done soon to improve the export tool, but I don't know the
> exact timeline on this. Cristiano or Mhairi do perhaps?
>
> For now, in your case you might want to try the QuickOSM (
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QuickOSM/) plugin to pull the data into
> QGIS?
>
> best,
> Paul
>
> On 10-01-2017 11:39, Calist Evance wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I have been trying to download earthquke data from Bukoba using HOT export
> tool but im endup with just a road segment of 0.004MB can any one help me
> for this?
>
> best,
> Calist
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Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkel...@gmail.com> wrote:

>But even if would be 99.8 percent it's important for OSM
> that a human integrates the data into the database.

Just for the record, I agree with this totally. I only see a scenario
where any automatically identified feature would have a human look at
it and the imagery, correct anything as needed and then upload it to
osm.

Cheers
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[HOT] Just saw the tweet: We are only $182 from our micro-grants stretch goal!

[Blake Girardot]

Wow, really cool!

Help us push this over the stretch goal too!!

We all can look forward to a 2017 connected even more closely to folks
around the world, on the ground, making a difference in their
communities according to their priorities and achieving their goals!

https://donate.hotosm.org/

Be part of it today, time is running out and give a gift to yourself
by helping others! The amount does not matter, every little bit helps
and makes you a part of this exciting program in 2017.

Best wishes for 2017,
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[HOT] Off-Topic: Medical textbook "Parasitic Diseases, 6th Edition" available for free

[Blake Girardot]

New Year's Greetings!

This might be of interest to some in the HOT community, although not
directly related to mapping, it is related to one of most common
reasons we do map, public health.

The latest edition of a leading medical textbook on parasite caused
diseases (like malaria) was published in the last few months and the
authors have made the PDF version of the textbook available as a free,
easy download.

http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/parasitic-diseases-6th-edition/

It is a textbook intended for medical students and is written using
very technical medical terminology so it is not easy to read even for
native English speakers who are not in the medical or scientific
fields. I do a lot of google'ing while I slowly read it.

This is probably the leading textbook for medical students taking a
parasitic diseases course and it is quite incredible that the authors
have found a way to make it available for free. They are very eager
get this book into the hands of anyone who is interested or can make
use of the information, regardless of ability to pay for the book.

Regards,
Blake

PS: Two of the authors also do a semi-weekly podcast about parasitic
diseases, describing in detail an actual case each week and describing
how the diseases present themselves, life cycle of the parasites,
diagnostic techniques, treatments, etc.

http://www.microbeworld.org/podcasts/this-week-in-parasitism

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Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

[Blake Girardot]

edge of the building - meaning a lot less editing in 
> JOSM. I’m also aware of similar projects, but I haven’t found anything that’s 
> able to detect buildings or ready for use yet:
>
> https://github.com/trailbehind/DeepOSM (find misconfigured roads in OSM)
> https://github.com/patrick-dd/landsat-landstats (predicts population size)
> https://github.com/larsroemheld/OSM-HOT-ConvNet
>
>
> I'm not suggesting this could replace volunteers (since algorithms will never 
> be completely accurate), but maybe this could help speed things up or be used 
> to quickly estimate building locations over large areas.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts. Could this could be a useful tool for HOT 
> or any other volunteer organisations and is it worth taking any further?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip Hunt
>
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Re: [HOT] Exciting news: $10,000 contribution from Mapbox

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Mapbox is a great supporter of humanitarian mapping in a lot of ways, not
just financially, and they have been for a long time.

We really need to meet the challenge they set for us of 150 contributors to
our crowdfunding campaign!

I think it is a really interesting challenge, as it is not about how much
money anyone contributes, it is about people supporting HOT and the
micro-grants program.

This is a great reason to share the impact community and humanitarian
mapping can have with friends and family and encourage them to kick in any
amount to the crowdfund campaign. Even kicking in one euro or dollar or
peso etc not only makes a difference by itself, but has a much greater
impact because it helps HOT reach Mapbox's challenge.

Hopefully we can all find some time to share our enthusiasm for
humanitarian mapping with someone and help them contribute to the
crowdfunding campaign. Now more than ever we need everyone to contribute a
little something and if you can help a friend contribute that would be
amazing!

Cheers and best wishes for 2017!

Blake


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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Tyler Radford <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Dear all, Mapbox (www.mapbox.com), a HOT corporate partner, just
> committed $10,000 USD to help fund critical community mapping projects via
> our campaign http://donate.hotosm.org ! *But we need your help: in order
> to release the second half of the funding, HOT must reach 150 individual
> donors by January 1st, 2017.*
>
> Please consider donating *any amount* today. We're already at 91 donors
> to the campaign - just 59 more to go to trigger the full Mapbox
> contribution. http://donate.hotosm.org
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> Thank you HOT community!
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Re: [HOT] Thank you very much! Very small, but urgent project - buildings only - Please help get it done in a few hours

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

This got done quickly and really saved some frantic issues on the
ground this week. Thank you for everyone who knocked it out!

Thankfully,
Blake

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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:50 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> This is really really small project that can get done very quickly and
> really help out a local OSM group in Zambia.
>
> They received a late change of plans for some field mapping and need
> to complete one small additional section of a neighborhood.
>
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2394
>
> This is not quite beginner mapping, it is some what close buildings
> but not too bad for anyone who would like to try and map carefully
> (zoom in), and it will really help out the local mappers this week.
>
> If some of us could help knock out a few squares, they will not take
> more than about 10 mins. each.
>
> Regards,
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[HOT] Very small, but urgent project - buildings only - Please help get it done in a few hours

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Greetings all,

This is really really small project that can get done very quickly and
really help out a local OSM group in Zambia.

They received a late change of plans for some field mapping and need
to complete one small additional section of a neighborhood.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2394

This is not quite beginner mapping, it is some what close buildings
but not too bad for anyone who would like to try and map carefully
(zoom in), and it will really help out the local mappers this week.

If some of us could help knock out a few squares, they will not take
more than about 10 mins. each.

Regards,
Blake

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[HOT] HOT's OSM Tasking Manager 3.0 Development Kick-Off!!

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

t creators, but the back end
development and systems volunteers keep this place going so we can all
do what we do best.

I encourage everyone meet (most of) the back-end collaborators via the
HOT github repository:
https://github.com/orgs/hotosm/people

You might be surprised to see who all helps via the back end systems.
If you ever wanted to get more in to contributing to open source
software projects, documentation, translation, feedback directly to
developers, graphics, UI, code (js, java, python, shell) etc HOT's
github is a great way to do that. There are opportunities in all those
areas to make significant contributions. And you will be volunteering
along side some of the best open geo spatial developers in the world
to help you along the way.

Signing up for https://github.com/ and just glancing at the issues for
the Tasking Manager 2 software is a very easy way to increase the
impact of your mapping and other activities on the development side of
things.

https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues

Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to this topic over
the past 2 years. We have read literally every email, github issue,
document and analysis given to us during that time and will be relying
on them and the discussions to come as we develop the next awesome
version of the OSM Tasking Manager. We are very glad you are all a
part of it!

Cheers,
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[HOT] Fwd: Beth Kanter & Aliza Sherman: Creating Impact without Burnout

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Friends,

I know many people in our community who struggle with burnout, myself
include, this sounds like a good webinar, Nonprofit Hub typically does good
work.

Regards,
Blake
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Re: [HOT] Tajik Hazard - OSM HOT Task

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Yannis,

I looked over the attached shape files.

The 3 smaller areas to the east, close to each other, those are well
mapped in OSM now it looks like and should be a good data source if
anyone is looking for buildings and roads data in those 3 areas.

The larger area SW of those, there is not high resolution imagery.

The larger area at the far SW, that one looks perfect for a mapping
project. It not all easy mapping, but not too difficult either.  It
looks like even small residential roads are mapped in that area, so it
should probably be "buildings only", which is good.

If this works for you, we can get a project set up.

Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything.

Regards,
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Yannis Fourniadis
<yannis.fournia...@arup.com> wrote:
> Dear HOT OSM,
>
>
>
> I am working for Arup, an international engineering consultancy based in
> London. As Arup, we have been active participants to OpenStreeMap (OSM),
> particularly as regards the Missing Maps Project. Employees from Arup
> offices in the UK and the USA have contributed significant time to map parts
> of South Kivu in the Congo.
>
>
>
> I am writing to enquire on the feasibility of initiating a mapping task
> through OSM Tasking Manager (http://tasks.hotosm.org/) for the mapping of
> buildings and infrastructure (roads, railways) in the Republic of
> Tajikistan.
>
>
>
> The Republic of Tajikistan is located in a region affected by natural
> hazards (flooding, earthquakes). The World Bank is supporting a project to
> strengthen critical infrastructure in the Republic of Tajikistan against the
> impact of natural hazards. A team led by Arup, and including the University
> of Zurich and consultants based in Tajikistan, have been appointed by the
> World Bank to carry out consultancy services in relation to strengthening
> critical infrastructure in the Republic of Tajikistan.
>
>
>
> We plan to undertake community mapping of exposure data (buildings and
> infrastructure) as part of this project in the Arup offices in London in on
> 16 December 2016. Like in previous occasions (e.g. HOT task #1235
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1235) we would greatly appreciate your help
> to setup an OSM mapping task, through which we could undertake the community
> mapping.
>
>
>
> Could you please advise whether you are able to create an OSM task for us to
> use for exposure mapping at the sites given in the attached Google Earth
> files. These are all sites where critical infrastructure (bridges and flood
> protection levees) are located. The file “Exposure Sites” gives approximate
> extents of the areas where we would like to map the assets at risk.
>
>
>
> It would be great to have this task up and running by 6 December 2016.
>
>
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yannis
>
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Re: [HOT] A project that needs validators and very experienced mappers

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Enock,

That got fixed, sorry I missed your email on it.

Thank you for trying Enock, the project went very well, thank you to
all who had a chance to participate (it went fast too).

8 validators fixed about 200 JOSM road network issues, plus a little
bit here and that they noticed while they were at it and had an impact
across basically the entire Area of Interest (aoi).

Nice work! You can see it sort of visualized here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6eiTej1JHydWGhRQk9yWk1EZE0/view?usp=sharing

The square or two I did was mostly filling in bridges (road crosses
waterway) and fords which is critical data, but connecting up roads
that are not connected is just as critical to routing applications.

I think projects like this would be really useful in the disaster
response mapping workflow in the future. Thank you again validators!

Respectfully,
blake

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Enock Seth Nyamador
<kwadzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Blake.
>
> Trying to work with this task and run into [1].
>
> 1.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJUDdYR25NemRrTmM/view?usp=sharing
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
>
> 2016-11-27 4:58 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>:
>>
>> After thinking this over a bit more, I changed the instructions.
>>
>> This should only be to run existing data through josm validation and
>> then fix the road related errors and warnings that are ease.
>>
>> It looks like Mapbox has most of the imagery things were mapped from
>> so far so be sure to consult mapbox.
>>
>> So far it goes fast in the more rural areas, map in a few bridges, a
>> few fords, fix some overlapping roadway and done.
>>
>> Just the jsom validation would have a noticeable impact on the road
>> network with the benefit of being pretty quick and easy for validators
>> and very experienced road mappers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blake
>> 
>> Blake Girardot
>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager
>> skype: jblakegirardot
>> HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org
>> Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/
>> BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>
>> wrote:
>> > I passed the request along to a local Costa Rica Mapper. Sure be nice if
>> > we
>> > could get some cloud free imagery. I've drive some of the area in the
>> > task
>> > area, but not that familiar.
>> >
>> > Clifford
>> >
>> > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I created a project that is all about validation.
>> >>
>> >> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352
>> >>
>> >> It is for the road network of the most affected areas from Tropical
>> >> Storm
>> >> Otto.
>> >>
>> >> The local osm community has asked us to help in some way to improve
>> >> their map data as soon as possible. They are GIS skilled folks who
>> >> know how to use osm data in real life.
>> >>
>> >> We need validators to basically do road network validation + some
>> >> major road (tertiary and above) filling in.
>> >>
>> >> Disaster response folks are using another source for their geographic
>> >> data in that area. But as I said, there is an experienced, skilled osm
>> >> community in Costa Rica that are working to get OSM data wider
>> >> exposure so said it is worth it to them to still do a project like
>> >> this to improve the OSM data in the most affected region..
>> >>
>> >> This sort of project is also one that goes well with routing
>> >> applications, fixing the low hanging fruit or really easy road fixes
>> >> has a great impact on the usability of OSM routing in disaster areas.
>> >> We have talked about seeing how we might make projects like this more
>> >> standard pre-disaster phase for weather related disasters.
>> >>
>> >> It also gives validators a great over view of an area that might be
>> >> coming up more as

Re: [HOT] A project that needs validators and very experienced mappers

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi,

Thank you both for letting me know. We got this error fixed about 30
mins later. Turns out some markdown text in the per task instructions
caused the issue.

Regards
Blake

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 2:06 AM, majka <majka.zem+t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The same. Got the JSON through api, tried to get gpx but probably wrong url.
> Task manager throws error.
>
> Going now with brute force - downloaded the area, validating and checking
> errors. Starting from west, will upload almost constantly.
>
> On 27 November 2016 at 07:38, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Blake.
>>
>> Trying to work with this task and run into [1].
>>
>> 1.
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJUDdYR25NemRrTmM/view?usp=sharing
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> - Enock
>>
>> 2016-11-27 4:58 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
>> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>:
>>>
>>> After thinking this over a bit more, I changed the instructions.
>>>
>>> This should only be to run existing data through josm validation and
>>> then fix the road related errors and warnings that are ease.
>>>
>>> It looks like Mapbox has most of the imagery things were mapped from
>>> so far so be sure to consult mapbox.
>>>
>>> So far it goes fast in the more rural areas, map in a few bridges, a
>>> few fords, fix some overlapping roadway and done.
>>>
>>> Just the jsom validation would have a noticeable impact on the road
>>> network with the benefit of being pretty quick and easy for validators
>>> and very experienced road mappers.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Blake
>>> 
>>> Blake Girardot
>>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager
>>> skype: jblakegirardot
>>> HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org
>>> Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/
>>> BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I passed the request along to a local Costa Rica Mapper. Sure be nice
>>> > if we
>>> > could get some cloud free imagery. I've drive some of the area in the
>>> > task
>>> > area, but not that familiar.
>>> >
>>> > Clifford
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I created a project that is all about validation.
>>> >>
>>> >> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352
>>> >>
>>> >> It is for the road network of the most affected areas from Tropical
>>> >> Storm
>>> >> Otto.
>>> >>
>>> >> The local osm community has asked us to help in some way to improve
>>> >> their map data as soon as possible. They are GIS skilled folks who
>>> >> know how to use osm data in real life.
>>> >>
>>> >> We need validators to basically do road network validation + some
>>> >> major road (tertiary and above) filling in.
>>> >>
>>> >> Disaster response folks are using another source for their geographic
>>> >> data in that area. But as I said, there is an experienced, skilled osm
>>> >> community in Costa Rica that are working to get OSM data wider
>>> >> exposure so said it is worth it to them to still do a project like
>>> >> this to improve the OSM data in the most affected region..
>>> >>
>>> >> This sort of project is also one that goes well with routing
>>> >> applications, fixing the low hanging fruit or really easy road fixes
>>> >> has a great impact on the usability of OSM routing in disaster areas.
>>> >> We have talked about seeing how we might make projects like this more
>>> >> standard pre-disaster phase for weather related disasters.
>>> >>
>>> >> It also gives validators a great over view of an area that might be
>>> >> coming up more as oth

Re: [HOT] A project that needs validators and very experienced mappers

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

After thinking this over a bit more, I changed the instructions.

This should only be to run existing data through josm validation and
then fix the road related errors and warnings that are ease.

It looks like Mapbox has most of the imagery things were mapped from
so far so be sure to consult mapbox.

So far it goes fast in the more rural areas, map in a few bridges, a
few fords, fix some overlapping roadway and done.

Just the jsom validation would have a noticeable impact on the road
network with the benefit of being pretty quick and easy for validators
and very experienced road mappers.

Regards,
Blake

Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, TM3 Project Manager
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> I passed the request along to a local Costa Rica Mapper. Sure be nice if we
> could get some cloud free imagery. I've drive some of the area in the task
> area, but not that familiar.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I created a project that is all about validation.
>>
>> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352
>>
>> It is for the road network of the most affected areas from Tropical Storm
>> Otto.
>>
>> The local osm community has asked us to help in some way to improve
>> their map data as soon as possible. They are GIS skilled folks who
>> know how to use osm data in real life.
>>
>> We need validators to basically do road network validation + some
>> major road (tertiary and above) filling in.
>>
>> Disaster response folks are using another source for their geographic
>> data in that area. But as I said, there is an experienced, skilled osm
>> community in Costa Rica that are working to get OSM data wider
>> exposure so said it is worth it to them to still do a project like
>> this to improve the OSM data in the most affected region..
>>
>> This sort of project is also one that goes well with routing
>> applications, fixing the low hanging fruit or really easy road fixes
>> has a great impact on the usability of OSM routing in disaster areas.
>> We have talked about seeing how we might make projects like this more
>> standard pre-disaster phase for weather related disasters.
>>
>> It also gives validators a great over view of an area that might be
>> coming up more as other building-only type projects so can identify
>> issues the project creator missed early, if any.
>>
>> Please, if you are a validtor, let us see what we can do with this
>> project and your feedback is encouraged.
>>
>> So lets see what validators, experienced josm users and the road
>> mapping enthusiasts can do here!
>>
>> Validators: I know this takes away from validating new users mapping,
>> which is a critical part of your work, but if you could find a few
>> minutes to just validate the road data in one task square (they are
>> big) I think it would really help Costa Rica OSM and OSM in general.
>>
>> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352
>>
>> Validators can get support for this project in HOT IRC or the HOT
>> Slack linked below.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blake
>> --
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[HOT] A project that needs validators and very experienced mappers

[Blake Girardot]

I created a project that is all about validation.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352

It is for the road network of the most affected areas from Tropical Storm Otto.

The local osm community has asked us to help in some way to improve
their map data as soon as possible. They are GIS skilled folks who
know how to use osm data in real life.

We need validators to basically do road network validation + some
major road (tertiary and above) filling in.

Disaster response folks are using another source for their geographic
data in that area. But as I said, there is an experienced, skilled osm
community in Costa Rica that are working to get OSM data wider
exposure so said it is worth it to them to still do a project like
this to improve the OSM data in the most affected region..

This sort of project is also one that goes well with routing
applications, fixing the low hanging fruit or really easy road fixes
has a great impact on the usability of OSM routing in disaster areas.
We have talked about seeing how we might make projects like this more
standard pre-disaster phase for weather related disasters.

It also gives validators a great over view of an area that might be
coming up more as other building-only type projects so can identify
issues the project creator missed early, if any.

Please, if you are a validtor, let us see what we can do with this
project and your feedback is encouraged.

So lets see what validators, experienced josm users and the road
mapping enthusiasts can do here!

Validators: I know this takes away from validating new users mapping,
which is a critical part of your work, but if you could find a few
minutes to just validate the road data in one task square (they are
big) I think it would really help Costa Rica OSM and OSM in general.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2352

Validators can get support for this project in HOT IRC or the HOT
Slack linked below.

Regards,
Blake
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Re: [HOT] Dealing with future growth: three recommendations to organisers (my SotM16 talk)

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Martin,

Thank you very much, this is invaluable! I have some questions in line
below, I also added these three items in the TM2
http://github.com/hotosm/ issues list so discussion is welcome there
too.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Martin Dittus <mar...@dekstop.de> wrote:

> In brief, I’d like to make three key recommendations:
> • Carefully manage the tasking manager task listing during large disaster 
> events. People who join during these events don't tend to stay active for 
> long, and their contributions tend to have a lower quality. Point them 
> towards newcomer-friendly projects where they can make some early experiences.

In the context of disaster response, an activation, how long should
the early experience be? Is it ok if it is not a disaster related
project, but a specific new mapper project, probably from missing
maps? I would think we need a new mapped tailored part of the response
mapping to direct new mappers too.

> • Introduce a notification mechanism to inform contributors of emergent 
> campaigns. While the mailing list may work for the core community, there is 
> likely a larger number of one-time mappers who may be willing to help out 
> again when they’re needed, but currently they have no means of finding out.

Yes, we have to make better use of email i think is what it comes down
too. Really we need to engage with new mappers where they are, but the
recurrent theme in many of these discussions is that email is best
because OSM only or TM only contact solutions are missed by literally
1 day mappers. Emails seems the consensus, allow contributors to
provide their email and opt-into some email messages from the Tasking
Manager.

> • Try to connect newcomers to the existing community as soon as possible, and 
> in a setting that is appropriate for absolute beginners. Where can people ask 
> questions online? Is the mailing list still appropriate for absolute 
> beginners?

See the Live OSM mapper-support channel, that is a direct result of
this suggestion and an attempt to accomplish the goal of connecting
absolute beginners with the OSM community. (
https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ )

We have talked about embedding it in the TM or maybe making a PR to
the iD editor. Please see this example of something like that:

http://nateasmith.org/map-sidecar/

But the friendly supportive channel has to be there first and hot's
slack channel mapper-support is intended to be that text channel, glad
to see you in it!!

The members of that channel now are all OSM members, some of the most
experienced OSM members there are and they are also among the most
motivated to welcome and support new mappers to OSM and humanitarian
mapping in particular.

And talk about validation, best practices for mapping, instructions,
etc. It is a direct conduit to most if not all of the groups creating
projects on HOT's instance of the OSM Tasking Manager software at the
moment.

It doubles as validtors "teir 3" support, they are identifying issues
and problems and this is how to get things changed, they should not
have to struggle to do their critical work, but instead have a direct
line of support to the project managers so issues with projects can be
identified fast, changes and fixes can get made fast so there is not
more work later.

It is a great support channel and about as plugged into the global OSM
community as you can get with all the OSM and disaster response
professionals in that channel.

Thank you again for sending this email, your work Martin, has always
informed our work and HOT and Missing Maps (and many other groups)
would not be where they are today without you.

Cheers from Ann Arbor, MI
Blake

>
> Do these recommendations make sense to you?
> Do you have ideas about how to make them happen?
>
> (Note that I’m making the fundamental assumption that we’re trying to grow 
> the community. One could also make a case that the existing community is big 
> enough, and we simply need to refine the existing tools.)
>
> Greetings from London,
>
> m.
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Re: [HOT] Videos online

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:27 PM, hyan...@gmail.com <hyan...@gmail.com>
 wrote:

> Hello HOT Community,
>
> some of you has asked about the slum mapping project methodology that we
> present in the HOT Summit 2.  In the mean while the totally of the videos
> get finally processed and published by the summit team, you can see a new
> presentation (in spanish) of the project here:
>
> https://livestream.com/Udearroba-Virtual-UdeA/events/4535560
> (time 47:30)
>
> This was during the recent GIS Day at Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Humberto Yances
>
> PS: Dear summit team: If exists problems with the videos, maybe the slides
> can be published instead?
>
>
Slides, I personally encourage you to upload them to
http://www.slideshare.net/ that way they are immediately available to build
awareness of your project and as a resource for people who would like to
similar projects. They are there forever under your name and easily
discoverable and shareable and you do not have to wait for us to figure out
the last few videos.

Even if your videos are up, I would suggest uploading your  slides to
http://www.slideshare.net/ as well.

Be sure to add a tag for #hotsummit2016 and I think they will all be
grouped.

My personal opinion only.

In the mean time we will get the issues with the last videos worked out
asap.

Respectfully,
Blake

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> 2016-11-10 11:39 GMT-05:00 hyan...@gmail.com <hyan...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello Nate, the video from my talk is missing too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Humberto
>>
>>
>> 2016-11-07 3:53 GMT-05:00 Nate Smith <nateasm...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Milo - yes, there are a few videos that are not online yet. We’re
>>> waiting for those videos to be finalized by the video production company.
>>> They should be online this week.
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>>
>>> Nate Smith
>>> @nas_smith <https://twitter.com/nas_smith>
>>>
>>> On November 7, 2016 at 9:07:57 AM, Milo van der Linden (
>>> m...@dogodigi.net) wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday, in weeklyosm, I read that the videos from the summit are
>>> online. I am however still missing the video from my talk. Any estimate on
>>> when all videos will be available?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Milo
>>>
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Re: [HOT] Dealing with future growth: three recommendations to organisers (my SotM16 talk)

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Martin,

Thank you very much for this email!

I have created github  issues for each item here:
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues

Discussion is needed on the three items that I see as:

1 Connect newcomers to the existing community
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/895

2 Notification of emergent campaigns
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/894

3 Better management of TM Homepage during disasters
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/893

The community's insights and feedback on how best to do these three
things as you describe them in more detail than my headings would be
invaluable on this.

As I said, here on this email thread or on those github issue threads

How might we best connect newcomers to the existing community?
How might we best do notifications of emergent campaigns?
How might we better handle managing the TM front page during disasters?

Respectfully,
Blake





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HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Martin Dittus <mar...@dekstop.de> wrote:
> Hallo all,
>
> I gave a talk at SotM in Brussels, summarising some of my key research 
> findings on HOT contributor engagement to date. Afterwards, Tyler asked me to 
> summarise my recommendations to organisers in a short message. I just saw 
> that the recording of the talk is already online, so I did a quick write-up 
> of some key points I wanted to make.
>
> A diary post with links to the recording and slides is here:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dekstop/diary/39935
>
> In brief, I’d like to make three key recommendations:
> • Carefully manage the tasking manager task listing during large disaster 
> events. People who join during these events don't tend to stay active for 
> long, and their contributions tend to have a lower quality. Point them 
> towards newcomer-friendly projects where they can make some early experiences.
> • Introduce a notification mechanism to inform contributors of emergent 
> campaigns. While the mailing list may work for the core community, there is 
> likely a larger number of one-time mappers who may be willing to help out 
> again when they’re needed, but currently they have no means of finding out.
> • Try to connect newcomers to the existing community as soon as possible, and 
> in a setting that is appropriate for absolute beginners. Where can people ask 
> questions online? Is the mailing list still appropriate for absolute 
> beginners?
>
> Do these recommendations make sense to you?
> Do you have ideas about how to make them happen?
>
> (Note that I’m making the fundamental assumption that we’re trying to grow 
> the community. One could also make a case that the existing community is big 
> enough, and we simply need to refine the existing tools.)
>
> Greetings from London,
>
> m.
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Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager Slow

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Mike,

We are working to get this fixed permanently in the very near future
by distributing our infrastructure a bit more (1 month or less) and
make improvements to the Tasking Manager code so it is less demanding
on hardware in general (6 months).

We also spent time last week trying to prepare the server for GeoWeek
knowing the load was going to be increased this week and met with
limited options for safely (read: untested changes) increasing
capacity.

Over the last few months we have basically reached the limit of our
existing infrastructure as the load on the Tasking Manager has
increased due to increased use, which is, I do not want to say is
good, but an encouraging sign really because it is a result of both
organizations and mappers using the HOT Tasking Manager increasing a
fair amount.

I apologize for it making mapping and validating more difficult, it is
very high priority for us, basically our top technical priority at the
moment. I really wish we were able  get some of these infrastructure
improvements in place sooner but it just was not possible.

Thank you for taking the time to write the email, we should have
communicated our awareness of the issue and our effort to get the
situation fixed more.

Respectfully,
Blake





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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The tasking manager seems to be slow and has been for some time.  Sometimes
> it is necessary to click on a choice multiple times before the tasking
> manager actually performs the requested action. Sometimes the project grid
> doesn't show up right away or doesn't show up at all. Can anything be done
> about this? It is slowing down mapping and validation, and it is frustrating
> for new people who are just being introduced to the project (I try and tell
> them that there are 1000's of people around the world on HOT projects and
> that is why things are slow).
>
> I know that many of the people that support the project are volunteers and
> that budgets for hosting services are tight.  I am not trying to be
> critical, but rather trying to raise awareness so that hopefully a solution
> can be found.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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[HOT] Help us select a "webinar" platform and is this a good idea?

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Community Members,

The HOT Community Working group is thinking about hosting some events
online. These might include OSM editing or editor training sessions,
virtual mapathons, mapathon support sessions, presentations about HOT
or OSM projects, guest presenters/instructors, 3rd party product
trainings, etc.

Toward that end we would like find a web based platform that would be
most accessible and easy to use for the widest audience. We know that
one platform is not going to be perfect for everyone and every
situation so we will still have to use some different platforms
depending on circumstances (presenter, audience, purpose, etc).

But if you could take 60 seconds and answer 3 multiple choice
questions about which platforms you use, which you like best and which
you can not use that will really help us narrow our focus and maybe
help us identify a great platform we overlooked.

There is also one question about if you would attend a webinar style
event. It would be helpful to find out if we should continue to pursue
this and what kind of topics people are interested in. So even if your
feedback is "I would never attend an online webinar thing" there is an
option for you to express that as well. Something for everyone!

On to the survey (mobile friendly)!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KDMN9CJ

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[HOT] Technical Working Group meeting today Monday, Nov.7, 15:00 UTC/GMT

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

There is a Technical Working Group meeting today in a few hours.
Anyone interested in the backend part of HOT, coding, servers,
application testing, etc is encouraged to attend. Tech WG meetings are
via good, old, IRC :)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC

If you can not attend, but are still interested, please just email me directly.

Our agenda is here:
https://hackpad.com/TWG-Meeting-11.2016-F1e6EXk65hE (pretty full)

All of HOT's Working Groups are open for anyone to participate in and
contribute to, the full calendar of WG meetings is here:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hotosm.org_848e89aaiab04ag94d23rqn...@group.calendar.google.com

Everyone is invited to drop in and say hello to any working group
meeting to see how they can participate. Just email me or this list if
you need more details on any working group. Always a work in progress,
the wiki description of the working groups is a good place to find out
more, but can sometimes be a bit out of date:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups

Cheers,
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Re: [HOT] Surveying Helicopter Landing Zones (HLZs)

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Keith,

I worked a lot on this issue during the Nepal 2015 response.

What you propose sounds great. We had a lot of difficulty trying to do
this via the tasking manager for several reasons.

I would love to speak with you more about it, maybe we could chat via skype.

Cheers,
Blake

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Keith Darby <keith...@usc.edu> wrote:
> All:
>
> I am a retired Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot, and a current Masters Candidate 
> in GIS Technologies at USC.
>
> I am working on my thesis, which is based on the premise that crowd-sourced 
> geospatial information, if properly structured, could aid aircrews in 
> surveying potential HLZs for disaster response.
>
> The work flow would be as follows:
>
> (1) Helicopter planners and aircrews would select potential HLZs in a 
> disaster-affected region, using whatever mission planning GISystem at their 
> disposal (normally baed on remote sensing data)
>
> (2) Those proposed HLZs would be uploaded to OSM.
>
> (3) Volunteers could select one of those HLZs and conduct a ground-truth 
> survey, following a script (that I would develop).
>
> (4) Those surveys would be uploaded to OSM and validated.
>
> (5) the Helicopter mission planners and aircrews could use those surveys to 
> select the best zones for disaster relief operations.
>
> I am looking at using the towns of Honokaa and Waimea on the northern end of 
> the Big Island of Hawaii as my study area, as I live close by, and I have the 
> local Community Emergency Response Team (volunteers) willing to support.
>
> Who do I need to talk to about getting HOT permission to conduct a limited 
> objective study in this area?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Alternative imagery project 2102

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Joost, Mike, Daniel,

Joost is of course correct. In looking at the project in the TM, it is
not clear which imagery should be preferred for mapping, it might be
on purpose the other imagery is not in the imagery field.

I sent an email via OSM to the project creator to see if we can
clarify the instructions a bit and put the other imagery in the
imagery field if it should be used.

Thank you for pointing it out Daniel.

Regards,
Blake

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:32 AM, joost schouppe
<joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That shouldn't be necessary though.
>
> When you set up a task in the tasking manager, there is a tab to set the
> background imagery. Doing this ensures the custom imagery is loaded as
> default in ID. I don't know who managed the task, but they should be
> informed that this is a really useful thing to do.
>
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[HOT] Communications Working Group - Meeting today, 17:00 UTC/GMT

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

The Communications Working Group is meeting today in about 30 mins.

If you like social media and would like to help the HOT community on
twitter, facebook, pinterest, instagram, etc we are looking for folks
to lead on several social media platforms.

As with all of our working groups, everyone is encouraged to join and
contribute!

Working group descriptions and link to the WG meeting calendar:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups

Cheers,
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[HOT] Fundraising Working Group meeting notice - new participants welcome

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

HOT's Fundraising WG (FWG) will be meeting in a little under an hour
(15:00 UTC/GMT). Like all of HOT's working groups, everyone is invited
to participate and collaborate.

Activities of this working group center around identifying and
evaluating grants and other funding opportunities and developing
project proposals in conjunction with local community and/or
international partners for good grant opportunities.

If you like the idea of helping build HOT and local OSM groups and
like telling the story of how OSM and open geo-data can have a
positive impact around the world, this is a good working group for
you.

We also try to help build project development skills and experience so
any local OSM folks seeking more support for projects they would like
to do would benefit from participating.

At the moment we are also starting to work on HOT's year end
fundraiser and some options for making HOT t-shirts, mugs, phone
cases, etc available.

We meet on skype typically, so just send me your skype name directly
and I will add you to the group. My skype name is jblakegirardot or
just send me an email.

This wiki page is a good discussion of the FWG:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Fundraising

Terms of Reference can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rsVMhOc6-dVz1Tdjq9ImPq_WEhUQ7ioKzsAK8kDGktM/edit?usp=sharing

All of HOT's Working Groups are open for anyone to participate in and
contribute to, the full calendar of WG meetings is here:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hotosm.org_848e89aaiab04ag94d23rqn...@group.calendar.google.com

Everyone is invited to drop in and say hello to any working group
meeting to see how they can participate. Just email me or this list if
you need more details on any working group. Always a work in progress,
the wiki description of the working groups is a good place to find out
more, but can sometimes be a bit out of date:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups

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[HOT] Fwd: help validating during a mapathon request - Oct. 29th, 15:00 GMT

[Blake Girardot]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Andrew Rickard 
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:35 PM
Subject: help
To: hot-ow...@openstreetmap.org


Hello Hot,

On the 29th of October (this Saturday evening) at 17:00 (15:00 GMT) in
San Sebastian, Spain,  we will be hosting a Missing Maps Mapathon for
the region of Hadjer Lamas, CHAD: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1879

We are looking for participation of a few experienced mappers to help
with validation from about 18:30 (16:30 GMT). If anyone is interested
you can contact me on andrewpaulrick...@gmail.com

For details of the event visit:
https://www.tabakalera.eu/es/mapathon-missing-maps


Hola Hot,

El 29 de octubre (este sabado) a las 17:00 (15:00 GMT)  en San
Sebastian, Spain, vamos a celebrar un mapathon de Missing Maps para la
region de Hadjer Lamas, Chad: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1879

Estamos buscando la participación de un@s mappers con experiencia a
partir de las 18:30 (16:30 GMT) para ayudar con la validación. Si
estas interesado, puedes contactar conmigo directamente en
andrewpaulrick...@gmail.com.

Para ver los detalles del evento visitar:
https://www.tabakalera.eu/es/mapathon-missing-maps


**

Many thanks,

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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Hurricane Matthew response : Imagery/UAV coordination and support to local Haitian UAV capacities

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Nico,

As you say, you and Fred have extensive experience in Hait and working
with international partners in Haiti. Fred is actually on the ground
in Haiti. You and he would be the best to coordinate him flying
missions.

This is not something HOT does, we do not coordinate or push for UAV
missions in disaster zones with notoriously complicated airspaces. We
rely on, and UAV missions need to be handled, by professionals, which
you and Fred are, so I expect you should be able to handle making the
proper arrangements and coordinations.

I already suggested who to contact, UAviators, they have coordinated
UAV missions in disaster zones in the past numerous times in
conjunction with UN-OCHA. That is HOT's contact, I passed it on to you
already.

This is all HOT can do, except eagerly anticipate the imagery Fred's
missions generate.

Regards,
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[HOT] One example of the importance of your work

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Friends,

As some of you may know Dale Kunce is the Vice President of HOT's
Board of Directors, but his real job is as the International GIS Team
Lead for the American Red Cross which is currently responding along
side the Haiti Red Cross Society after Hurricane Matthew.

Dale was quoted earlier today in a Missing Maps email and had this to
say about the importance of OSM map data, and the importance of your
mapping:

"The data is critical to help us identify those in need, plan and
carry out relief efforts over the next few days. It will also help
with the long term recovery of the area to build back better, and to
help treat and stave off potential effects of waterborne diseases like
cholera."  --Dale Kunce

This is why your mapping is so important, we say it often, but we can
not say it enough: Your mapping makes are real difference to the
people on the ground, both those providing relief and those suffering
through this crisis.

Thank you so much for your contributions, every little bit helps more
than you will ever know.

Respectfully,
Blake
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Re: [HOT] List of Shelters for Haiti

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Samuel,

Here is the link I have for shelters:

https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/operations/haiti/document/haiti-hurricane-matthew-emergency-evacuation-shelters-september-2016-en

Blake

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:39 PM, ALCE, Samuel Paul
 wrote:
> Hello,
>I am currently in Haiti (North, Cap Haitian) and try to get prepared
> for Matthew. If someone know where i can get a list of shelters (updated)
> for all Haiti it would really help...
>
> We are think about how to remove people from the dangerous zone
>
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[HOT] HOT Activating for #HurricaneMatthew

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear HOT Community,

It looks like Hurricane Matthew is going to have significant impacts
across a wide area of Haiti and Jamaica both and affect over 1 million
people.

OSM data is already being requested for Haiti and Milo has been
leading the efforts to fill in map data on Jamaica.

Because of those factors, HOT is going to activate and generate
updated OSM data.

Please visit http://tasks.hotosm.org/ for the latest #HurricaneMatthew
projects and please spread the word we need mappers to contribute.

Initial Tweet to retweet please:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/782645326113042432

Anyone wishing to help with the activation or discuss with the
activation coordinators (currently Dale Kunce) should join the HOT
Slack team: https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/  (slack is just web
based, persistent text chat)

Regards,
Blake


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Re: [HOT] Fwd: I want to open a task for Jamaica

[Blake Girardot]

Hi,

Considering the coordination that is needed for this project, maybe joining
the hot slack server would help people who want to contribute and have
questions:

https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/

It is basically web based, real time tex chat.

Regards,
Blake



On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Milo van der Linden <m...@dogodigi.net>
wrote:

> We have a spreadsheet on google docs with the shelters.
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/dogodigi.net/spreadsheets/d/
> 1OXL7B2bUJfRElbgrRLdcG67DU976LZOViPLqBVp0jK8/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Milo van der Linden <m...@dogodigi.net>
> Date: 2016-10-01 22:01 GMT+02:00
> Subject: Re: [HOT] I want to open a task for Jamaica
> To: Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com>
>
>
> Hello Blake,
>
> 1. The list was tweeted by the Prime Minister of Jamaica.
> https://twitter.com/AndrewHolnessJM/status/781943665266659328 we are
> asking his permission via twitter.
>
> 2. The shelters list has NO geometry, that is the biggest issue here, so I
> do not have an OSM file. The bounds of the list are of course the bounds of
> Jamaica. I have attached a osm file with a shape.
>
>
>
>
> Op 1 okt. 2016 21:49 schreef "Blake Girardot" <bgirar...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Milo,
>>
>> I have to ask as someone will eventually: What is the source of the
>> shelters list and is it's license compatible with the OSM license?
>>
>> Sorry to have to ask, but as I said, someone will eventually.
>>
>> In the mean time I am looking at how we can do this project via the
>> tasking manager, there are a few options for dividing up a .osm file in
>> accordance with task squares. Do you have the shelters list as a .osm file
>> or can you make one?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blake
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Milo van der Linden <m...@dogodigi.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I can really use help mapping shelters for Jamaica.
>>> The goal is to make a map available to GIS officers and the media on
>>> Jamaica.
>>>
>>> Can anyone open a task, I do not have the right to do so?
>>>
>>> I have the following in mind:
>>>
>>> Mappers should open https://gist.github.com/milova
>>> nderlinden/9d8d68f4cb0d72f29f1ca375d5338d18
>>>
>>> 1. Open a task. Look for schools/churches/community_centers
>>> 2. Check if they can find matching names
>>> 3. Add the tag evacuation_center=yes
>>>
>>> Could that work?
>>>
>>> I am manually merging maps, json and csv at the moment. My gist snippets
>>> (and geojson map) are here:
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/milovanderlinden
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Milo
>>>
>>>
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Re: [HOT] Hurricane Matthew

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Milo,

evacuation_center=yes that can go on buildings

has been used in the past for hurricane events.

There is also the possibility to use
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:social_facility%3Dshelter which
I do not like as a tag for emergency shelters.

There is also http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:evacuation_route
that can go on highways.

Regards
blake


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Milo van der Linden  wrote:
> As the people in Jamaica prepare for the hurricane, I came across a list of
> priority and secondary shelters. They are mostly public locations like
> schools.
>
> Any tips on registering these secondary functions on the schools? Is there a
> tagging scheme for shelters?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Milo
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Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic tutorial?

[Blake Girardot]

Hi John,

Far from perfect, but I believe the "JOSM for iD Users" youtube vids
covers most of that (might need one on imagery use in JOSM, hopefully
it comes across though):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54o5PaKgnbKU-vXe11cSmmsxIYnL5oDU

Feedback from your friend welcome.

Regards,
Blake

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:19 AM, john whelan  wrote:
> So how to install,  how to add remote control and building_tool plugin, how
> to map a square building, a highway and a landuse=residential.  How to
> select Bing imagery.
>
> How to toggle the screen ie use the tab key when you lose the stuff on the
> right.
>
> And finally how to upload.  So setting the token.
>
> Yes I know about learnOSM but I have a fairly keen mapper who has been told
> that JOSM is too complex which is fine except I have to clean up after them
> with the crossing ways and highways nearly meeting when they are quite
> capable of doing it themselves and I want something basic not how to map a
> relationship because that is not what most of the HOT stuff is.
>
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Re: [HOT] Problems with messaging contributors from HOT Task manager

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Janet,

Thank you for the report, I know Pierre and Drazen are looking in to it now.

Cheers,
Blake

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Janet Chapman
 wrote:
>  When trying to message all contributors of my task 1788 in the tasking
> manager, I can write the message, but when I click on the blue message all
> contributors button, nothing happens.   Thanks, Janet
>
>
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Re: [HOT] HOT export tool bugs

[Blake Girardot]

That is the correct place John.

If others could add their comments and information to this bug report,
that would help a great deal:

https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues/129

Please provide a link to the Export Tool project that is specifically
not generating the correct information in the output files and any
other details you can provide please.

Regards,
Blake


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:47 PM, John Gordon  wrote:
> This problem has been going on for more than three weeks-- I reported it on
> this site but was told the correct place to report it was
> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues
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Re: [HOT] User removing highway tags from the Earthquake area (Uganda and Tanzania)

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Marco, Hi Michael,

Marco, thank you very much for catching this and posting to the list Marco!

Michael, I would go for option 2

I have also sent an email to the mapper who made the mistake. Mistakes
happen, it is just the nature of things.

If someone wants to fix them up via option 2 above, please let us
know. It will take me at least an hour before I can dig in and fix it
myself, but I will let the list know when I do if no one has started
before then.

Thank you again!

Regards,
Blake

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Michael Heißmeier
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would assume that this is some kind of weird error. Looking at the user's
> history this obviously only happened in three changesets, 42110663, 42112337
> and 42112459. His latest one and the immediate previous ones do not show
> this kind of modification.
>
> Considering that this is an area with an activation going I am not sure
> whether a standard revert of the changesets will be a good idea - I assume
> that many of these objects have been touched in the meantime.
>
> I see two options:
>
> 1. Revert the changesets and thus lose all other edits by the user from
> these changesets too. I tried locally with changeset 42112459 which would
> result in 16 conflicts to be solved. The main problem would be with nodes
> modified in these changesets and subsequently by other users.
>
> 2. Only detect ways without tags which is easy with JOSM's validator and
> assign "highway=road" to them to mark them for further inspection. This
> would require going over the whole area afterwards and re-assign proper
> highway tags.
>
> I am not sure which one sounds easier. Option 2 is quicker for the immediate
> fix but means a lot of work afterwards.
>
> Best Regards
> Michael
>
>
> Marco, 2016-09-13 12:01:
>
> I just came thru this area [1] that I tried to map in the last few days
> and found out that someone has been removing the highway=* tag from a
> large number of ways. I wrote him a private message asking for the
> reason of his edits, but I'd like to share this problem with someone
> with more HOT experience in order to understand what's going on and how
> can we quickly fix this, as road mapping seems to me seriously important
> for the guys on the ground who use OSM to help the locals
>
> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-1.2260/31.5053=HD
>
>
> Thanks
> Marco
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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda

[Blake Girardot]

Just a quick mapping update:

We continue on the plan of building up the road network over the large
impact area of the quake, this is a roads only project.

But as Geoffrey and David continue their coordination work on the
ground, which is notoriously difficult in the first days of any
crisis, we are also detailed mapping the population areas outward from
the epicenter.

There is now a Buildings Only mapping project on the Tasking Manager
this is focused around the epicenter. This is very easy mapping,
buildings are well spaced and imagery is good.

Special thank you to Ralph Aytoun who identified much better imagery
than we had available in the standard layer, DigitalGlobe who
immediately authorized HOT/OSM to use it for this crisis and Mapbox
who is hosting it.

As always in crisis mapping, please check the project's instructions
and main page of the Tasking Manager often as priorities and mapping
projects are expected to be adjusted as more information about map
data needs comes in.

Please help spread the word:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/775023003658838017

Regards,
Blake

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Kateregga
 wrote:
> Thank you Russel and Laura for sharing the resources.
>
> @David, At the moment we are in touch with the Tanzania Red Cross who have
> done a preliminary assessment of the situation on ground (see attachment).
> They have also expressed great need for maps as they would be of great use
> in their efforts.
>
> The local OSM Communities in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania are also shown
> great interest and are ready to map if do an activation for the affected
> area.
>
> Geoffrey.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Luswata David  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Geoffrey and all, thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Geoffrey what else do we know especially on-ground impact, any new
>> information available?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Laura O'Grady 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As a supplement to the current resources being used I recommend checking
>>> out, "The EarthQuakeGuy" (https://www.reddit.com/user/theearthquakeguy) and
>>> some of the subreddits he moderates:
>>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/StormComing/
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Earthquakes/
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthquakeWatch/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Russell Deffner 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Geoffrey and all, here is the PAGER from USGS:
>>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006nkx#pager – they
>>> often change, so when I was looking their estimates for fatalities and
>>> economic impact was relatively low.
>>>
>>> Copied Activation WG in case there is a need to stand up a team.
>>>
>>> =Russ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Geoffrey Kateregga [mailto:geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:00 PM
>>> To: HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
>>> Subject: [HOT] Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Tanzania and Uganda, 12 people reported
>>> dead, hundreds injured
>>> http://earthquake-report.com/2016/09/10/strong-earthquake-lake-victoria-region-on-september-10-2016/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Geoffrey Kateregga
>>>
>>> Mobile: +256 702 813 228
>>>
>>> Email: geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org
>>>
>>> Skype: geoffrey5142
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> P. O. Box 24371,
>> Kampala - Uganda.
>> +256773723639.
>
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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

The folks on the ground in Tanzania and Uganda have the initial
project up on the Tasking Manager.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/

It is roads only at this time, but they will be putting up a Bukoba
buildings only project shortly.

Additional or higher priority areas of concern or AoI's as we call
them, may be coming as they get more feedback from the responding
agencies.

As you may have seen, additional imagery is also being sourced at this
time, please use a mix of mapbox and Bing to try and find the best
imagery you can.

Regards and thank you for helping map!

Buildings only mapping coming soon, please check back and check the
instructions often, as early in the process like this, the folks on
the ground need to refine their priorities and then we need to change
our priorities to support them as best we can.

Blake





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President, HOT Board of Directors
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I will set up a Tasking Manager project for roads as a first project.
>
> I am reviewing the area now.
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Kateregga
> <geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>> Thank you Russel and Laura for sharing the resources.
>>
>> @David, At the moment we are in touch with the Tanzania Red Cross who have
>> done a preliminary assessment of the situation on ground (see attachment).
>> They have also expressed great need for maps as they would be of great use
>> in their efforts.
>>
>> The local OSM Communities in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania are also shown
>> great interest and are ready to map if do an activation for the affected
>> area.
>>
>> Geoffrey.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Luswata David <lusd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Geoffrey and all, thanks for sharing.
>>>
>>> Geoffrey what else do we know especially on-ground impact, any new
>>> information available?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Laura O'Grady <la...@lauraogrady.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a supplement to the current resources being used I recommend checking
>>>> out, "The EarthQuakeGuy" (https://www.reddit.com/user/theearthquakeguy) and
>>>> some of the subreddits he moderates:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/StormComing/
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Earthquakes/
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthquakeWatch/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Russell Deffner <russdeff...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Geoffrey and all, here is the PAGER from USGS:
>>>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006nkx#pager – they
>>>> often change, so when I was looking their estimates for fatalities and
>>>> economic impact was relatively low.
>>>>
>>>> Copied Activation WG in case there is a need to stand up a team.
>>>>
>>>> =Russ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Geoffrey Kateregga [mailto:geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:00 PM
>>>> To: HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
>>>> Subject: [HOT] Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Tanzania and Uganda, 12 people reported
>>>> dead, hundreds injured
>>>> http://earthquake-report.com/2016/09/10/strong-earthquake-lake-victoria-region-on-september-10-2016/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Geoffrey Kateregga
>>>>
>>>> Mobile: +256 702 813 228
>>>>
>>>> Email: geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org
>>>>
>>>> Skype: geoffrey5142
>>>>
>>>> twitter | linkedin | facebook | website
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda

[Blake Girardot]

I will set up a Tasking Manager project for roads as a first project.

I am reviewing the area now.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Geoffrey Kateregga
 wrote:
> Thank you Russel and Laura for sharing the resources.
>
> @David, At the moment we are in touch with the Tanzania Red Cross who have
> done a preliminary assessment of the situation on ground (see attachment).
> They have also expressed great need for maps as they would be of great use
> in their efforts.
>
> The local OSM Communities in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania are also shown
> great interest and are ready to map if do an activation for the affected
> area.
>
> Geoffrey.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Luswata David  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Geoffrey and all, thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Geoffrey what else do we know especially on-ground impact, any new
>> information available?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Laura O'Grady 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As a supplement to the current resources being used I recommend checking
>>> out, "The EarthQuakeGuy" (https://www.reddit.com/user/theearthquakeguy) and
>>> some of the subreddits he moderates:
>>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/StormComing/
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Earthquakes/
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthquakeWatch/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Russell Deffner 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Geoffrey and all, here is the PAGER from USGS:
>>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006nkx#pager – they
>>> often change, so when I was looking their estimates for fatalities and
>>> economic impact was relatively low.
>>>
>>> Copied Activation WG in case there is a need to stand up a team.
>>>
>>> =Russ
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Geoffrey Kateregga [mailto:geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:00 PM
>>> To: HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
>>> Subject: [HOT] Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Tanzania and Uganda, 12 people reported
>>> dead, hundreds injured
>>> http://earthquake-report.com/2016/09/10/strong-earthquake-lake-victoria-region-on-september-10-2016/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Geoffrey Kateregga
>>>
>>> Mobile: +256 702 813 228
>>>
>>> Email: geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org
>>>
>>> Skype: geoffrey5142
>>>
>>> twitter | linkedin | facebook | website
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>>>
>>> Using OpenStreetMap
>>>
>>> for Humanitarian Response
>>>
>>> & Economic Development
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> P. O. Box 24371,
>> Kampala - Uganda.
>> +256773723639.
>
>
>
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Re: [HOT] Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Mappers,

Miriam has updated the Activation Working Group with two villages that
are a main concern for the local officials.

Luckily damage and deaths, were not as bad as they could have been,
but a number of people still lost their lives and many have had their
lives impacted by this hurricane.

We have put up a focused mapping project on the HOTOSM Tasking
Manager, it has several villages and cities covered, but with Miriam's
updated information, we have highlighted just the two heavily affected
villages and our goal is to get them mapped ASAP.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/

There is an update in the Description tab of the project that explains
a little bit more.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far to helping in Mexico
with updated map data!

Help spread the word with a retweet:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/773691379994230784

Regards,
Blake



On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Miriam Mapanauta  wrote:
> Hi Hot team
>
> Hurricane Newton is hitting  Baja California Sur and the state of Sonora.
> Besides the harm that a hurricane can cause there are big risks of flooding
> in different areas.
>
> A colleague in the OpenStreetMap community in Mexico, Alberto Chung (cc)
> reacted in advance and prepared the following Task to start mapping the
> area. Please find the task below.
>
> Thanks in advance for your support!
>
> Miriam
> @mapanauta
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Miriam Mapanauta 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi HOT team
>>
>> This is a heads up,  Hurricane Newton is hitting south of Baja California
>> Sur (around Los Cabos) and the cost of the State of Sonora.
>>
>> Other volunteers from Mexico and myself are preparing the Wiki and we are
>> trying to determine the areas that will need support.
>>
>> Stay tuned!
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your support,
>>
>> Miriam
>> @mapanauta
>
>
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Re: [HOT] Voting for Ramani Huria on OpenStreetMap Awards.

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Innocent,

I already voted for Ramani Huria of course, but I just wanted to say:

Considering all the great people, projects and work done around OSM, it is
a pretty big honor just to be in the list of 5 finalists for the categories.

I had a really hard time voting, because while the HOT community is well
represented in each of the categories, everyone in the categories is worth
voting for.

Heck in one category two HOT community members are listed, how can we
possibly choose?

My sincere thanks to everyone who is listed on the ballot for the OSM
Awards, everyone who was nominated and everyone who contributes in some way
to OSM. It is a very special project with a very special community, I count
myself quite lucky to be a part of it along with everyone on this list.

Good luck Ramani Huria!

Cheers,
Blake

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Innocent Maholi 
wrote:

> Hi everyone, hope you're doing great!
>
> OpenStreetMap launched the OpenStreetMap Awards
> 
> ,
> which will be presented this September at the State of the Map
> 2016 conference in Brussels.
> Luckily enough, HOT's project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
> known as "Ramani Huria " has been nominated
> under the category
> "Greatness in Mapping Award".
> Therefore, we are kindly asking the global HOT community to vote
> for Ramani Huria so that we win, as the project has been very
> successful and has done a great job.
> Hoping to get everyone's vote, Please, place your vote here
> .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best Regards,
> Innocent Maholi
> Lead Mapping Supervisor | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Dar es
> Salaam, Tanzania
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[HOT] Intro to JOSM, JOSM for iD users YouTube vids

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Friends,

If you like mapping, you owe it to yourself to try out the JOSM
desktop application for OSM mapping.

It has some advantages over the OSM iD web browser based editor, but
it is a little more complicated to use.

I made a series of very informal, one take, no script, no editing,
videos that hopefully serve as a gentle introduction to JOSM.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54o5PaKgnbKU-vXe11cSmmsxIYnL5oDU

Please forgive the informal, unpolished nature of the videos, if I had
to make sure they were of the same high quality that Andrew makes I
would never get them done :) Feedback welcome of course and feel free
to leave comments on the videos as well if you want to ask questions
or leave tips for others.

You can download and install JOSM from here:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

I usually just use the windows installer when I am installing on a
windows machine and do not suggest the jnlp method of installing JOSM.
For the most part, if you have Java already installed, JOSM installs
very easily and you can just accept the defaults and go ahead and
update the plugin list on first launch. One of the videos in the
playlist above shows how to set the preferences for JOSM that you
need.

If you need to install Java, the process should start the first time
you try and run JOSM. Go through the Java install process slowly and
make sure Java does not try and install the "Ask Toolbar" or change
your browser settings.

Anyway, if you like humanitarian mapping, it is totally worth it to
start using JOSM. I am happy to help anyone learn to use JOSM via an
interactive web session if you want some "virtual hands on" training,
just email me directly.

Cheers,
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[HOT] IWG-SEM at FOSS4G today: 'Collaborative Mapping in Crisis Response', 16.00h (CET), invitation to connect remotely

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

-- Forwarded message --
From: *Fabian Selg*

Dear colleagues,

this is a quick reminder of our FOSS4G conference session on 'Collaborative
Mapping in Crisis Response' happening today at 16:00h (CET).

Everyone is invited to join us remotely through the following link:

http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/fm/5cfaff-19279

The format of the session is a moderated panel and we welcome your input,
comments and questions.
Peter Zeil (Spatial Services Salzburg and current chair of the
International Working Group for Satellite Emergency Mapping) will be our
moderator.
Panelists are Lorant Czaran (UNOOSA), Blake Girardot (HOT-OSM), Simone
Dalmasso (JRC), Lars Wirkus (BICC) and Engelbert Niehaus (University
Koblenz-Landau).

Of course, for all those of you who attend the FOSS4G conference we would
be happy to have you there in person (16.00, Lab1).

Best regards,
Fabian


Fabian Selg
Lecturer & PhD candidate
GIS and Remote Sensing research groups
Department of Geography (R.321)
University of Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 166, 53115 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0)228 73-2098
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Re: [HOT] Tanzania MSD/JSI roads import update

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Rafael,

Thank you for the update, congratulations and thank you to everyone
making the import a success!

Cheers,
Blake

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Rafael Avila Coya <ravilac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> The Tanzania roads import, from the MSD & JSI database, that started
> mid-September last year, is progressing very well.
>
> 16,299 highway segments have been imported, for a total of 42,358 km
> (444,422 nodes) [1].
>
> Up to now, 10 projects have been finished, and 5 more are available (I've
> just created the last TM project, for Mara region, that includes part of
> beautiful Serengeti). You can find the available projects here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Tanzania/Tanzania_MSD_%26_JSI_road_import_workflow#Getting_OSM_data_and_MSD.26JSI_road_segments
>
> My big thanks to all volunteers who are contributing to make this big import
> possible, and to Fernando Cruz Matute and Jacob Sprang, who have been
> preparing the data for the last 10 projects!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael.
>
> [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/ravilacoya/29048278645
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[HOT] HOT Summit 2016 Program Announcement

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear HOT Community Members,

On behalf of the HOT Summit 2016 Working Group, I am pleased to
announce that we have finalized the program for HOT Summit 2016 taking
place Thursday, September 22, 2016, the day before State of the Map in
Brussels Belgium.

The HOT Summit was in part conceived to celebrate, support and promote
the diverse community of humanitarian mappers around the world and
this year's HOT Summit is a wonderful fulfillment of those goals.

With 32 presenters from 16 countries sharing their experience and
knowledge building communities and working both on the ground and
remotely supporting field work, this year's Summit will be a unique
opportunity to share, learn and make connections with community
leaders from around the world.

http://summit.hotosm.org/program/
http://summit.hotosm.org/speakers/

Your attendance is both a chance for you to meet and connect with
OpenStreetMap and humanitarian leaders and to support their work
making a difference in the lives of millions of people. Your
attendance and participation in the HOT Summit will have a direct and
important impact on their work and yours.

There is lots of time built in to the schedule for networking, idea
exchange and getting to know others in the humanitarian and
development spheres.

We are very excited to see everyone at the Summit, make new
acquaintances and collaborate with old friends, we really hope you
will attend. Tickets are still available:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-summit-2016-tickets-25408089279

And a special thank you to the organizations sponsoring the Summit,
their support, like yours, makes this amazing event possible:

http://summit.hotosm.org/sponsor/

Please feel free to share this email and please retweet our announcement:
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Re: [HOT] #2045 Kinshasa Projects - Imagery

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Ukundji,

It should load automatically in JOSM, the reason it was not is fixed now :)

Thank you so much for asking!

cheers
blake

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Jens Mueller (Historical Research
Services)  wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My first mail to this mailing list – and may be a start with a stupid
> question.
> I have tried to contrubute to #2041 and #2043 based on mapbox and bing
> imagery and will keep on mapping and validating at #2043
>
> Apart of that and after that I would like to work on #2045.
> But I do not know how to use the hiu-maps.net lnk and imagery under JOSM.
> Tried to find out by checking several sources, but failed so far.
> I have already accepted the next view licence to get access.
>
> In this case the following imagery is relevant and should be used:
> http://hiu-maps.net/hot/1.0.0/kinshasa-s-14apr2016-flipped/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
>
> Thanks for every hint
>
> Ukundji
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Re: [HOT] Import WASH facilities in Zambia

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Trudy,

As Enock said, going through those links and following the process
outlined is the core of what you need to do to do an import.

In my experience, the most difficult part is getting the permission
from the original data creators that will be compatible with OSM Open
Database License.

I am happy to help you with the whole import process if no on else is
available, but if you could please forward me the information about
the license of the data, and a link to the data itself that is always
the first two steps for me, review the license or permission letter
and have a look at the data itself.

Cheers,
Blake

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador
 wrote:
> Hi Trudy,
>
> First take a look the import guidelines [1]. And the best list to talk to
> relating to imports is the Imports list [2]
>
> 1. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
> 2. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
>
> - Enock
>
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 6:27 AM, Gertrude Hope  wrote:
>>
>> Hello HOT,
>>
>> OSM Zambia has been given data for peri-urban and low cost residential
>> areas WASH points for the whole country. We would like to import it. We need
>> your advise on how to do it and is there anyone who can work with us on
>> this?
>>
>> Thank you.
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[HOT] Open source software for landslide detection use open imagery (landsat8) in Nepal

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

For anyone interested a research group at nasa is working on automated
landslide detection and have released their python code.

The link can be found in the article:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88319=eoa-iotd

"The Sudden Landslide Identification Product (SLIP) combs through
Earth imagery and analyzes consecutive images of the same location to
spot changes in soil moisture, muddiness, and other surface features.
The program also compares the hill slopes with topographic information
derived from digital elevation models, such as those built from the
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the Advanced Spaceborne
Thermal Emissions and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). By combining this
information, SLIP can automatically pinpoint the locations of possible
landslides each time a new, cloud-free land image is acquired."

Regards,
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[HOT] Fwd: Invitation to GIS workshop Thursday - Palestine Museum of Natural History

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Subject: [HumanRights] Invitation to GIS workshop Thursday and more
Date: July 9, 2016 at 10:32:37 AM GMT+2
Cc: Human Rights Newsletter 

Invitation to a GIS application workshop. Note we continue to have regular
training workshops at the museum as well as opportunities to do volunteer
work, to do research, or partake of field trips. But even if you live in
other countries you can help us in many ways. Join our volunteers around
the world. Contact us if you like more information at
i...@palestinenature.org You can also see our two short videos explaining
ways you can help/connect with us to protect nature
https://youtu.be/BPhFLOsEIM0
https://youtu.be/APxvAZh8qrQ

Or connect with us on facebook as Palestine Museum of Natural History,
QGIS intermediate level workshop

Palestine Museum of Natural History, Bethlehem University Mar Andrea campus
Thursday 14 July 2016 gather/register 9:30 AM,  workshop 10 AM- Noon

- learn how to create lines/points/polygons
- learn how the attributes table functions and its use
- learn how to import excel sheet in QGIS
- learn how to create diagrams inside QGIS
- learn how to finalize your map (scale, title, legend) and save it in PDF
mode.

Description: This workshop will allow you to produce your maps based on
your own data. You will learn how to create layers and how to organize your
data inside QGIS. Finally, you will be able to finalize your map and have
it ready to print or to be saved as a PDF.

Facilitator: Jeane Perrier is from Sciences Po Paris, France. PhD student
in political science on the governance of the paracommuns of irrigation in
Palestine (University of Montpellier, France).

Reservation to i...@palestinenature.org (02)2773553

But again, contact us, come visit, donate, and/or work with us remotely in
any case. We do need your support

Mazin Qumsiyeh
Professor and (volunteer) Director
Palestine Museum of Natural History
Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability
Bethlehem University
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[HOT] Swaziland Malaria Elimination Final Section! They need building footprints!

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

A major Swaziland malaria spraying opportunity is coming up and the
folks from the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) within the Global
Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco are asking
that we help them with the final section of Swaziland that has not
been mapped yet to aid in their program planning.

We have laid out 7 Tasking Manager projects to get this accomplished,
2 of which are almost complete.

The HOT Community has already mapped 2/3's of Swaziland (wow, thank
you!) and this final section is needed to complete a full country wide
building footprint map.

If you can find some time this week and next to help us get this final
section completed, you will be part of an amazing effort to map all of
Swaziland in such a sort time to help them eliminate malaria in 2016.

They are very close to their goal and building footprints help their
efforts greatly, aiding them to precisely plan their spraying and net
distribution campaigns over large land areas efficiently and
comprehensively among other uses. But now it is about planning, and
the building footprints are one of their best tools for that.

So please, join with the MEI folks, volunteers and other public health
pros who will be mapping along with you all this week and next to get
this last section done. (It is that important.)

http://tasks.hotosm.org/?search=swaziland

And please help spread the word:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/750424852394151936

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Re: [HOT] gps tracks in western africa

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Joost,

I think uploading them to OSM is perfect. I would suggest creating a
new OSM account just for these gpx traces as that might make some
projects easier in the future. I use the gmail "+identifier" feature
for creating import specific accounts, let me know if you have any
questions about that. But that is not required, whatever works for you
is good for OSM.

In addition, if you could .zip them up and send them to me I would
like to put them on the HOT google drive, hopefully for use in that
same future project.

Cheers,
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On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:40 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kind overlanders have donated their GPS tracks from their entire trip in
> Africa to OSM. Here's a rough outline of that trip:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/rBvJPEO.jpg
>
> Should I just upload them to the OSM gpx database, and/or put them somewhere
> else too?
>
>
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Re: [HOT] Reports about actual use of the results of HOT efforts

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

 OSM as the
reference/base layer:
https://www.disasterscharter.org/web/guest/-/flood-in-sri-lan-1

In Sri Lanka that same data you and the HOT/OSM community generated
was used in a tool like http://inasafe.org/ to help figure out what
relief supplies were needed where. (Not sure they use inasafe
specifically, but they for sure had a tool like that using OSM data to
help figure out exposure numbers).

The same can typically be said for the disaster products produced by
the EU/EC Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service, to select a disaster
at random, flooding in Bavaria Germany, OSM vector data is used in
probably every product they produced (too many to check them all)
http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/list-of-components/EMSR166

So while I can not answer all your questions, I can say for sure, if
you are hot or missing maps mapping, you are doing it for a specific
purpose and not just because it is nice to have. But additionally, I
feel any OSM mapping is valuable, no matter where it is. Siberia data
might just be nice to have today, but if there are more wildfires,
earthquakes or another Tunguska event there, for sure your mapping
will be used as part of the response and it will make at least some
small difference to the people suffering through the disaster and the
people responding, and often time it is making a significant
difference. That is why I map and volunteer on the Board for HOT.

I hope that helps some, and as I said, I know we need to do better at
providing examples, it is just a matter of limited time and resources,
for both HOT's volunteers and the folks doing the relief work.

Respectfully,
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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Peter Gervai <grin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello HOT!
>
> I decided to bring this over from
> https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm-website/issues/65
> and
> https://github.com/hotosm/hotosm-website/issues/84#issuecomment-217356627
> (both closed, btw) since I have realised this may be of a wider interest.
>
> The original request was about the problem that while there are plenty of
> showcases about the _results_ of the various HOT maps there are
> almost none - or if there is they are very hard to find - about how these
> mapping results were _used_ on the field out there.
>
> Actual reports from the people who received the output of HOT:
> - who are they exactly, where are they from, how are they organised,
> how did they contact HOT?
> - how did they use the data or the maps, what methods, equipment?
> - what did they exactly used it for, what did they do with it?
> - what parts of the map/data was the most helpful for them, how and why?
> - what was not usable for them, what parts were not needed by them?
> - what would they liked to have which was missing?
> - if it's possible to say how much did the HOT results helped their
> efforts? was it a little help? was it the most important help in their
> work?
> - what did they dislike in the results? were there dangerously
> unreliable, misrepresented, otherwise problematic areas? were the
> "white western people" able to map what's out there or were they
> misunderstood what they saw on the imagery? I would like to know the
> problems, too.
>
> Maybe there are such reports, then I would be very glad if you people
> would point me to them. (I would then forward it to the webite team to
> include it on the main website, too.)
>
> If there are not much of those, which I suspect, I would propose a simple 
> thing:
>
>
> HOT (community) give map and data to organisations, organisations give
> reports of actual usage to HOT (community).
> This should be the only thing we would kindly, but firmly ask for it in 
> return.
>
>
> As I wrote in the linked ticket above: "there is a big difference
> between asking me to help creating a map somewhere just because the
> area isn't covered (like when I was mapping rivers in Siberia, vast
> lands with not a single node around, but nobody really care or use it,
> it's just for fun) or because there are actual people requiring this
> actual result to do actual work."
>
> Apart from that, I would like to know whether my efforts are really
> useful (apart from the "good to have" maps), there are actual people
> who ask this very question from me and expecting answers, and I only
> have general answers with lots of "really useful" and "it's helping
> the people there", but hardly any hard facts or actual description of
> what really was the effect of the HOT efforts.
>
> Thank you,
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Re: [HOT] MapLesotho Phase 2 - June mapping relay

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder: June is near the end, and #MapLesotho is still
going with their month long mapping relay. If you find some time on
this Monday, maybe visit Lesotho and help map, it is a lovely country.
Ciaran Staunton @CiaranStaunton writes:

@hotosm please help #QachasNek mappers who are mapping today on
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1942# for #MapLesotho @RefiloeSemethe

Attention validators and project managers: Check out the Instructions
on that project!

Cheers
Blake

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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Ciarán Staunton
<ciaran.staun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to just let everyone here know that #MapLesotho has now got a
> complete basemap. As Martin Dittus has shown it all started with a the
> enormous tasks in July 2014. Sorry that those dragged :), but then anything
> covering a whole country will. To everyone out there who helped let me say
> thanks.
>
> Now the #MapLesotho story moves on. The flocking and sustaining effects of
> mappers here on hotosm creates a sense of purpose. Lesotho now has an
> indigenous  mapping community of 10 regular mappers and 70 others who
> participate when they can. They are big enough now to sustain 11 tasks and
> are mapping all June in a relay fashion starting today in Quthing and going
> around eleven venues in Lesotho clockwise until the 30th.
>
> Lesotho is a disaster preparedness mapping project. It doesn't need your
> urgent attention. All the same stop on by the tasks - 1941 today - to take a
> tile or validate. Or simply shout your warm #MapLesotho wishes on twitter as
> they like to see the support. There will be a blog post each day on the
> wordpress from whoever is holding the mapathons.
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Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Early Bird Registration ends June 18 - Early Bird Extended!

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Imre Samu <pella.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> HOT Summit Early Bird registration ends June 18.
>
> it is closed now.
> it is possible to extending to  2016/06/18 (23:59). ( at the latest time
> zone?)
>
> Imre

Hi Imre, that is a great idea.

We have extended the Early Bird Registration until July 9th, 2016.

Get them while you can!

Last year's HOT Summit was really an amazing event I thought, there
was a great community spirit to it. If you are wondering if it will be
worth it, I am quite sure it will be!

But if you are anything like me and are a little shy about
conferences, believe me, the HOT Summit and State of the Map are very
welcoming, friendly and enjoyable. It is like hanging out with good
friends, relaxed and fun.

I really hope to see you there.

Cheers,
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>
>
> 2016-06-16 3:57 GMT+02:00 Cheryl Shaw <cheryl.s...@hotosm.org>:
>>
>> Just a reminder that the HOT Summit Early Bird registration ends June 18.
>> Please be sure to register and pass it on to your friends and colleagues.
>> HOT Community Members attend for just $50 and HOT Corporate and Institution
>> Members register for just $150.
>>
>> It's just important that you register.  Go to:
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-summit-2016-tickets-25408089279
>>
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[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - June 11th Edition

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

As you might know HOT hosts some informal get togethers via HOT's
voice and IRC servers on Saturday afternoons once in a while, and one
is happening today. Exact times are a little flexible, but someone
should be in the channels for the next 2 or 4 hours at least.

We use the HOT "Mumble" server. All you have to do is download a
simple client (windows, andriod, ios, linux) and connect and thats it,
all the info you need is here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble

You can also use any IRC client if you just want to connect via text
to the OSM IRC server and join the #hot channel.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC

Topics for today can be anything of interest. We are glad to welcome
and support any new mappers who are participating in any sort of
mapping.

As always, mappers of any level and people interested in any aspect of
HOT are encouraged to join and ask questions or just chat.

Advanced mappers and people interested in Activation Coordination
encourage to join as well.

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
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[HOT] Fwd: [HOT Training] Training WG meeting Monday 6 June, 1900 UTC

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

HOT has a number of working groups (WGs) that help keep things moving
along here.

They are open to everyone and are a vital part of HOT. They are a
great place to contribute to HOT and humanitarian mapping using other
skills and passions besides mapping.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups

Please take a look at the above page and see if any of WGs interest you.

Joining a working group is simple: Show up at the meetings and you are
in the working group :)

Here is a calendar of our WG meetings: http://bit.ly/1X5XHdO

If you have any questions about WGs please feel free to ask them here!

Cheers,
Blake

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Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:44 AM
Subject: [HOT Training] Training WG meeting Monday 6 June, 1900 UTC
To: Training WG 


Just a reminder that the Training Working Group will meet Monday 6
June, 1900 UTC (3:00pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time), on the IRC #hot
channel.

Our standing agenda is on the TrWG Trello page, https://trello.com/c/gAtn1nsx.

Cheers,
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Re: [HOT] MapLesotho Phase 2

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Ciarán Staunton
<ciaran.staun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to just let everyone here know that #MapLesotho has now got a
> complete basemap.

Congrats to everyone who helped make that a reality!

>
> Now the #MapLesotho story moves on. The flocking and sustaining effects of
> mappers here on hotosm creates a sense of purpose. Lesotho now has an
> indigenous  mapping community of 10 regular mappers and 70 others who
> participate when they can. They are big enough now to sustain 11 tasks and
> are mapping all June in a relay fashion starting today in Quthing and going
> around eleven venues in Lesotho clockwise until the 30th.

Wow, all of this is awesome!

> Lesotho is a disaster preparedness mapping project. It doesn't need your
> urgent attention. All the same stop on by the tasks - 1941 today - to take a
> tile or validate.

There is no greater pleasure in HOTOSM for me than taking an hour or
two and doing #MapLesoto tiles when you or Dave mention it. I
encourage everyone to take some time and join with the people, remote
and local, of #MapLesotho on the projects Ciarán and Dave post about.
It is a real opportunity to be a part of this incredible, successful,
long running community building and mapping project. Everyone who is
part of the HOT Community for longer than 6 months probably has some
#MapLesoto tiles in their Tasking Manager history :) Lets all go get a
few more and if you have not mapped any #MapLesotho tiles yet, now is
your chance!

Best wishes,
Blake

> they like to see the support. There will be a blog post each day on the
> wordpress from whoever is holding the mapathons.
>
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Accepting applications for Regional Health Data Mapping Workshop

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Thank you for sharing that John.

This "GIS for Public Health Professionals Intro" course pays for all hotel
and meal costs but does not pay travel to and from Accra, Ghana and is only
available to people from Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Ghana, Liberia, Mali,
Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, or Togo.

If this looks like a good opportunity for you the deadline is June 5th,
2016.

Please pass it on to anyone you think might be interested and share via
social media.

Thanks again John

Blake




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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:23 AM, John Gordon <jgor...@gri.ca> wrote:

> This workshop may be of interest.
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Accepting applications for Regional Health Data Mapping Workshop
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:05:25 +
> From: The DHS Program <thedhsprog...@gmail.com> <thedhsprog...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: thedhsprog...@gmail.com
> To: jgor...@gri.ca
>
>
> [image: The DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) Program]
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=fdf78dc4d4=228ee431ff>
>
> Now Accepting Applications for Regional Health Data Mapping Workshop Until
> June 5, 2016
>
> The DHS Program is searching for potential participants for a Regional
> Health Data Mapping Workshop. The workshop will be held from August 8-12,
> 2016, in Accra, Ghana.
>
> The workshop will focus on the application of Geographic Information
> System (GIS) in public health, specifically using maps for better program
> and policy decision making. This will be a basic workshop that introduces
> participants to data concepts including management and cleaning of data in
> Microsoft Excel, using maps as part of the decision making process,
> introduction to GIS concepts (including GPS data collection), and hands-on
> introduction to QGIS, an open source GIS software package. No previous
> experience with GIS software is required.
>
> Read more>>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=c0a0c4c1e1=228ee431ff>
>
> Employment Opportunities
>
> The DHS Program is hiring a Survey Manager and Data Processing Specialist. 
> Read
> more>>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=8a2b6c2ca0=228ee431ff>
>
> New Publications
>
>- 2015
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=8dd6d3a0c7=228ee431ff>Afghanistan
>DHS
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=1529c8644e=228ee431ff>:
>Key Indicators Report (English)
>- 2014-15
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=35a8c1a6b1=228ee431ff>Rwanda
>DHS
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=2b686cd4b3=228ee431ff>:
>Key Findings, Reading DHS Tables, Infographic, Fact Sheet, Final Report
>(English)
>- 2015
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=e010b29b36=228ee431ff>Nepal
>SPA
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=a6d0c32b00=228ee431ff>:
>Preliminary Report (English)
>- 2015
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=f83aedf5c3=228ee431ff>Kenya
>MIS
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=61ebeb4c84=228ee431ff>:
>Reading MIS Tables, Infographic, Fact Sheet, Final Report (English)
>
> New Datasets
>
>- 2014-15 Rwanda DHS
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=ec9b68bac9=228ee431ff>
>- 2014 Bangladesh SPA
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=2f7615a25d=228ee431ff>
>- 2014-15 Tanzania SPA
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=7f18cc9eb4=228ee431ff>
>- 2015 Kenya MIS
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=97b36ff6a4=228ee431ff>
>
> New Videos
>
>- 2014-15 Tanzania SPA Key Findings
>
> <http://dhsprogram.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a13c50f402efe6a4dab90feb=d749b6ac2d=228ee431ff>
>- Key Findings from the 2015 Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey
>
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Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Nicholas Doiron
<ni...@codeforamerica.org> wrote:
> Related - I've been adding right-to-left language support for iD OSM editor.
> It was already translated to Arabic and Persian/Farsi, but typically sites
> flip their UI, so our main sidebar would appear on the right.
>
> We've got most technical parts done, so now we would much appreciate some
> fluent speakers looking it over. Please get in touch or connect me with
> interested mappers!
>
> Discussion and code here:
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/3087
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Doiron



Hi Nick,

Did I say that sounds great already, because it does. Thank you very much!

And thank you for all the additional suggestions from those that have
shared their pain points and ideas for improvements or changes in this
thread and in the past.

Andrew Wiseman (of Wu Tang FOIA fame :) collected them together and we
reviewed how they fit in the existing github issues. Then myself,
Mikel, Andrew and Bryan, the main iD developer,  sat down and went
over them all in detail earlier in the week.

We talked about them from various angles and it went great. There was
a lot of overlap between HOT and iD feature requests in general (which
is what you would expect really) that was already in the works or
planned to be worked on soon.

And for some of the somewhat HOT unique items, we talked about goals
of the item and what things it impacted and what other mechanisms
might address the same needs goals for the item and found some simple
things that already exist and we might just tweak to include some more
specific or general cases. We tried to think of a way to address as
many issues as possible in a reasonable and smart way if we could. And
I think we all came out of the meeting feeling like we had made a lot
of progress toward doing that.

Some things will come out sooner than others, like the imagery layer
switching is already out, But do expect some UI changes to be coming
as well, nothing major, for example a tool bar is coming to the bottom
of the screen, do not tell anyone :)

Thank you for your time Bryan, Mikel and Andrew

Cheers,
Blake


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> On May 16, 2016 9:00 PM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM"
> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
>>
>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT
>> are:
>>
>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
>>
>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
>> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
>>
>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
>> being done already)
>>
>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
>> projects.
>>
>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
>>
>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
>> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.
>>
>> Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
>> other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
>> suggestion for how to actually address those issues.
>>
>> We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
>> repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
>> developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
>> (not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan
>> Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different
>> directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of
>> needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions
>> and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is
>> the great tool it is.
>>
>> The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and for

Re: [HOT] iD news: v1.9.5 released

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Bryan,

Some cool ones in the list. Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Blake

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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com> wrote:
> iD v1.9.5 was released May 25 2016 and is now available for editing on
> openstreetmap.org
>
> The release includes:
> - Fix bug causing Russian track type translated strings to sneak into tag
> values
> - Change color of save button as user edits increase (built by tanerochris)
> - Spacebar can now be used to click for faster drawing (built by
> brandonreavis)
> - Localized phone number placeholder (built by dobratzp)
> - Command-B / Control-B will switch to recently used Background imagery
> (built by RoPP)
> - Fix bug causing greedy autocompletion of dropdown control (built by Kushan
> Joshi)
> - More presets, bug fixes, usability improvements
>
> Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!  I’m really excited
> about how many people are contributing to iD these days.
>
> Changelog: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#195
> Twitter:   https://twitter.com/bhousel/status/735468105435119616
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
> Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/bhousel, or follow the iD project
> on GitHub https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD for more iD tips and updates.
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Re: [HOT] Terrapattern: query-by-example for satellite imagery

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

The about page is long, but well worth a full read to the end:

http://www.terrapattern.com/about

OSM data played a real role in the project, and that means everyone
here played a real role.

It is intended as a humanitarian project and seems to touch on a lot
of the issues humanitarian response and mapping faces on a regular
basis. It is pretty nice it is all open source. I am sure OSM and HOT
will be reaching out to them to see how we can all work better
together.

The Knight Foundation sponsored it in part, they support the most
amazing projects.

Please feel free to keep sharing ideas after reading their about page.

Thank you martind for putting the link in IRC and email :)

Regards
Blake


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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:09 PM, joost schouppe
<joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is not, at least not at this time. For example, I tried finding airports
> by clicking on a plane. It returns some planes and a lot of asphalt. It
> might however be useful to quickly identify a very rough outline of built up
> land or roads. In my case: airports did show up as hotspots. So it might be
> useful to direct mapping activity.
>
> 2016-05-26 16:51 GMT+02:00 Paul Uithol <paul.uit...@hotosm.org>:
>>
>> That sounds quite interesting - I'm wondering if it could be accurate
>> enough to use as a tool for automatically tracing/classifying/tagging
>> features based on imagery in some scenarios? I imagine the error rate would
>> be quite a lot higher than with proper mapping, but in some situations
>> having a fast initial assessment (before focusing on accuracy) is useful?
>>
>>
>> On 26-05-2016 12:57, Martin Dittus wrote:
>>
>> Made the rounds on social media yesterday, I imagine a few of you have
>> already seen it.
>> http://www.terrapattern.com/
>>
>> It’s a visual search for aerial imagery — "a prototype for helping people
>> quickly scan extremely large geographical areas for specific visual
>> features”. You mark a desired feature, it finds all other occurrences.
>>
>> Their case studies mention OSM as a source data set, but they don’t yet
>> appear to be talking to anyone at HOT? "Terrapattern was only possible due
>> to the astonishing crowdsourced mapping effort of the OpenStreetMap project,
>> which has generously categorized large parts of the world with its Nominatim
>> taxonomy”.
>>
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Re: [HOT] Terrapattern: query-by-example for satellite imagery

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

This discussion leads to a lot of potential ideas.

they mention OSM in text, but it was not clear to me how OSM data was involved.

About the only feature I can think of is airports, but I could almost
see it using the current tagged airports or helipads (real heli pads,
with an H) as examples to then search a much much larger area for
similar features to review.

At the very least it would be sweet if it could use the osm data to
remote control to josm to look at those example areas and all the
matching areas it found.

or just highlight some tight rectangles or circle around the aerial
imagery of examples of a thing to search for  (heli pads for example)
and let it find everything like that, click, josm to review

I am sure I am not explaining that very well.

Probably not possible to search for radio or transmission towers or
masts, but it would very impressive if it did with a high accuracy.

Regards,
Blake


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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:09 PM, joost schouppe
<joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is not, at least not at this time. For example, I tried finding airports
> by clicking on a plane. It returns some planes and a lot of asphalt. It
> might however be useful to quickly identify a very rough outline of built up
> land or roads. In my case: airports did show up as hotspots. So it might be
> useful to direct mapping activity.
>
> 2016-05-26 16:51 GMT+02:00 Paul Uithol <paul.uit...@hotosm.org>:
>>
>> That sounds quite interesting - I'm wondering if it could be accurate
>> enough to use as a tool for automatically tracing/classifying/tagging
>> features based on imagery in some scenarios? I imagine the error rate would
>> be quite a lot higher than with proper mapping, but in some situations
>> having a fast initial assessment (before focusing on accuracy) is useful?
>>
>>
>> On 26-05-2016 12:57, Martin Dittus wrote:
>>
>> Made the rounds on social media yesterday, I imagine a few of you have
>> already seen it.
>> http://www.terrapattern.com/
>>
>> It’s a visual search for aerial imagery — "a prototype for helping people
>> quickly scan extremely large geographical areas for specific visual
>> features”. You mark a desired feature, it finds all other occurrences.
>>
>> Their case studies mention OSM as a source data set, but they don’t yet
>> appear to be talking to anyone at HOT? "Terrapattern was only possible due
>> to the astonishing crowdsourced mapping effort of the OpenStreetMap project,
>> which has generously categorized large parts of the world with its Nominatim
>> taxonomy”.
>>
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[HOT] A big thank you to HOT and OSM mappers from the Ministry of Disaster Management Sri Lanka

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dr. S. Amalanathan, Secretary for Development, Ministry of Disaster
Management Sri Lanka took some time from his schedule while attending
the World Humanitarian Summit to find HOT's booth and stop to say
thank you in person to everyone contributing to this Activation
mapping.

Geoffrey Kateregga:
Dr. Amalanathan Ministry of Disaster mgt -Sri Lanka visiting our booth
is grateful for @hotosm Floods Activation
https://twitter.com/kateregga1/status/735101040081653760

Robert has some actual numbers for buildings mapped, but I do not have
them at the moment. The numbers were very impressive. A lot of people
helped to get a lot of building data generated.

Building data is a very important tool for response work and providing
as much as you did, in as tight a time frame as you did gave the Sri
Lanka DMC another important resource for a clear view on the
situation. That is what they asked you to do and you really stepped up
and helped. Thank you, thank you.

Still more to do of course before we are though. Please check the
Tasking Manager for new projects as we are expecting to do more
detailed mapping with roads for more focused areas (AOIs) from the
DMC. And we still need validators to keep on validating if they can.
They are among the unsung heroes of high quality OSM data.

Anyone new, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel to learn
more about mapping, how to map, and HOTOSM. And welcome aboard!

https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/playlists

Regards,
Blake

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[HOT] Some happenings around HOT today to re-tweet, validation phase for #SriLankaFloods projects

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

We are working on creating the next projects, the generated data that
covered such a large area that data has already been very useful.

We need help with validation still.

Below are some tweets about events around HOT today and another call
for #SriLankaFloods

If you could please share them at your convenience, it helps a lot.

Meeting the crew from @hotosm - one of five winners of Pacific
Humanitarian Challenge http://dfat.ly/23tOWJh
https://twitter.com/Senator_CFW/status/734677905440149505

HOT proud to be member of Global Alliance for Urban Crises, launching
today at @WHSummit #thinkurban #sharehumanity
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734762876615938049

New mappers, come back to help with the 2nd pass. Here is how:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bgirardot/diary/36235 then
http://tasks.hotosm.org
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734924099064057856

Regards,
Blake

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[HOT] Even new mappers can help validate, here is how

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

The HOT Community did an amazing job collecting housing unit data over
a large area, in very good detail.

You have almost completed all the initial mapping, which is very impressive.

It also still leaves us the 2nd round of reviewing all the mapping,
which is an equally challenging task.

But even new mappers can help make this process go faster and better,
and by skill building, it all goes much faster next time, because
unfortunately there will be a next time.

New mappers read this blog post first:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bgirardot/diary/36235

Then, if you can, go back to the still open Sri Lanka projects (
http://tasks.hotosm.org ) and help fill in if anything got missed in
other people's task squares.

Regards,
Blake

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[HOT] Sri Lanka: Some Tweets to retweet - we need mappers, please spread the word

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Very broad AOI, building level detail - it is going to take a lot of
us, if you could please just network these or anything else, we need
to keep the mapping up and get it done so we need a big effort for
several days, it is a real challenge.

https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734386734327320576
#SriLankaFloods Are not over, please map and spread the word
http://tasks.hotosm.org/  Mapping is making impacts on the ground, you
can help

https://twitter.com/kateregga1/status/734346688832393216
.@hotosm in the Exhibition Fair @WHSummit , we make Collaborative Maps
for Humanitarian Aid #ShareHumanity

https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734218945960415232
.@GISCorps is helping map #SriLankaFloods 10's of thousands of
buildings so far. Go @GISCorps! SL needs you! http://tasks.hotosm.org/

Regards,
Blake

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[HOT] Validation: Could one validator volunteer to give feedback to new validators directly for us?

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Greetings,

There have been a lot of new mappers and validators helping with Sri
Lanka and that is great!!! We really really need crowds.

Flood's crisis times are extended and they cover large areas, the
mapping we are providing is unprecedented housing detail over a very
large area, giving DMC an amazing tool in their planning all aspects
of their response. So, we still need lots of mappings going above and
beyond to get this AOI done and done right.

Some of the new validators could use some coaching on giving positive
feedback, being supportive and encouraging and just fixing or
finishing things if it is just a few.

I have a list :) Which is great.

Much like positive feedback on new mapping early really helps, new
feedback on validating could really help too. In a lot of ways.

Would anyone volunteer to engage with these new validators and offer
some guidance? As I said, I have a short list, very short now and if I
could pass you any others I come across that would be awsome.

Cheers,
Blake

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[HOT] Sri Lanka: Please some tweets to retweet - OSM data used in real time, they need buildings

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi all,

Actual updates from Robert will be forthcoming, but from my perspective:

OSM data is being used in real time by the Disaster Management Center
of Sri Lanka, the government response agency. Many parts of the Sri
Lankan government and their humanitarian partners already know OSM
data, its quality and how to work with it.

NASA offered  2 days ago to let us contribute needs for targetting the
EO-1 satellite while it passed over Sri Lanka today, but after 24
hours of HOT trying hard to get the too large AOI narrowed down, it
was just not possible.

This is a large scale disaster and the DMC is working on multiple
scales, but the part they have asked us to work on is the large scale,
high detail and quality. That means we need to get a lot of buildings
mapped.

We set a goal of getting http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1914 done
today, 34% now. If you could please push this to your social networks,
friends family. If you could get 1 new person to map you would be
doubling your impact today and every crisis going forward.

https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734012947962417152
#SriLankaFloods very large AOI to cover, building footprints needed.
Please map and share, we need crowds http://tasks.hotosm.org/

https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/73334038389249
#SriLankaFloods still needs @openstreetmap data. If possible, please
map some buildings from our Tasking Manager http://tasks.hotosm.org

https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236
HOT is activating to support relief in Sri Lanka, if you have a few
moments, please visit http://tasks.hotosm.org
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods

Floods are well known to be difficult to generate interest in, please
help spread the word and impotence and tools that people can help in
Sri Lanka from home.

Lets get 1914 done!

Regards,
Blake

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Re: [HOT] HOT project 1913 - Sri Lanka Floods

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

I just created a very informal tutorial video while looking into this
imagery alignment issue. I attempted to make a "How to Align Imagery
in 3 mins" tutorial, but it all went wrong, the imagery did not need
to be realigned to the mapping at all amongst other things. The
imagery alignment seems to be an issue so is one of things we are
looking into, I thought I would just record the how-to while I looked
at the mapping data to understand the issue better anyway.

I actually still think it packs a lot of useful information about how
to actually do background imagery re-alignment and when not to do
imagery background alignment and what to do instead into 3 mins. But
is is very informal and has some loud sounds from the environment in
the middle.

Spoiler: iD has changed how it does background imagery alignment as
well since the last time I had do that so it is worth watching even if
you think you already know how to align background imagery in iD, you
might not like I did not :)

https://youtu.be/1Pcj_wFTHeE

To see an excellent example of how to make HOT How To Videos, see
Andrew Wiseman's examples. He just completed adding closed captioning
text for both Spanish and English:

https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/videos

Regards,
Blake

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Mike Thompson  wrote:
> Thanks Michael!  Good information.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Michael Heißmeier
>  wrote:
>>
>> This custom imagery is the Mapbox layer (identical url). But unfortunately
>> not all contributors use it.
>>
>>
>> Mike Thompson, 2016-05-19 22:00:
>>
>> The project seems to have it's own custom imagery as this is what shows be
>> default in both JOSM and iD.
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Michael Heißmeier
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just validated a few tiles on this project and the main problem I can
>>> see is this:
>>>
>>> The instructions tell us to align all buildings with the provided Mapbox
>>> imagery but most buildings are aligned to Bing. There is a noticeable offset
>>> between the two and I am realining buildings when validating.
>>>
>>> Please make sure you select the proper imagery when contributing to this
>>> project (and probably others in this activation).
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael
>>> (osm:michael63)
>>>
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Re: [HOT] HOT project 1913 - Sri Lanka Floods

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

On thing to keep in mind is that some of this might have been mapped
via a different project so instructions that used Bing, the OSM
community has been active in Sri Lanka in 2016 a fair amount already.

The history in josm would answer that question probably.

Regards,
Blake

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Michael Heißmeier
<michae...@digital-filestore.de> wrote:
> This custom imagery is the Mapbox layer (identical url). But unfortunately
> not all contributors use it.
>
>
> Mike Thompson, 2016-05-19 22:00:
>
> The project seems to have it's own custom imagery as this is what shows be
> default in both JOSM and iD.
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Michael Heißmeier
> <michae...@digital-filestore.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just validated a few tiles on this project and the main problem I can
>> see is this:
>>
>> The instructions tell us to align all buildings with the provided Mapbox
>> imagery but most buildings are aligned to Bing. There is a noticeable offset
>> between the two and I am realining buildings when validating.
>>
>> Please make sure you select the proper imagery when contributing to this
>> project (and probably others in this activation).
>>
>>
>> Michael
>> (osm:michael63)
>>
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Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

I should have mentioned, please share this via your social media channels.

Here is a tweet from HOT to re-tweet:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236

Regards,
Blake

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
> Sri Lanka has been hit in the past few days by flooding:
> https://www.bing.com/search?q=sri+lanka+flooding
>
> HOT has been asked to activate and immediately start tracing buildings
> by the Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka, who work closely
> with World Bank GFDRR. They are in urgent need of detailed housing
> unit information.
>
> There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager:
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/
>
> This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to
> find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and
> provide geo data for. This means that you should check the front page
> of the tasking manager often, different jobs to support different
> ground activities might be coming up.
>
> HOT members Robert Banick and Mikel Maron will be leading HOT's
> response to this crisis. They can be contacted at:
>
> mikel.ma...@hotosm.org
> rban...@gmail.com
>
> For more information visit the 2016 Sri Lanka Floods wiki-page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods
>
> If you’d like to help with coordination, speak up, and we’ll bring you
> into the Slack channel and Trello.
>
> Regretfully,
> Blake
> 
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[HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Sri Lanka has been hit in the past few days by flooding:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=sri+lanka+flooding

HOT has been asked to activate and immediately start tracing buildings
by the Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka, who work closely
with World Bank GFDRR. They are in urgent need of detailed housing
unit information.

There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/

This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to
find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and
provide geo data for. This means that you should check the front page
of the tasking manager often, different jobs to support different
ground activities might be coming up.

HOT members Robert Banick and Mikel Maron will be leading HOT's
response to this crisis. They can be contacted at:

mikel.ma...@hotosm.org
rban...@gmail.com

For more information visit the 2016 Sri Lanka Floods wiki-page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods

If you’d like to help with coordination, speak up, and we’ll bring you
into the Slack channel and Trello.

Regretfully,
Blake

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[HOT] Request: Volunteer very experienced in OSM administrative boundary conflation

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

HOT (Helen Campbell from NetHope and myself really are looking for
this project) is looking for someone who is very experienced in OSM
Admin Boundary conflation and OSM relations. Knowing a little bit of
other GIS tools would also be very helpful.

There is possibility of importing of data, but the initial project is
to get out OSM boundaries and conflate them with 3rd party boundary
data to determine which is most up to date and accurate and then turn
that data over to our partner for their use in humanitarian work in
the Balkans.

If an import of data or conflation of data to provide OSM updated
administrative boundaries for country is possible and makes sense, the
full data import process will be followed as a separate project, in
consultation through the OSM Imports email list and Import wiki
required documentation.

We are looking for a volunteer to really drive this project and help
sort out workflows and best practices or at least lessons learned, in
the process and document the process at its completion.

I estimate that on a volunteer basis this project will last about 1
month (about 50 admin boundaries to conflate)..

Helen from NetHOPE asked me to add:

"Yes for sure - please mention that its for supporting the {EU}
refugee crisis too!  And you could also mention that this is
frequently an issue in humanitarian response, so having it all
documented will be a huge leap forward for the humanitarian
community!"


So if feel you have the experience and the time to dedicate to the
project, please get in touch with me directly.

Regards,
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Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

I am really coming to the conclusion that everything might just want
to take a uri to an xml document as much as possible if it is just a
list of something that can be put in xml easily.

then we could have different, specific checks, customized for our use
cases and just by changing a url paramter to iD (or any software) load
them. Granted I have no idea how the current checks are handled,
changed or extended, it might just be a .js that could also take a
.json file instead of "hard coded" list of checks.

This is somewhat like the "presets" issue we are working on, how to
easily pass custom set of presets for specific and general uses and i
think by uri is the easiest, least disruptive way to support extending
or customizing many config items.

cheers
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On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Aaron Young <aa...@kaartgroup.com> wrote:
> My suggestion was a tick box in the "map data" pane to turn QA elements 
> on/off.  I like your suggestion during save as well.  My focus is 
> predominately on road names in OSM so improving that visually is a priority 
> for me.
>
> -Aaron.
>
>> On May 17, 2016, at 08:08, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Young <aa...@kaartgroup.com> wrote:
>>> I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for 
>>> iD.  It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable 
>>> but if iD had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase 
>>> overall and you would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall. 
>>>  My suggestion was to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  
>>> 3-4 other simple QA functions would be great (non-squared buildings, 
>>> disconnected roads, duplicate polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some 
>>> beginner mistakes from persisting in mapathons/HOT tasks.
>>>
>>> -Aaron.
>>
>> Good suggestion.
>>
>> There is a good basic error checking in iD now that I try and
>> highlight, "check for warnings when you save, here is what they look
>> like". if we could just enhance that some it would make a big
>> difference like you say.
>>
>> I would not check for missing street names though, most of the HOT
>> mapping and Missing Maps mapping, we can not enter street name, so
>> people if possible will be specifically entering those at a later
>> time.
>>
>> so I would rather not highlight that as an error for the many who
>> remotely map as it is not really an error, just mapped for refinement
>> later.
>>
>> no tags on area (buildings), primary roads that connect to tracks etc,
>> square check like you say and others I am not thinking about can be
>> actual potential errors so I would like to remind folks to look at
>> those twice.
>>
>> cheers
>> blake
>>
>>
>>
>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Editor (Nicholas Doiron)
>>>>  3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>>> Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>>>  4. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>>> Editor (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>>>  5. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>>> Editor (john whelan)
>>>>  6. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>>> Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>>>  7. Re: Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathon

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Aaron Young <aa...@kaartgroup.com> wrote:
> I actually communicated with Bryan yesterday about a small QA toolset for iD. 
>  It's my understanding that using tools like keep right is preferable but if 
> iD had a few basic QA tools I believe data quality would increase overall and 
> you would get more users taking interest in QA efforts overall.  My 
> suggestion was to halo/highlight roads that did not have a name tag.  3-4 
> other simple QA functions would be great (non-squared buildings, disconnected 
> roads, duplicate polygons/ways, etc).  It would prevent some beginner 
> mistakes from persisting in mapathons/HOT tasks.
>
> -Aaron.

Good suggestion.

There is a good basic error checking in iD now that I try and
highlight, "check for warnings when you save, here is what they look
like". if we could just enhance that some it would make a big
difference like you say.

I would not check for missing street names though, most of the HOT
mapping and Missing Maps mapping, we can not enter street name, so
people if possible will be specifically entering those at a later
time.

so I would rather not highlight that as an error for the many who
remotely map as it is not really an error, just mapped for refinement
later.

no tags on area (buildings), primary roads that connect to tracks etc,
square check like you say and others I am not thinking about can be
actual potential errors so I would like to remind folks to look at
those twice.

cheers
blake



>
>> On May 17, 2016, at 06:00, hot-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote:
>>
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>>   1. Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor
>>  (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>   2. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Nicholas Doiron)
>>   3. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>   4. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Blake Girardot HOT/OSM)
>>   5. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (john whelan)
>>   6. Re: Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>  Editor (Courtney Clark)
>>   7. Re: Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons (Ben Abelshausen)
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:59:26 +0200
>> From: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>
>> To: HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org>
>> Subject: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web
>>Editor
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>>
>> Hi Everyone!
>>
>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
>>
>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:
>>
>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
>>
>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
>> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
>>
>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
>> being done already)
>>
>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
>> projects.
>>
>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
>>
>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Courtney,

I do not think the presets changes will address your suggestion.

To me it makes me think of "step and repeat" so you draw a building
once, select it and then just communicate, "duplicate this building to
here, in a line"

Thats a great idea.

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On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Courtney Clark
<courtneycla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
>
> This might already be part of the presets that you mentioned, but it would
> be great to have the capacity to "copy and paste" buildings. In Botswana,
> for example, where Peace Corps does a lot of mapping, the government
> provides a lot of housing to its employees. Many of the houses are the same
> shape and size -- it would be great to trace once and then copy and paste
> that shape over other structures.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Courtney
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Doiron <ni...@codeforamerica.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Related - I've been adding right-to-left language support for iD OSM
>> editor. It was already translated to Arabic and Persian/Farsi, but typically
>> sites flip their UI, so our main sidebar would appear on the right.
>>
>> We've got most technical parts done, so now we would much appreciate some
>> fluent speakers looking it over. Please get in touch or connect me with
>> interested mappers!
>>
>> Discussion and code here:
>> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/3087
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick Doiron
>>
>> On May 16, 2016 9:00 PM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM"
>> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone!
>>>
>>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
>>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
>>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
>>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
>>>
>>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT
>>> are:
>>>
>>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
>>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
>>>
>>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
>>> projects (already in process, but not close to done)
>>>
>>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
>>> being done already)
>>>
>>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
>>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
>>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
>>> projects.
>>>
>>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
>>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
>>>
>>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
>>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
>>> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.
>>>
>>> Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
>>> other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
>>> suggestion for how to actually address those issues.
>>>
>>> We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
>>> repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
>>> developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
>>> (not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan
>>> Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different
>>> directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of
>>> needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions
>>> and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is
>>> the great tool it is.
>>>
>>> The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM
>>> editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure
>>> we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use
>>> to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify
>>> those things and help get them implemented through feedback and
>>> testing and maybe even some code contributions if any

[HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Everyone!

HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would
like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.

A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:

* A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)

* Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
projects (already in process, but not close to done)

* Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
being done already)

But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
projects.

Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.

Obviously there is limited development time available so most things
will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together
if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify.

Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
suggestion for how to actually address those issues.

We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
(not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan
Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different
directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of
needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions
and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is
the great tool it is.

The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM
editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure
we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use
to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify
those things and help get them implemented through feedback and
testing and maybe even some code contributions if anyone is interested
in doing that.

So as I said, please, if you have a few minutes to share some thoughts
on the iD editor it would be most appreciated.

Cheers,
Blake

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Re: [HOT] Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons

[Blake Girardot]

What about the USB sticks? Those should be on hand so you can boot
anyone into a Linux environment with the right java and latest josm if
they were curious about josm but did not come expecting to try it or
something?

i had no luck booting my laptop into linux to use linux software, but
I hear it works for a large % of people.

This would also solve the "we are in a computer lab and can not get
permission to install java or josm on the machiens" issue as well.

I am sure there is an image somewhere and someone could try and make
just a rough outline of the steps for our more tech savy people to try
and replicate.

cheers
blake

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:39 PM, john whelan  wrote:
> I think if we suggest they download Java before arriving, josm-tested.jar
> can be copied for a USB stick or local server ie laptop.  I think that would
> save bandwidth and trying to download multiple copies at the same time would
> mean delays.
>
> Hopefully it works out.
>
> Thanks John
>
> On 14 May 2016 at 07:11, Pete Masters  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all, over the past few weeks, some of the validation chat has focused
>> on tools (iD / JOSM, generally). We made a decision at this month's London
>> Missing Maps mapathon to try and put more of a focus on using JOSM, rather
>> than iD. We're not sure how it went yet, but will continue to try and
>> develop this in future months.
>>
>> I have written a quick OSM diary on it, here:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/38604 If you have
>> comments, please feel free to leave them there. I am also going to share it
>> with new mappers who were involved as they are generally not on this list
>> and their thoughts could be interesting...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> --
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>> +44 7921 781 518
>>
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>>
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Re: [HOT] [info-hotosm] Re: need contact info for a mini-mapathon

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi John,

It is on the right side of the screen, the bottom icon "help". On the
"help" panel there is a button to start the walk through again at the
bottom.

Cheers,
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On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:08 PM, John Bocan <jmbo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Blake, et al.
>
> I'm in iD and trying to get back to the walkthrough an I'm having issues not
> being able to.  One you are in a real edit mode and get out, I'm not able to
> find the means to get to the Walkthroughb.
>
> JOhnB
>
>
> 
> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>
> To: John Bocan <jmbo...@yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon
>
> Hi John,
>
> This looks like quite a good project both for the needed map data and
> as an introduction to HOT  and OSM mapping in general:
>
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1753
>
> It is not a small area for just one mapathon, but we can add a tag to
> the default changeset comments so you could track how everyone
> contributes.
>
> Or you could just ask people to concentrate on one small area of the
> larger project to have a more visual localized impact from the
> mapping.
>
> Also, if you could introduce JOSM (with the building_tools plugin
> installed)? That is a lot more GIS'ish of a tool and might be a bit
> more comfortable for GIS pros than iD.
>
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
>
> It is of course an open source project so it has its rough edges from
> a UI perspective, but overall a very nice tool for OSM mapping.
>
> But iD works great too, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of
> the more advanced tool.
>
> I have attached a .geojson file of the project I linked to above so
> you can review it (JOSM needs a plugin to open .geojson files if you
> are using josm)
>
> Please let me know if you have any more questions and thank you again
> for doing the mapathon and showing more GIS pros what we do. We are
> really trying to incorporate more GIS professionals in our volunteer
> work because we often need actual GIS skills to support the
> humanitarian orgs that use our data.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
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> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:54 PM, John Bocan <jmbo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Thanks very much!
>> JohnB
>>
>>
>> 
>> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>
>> To: John Bocan <jmbo...@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Tyler Radford <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org>; "i...@hotosm.org"
>> <i...@hotosm.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 10:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Thank you very much for doing the mapathon. It is really cool that GIS
>> pros are interested in our project.
>>
>> Let me see what I can find out and I will write you back later today.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blake
>> 
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>> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
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>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:45 PM, 'John Bocan' via Info <i...@hotosm.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> I am emailing "info" for a good project for a mini-mapathon that I am
>>> organizing for GIS professionals at the West Virginia GIS conference
>>> being
>>> held this week.  As described below in a previous email, it will be this
>>> Friday, May 6 at 10:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm EDT.  This event will be a
>>> hands-on workshop for conference-goers using stationary computers.  At
>>> most
>>> we will have 23 but since this is the very last event of the conference,
>>> we
>>> may not have that amount.
>>>
>>> I am also presenting a session on crowd-source mapping which will have an
>>> emphasis on OSM and especially, HOT mapping. Most folks will be
>>> ESRI-centric
>>> in terms of their experience so I'll still need to walk through working
>>> with
>>&g

Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation

[Blake Girardot]

Hi John,

I would humbly disagree. With the "Authors" panel open in JOSM, you
can easily evaluate mapping just done by one person, or check mapping
done by one person. We all know the tasking manager is not great at
keeping track of who mapped in a task square, only who marked it done.

So I still send feedback when doing mass validation (at least when
using josm), it is just based on the author's panel and via OSM,
instead of the tm's  who checked out a task square tracking. Usually,
even if I am just knocking out squares regular validation style, I
still need the author's panel to tell me who to "@" at in the TM.

Cheers
blake



On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 7:36 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think whilst mass validation can be appropiate sometimes such as in
> Ecuador at the moment I think what we lose from it is immediate feedback to
> an individual mapper which I think means less clean up to do afterwards.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 24 April 2016 at 12:09, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Nama, just trying to herd :)
>>
>> =Russ
>>
>>
>>
>> From: nama.budhathoki [mailto:namabudhath...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:06 AM
>> To: Russell Deffner; 'Blake Girardot HOT/OSM'; 'John Whelan'; Megha
>> Shrestha
>>
>>
>> Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>>
>>
>> Megha and couple of others from KLL are already in Trello. They will be
>> happy to contribute on validation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nama
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung device
>>
>>
>>
>>  Original message 
>> From: Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>
>> Date: 24/04/2016 20:40 (GMT+05:45)
>> To: 'Blake Girardot HOT/OSM' <blake.girar...@hotosm.org>, 'John Whelan'
>> <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation
>>
>> Hi Blake and John,
>>
>> I'll add to Humberto, we'll have a few staff in the HOT Indonesia office
>> (tonight/their morning).  We also have a standing offer from KLL to have
>> some staffers focus on validation. These are great ideas, I don't want to
>> lose them, so can we get them onto the Trello? Then once we've identified
>> who, we can assign whats...
>> =Russ
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM [mailto:blake.girar...@hotosm.org]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 8:46 AM
>> To: John Whelan
>> Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Given that we are spending a lot of times on roads, getting road
>> networks correct is pretty vital.
>>
>> Has anyone looked at using existing OSM tools, outside of the Tasking
>> Manager to do large scale road network validation?
>>
>> The one that comes to mind is GeoFabrik's OSM Inspector:
>>
>> http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/
>>
>> Which even has a 'routing' selection in the pop down to focus on
>> problems that affect routing.
>>
>> Are there other tools that would help with this?
>>
>> Could we map roulette getting roads that end near each other connected
>> properly?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blake
>>
>> 
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>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
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>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:51 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm seeing projects archived fairly quickly without validation.
>> >
>> > Of the validation I have done I've seen crossing ways and highways
>> > almost
>> > meeting on a project that was supposed to be Highways only for
>> > experienced
>> > JOSM users.
>> >
>> > JOSM validation should have highlighted these errors before uploading.
>> >
>> > I won't bother to mention the other problems I've seen but I assume some
>> > thought has been given to the matter?
>> >
>> > Thanks John
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Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Mike,

Really helpful insight on what is contributing to the issues, the
imagery change, we need to look at how to minimize that through better
instructions as well as validation folks need to be aware they should
be using all the available imagery when working.

Mass validation outside of the TM as a process is not affected by
imagery, I would load up all the imagery layers while working on it.
We are always validating the data and trying to figure out what
imagery was used when it was mapped is always part of that process.

The imagery should not really affect things like common road network problems.

Really mass validation is no different than any other validation, just
doing much larger areas at once, perhaps doing it step wise (roads
first, buildings second, etc) and maybe bringing other tools
potentially to the process.


cheers
blake

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On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Mike  Dupont
<jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> the validation problems that I have seen are with changes between versions
> of imagery. It might be good against bing but not against the last images
> post event. No automated process will pick that up.
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Humberto and John,
>>
>> I really encourage you to look at ways of doing large scale validations.
>>
>> One way I have done it in the past is to download the tasking manager
>> either project area, or even the individual task square outlines and
>> load them up in JOSM, then just do large scale validation of the area
>> using the task outlines as a guide.
>>
>> If it is my project, and it is archived, I won't bother to mark the
>> task squares as validated individually, I just validate the whole AoI.
>> If I was better at things, I would actually put in a note in the
>> instructions, even on the archived project that says it was 100%
>> validated outside of the TM.
>>
>> (allowing validators to mark mass task squares as validated would be
>> an improvement to the TM. Would be nice to checkout mass task squares
>> too for the most experienced validators and project managers to work
>> on)
>>
>> If it is not my project, I will mass validate 5 or 10 task squares at
>> a time, then just go into the project and review, mark valid, review,
>> mark valid, etc all the task squares I validated en mass with JOSM.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> blake
>>
>>
>> 
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>> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
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>>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:01 PM, hyan...@gmail.com <hyan...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello John,
>> >
>> > 2016-04-24 8:51 GMT-05:00 John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I'm seeing projects archived fairly quickly without validation.
>> >>
>> >
>> > A team of validators will start with this ones from tomorrow, with the
>> > objective to review and validate all this squares.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Of the validation I have done I've seen crossing ways and highways
>> >> almost
>> >> meeting on a project that was supposed to be Highways only for
>> >> experienced
>> >> JOSM users.
>> >>
>> > Yes, I'm seen task marks as done with any update too.  Thanks for your
>> > validations.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> JOSM validation should have highlighted these errors before uploading.
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I won't bother to mention the other problems I've seen but I assume
>> >> some
>> >> thought has been given to the matter?
>> >>
>> > Yes, as I mention before, a group of validators start from tomorrow,
>> > thanks
>> > for your welcome comments.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks John
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Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Humberto and John,

I really encourage you to look at ways of doing large scale validations.

One way I have done it in the past is to download the tasking manager
either project area, or even the individual task square outlines and
load them up in JOSM, then just do large scale validation of the area
using the task outlines as a guide.

If it is my project, and it is archived, I won't bother to mark the
task squares as validated individually, I just validate the whole AoI.
If I was better at things, I would actually put in a note in the
instructions, even on the archived project that says it was 100%
validated outside of the TM.

(allowing validators to mark mass task squares as validated would be
an improvement to the TM. Would be nice to checkout mass task squares
too for the most experienced validators and project managers to work
on)

If it is not my project, I will mass validate 5 or 10 task squares at
a time, then just go into the project and review, mark valid, review,
mark valid, etc all the task squares I validated en mass with JOSM.

Cheers,
blake



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On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:01 PM, hyan...@gmail.com <hyan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> 2016-04-24 8:51 GMT-05:00 John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> I'm seeing projects archived fairly quickly without validation.
>>
>
> A team of validators will start with this ones from tomorrow, with the
> objective to review and validate all this squares.
>
>>
>> Of the validation I have done I've seen crossing ways and highways almost
>> meeting on a project that was supposed to be Highways only for experienced
>> JOSM users.
>>
> Yes, I'm seen task marks as done with any update too.  Thanks for your
> validations.
>
>>
>> JOSM validation should have highlighted these errors before uploading.
>
>
> Yes...
>>
>>
>> I won't bother to mention the other problems I've seen but I assume some
>> thought has been given to the matter?
>>
> Yes, as I mention before, a group of validators start from tomorrow, thanks
> for your welcome comments.
>
>>
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Re: [HOT] Mapping in Ecuador - validation

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi John,

Given that we are spending a lot of times on roads, getting road
networks correct is pretty vital.

Has anyone looked at using existing OSM tools, outside of the Tasking
Manager to do large scale road network validation?

The one that comes to mind is GeoFabrik's OSM Inspector:

http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/

Which even has a 'routing' selection in the pop down to focus on
problems that affect routing.

Are there other tools that would help with this?

Could we map roulette getting roads that end near each other connected properly?

Cheers,
Blake


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On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:51 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm seeing projects archived fairly quickly without validation.
>
> Of the validation I have done I've seen crossing ways and highways almost
> meeting on a project that was supposed to be Highways only for experienced
> JOSM users.
>
> JOSM validation should have highlighted these errors before uploading.
>
> I won't bother to mention the other problems I've seen but I assume some
> thought has been given to the matter?
>
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Re: [HOT] Ecuador - More Projects?

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Suzan,

We created some "model instructions" the idea being they would be a
good super set and people could copy/paste them and delete or change
what applied to their project. If you view the source on the below
wikipage, it is already in Tasking Manager mark up format, so easy
cut/paste.

They might be a good starting place and if they got translated to
spanish we can save that for next time too.

That was always the goal, get a good model set of text and then
translate it so new projects would have an option to come with model
instructions in all the languages when a new project was created. Just
delete what doesn't apply, and customize as needed.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/Tasking_Manager_Default_Roads,_Buildings,_Waterways_Instructions

Cheers
blake
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Suzan Reed <su...@suzanreed.com> wrote:
> The image is very good and it does load slowly, but I appreciate having that 
> kind of clarity.
>
> Just invalidated a number of tasks in the new projects. It might help if the 
> instructions were written more clearly? People are joining buildings, drawing 
> Residential Areas around groups of buildings inside of the city, and I can 
> understand how they misread the instructions because of the way they are 
> written. So we don’t have a lot of wasted time and energy, maybe someone 
> could rewrite them so they are much more clear?
>
> Here are a few of the things I’ve commented on in both English and Spanish:
>
> Buildings must be individually mapped and can not touch.
> If a building touches another building there’s a gray node that must be 
> detached.
> All buildings are buildings, not houses, industrial buildings, or casas.
> A city is a Residential Area. Don’t draw a Residential Area around a group of 
> buildings in the city. Each building needs to be traced.
> Be sure to square all buildings.
> Zoom in to 40% to map buildings accurately.
> Although the buildings are dense, they should each have four walls. They 
> can’t touch.
>
> All this could be written much better, but that gives an overview of what I”m 
> seeing. Hopefully better instructions and good comments can get these things 
> corrected and we won’t be wasting time ad man-hours.
>
> Onward!
> Suzan
>
>
> On Apr 21, 2016, at 11:02 PM, Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org> wrote:
>
> Hey Mike,
>
> Could you please add details of the mapathon to the wiki page [1].
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mhairi
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Ecuador_earthquake#Mapathons
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tyler,
>
> Thanks!
>
> Is anyone else having a problem with custom imagery drawing very slowly in iD?
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Tyler Radford <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org> 
> wrote:
> Hi Mike
>
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1836
>
>
> On Thursday, April 21, 2016, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are planning a mapathon in Colorado US tonight.  Are there likely to be 
> more Ecuador projects suitable for newer mappers? I am attempting to revise 
> our instruction guide now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Janet,

I also forwarded your email to Illya, one of the maps.me developers.

But Joost's email just reminded me that we are in the process of 
creating a maps.me export for our HOT Export Tool that would allow you 
to get an up to the minute set of data for maps.me anytime you want, so 
you could literally map today, and be using the data you entered later 
that evening in maps.me.


I ran out of time, but I also spoke a little bit to Illya about how we 
might help add to the their existing data editing model to better 
support humanitarian mapping.


maps.me as a company is a great supporter of humanitarian mapping and 
they often contact HOT to discuss ways they can support our work in 
their tools (the HOT export tool support being one very concrete 
example, open sourcing their product is another) so I am sure we can 
make progress to make the app even more useful in the contexts we 
generally work.


Cheers,
Blake

On 4/20/2016 2:45 PM, joost schouppe wrote:

Hi Janet,

While I know it is possible to do such things with those apps, I
wouldn't know how. But it helps asking around. Or posting on their issue
trackers as suggested.

Same goes for querying data provided by Osmand and maps.me
 editors. Must be possible, but not trivial. I think the
best way would be to create an rss feed of relevant changesets (hard) ,
loading those in an online spreadsheet (easy) , and marking them as
checked when you had a look (very easy).

I think my friends in Bolivia would like to have such a thing too.

Joost

Op 20-apr.-2016 11:05 schreef >:

Dear Joost

Thanks very much for that.  It would be fantastic to create an
African or even Swahili Maps.me with relevant tags, as I think this
is definitely a great way to get people on the ground mapping.

I'm currently writing this on my phone on a bus in Kakonko,  and
can't check out the links yet,  but do you know if there is a way in
osm to bring up all the points in an area that have been added via
Maps.me as often you're mapping onto a blank page so points are
unlikely to correspond exactly to a building,  but could be
corrected in osm with reference to the satellite image..

Thanks
Janet


From: joost schouppe
Sent: Wednesday 20 April 09:45
Subject: Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania
To: j.chap...@tanzdevtrust.org 

Hi,

Their help section does not state an exact update frequency [1], but
it seems to be somewhere between a couple of times a year and every
few weeks. However, on this page, you can see the creation date of
the file being pushed now [2] (25th of March right now).

They have gone open source with the code [3], so theoretically it
should be possible to make a Maps.me with African presets.

Of course, if you need full flexibility, Osmand is probably better
out of the box.

Considering the risk of making duplicate entries: in case of doubt,
always make a note instead of a POI. But even with updated maps, I'm
seeing a lot of duplicate entries by newbie mappers with maps.me
. I don't really mind, as they seem to be bending
the curve [4] of the OSM-world in general.

1: http://maps.me/en/help#mapdata

2: http://direct.mapswithme.com/direct/latest/

3: https://github.com/mapsme

4: https://twitter.com/osm_be/status/722101255779323904



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