Re: [HOT] Volunteering

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Hi, Saul:

The most common activity to which you can contribute to HOT is mapping
through the HOT Tasking Manager [1].

There are lots of jobs you can choose from. I would advise you to start
with a job that you find easy, and follow carefully the instructions.

If you need learning material, you might start with LearnOSM [2] or
watching the Mapgive videos [3] (they use iD editor).

Apart from this mailing list, we have an IRC channel [4] where you can
seek help too.

Cheers,

Rafael.

[1] http://tasks.hotosm.org/
[2] http://learnosm.org/en/
[3] http://mapgive.state.gov/
[4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC

On 04/02/15 02:44, Saul Karamesines wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Saul Karamesines. I'm a student of Environmental Studies at
> Utah State University. As part of one my curriculum, my Environmental
> Nonprofit and Volunteer Management class requires volunteer work. I
> learned of your organization from a previous GIS class, and I find your
> mission interesting so I would like to volunteer with you. I have
> experience with ArcGIS from my GIS class, and I've begun to learn
> OpenStreetMap's iD editor.
> 
> How do I begin working for HOT? Is there a process I need to go through?
> How may I best be of service?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Saul Karamesines
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Re: [HOT] Volunteering

[Mark Cupitt]

Hi Saul, welcome to HOT

As you know, our mission is all about mapping for Humanitarian responses
and we have a large of activities where you can contribute.

The best place to start is at http://LearnOsm.org to get you up to speed
with OpenStreetMap, Tagging schemes, editors, etc

We work primarily through a tasking manager http://tasks,hotosm..org. This
allows you to get involved in a mapping activity of your choice. Simply
put, the Task manager provides you the ability to choose a task and a small
square of the task to map, and also supplies you with details on the
Imagery, Licensing, Attributions needed and exactly what to map, often via
a specific Wiki Page dedicated to the activity.

You are welcome to ask specific questions about a Task on this list.

If you are an IRC User, (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC) there is a
permanently open channel where a lot of experienced mappers lurk and they
are always willing to answer questions. The actual channel is at
irc://irc.oftc.net
#hot 

We all started mapping the same way as you are, so we all understand that
every question is a good one, so feel free to ask.


Best Regards

Mark Cupitt

"If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"

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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Saul Karamesines  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Saul Karamesines. I'm a student of Environmental Studies at
> Utah State University. As part of one my curriculum, my Environmental
> Nonprofit and Volunteer Management class requires volunteer work. I learned
> of your organization from a previous GIS class, and I find your mission
> interesting so I would like to volunteer with you. I have experience with
> ArcGIS from my GIS class, and I've begun to learn OpenStreetMap's iD editor.
>
> How do I begin working for HOT? Is there a process I need to go through?
> How may I best be of service?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Saul Karamesines
>
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[HOT] Volunteering

[Saul Karamesines]

Hello,

My name is Saul Karamesines. I'm a student of Environmental Studies at 
Utah State University. As part of one my curriculum, my Environmental 
Nonprofit and Volunteer Management class requires volunteer work. I 
learned of your organization from a previous GIS class, and I find your 
mission interesting so I would like to volunteer with you. I have 
experience with ArcGIS from my GIS class, and I've begun to learn 
OpenStreetMap's iD editor.


How do I begin working for HOT? Is there a process I need to go through? 
How may I best be of service?


Thank you in advance,
Saul Karamesines

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Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

[Mikel Maron]

> would think we want the subdivisions reflected in OSM?
I think so, would just take a simple import.
That would be separate from defining the AOI for the work or any OSMTM project.
-Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron 

   

  On Monday, February 2, 2015 8:56 PM, Stacey Maples  
wrote:
   
 

 Well, since we are interested in the entirely of the sub-district, I think we 
keep the original shape in the Umap, but I would think we want the subdivisions 
reflected in OSM?

In F,L&T,
Stace Maples 
Geospatial Manager 
Stanford Geospatial Center 
@mapninja 
staceymaples@G+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-
From: "Mikel Maron" 
To: "Ahasanul Hoque" , "Stace Maples" 

Cc: "Eric Jorge Nelson" , "Fred Moine" 
, "Kunce Dale" , 
hot@openstreetmap.org, "Claudia A. Engel" 
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:33:23 AM
Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal 
disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

Thanks Ahasanul. Let me defer to Stace on whether to update with this new 
boundary. Stace, should we keep the boundary previously shared, or update with 
this one? It should be the boundary of the actual project work. * Mikel Maron * 
+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron 

 On Monday, February 2, 2015 6:47 AM, Ahasanul Hoque 
 wrote:
   
 

 Hi Stace and Mikel,
FYI, Kendua is a sub district (upazila) of Netrokona District. Kendua also 
divided in 14 subdivision (13 unions and 1 Paurashava/municipalty). Here I have 
attached the boundaries and kmz of all for your convenience. I tried to upload 
in umap but couldnt.  Hope Mikel could do it for me.
Best regards
Ahasan
.
Ahasanul Hoque
GIS & Environmental Data Mgt Specialist
WSP, The World Bank.MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| 
KU, Bangladesh.Diploma in Disaster Mgt & Humanitarian Response | Uni of 
Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio& Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand.Contact: 
hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com | Web: ahasanulhoque.com
Skype: ahasan4u | Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp 


On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Mikel Maron  wrote:

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 
 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,L&T,
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" 
To: "Pete Masters" 
Cc: "Stace Maples" , hot@openstreetmap.org, "Eric 
Jorge Nelson" , "Fred Moine" , 
"Kunce Dale" 
S

Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.

[Mikel Maron]

> would think we want the subdivisions reflected in OSM?
I think so, would just take a simple import.
That would be separate from defining the AOI for the work or any OSMTM project.
-Mikel  * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron 
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Re: [HOT] Malawi Flood TM job #847

[Ray Kiddy]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:08:17 +0100
Severin Menard  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
 
> * WARNING:* sometimes the buildings have been created as a node.
> Please do not delete them as they generally encompass a lot of
> attributes from the field survey done in August-September 2014.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> 
> Severin

It is fairly easy, in iD, to create a shape for a building and merge
data from a node at the same location and delete the node.

Is there a reason you actually want the node? Or are you just worried
about the data being lost by mappers not doing the right thing?

- ray

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Re: [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us upload the data!

[Pierre Béland]

Great Jorieke.
I updated the wiki page with your content.  For the highways, I simply added a 
liknk to te dropbox.
See
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Tagging_Schema_-_Common_Tags
 Pierre 

  De : Jorieke Vyncke 
 À : Pete Masters  
Cc : Pierre Béland ; "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
 
 Envoyé le : Mardi 3 février 2015 13h11
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us 
upload the data!
   
Hi Pierre, 
W used in Bangladesh the following taggings, so it might be good to use the 
same ones. For the most common POI's: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dwbgouduhep0g5/Tags%20points%20of%20interest.docx?dl=0For
 the roads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/whrd59h7r90v0ce/Tags%20roads.docx?dl=0
Pleas feel also free to give input about these!
Greetings, 
Jorieke

2015-02-02 20:47 GMT+01:00 Pete Masters :

Brilliant, thanks Pierre!
I have made one change because the Bangladeshi mappers have already started on 
the editing. We decided there to use man_made=works for tanneries and 
factories, with product=leather/plastic etc to distinguish between them.
Otherwise, great. Thanks!
Pete
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:

Hi Pete,

To see how this looks like, I just Looked at the Project 13 Questionnaire list 
at the end of the PDF file. For the road names, I find it difficult to 
interpret the hand written english names. But the local Bengladesh team should 
be able to revise this info once every task is completed, plus adding bengali 
names.

For other tags,  some objects are not common for northern countries remote 
mappers.  

To facilitate collaboration from the remote mappers, I added to the wiki page a 
Tagging schema section for the more  common objects and suggested OSM key and 
attribute to describe them.
See 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Tagging_Schema_-_Common_Tags
 
For the Factories, I used the industrial=factory proposal.   There are some 
objects for which I could not find a key.
I suggest that the mappers refer to this section and revise the tags. This will 
assure homogeneity and facilitate tagging for others that later join-in, 
Regard
 Pierre 

  De : Pete Masters 
 À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
 Envoyé le : Lundi 2 février 2015 9h54
 Objet : [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us 
upload the data!
   
Hello all,
We are looking for some help getting the data from the field papers up onto OSM!
The first batch is on the wiki at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Field_Paper_Edit_and_Upload.21
We would love it if any of you could grab a pack and follow the instructions. 
This is the data for Hazaribagh. Some of it has been processed by the 
Bangladeshi OSM team, but time was limited, so please go through all the packs. 
If your pack has already been done, a second eye on it would be great anyway. 
Also, on some, roads will have been edited, but not landmarks (or visa versa).
Hazaribagh is the priority as already one NGO working in the area wants to 
conduct some health studies using the base map (and very soon)!
I think everything you need is there. let me know if there are any problems!
Thanks a million...
Pete

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Re: [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help us upload the data!

[Jorieke Vyncke]

Hi Pierre,

W used in Bangladesh the following taggings, so it might be good to use the
same ones.
For the most common POI's:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dwbgouduhep0g5/Tags%20points%20of%20interest.docx?dl=0
For the roads:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/whrd59h7r90v0ce/Tags%20roads.docx?dl=0

Pleas feel also free to give input about these!

Greetings,

Jorieke


2015-02-02 20:47 GMT+01:00 Pete Masters :

> Brilliant, thanks Pierre!
>
> I have made one change because the Bangladeshi mappers have already
> started on the editing. We decided there to use man_made=works for
> tanneries and factories, with product=leather/plastic etc to distinguish
> between them.
>
> Otherwise, great. Thanks!
>
> Pete
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:
>
>> Hi Pete,
>>
>>
>> To see how this looks like, I just Looked at the Project 13 Questionnaire
>> list at the end of the PDF file. For the road names, I find it difficult to
>> interpret the hand written english names. But the local Bengladesh team
>> should be able to revise this info once every task is completed, plus
>> adding bengali names.
>>
>> For other tags,  some objects are not common for northern countries
>> remote mappers.
>>
>> To facilitate collaboration from the remote mappers, I added to the wiki
>> page a Tagging schema section for the more  common objects and suggested
>> OSM key and attribute to describe them.
>> See
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Tagging_Schema_-_Common_Tags
>>
>> For the Factories, I used the industrial=factory proposal.   There are
>> some objects for which I could not find a key.
>>
>> I suggest that the mappers refer to this section and revise the tags.
>> This will assure homogeneity and facilitate tagging for others that later
>> join-in,
>>
>> Regard
>>
>> Pierre
>>
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>>  *De :* Pete Masters 
>> *À :* "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
>> *Envoyé le :* Lundi 2 février 2015 9h54
>> *Objet :* [HOT] Bangladesh mapping - first batch of field papers - help
>> us upload the data!
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We are looking for some help getting the data from the field papers up
>> onto OSM!
>>
>> The first batch is on the wiki at
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15#Field_Paper_Edit_and_Upload.21
>>
>> We would love it if any of you could grab a pack and follow the
>> instructions. This is the data for Hazaribagh. Some of it has been
>> processed by the Bangladeshi OSM team, but time was limited, so please go
>> through all the packs. If your pack has already been done, a second eye on
>> it would be great anyway. Also, on some, roads will have been edited, but
>> not landmarks (or visa versa).
>>
>> Hazaribagh is the priority as already one NGO working in the area wants
>> to conduct some health studies using the base map (and very soon)!
>>
>> I think everything you need is there. let me know if there are any
>> problems!
>>
>> Thanks a million...
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> --
>> *Pete Masters*
>> Missing Maps Project Coordinator
>> +44 7921 781 518
>>
>> missingmaps.org 
>>
>> *@pedrito1414* 
>> *@theMissingMaps* 
>> *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject*
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Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

[Maarten van der Veen]

There are people already mapping the camps. Mapaction has done most of that. We 
are mainly concerned with the residential buildings, to count the number of 
houses damaged.

Thanks,

Maarten 

On February 3, 2015 4:17:05 PM CAT, Justin Temwani Ng'ambi 
 wrote:
>The Job on Tasking Manager for Phalombe and Zomba is yet to be
>created. I hope Severin will help us on the same. I can assist in
>locating the camps, We have some data for the rescue camps (for
>Phalombe and Zomba).
>
>On 2/3/15, john whelan  wrote:
>> HOT task 847 does not seem to have any tiles covering Phalombe,
>Mulanje,
>> Zomba or Blantyre.
>>
>> Is there another HOT task perhaps?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 2 February 2015 at 23:16, Information Manager Shelter Cluster
>Malawi <
>> im.mal...@sheltercluster.org> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> We are currently working on providing shelter to people affected by
>the
>>> floods in January. We are still badly in need of an overall damage
>>> assessment, because a big part of the area is inaccessible. We have
>>> currently pretty ok building data for the lower shire (Nsanje and
>>> Chikwhawa
>>> districts), both due to mapping of the department of surveys, and
>the HOT
>>> OSM task for that area. Current priorities therefore are the
>districts of
>>> Phalombe, Mulanje, Zomba and Blantyre City (in order of priority).
>And
>>> especially those buildings that are within the flood plane.
>>>
>>> Please see here a map of the flood plane, to prioritize the effort.
>It is
>>> a rough map, but at least it will show you what areas to focus on.
>>>
>http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode:moz_mwi_dfo_floodextent_20150126
>>>
>>> There is already a task for this on OSM.
>>> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/847#
>>>
>>> As soon as we have the buildings in these areas properly mapped, we
>will
>>> overlay them with new flood plane layers and count the number of
>>> buildings
>>> inundated. As we are still in the emergency phase, an upscaling of
>effort
>>> would be really welcome.
>>>
>>> Thank you for those helping out,
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
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>>> Shelter Cluster Support - Information manager
>>> Malawi Floods 2015
>>> Malawi Red Cross Society, Lilongwe
>>> E: im.mal...@sheltercluster.org
>>> M: +265 997 314 918
>>> Skype: maartenvanderveen
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Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

[Justin Temwani Ng'ambi]

The Job on Tasking Manager for Phalombe and Zomba is yet to be
created. I hope Severin will help us on the same. I can assist in
locating the camps, We have some data for the rescue camps (for
Phalombe and Zomba).

On 2/3/15, john whelan  wrote:
> HOT task 847 does not seem to have any tiles covering Phalombe, Mulanje,
> Zomba or Blantyre.
>
> Is there another HOT task perhaps?
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 2 February 2015 at 23:16, Information Manager Shelter Cluster Malawi <
> im.mal...@sheltercluster.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> We are currently working on providing shelter to people affected by the
>> floods in January. We are still badly in need of an overall damage
>> assessment, because a big part of the area is inaccessible. We have
>> currently pretty ok building data for the lower shire (Nsanje and
>> Chikwhawa
>> districts), both due to mapping of the department of surveys, and the HOT
>> OSM task for that area. Current priorities therefore are the districts of
>> Phalombe, Mulanje, Zomba and Blantyre City (in order of priority). And
>> especially those buildings that are within the flood plane.
>>
>> Please see here a map of the flood plane, to prioritize the effort. It is
>> a rough map, but at least it will show you what areas to focus on.
>> http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode:moz_mwi_dfo_floodextent_20150126
>>
>> There is already a task for this on OSM.
>> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/847#
>>
>> As soon as we have the buildings in these areas properly mapped, we will
>> overlay them with new flood plane layers and count the number of
>> buildings
>> inundated. As we are still in the emergency phase, an upscaling of effort
>> would be really welcome.
>>
>> Thank you for those helping out,
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>> --
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>> Shelter Cluster Support - Information manager
>> Malawi Floods 2015
>> Malawi Red Cross Society, Lilongwe
>> E: im.mal...@sheltercluster.org
>> M: +265 997 314 918
>> Skype: maartenvanderveen
>>
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Re: [HOT] request for mapping buildings in Malawi flood plan with focus on two areas

[john whelan]

HOT task 847 does not seem to have any tiles covering Phalombe, Mulanje,
Zomba or Blantyre.

Is there another HOT task perhaps?

Thanks

Cheerio John

On 2 February 2015 at 23:16, Information Manager Shelter Cluster Malawi <
im.mal...@sheltercluster.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> We are currently working on providing shelter to people affected by the
> floods in January. We are still badly in need of an overall damage
> assessment, because a big part of the area is inaccessible. We have
> currently pretty ok building data for the lower shire (Nsanje and Chikwhawa
> districts), both due to mapping of the department of surveys, and the HOT
> OSM task for that area. Current priorities therefore are the districts of
> Phalombe, Mulanje, Zomba and Blantyre City (in order of priority). And
> especially those buildings that are within the flood plane.
>
> Please see here a map of the flood plane, to prioritize the effort. It is
> a rough map, but at least it will show you what areas to focus on.
> http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode:moz_mwi_dfo_floodextent_20150126
>
> There is already a task for this on OSM.
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/847#
>
> As soon as we have the buildings in these areas properly mapped, we will
> overlay them with new flood plane layers and count the number of buildings
> inundated. As we are still in the emergency phase, an upscaling of effort
> would be really welcome.
>
> Thank you for those helping out,
>
> Maarten
>
> --
> Maarten van der Veen
> Shelter Cluster Support - Information manager
> Malawi Floods 2015
> Malawi Red Cross Society, Lilongwe
> E: im.mal...@sheltercluster.org
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