[HOT] Calling all Activation coordinators
Hello Hotties, I would like to shout out to all the current Activation coordinators to discuss the implementation of the 'Activation Documentation and Coordinators Course Creation Sprint' budget draft. Would you please be so kind as to reply to this message, so I can grab your e-mails and send you a little more information, along with the document, and notes on what was discussed at the Activation WG meeting regarding the budget draft. Kind regards, Mhairi -- Mhairi O'Hara Technical Project Manager Email: mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org kate.chap...@hotosm.org Indonesian Mobile: +62 822 4701 1475 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response Economic Development* ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin
Sorry: On my last email, [4] = https://flic.kr/p/r8D1xD Rafael. On 10/02/15 22:06, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Hi Rafael, John, We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI. For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly because indeed there is no local community and it is some of the few existing data for that country. For Cameroon we let this to the local OSM community to decide what to do with it, because the quality of the data is not that tremendous and there is already a lot of data on osm. Altough the workflow on the wiki is maybe a little bit outdated, all info should be in there. But for more info you of course can ask. Best greetings, Jorieke Op 9-feb.-2015 19:31 schreef Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com: Hi, John: On 09/02/15 17:33, john whelan wrote: Just a comment having done a fair bit of HOT mapping in Cameroon I'm quite interested in this project. However my written French is a little rusty and in some ways I feel a bit isolated from the OSM mappers in Cameroon and a few mappers on the ground to tag would help enormously. I will contact the Cameroon OSM community for this. Also a few GPS traces on the majors roads would help. Most roads are fine but cloud cover meant that there are gaps to say the least. GPS traces will definitely help. In Gabon Digital Globe lowres imagery is misaligned by easily 200 m. Interesting too, we have now Mapbox images in some areas, with no clouds in areas where bing has. I note that there are a number of existing roads in OSM that look like imports that did not seem to align with the high resolution satellite imagery. I noted them too. Some are from WRI, maybe imported from before the imports guidelines. Cheers, Rafael. Cheerio John On 9 February 2015 at 10:32, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: This is a call for comments on an import of WRI data for 6 countries in the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep. (CAR), Gabon, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo). It seems that only Cameroon and, maybe, DRC have a local community, so that's why I ask for advice here before going to the imports list. This same email will be sent to talk-cm and talk-cm (Cameroon), talk-cd (DRC) and talk-cf (CAR), so sorry for duplicities. All import is explained in a wiki [1] (with links to the original files, importing files and scripts), and the actual (manual) import workflow explained in another wiki [2]. Import will be done using one HOT TM job for each country, and will be validated afterwards by a group of volunteers, who will add more tracks and other (yet to be decided) features. Any feedback is highly welcome. Cheers, Rafael. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads_Workflow ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ravilacoya Por favor, non me envíe documentos con extensións .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, aínda podendoo facer, non os abro. Atendendo á lexislación vixente, empregue formatos estándares e abertos. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Tipos_de_ficheros ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin
Hi, Jorieke: Thanks for sharing your views. I've been working with the UNICEF data import in CAR, and using that import to map thousands of new roads in that country since a year ago. Apart from GNS data, I used the WRI data from the import that you EUROSHA folks were doing in the TM [1]. Although quality of WRI data was less than acceptable in some cases, it was helpful for me, as it gave a quick idea of where roads and tracks were located, ways that otherwise would/could pass unadverted for me. I obviously couldn't check all 8,555 segments of the Cameroon file [2], but I checked quite many of them. I've seen all kind of issues, and that's not surprise for such an amount of data. Some of those issues (mainly errors like overshoots, dangles, etc.) are addressed in the workflow wiki for this import [3]. About the accuracy, I've seen most of the combinations in just one single area. Sometimes, I see that WRI is actually more accurate than OSM data, and similar to real data (real data being traced with hires Mapbox and WRI coming from lowres Landsat) (see [4] - in red OSM data, in green WRI data and in blue the real data). Sometimes, OSM data and WRI data are similar, and in other cases WRI ways are worse, sometimes to the point of not being eligible to import. How to deal with this is also part of the Workflow wiki. Another issue that will have to be corrected during the import or during the validation that will follow are some tracks that are tagged as abandoned:track that look open/active when checked against Mapbox hires. Some others look to be correctly tagged anyway [5]. The plan is not only to correct these data and to import/merge it to OSM, but also to add more tracks and other contextual forestry data during the validation process. Having these information will improve any research on logging (legal and ilegal) in one of the most important forest reserves in the world. I've sent an email to the talk-cm but didn't receive any answer yet. I am not sure about the DRC, but never heard of any OSM local community for the other 4 countries, and that's why I asked HOT list for comments. As you know, the import guidelines ask for local OSM communities to be fine with the import as one the requisites. Cheers, Rafael. [1] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/219 [2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ys58zv40yfr0um3/CMR_Forestry_roadsFINAL.osm?dl=0 [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads_Workflow [4] (see [4] - in red OSM data, in green WRI data and in blue the real data) [5] https://flic.kr/p/qRkcYp On 10/02/15 22:06, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Hi Rafael, John, We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI. For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly because indeed there is no local community and it is some of the few existing data for that country. For Cameroon we let this to the local OSM community to decide what to do with it, because the quality of the data is not that tremendous and there is already a lot of data on osm. Altough the workflow on the wiki is maybe a little bit outdated, all info should be in there. But for more info you of course can ask. Best greetings, Jorieke Op 9-feb.-2015 19:31 schreef Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com: Hi, John: On 09/02/15 17:33, john whelan wrote: Just a comment having done a fair bit of HOT mapping in Cameroon I'm quite interested in this project. However my written French is a little rusty and in some ways I feel a bit isolated from the OSM mappers in Cameroon and a few mappers on the ground to tag would help enormously. I will contact the Cameroon OSM community for this. Also a few GPS traces on the majors roads would help. Most roads are fine but cloud cover meant that there are gaps to say the least. GPS traces will definitely help. In Gabon Digital Globe lowres imagery is misaligned by easily 200 m. Interesting too, we have now Mapbox images in some areas, with no clouds in areas where bing has. I note that there are a number of existing roads in OSM that look like imports that did not seem to align with the high resolution satellite imagery. I noted them too. Some are from WRI, maybe imported from before the imports guidelines. Cheers, Rafael. Cheerio John On 9 February 2015 at 10:32, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: This is a call for comments on an import of WRI data for 6 countries in the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep. (CAR), Gabon, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo). It seems that only Cameroon and, maybe, DRC have a local community, so that's why I ask for advice here before going to the imports list. This same email will be sent to talk-cm and talk-cm (Cameroon), talk-cd (DRC) and
[HOT] Google Summer of Code 2015 Ideas
Hello HOTties! We are planning to apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [0] as a mentoring organization and we need your input for ideas to propose. GSoC is a program that sponsors students to write code for open source projects. Most college students anywhere in the world are eligible to participate, they get paid for their work and the time spent on projects may count as university course credit. Here are some topics that I thought could be relevant to HOT: - open source geospatial plugins for humanitarian response - development of Open Aerial Map [1] - spatial ETL, improvements to export tools [2] - mapping coordination platforms [3] - humanitarian/OSM version of OSGeo Live - map rendering based on the Humanitarian Data Model - mobile field mapping applications We may be collaborating with other organizations like OSGeo or OSM on some of the projects, but if you specific HOT ideas, please let us know. We started the application document here [4] and we are coordinating over at the Technical Working Group list[5]. If you would like to help out with the application, please join the TWG. Cheers, Cristiano [0] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 [1] https://github.com/hotosm/OpenAerialMap [2] http://export.hotosm.org [3] http://tasks.hotosm.org [4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCPF_cSfIwIPB_KbFKaduyk6iQFrRpFAP4GnqXhtyQ0/edit# [5] https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/?hl=en#!forum/techwg -- Cristiano Giovando Technical Project Manager Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org http://hot.openstreetmap.org ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] OAM Survey
Hello, As one of the first steps in the development of OAM, we are publishing a short user requirement survey to collect feedback and ideas: http://goo.gl/forms/kUK0nQ7wJh If you use aerial or satellite imagery in your humanitarian mapping projects (e.g. for tracing or visual analysis), we invite you to complete section 1. If you or your organization also provides aerial imagery for mapping purposes, then it would be great if you could answer section 2 as well. The entire survey should not take more than 10 minutes. Contact me with any question and please forward the link to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! Cristiano -- Cristiano Giovando Technical Project Manager Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org http://hot.openstreetmap.org ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn
Hi Sev, have tried to address some of your concerns in line .. below Cheers Mark Cupitt If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence See me on Open StreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Sorry for getting back late on this thread. Linkedin may be a large social media for professionals, what it has achieved by building its audience by emailing systematically personal contact lists, what makes it one of the most spamming site in the OSM talking lists, from my experience of moderator of a few lists. Therefore Linkedin is not very OSM friendly and reading the email title, I thought it was again one of these Linkedin spams slipping through the net from time to time. Linkedin finally got its point, ha! I generally turn this off on my LI account. It does have quite good Opt-Out capabilities on your profile for emails. Open Groups are often a source of this type of Spam .. I do not think LI emails would make it through to the HOT lists, and there is no intention of having any LI auto generated em,ails showing up on this List. I am a moderator, so will make sore of that :) I have a few (other) concerns: 1. The description of what is HOT in this page is not very clear about what HOT is. As a Board member, I must admit we did not work yet on defining what the HOT project is, what we have planned to after the HOT in Person meeting but did not take the time yet to work on it. In IMHO it does not emphasize enough that HOT the nGO has been created to coordinate and support the free contribution of hundreds (almost thousands) of volunteers, that are the core of the HOT project. Waiting for the communication Group to define. Open to suggestions and can change at any time. I would suggest that this should mirror what is on the web site 2. What is exactly the aim of to reach out and engage with Humanitarian and Mapping Professionals with this group. Finding new people volunteering among the professionals or publishing positions every time new ones are available? IMHO again, would be good tfor the two cases to drive the people interested either to the OSM lists or HOT website. But for the second case, it would be better to have people volunteering first before applying to positions It is intended to be a way to reach an audience we may not already have contact with. The clear aim is NOT to replicate the HOT List or anything else, but provide a way for people who may not be part of the Open Source Community to become aware of what we do, especially in a Humanitarian context and then join our community. It also may provide possible avenues for Sponsorship with organizations who have never heard of HOT, etc 3. Why the Discussion group, where it seems discussions are planned to be done, rather than simply linking to existing channels? And this is a closed group (maybe by definition in Linkedin) so it will not help people volunteering to have a clear picture of what happens if there is this group with discussion behind the scenes Open Groups are very prone to the Spam you mention above. The closed group is intended to avoid that. It is purely intended to be an Announce Only group and any questions/discussions will be generally redirected to the HOT List. Also, in some organizations, mail lists like the HOT list IRC Channels are not permitted, by corporate policy, so we still have an opportunity to keep in contact with people via this Group It is just another avenue that may or may not be worthwhile. Also, some people are a little shy about asking initial questions on lists that go to a lot of people, so sometimes a small venue to encourage them can be useful. A few minor remarks or questions: I think HOT the NGO has been officially created in 2010 and not 2012, and do not understand well the figure of 51-200 employees. Is it the total number of people that have been contracted since the creation of the organization? I just guessed the Number, am totally open to suggestions. I would guess it could be either Voting Members or All Volunteers. If you have a figure, let me know will adjust it. Sincerely, Severin On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All The Communications Working Group is pleased to announce that HOT now has a presence on LinkedIn. The objective of this move is to further promote HOT's work to the professional and business community world wide and directly engage with people who may be interested in our activities. We have two pages, a Company Page and a Discussion Group The Company Page is designed to showcase HOT, what it is and highlight key activities that HOT undertakes. The company page is at https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanitarian-openstreetmap-team If you are a LinkedIn Member, please show your support by following the company page and sharing the page
[HOT] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting
Forwarding to HOT - English. -- Forwarded message -- From: Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com Subject: [Hot-francophone] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting To: hot-francoph...@openstreetmap.org hot-francoph...@openstreetmap.org Hi all, Just a reminder that, as we are the second Tuesday of the month, the Activation Working Group meeting will occur today at 2PM UTC on IRC on the #hot IRC channel on OFTC (Click here if you do not have an IRC client, put an nickname and select the #hot channel at the very bottom of the list before logging. If you do not know what IRC is, it is basically an open platform for texting online in thematic rooms). Notes and log from the previous meeting are here. What we have in the agenda (of course, anyone can raise any other topic) 1 Activations * Floods in Malawi and Mozambique There is already a job on Lower Shire in Southern Malawi, progressing slowly, but another flood extent layer is available now, not as precise as the one for Lower Shire but covering the whole affected areas. An official activation could be done. We have contacts with humanitarian stakeholders in Malawi (from the HOT Project in the field during the last Summer), not yet in Mozambique. Helpful is someone help me to identify/map affected areas around Zomba, Mulanje, Phalombe and Blantyre City. * Crisis in Northern Nigeria Fred, Nicolas and I contacted humanitarian to set if it would be beneficial and not detrimental to map these areas in conflict and it is OK. Nicolas will detail that in an email to come * CAR (Central African Republic) Thanks to the MapGive project, we have two new imagery to cover cities in Bing holes, Rafai and Obo, that will complete the map of all the admin 1 and 2 in the country (except a few minor towns). See the uMap for a clear picture. A blog post should be done shortly. * South Sudan Juba is progressing well now, and other towns are also mapped through the Missing Map Project with whom we will coordinate more. Help for monitoring and prepare jobs is welcome * Ebola Would be good to have an update from Pierre and Andrew. AFAIK there are cases close to the western border of Ivory Coast where there is unfortunately a Bing hole. 2 Documentation * TOR are still to be adopted. Please read them and give your feedback * Through the Grant given by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation due to the huge contribution from the hot/osm community during the Ebola activation, an Activation documentation and training project is being planned Talk to you in a couple of hours. Sincerely, Severin ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] New task of urban mapping in Erbil, Iraq
Hi everyone, If some of you want to practice a bit more of urban mapping, here is your chance! I've just created a new small task for an urban suburb of Erbil in Iraq. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/886 Some field mapping will follow in the next few days, hopefully after most buildings have been traced. Contributors with previous experience in urban environments are most welcome to support, review and validate other contributors' work. Thanks in advance and happy mapping! Claire Claire Halleux Volunteer and Member of the Board +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://www.hotosm.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin
Hi Rafael, John, We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI. For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly because indeed there is no local community and it is some of the few existing data for that country. For Cameroon we let this to the local OSM community to decide what to do with it, because the quality of the data is not that tremendous and there is already a lot of data on osm. Altough the workflow on the wiki is maybe a little bit outdated, all info should be in there. But for more info you of course can ask. Best greetings, Jorieke Op 9-feb.-2015 19:31 schreef Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, John: On 09/02/15 17:33, john whelan wrote: Just a comment having done a fair bit of HOT mapping in Cameroon I'm quite interested in this project. However my written French is a little rusty and in some ways I feel a bit isolated from the OSM mappers in Cameroon and a few mappers on the ground to tag would help enormously. I will contact the Cameroon OSM community for this. Also a few GPS traces on the majors roads would help. Most roads are fine but cloud cover meant that there are gaps to say the least. GPS traces will definitely help. In Gabon Digital Globe lowres imagery is misaligned by easily 200 m. Interesting too, we have now Mapbox images in some areas, with no clouds in areas where bing has. I note that there are a number of existing roads in OSM that look like imports that did not seem to align with the high resolution satellite imagery. I noted them too. Some are from WRI, maybe imported from before the imports guidelines. Cheers, Rafael. Cheerio John On 9 February 2015 at 10:32, Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com mailto:ravilac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: This is a call for comments on an import of WRI data for 6 countries in the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep. (CAR), Gabon, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) and Republic of Congo). It seems that only Cameroon and, maybe, DRC have a local community, so that's why I ask for advice here before going to the imports list. This same email will be sent to talk-cm and talk-cm (Cameroon), talk-cd (DRC) and talk-cf (CAR), so sorry for duplicities. All import is explained in a wiki [1] (with links to the original files, importing files and scripts), and the actual (manual) import workflow explained in another wiki [2]. Import will be done using one HOT TM job for each country, and will be validated afterwards by a group of volunteers, who will add more tracks and other (yet to be decided) features. Any feedback is highly welcome. Cheers, Rafael. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads_Workflow ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot - -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ravilacoya - Por favor, non me envíe documentos con extensións .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, aínda podendoo facer, non os abro. Atendendo á lexislación vixente, empregue formatos estándares e abertos. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Tipos_de_ficheros -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU2PyaAAoJEB3niTly2pPQ/+oP/1UoKC3lNfr+EtuTu5pCb/+t nFLdLCvkNNPJBkgh/NXqYtPQ4j6OBJUYwbimBqhJZvESjHM2UDN8c/W5APmJ7Rpl /0LcCg8ao9ZKovxCC0To54J+ub/rDESDAYDmd4LSlmzQAHDFwvwxLRPsQyy0SYlM 5qA1rAZ2UA8kYPRL+6oLUC3Olix4OPHwUfXZ8F12aKfS33b6vG8AYXoXX2/I3gOC tZMUX71XH2qtFshmf9iiCrExwZk0GpI9LzdmmcIJ9THz7HIwDaYeXLRjS500Schf NpdGLxoV11VxKOGo1RKBJK3T9ZHSdhO25zDmvpylEV9R9V2O7d/9ky9fI2y23zWm R/tr2fUTKrT7iJ1psmV197xxV1cCMtQGRal3b5rlcLgMmt7+XK2WFNFVD07iPHkZ SYGsujCVRWtwy1A2cRPdzCNvKUo7+T+lcfP9nfJDUiSWK2YLbvHzV1nVptZSOPjT gkVwOIEy+sLEh5MsNdsIc6jyUwDy0U8g42dr23gMyvNYXtbr3I6KzdW6D54Z5/zs DfLlklnciT6vAtoYfjIgOJ0pnCPxQUr3a4WkBz1/K8o2L2ZHeCaE8qCt0beE8r55 KsKOF5IRcYgNjfqE0+bDJu4snmYBi+2vvugFIU4TX1xyLZYA8kSvnTsnyKaG9Kxy ogs3Ob8IUJoQQV0kzRkF =gQZ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping
Ahasan, great news, man... Do the volunteers not have their own android phones. In the final days mapping hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar, they were using osmand on their own devices. Also, I think there might some gps units around that Jorieke left the previous time she was there. In addition to the tracing, the technique that worked well in Kamrangirchar was to send one mapper out for the day on a rickshaw, making sure they go down every road to the end. We gave them a gps unit and a a phone and used the combination of tracks to edit the road network (which HOT helped add) ahead of field mapping with surveys. This worked well there because tracing was hard due to the density of buildings. Good luck and look forward to hearing how it went! Pete On 9 Feb 2015 21:09, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Ahasan, We will be pleased to support you for this action. I would suggest that you first organize a remote mapping session with your local experienced mappers, trace the map in detail (roads + buildings) and add as much infos as you can. This will greatly facilitate the field work later. There is good Bing and Mapbox imagery available. This should facilitate tracing buildings an roads. Infos such as street, locality, neighbourhood names and important infrastructures such as hospitals, etc. will help later people to locate them when doing the field work. We often prefer to use the JOSM editor since it is possible to work even in the context of bad internet connection. There is also a building plugin that facilitate tracing the buildings. In the preparation of the Field work, it would help that you test your field work methodology, including adding the information to OSM later. While some people are mapping some areas, you could alternate and do some field work collection to test your methodology both using phones and paper. Since you only have 3 phones and 1 gps, it will be important to also use FieldPapers. Phones and gps could be used to trace streets and compare with the map made from aerial imagery. There are also questionnaires available that help document the infrastructures. 1. Phone Android applications such as OsmAnd with an offline map do not require access to internet (If it was possible to have more phones it would help I think) 2. FieldPaper printouts where people can take notes. regard Pierre -- *De :* Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com *À :* Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com; Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Lundi 9 février 2015 13h51 *Objet :* [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping Dear Jorieke/ Pete and all, Hope you are fine. I would like to inform you that we (WSP-World Bank) collaboration with CARE Bangladesh has intended to map (house hold level) an union of Nilphamari District named Botlagari starting from end of this month. Though in the OSM data this remote area almost blank. Do you have any suggestion what might help me to finish this union in a easiest way ?. FYI, this union have almos 9000 households. We will have 16 trained local mappers and we have 3 androids and 1 GPS. Looking for your urgent suggestions: Please see the union in below umap link: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/botlagari-union-of-sayedpur-upazila-of-nilphamari-_28405#13/25.8052/88.8945 Thanks and Regards Ahasan . Ahasanul Hoque *GIS Environmental Data Mgt SpecialistWSP, **The World Bank.* *Contact: *hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com ahasan...@gmail.com | Web: *ahasanulhoque.com* http://ahasanulhoque.com/ *Skype: *ahasan4u | *Linkedin: **http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp * ___ 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] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting
Oops sorry I sent the email to another list! Please read below On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a reminder that, as we are the second Tuesday of the month, the Activation Working Group meeting will occur today at 2PM UTC on IRC on the #hot IRC channel on OFTC (Click here http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ if you do not have an IRC client, put an nickname and select the #hot channel at the very bottom of the list before logging. If you do not know what IRC is, it is basically an open platform for texting online in thematic rooms). Notes and log from the previous meeting are here https://hackpad.com/Activation-WG-Meeting-Jan-13-2015-Agenda-6wPNYZZIvrB. What we have in the agenda (of course, anyone can raise any other topic) 1 Activations * Floods in Malawi and Mozambique There is already a job on Lower Shire in Southern Malawi, progressing slowly, but another flood extent layer is available http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode:moz_mwi_dfo_floodextent_20150126 now, not as precise as the one for Lower Shire but covering the whole affected areas. An official activation could be done. We have contacts with humanitarian stakeholders in Malawi (from the HOT Project in the field during the last Summer), not yet in Mozambique. Helpful is someone help me to identify/map affected areas around Zomba, Mulanje, Phalombe and Blantyre City. * Crisis in Northern Nigeria Fred, Nicolas and I contacted humanitarian to set if it would be beneficial and not detrimental to map these areas in conflict and it is OK. Nicolas will detail that in an email to come * CAR (Central African Republic) Thanks to the MapGive project, we have two new imagery to cover cities in Bing holes, Rafai http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/883 and Obo, that will complete the map of all the admin 1 and 2 in the country (except a few minor towns). See the uMap http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/central-african-republic-mapping-progress_3868 for a clear picture. A blog post should be done shortly. * South Sudan Juba is progressing well now, and other towns are also mapped through the Missing Map Project with whom we will coordinate more. Help for monitoring and prepare jobs is welcome * Ebola Would be good to have an update from Pierre and Andrew. AFAIK there are cases close to the western border of Ivory Coast where there is unfortunately a Bing hole. 2 Documentation * TOR are still to be adopted. Please read them https://hackpad.com/HOT-AWG-Activation-Working-Group-Terms-of-reference-8EFvmXXzU68#:h=Members and give your feedback * Through the Grant given by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation due to the huge contribution from the hot/osm community during the Ebola activation, an Activation documentation and training project is being planned Talk to you in a couple of hours. Sincerely, Severin ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
