Re: [HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?
If you can't find someone with experience locally then I seem to recall that there have been some training sessions using Google+? The advantage is that you can see the remote area and how its mapped but I don't recall the software exactly. I do know you have to be in the software continuously from the beginning or you don't see the updates on the screen. I think one or two people are on Skype as well. Cheerio John On 1 February 2015 at 13:52, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: Are there any experienced HOT mappers in the Stanford University area, who might be willing to meet/help/ do a training for us on a project to map a sub-district in Bangladesh? We've made great contacts in-country, but I think it would be good to build a core of remote mappers, here, too. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?
Are there any experienced HOT mappers in the Stanford University area, who might be willing to meet/help/ do a training for us on a project to map a sub-district in Bangladesh? We've made great contacts in-country, but I think it would be good to build a core of remote mappers, here, too. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841 , as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- - Original Message - From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, hot@openstreetmap.org, Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:05:12 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Hi Stace and Eric, Pete is talking about the same people as I did to you before. Some of our Bangladesh mappers are now also on this list... But I will sent you a follow up mail on this. Further I like very much your idea, and would like to give you some input. Talking out of my experience; to trace patients, not necessarily all buildings are needed in the first phase. To track patients the main important this is to be able to locate people. So this means collecting locally used neighbourhood names, locally used street names, and landmarks used by the people. Buildings are in my view then a second step. I don't know how big the area is you're focused on? Maybe you can quickly point it on a Umap for us? Fingers crossed, for good imagery in the area of interest... Also I was thinking it might be good to set up an OSM Bangla Skype group to try to coordinate all the upcoming projects a little bit. Lastly there was also interest of Terre des Hommes, the American Red Cross is going to do more things in spring,... So we can coordinate a bit and share resources and thoughts on mapping in the very particular context of Bangladesh. Please let me know if you are interested in this. Best greetings, Jorieke 2015-01-31 9:55 GMT+01:00 Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com : Hi Stace, I have just come back from Dhaka (literally on Thursday), where we were working with the local OSM community to map two areas, Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh, for the Missing Maps project. We worked with between 10-30 volunteers of varying skills each day for two weeks. They are a smart and enthusiastic bunch and most said they planned to keep mapping anyway. They all have experience in using field papers and surveys and Osmand, and most have at least a days experience using JOSM to edit / upload. I have email addresses and phone numbers if you want them or you can contact them via the OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Facebook page. There are also a number of very experienced mappers / OSM focused GIS people I can put you in touch with directly. Let me know what you think... Cheers, Pete On 30 Jan 2015 21:38, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: blockquote All, I'm working with a
Re: [HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?
If you can't find someone with experience locally then I seem to recall that there have been some training sessions using Google+? Google Hangouts Live On Air is what I have used to do remote training before. It works pretty well. It allows screen sharing so the presenter can work on their own machine and present that to the group for demonstration and training and then allows a local person to share their screen so the remote person can help that person map and when the hangout is done it automatically uploads the session to youtube after it is over for watching later. You would just need room with a decent projector and have one laptop join the Google Hangout and connect that laptop to the projector. I guess multiple computers could join the google hangout as well if the projector wasn't available or even if it was, individuals could work with the presentation directly on their screen (bandwidth permitting). Also, if you don't find a local person via this list, you might consider asking on either or both: OSM-Talk or Talk-US lists. You might find experienced local OSM mappers near you who have worked on HOT tasks but do not subscribe to this HOT list. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists The really cool thing is you have local contacts in Bangladesh to let whomever does the training know exactly what and how they would like their locality mapped by remote mappers. Cheers, Blake On 2/1/2015 8:03 PM, john whelan wrote: The advantage is that you can see the remote area and how its mapped but I don't recall the software exactly. I do know you have to be in the software continuously from the beginning or you don't see the updates on the screen. I think one or two people are on Skype as well. Cheerio John On 1 February 2015 at 13:52, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu mailto:stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: Are there any experienced HOT mappers in the Stanford University area, who might be willing to meet/help/ do a training for us on a project to map a sub-district in Bangladesh? We've made great contacts in-country, but I think it would be good to build a core of remote mappers, here, too. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ mailto:staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
Stace I updated the coordination map of all Bangla projects with the boundary of Kendua http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bangladesh-mapping-projects_26815#8/23.612/89.742 -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Sunday, February 1, 2015 1:33 PM, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841, as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+Skype: stacey.maplesGet GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, hot@openstreetmap.org, Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:05:12 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Hi Stace and Eric, Pete is talking about the same people as I did to you before. Some of our Bangladesh mappers are now also on this list... But I will sent you a follow up mail on this. Further I like very much your idea, and would like to give you some input. Talking out of my experience; to trace patients, not necessarily all buildings are needed in the first phase. To track patients the main important this is to be able to locate people. So this means collecting locally used neighbourhood names, locally used street names, and landmarks used by the people. Buildings are in my view then a second step. I don't know how big the area is you're focused on? Maybe you can quickly point it on a Umap for us? Fingers crossed, for good imagery in the area of interest... Also I was thinking it might be good to set up an OSM Bangla Skype group to try to coordinate all the upcoming projects a little bit. Lastly there was also interest of Terre des Hommes, the American Red Cross is going to do more things in spring,... So we can coordinate a bit and share resources and thoughts on mapping in the very particular context of Bangladesh. Please let me know if you are interested in this. Best greetings, Jorieke 2015-01-31 9:55 GMT+01:00 Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com: Hi Stace, I have just come back from Dhaka (literally on Thursday), where we were working with the local OSM community to map two areas, Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh, for the Missing Maps project. We worked with between 10-30 volunteers of varying skills each day for two weeks. They are a smart and enthusiastic bunch and most said they planned to keep mapping anyway. They all have experience in using field papers and surveys and Osmand, and most have at least a days experience using JOSM to edit / upload.I have email addresses and phone numbers if you want them or you can contact them via the OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Facebook page.There are also a number of very
[HOT] Get together to work on HOT Summit
Hi HOTties Want to help out with the HOT Summit? We're going to gather this week to start working on it in earnest. A few of us will be together on Thursday, 1pm EST, at the American Red Cross in DC. We'll set up a line to Mumble, Skype, or a Dial In, depending what works best for all. Let me know directly if you want to join. Let's make a HOT Summit! Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
Hi Stacey, Your list shows a good description of what should be the most useful. About the zones to cover, you can start with this zone, and later enlarge the zone to cover if this seems necessary. Thhe challenge is more to geolocate and record properly the info from the field once the mapping is completed from aerial imagery. For this, it is important to establish a good workflow for the field people to follow and the follow-up / validation of this work. And consider that many contributors might be less techy, with less mapping experience. The FieldPapers let's record information with only a sheet of paper and JOSM plugins facilitate editing from scanned image of these FieldPapers. Offline smartphone applications such as OSMAnd, OSMTracker (navigate, edit) and Mapilary (geolocated photos with azimuth that indicate the direction) are quite promizing innovations. These tools have been tested in the field with the various missions an there are tutorials that are written on these. Jorieke would have a lot to share with us on this. The distance is less important nowadays, but it has to be planned that people meet in a place with a good internet bandwith. Google Hangout and Skype Screen sharing let's organize videoconferences, discuss and exchange. For the Haiyan Activation, Andrew Buck organized a seminar with the Heideberg University. For the Ebola Activation, Blake Girardot, Andrew Buck and myself had a videoconference with high schools students in Columbia. Pierre De : Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu À : Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com Cc : Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu; Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com; Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org; hot@openstreetmap.org; Claudia A. Engel cen...@stanford.edu; Mikel Maron mi...@groundtruth.in Envoyé le : Dimanche 1 février 2015 13h33 Objet : Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841, as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+Skype: stacey.maplesGet GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/I have a map of the United States... actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. -Steven Wright- From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, hot@openstreetmap.org, Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:05:12 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Hi Stace and Eric, Pete is talking about the same people as I did to you before. Some of our Bangladesh mappers are now also on this list... But I will sent you a follow up mail on this. Further I like very much your idea, and would like to give you some input. Talking out of my experience; to trace
