[HOT] OSM coverage in Nigeria

[ADEYEMO AYODELE OBA]

Hi,

I am a geogeek from Nigeria and I have been working with a couple of great
guys on a project. Details on www.opendata.com.ng.  We are building a
repository for both geospatial and non geospatial data in Nigeria and to do
these we've been engaged in building a network of national volunteers that
work to gather data across communities. We are very interested in working
with organizations on a mutual basis and we are more than honoured to
express our desire to work with the osm team in ensuring that the wealth
of  data (geospatial and non geospatial) is gathered.
We recognize the credible works of Ehealth Nigeria and we are very
interested in working with them but we need to know the level of engagement
of osm in Nigeria so that we can decide on the work map and strategy.
We are working at launching by next month precisely 10-11 and we will be
opening people up to ways to contribute to their communities through
collaborative data collection with special focus on osm and hotosm.

Thanks ahead,

Regards,

Ayodele Oba ADEYEMO
Geogeek, GIS and Mapping Expert, Data Analyst
Open Data Advocate
Twitter: @iyoaye
Facebook : christad92
+2348163174143
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Re: [HOT] OSM coverage in Nigeria

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Hi, Ayodele:

I am very glad to read your email. Being the most populous country in
Africa, and with such a big number of graduates in all subjects
(including geospatial), I was kind of frustrated that there wasn't still
a strong OSM community in Nigeria. But this email of yours points in the
right direction, and surely it will lead, sooner or later, to have such
community to be self-organized.

Generally speaking, OSM local chapters organize, at least, around a wiki
page and a talk mailing list.

eHealth Africa is doing an awesome job in North Nigeria, and as part of
their projects, they are providing huge amounts of data, some collected
in the field and imported into OSM and some other data being directly
mapped into OSM, like road network. But, of course, one NGO is not meant
to lead a volunteer community for such a big country as Nigeria. There
have to be different members of the Nigerian society, with different
goals and interests, who have to lead that effort, and decide
collectively and autonomously what they think is the best for the
Nigerian map, keeping in mind that we are at the same time a global
community, with the goal of a worldwide and consistent geodatabase.

During the 2 months I spent in Kano last year, I opened the talk-ng
mailing list [1] and started to re-arrange the Nigerian Wikiproject wiki
page [2], that needs still lot of work. Up to now, most of the
subscribers of the talk-ng are eHealth Africa staff, so I would
recommend you to subscribe to the list and use it as the main hub for
Nigerian OSM community discussion.

I also opened a Facebook page [3] (the most active), a Google+ page [4]
and a Twitter account [5] (these last two with almost no activity), that
can help spreading the word around Nigeria and beyond. Needless to say,
the idea is that a Nigerian OSM local community takes control of these
accounts when ready and willing.

About eHealth Africa, I obviously will let their staff to tell you on
ways to collaborate each other. At this moment, HOT is coordinating a
mapping effort for the complex NE Nigeria crisis, with road mapping and
two eHealth Africa-collected settlements and health facilities imports,
at the moment for Borno state (many other data have already been
imported in the past for the 10th Northernmost states of Nigeria), and a
still to be finished job for Gambaru city, also in Borno state [6].

OSM coverage in Nigeria is still far from good.

About roads, and if we start with the North, Kano state road network is
great, although nothing will ever be perfect. Borno state road network
is improving fast, and Bauchi state have been mapped extensively. Some
road mapping has been done in Kaduna too. Except for Borno, those roads
have been mapped by eHealth Africa staff. The other states need
extensive road mapping. Road mapping for Central and South Nigeria is
also poor or very poor, and the lack of high resolution aerial imagery
for a big percentage of Central and South Nigeria (specially in the
South) doesn't help improving the situation (North Nigeria has most of
it covered with high res imagery) [7].

Started by user crackers250 and followed by me, the mapping of trunk and
federal roads is still unfinished for Nigeria. All that work is based on
a early 70's law that is probably outdated. You can follow-up this task
progress in this wiki page: [9].

For road coverage, we could use the Groads dataset [10], and even set up
some HOT Tasking Manager jobs to fill in the missing roads according to
that data set, as we are doing already for Mali [11] and Central African
Republic [12].

About other data, all states and LGA's boundaries are already mapped in
OSM, plus all the wards in 10 North states of Nigeria (data kindly
provided by eHealth Africa). Thousands of residential areas and hundreds
of health facilities from the eHealth Africa database have been imported
into OSM too. You can consult all imports for Nigeria here: [8]. Some
cities are quite well mapped in OSM, like Kano and Benin City to name
two, but most of the cities need even the base data to be finished.

And there is only one way to achieve these goals: by growing local
communities. So that's why I am so happy to read that your main goal is
to open people up to growing together the Nigerian map.

Please share your questions and thoughts here and in the talk-ng list,
as there are people with lots of experience in all fields of OSM that
will be happy to assist.

Cheers, and have a nice day,

Rafael Ávila Coya (edvac).

[1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ng
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nigeria
[3] https://www.facebook.com/openstreetmapnigeria
[4] https://plus.google.com/111950932706827998068/posts
[5] https://twitter.com/openstreetmapng
[6]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nigeria/HOT_Activation_projects
[7]
http://umap.fluv.io/en/map/north-and-central-nigeria-bing-hires-imagery-cover_1580#6/10.369/7.471
[8] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nigeria_Imports

Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

[Milo van der Linden]

Hello Russell!

Good to hear you used the bot, and I am also glad to hear it worked.

I checked out the log at
http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-06-23.txt

And followed the links:

15:21:12  Minutes:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.html
15:21:12  Minutes (text):
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.txt
15:21:12  Log:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.log.html

>From my home location, these links are reachable, so I do not
understand completely what can be wrong.
Can you please try again, maybe refresh the browser? Maybe have
someone else also try the links?
As far as I know I haven't set up any black or whitelisting, so I am a
bit puzzled of why they are unreachable.

I appologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know how I can be of service!

Kind regards,

Milo




2015-06-23 19:16 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :

> Hello Milo,
>
>
>
> I used the meetbot today for the Activation Working Group.  All the
> commands seemed to work fine, but when I ended the meeting, the links the
> bot spit out were no good.  Can you point me to the ‘root’ URL and/or
> investigate what happened; the meeting occurred 14:00-15:20 roughly on 23
> June.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 4:22 PM
> *To:* 'Milo van der Linden'
> *Subject:* RE: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
>
>
> Hi Milo,
>
>
>
> Yes please (in regards to admin) – and would wonder if you know Mumble as
> well? We have an ‘expert’ but he is very busy nowadays and often our
> ‘Parliamentarian’ ‘falls-asleep’ it would be great to have a better
> solution – as he also (and currently really only) is our echo-test bot.
>
>
>
> Let’s maybe chat sometime soon,
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> Russell Deffner
>
> Chairperson for the Voting Members
>
> Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org
>
> US Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: +1-970-217-4195
>
> OSM/Skype: russdeffner
>
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
>
> Web  | Wiki
>  | Blog
>  | Contact
> 
> | Donate 
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net ]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM
> *To:* hot
> *Subject:* [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
>
>
> Hello hotties,
>
> I have set up a meetbot in the #hot irc channel. This adds enhancements to
> help streamline online meetings by automagically creating minutes. The
> commands that can be used are simple and well documented[1] and will after
> the #endmeeting command is issued, generate the minutes and show the links
> to the minutes[2]. Currently the meetbot is running indefinitly on one of
> my servers.
>
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Could this be of use?
>
> 2. Since I will not always be present at IRC meetings; is/are there
> anybody that would like to have admin access to control the bot and be able
> to start meetings? And would they have to be boardmembers?
>
> Your advice would be highly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> milo/miblon
>
>
> [1]http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
> [2]www.dogodigi.net/logs/hot/
>
>
>
>



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Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

[Pierre Béland]

Thanks Milo for the Bot.
I checked these links immediately at the end of the meeting and they did work. 
I just verified again and the links are still working for me.

regard 
 
Pierre 

  De : Milo van der Linden 
 À : Russell Deffner  
Cc : hot  
 Envoyé le : Mardi 23 juin 2015 14h37
 Objet : Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
   
Hello Russell!

Good to hear you used the bot, and I am also glad to hear it worked.

I checked out the log at http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-06-23.txt

And followed the links:

15:21:12  Minutes:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.html
15:21:12  Minutes (text): 
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.txt
15:21:12  Log:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.log.html

>From my home location, these links are reachable, so I do not understand 
>completely what can be wrong. 
Can you please try again, maybe refresh the browser? Maybe have someone else 
also try the links?
As far as I know I haven't set up any black or whitelisting, so I am a bit 
puzzled of why they are unreachable.

I appologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know how I can be of service!

Kind regards,

Milo



2015-06-23 19:16 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :

Hello Milo, I used the meetbot today for the Activation Working Group.  All the 
commands seemed to work fine, but when I ended the meeting, the links the bot 
spit out were no good.  Can you point me to the ‘root’ URL and/or investigate 
what happened; the meeting occurred 14:00-15:20 roughly on 23 June. Thank 
you,=Russ From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 4:22 PM
To: 'Milo van der Linden'
Subject: RE: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel Hi Milo, Yes please (in regards 
to admin) – and would wonder if you know Mumble as well? We have an ‘expert’ 
but he is very busy nowadays and often our ‘Parliamentarian’ ‘falls-asleep’ it 
would be great to have a better solution – as he also (and currently really 
only) is our echo-test bot. Let’s maybe chat sometime soon,=Russ Russell 
DeffnerChairperson for the Voting MembersEmail: Russell.Deffner@hotosm.orgUS 
Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: +1-970-217-4195OSM/Skype: russdeffnerHumanitarian 
OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)Web | Wiki | Blog | Contact | Donate  From: Milo van 
der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel Hello hotties,I have set up a 
meetbot in the #hot irc channel. This adds enhancements to help streamline 
online meetings by automagically creating minutes. The commands that can be 
used are simple and well documented[1] and will after the #endmeeting command 
is issued, generate the minutes and show the links to the minutes[2]. Currently 
the meetbot is running indefinitly on one of my servers.I have a couple of 
questions:1. Could this be of use?2. Since I will not always be present at IRC 
meetings; is/are there anybody that would like to have admin access to control 
the bot and be able to start meetings? And would they have to be 
boardmembers?Your advice would be highly appreciated.Kind regards,milo/miblon
[1]http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
[2]www.dogodigi.net/logs/hot/



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Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

[Russell Deffner]

Oh, they are working now Milo; maybe the bot just spits them out before they 
are actually accessible. When I tried them right away I would get ‘website not 
found’ or maybe it was just a temporary internet glitch on my end.

 

Thanks again for setting this up!

=Russ

 

From: Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:38 PM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: hot
Subject: Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

 

Hello Russell!

Good to hear you used the bot, and I am also glad to hear it worked.

I checked out the log at http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-06-23.txt

And followed the links:

15:21:12  Minutes:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.html
15:21:12  Minutes (text): 
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.txt
15:21:12  Log:
http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.log.html
>From my home location, these links are reachable, so I do not understand 
>completely what can be wrong. 
Can you please try again, maybe refresh the browser? Maybe have someone else 
also try the links?
As far as I know I haven't set up any black or whitelisting, so I am a bit 
puzzled of why they are unreachable.
I appologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know how I can be of service!
Kind regards,
Milo
 

 

 

2015-06-23 19:16 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :

Hello Milo,

 

I used the meetbot today for the Activation Working Group.  All the commands 
seemed to work fine, but when I ended the meeting, the links the bot spit out 
were no good.  Can you point me to the ‘root’ URL and/or investigate what 
happened; the meeting occurred 14:00-15:20 roughly on 23 June.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 4:22 PM
To: 'Milo van der Linden'
Subject: RE: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

 

Hi Milo,

 

Yes please (in regards to admin) – and would wonder if you know Mumble as well? 
We have an ‘expert’ but he is very busy nowadays and often our 
‘Parliamentarian’ ‘falls-asleep’ it would be great to have a better solution – 
as he also (and currently really only) is our echo-test bot.

 

Let’s maybe chat sometime soon,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Chairperson for the Voting Members

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org

US Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: +1-970-217-4195  

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Web   | Wiki 
  | Blog 
  | Contact 
  | 
Donate  

 

 

From: Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

 

Hello hotties,

I have set up a meetbot in the #hot irc channel. This adds enhancements to help 
streamline online meetings by automagically creating minutes. The commands that 
can be used are simple and well documented[1] and will after the #endmeeting 
command is issued, generate the minutes and show the links to the minutes[2]. 
Currently the meetbot is running indefinitly on one of my servers.

I have a couple of questions:

1. Could this be of use?

2. Since I will not always be present at IRC meetings; is/are there anybody 
that would like to have admin access to control the bot and be able to start 
meetings? And would they have to be boardmembers?

Your advice would be highly appreciated.

Kind regards,

milo/miblon


[1]http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
[2]www.dogodigi.net/logs/hot/






 




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Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

[Milo van der Linden]

It depends on the browser. Some browsers will automagically prefix
dogodigi.net with www. I have changed my DNS settings, they might take a
while to get activated, so that the http://dogodigi.net will also work


2015-06-23 20:46 GMT+02:00 Pierre Béland :

> Thanks Milo for the Bot.
>
> I checked these links immediately at the end of the meeting and they did
> work. I just verified again and the links are still working for me.
>
> regard
>
> Pierre
>
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>  *De :* Milo van der Linden 
> *À :* Russell Deffner 
> *Cc :* hot 
> *Envoyé le :* Mardi 23 juin 2015 14h37
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
> Hello Russell!
>
> Good to hear you used the bot, and I am also glad to hear it worked.
>
> I checked out the log at
> http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-06-23.txt
>
> And followed the links:
>
> 15:21:12  Minutes:
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.html
> 15:21:12  Minutes (text): 
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.txt
> 15:21:12  Log:
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.log.html
>
> From my home location, these links are reachable, so I do not understand 
> completely what can be wrong.
> Can you please try again, maybe refresh the browser? Maybe have someone else 
> also try the links?
> As far as I know I haven't set up any black or whitelisting, so I am a bit 
> puzzled of why they are unreachable.
>
> I appologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know how I can be of 
> service!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Milo
>
>
>
>
> 2015-06-23 19:16 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :
>
> Hello Milo,
>
> I used the meetbot today for the Activation Working Group.  All the
> commands seemed to work fine, but when I ended the meeting, the links the
> bot spit out were no good.  Can you point me to the ‘root’ URL and/or
> investigate what happened; the meeting occurred 14:00-15:20 roughly on 23
> June.
>
> Thank you,
> =Russ
>
> *From:* Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 4:22 PM
> *To:* 'Milo van der Linden'
> *Subject:* RE: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
> Hi Milo,
>
> Yes please (in regards to admin) – and would wonder if you know Mumble as
> well? We have an ‘expert’ but he is very busy nowadays and often our
> ‘Parliamentarian’ ‘falls-asleep’ it would be great to have a better
> solution – as he also (and currently really only) is our echo-test bot.
>
> Let’s maybe chat sometime soon,
> =Russ
>
> Russell Deffner
> Chairperson for the Voting Members
> Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org
> US Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: +1-970-217-4195
> OSM/Skype: russdeffner
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
> Web  | Wiki
>  | Blog
>  | Contact
> 
> | Donate 
>
>
> *From:* Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net ]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM
> *To:* hot
> *Subject:* [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
> Hello hotties,
> I have set up a meetbot in the #hot irc channel. This adds enhancements to
> help streamline online meetings by automagically creating minutes. The
> commands that can be used are simple and well documented[1] and will after
> the #endmeeting command is issued, generate the minutes and show the links
> to the minutes[2]. Currently the meetbot is running indefinitly on one of
> my servers.
> I have a couple of questions:
> 1. Could this be of use?
> 2. Since I will not always be present at IRC meetings; is/are there
> anybody that would like to have admin access to control the bot and be able
> to start meetings? And would they have to be boardmembers?
> Your advice would be highly appreciated.
> Kind regards,
> milo/miblon
>
> [1]http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
> [2]www.dogodigi.net/logs/hot/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

[Milo van der Linden]

No, it was no glitch, it was a good catch as a matter of fact!

I have fixed it. Checked here, my DNS already reflects the changes. Meetbot
spits out immediatly, so next time it should work fine.

2015-06-23 20:48 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :

> Oh, they are working now Milo; maybe the bot just spits them out before
> they are actually accessible. When I tried them right away I would get
> ‘website not found’ or maybe it was just a temporary internet glitch on my
> end.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for setting this up!
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:38 PM
> *To:* Russell Deffner
> *Cc:* hot
> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
>
>
> Hello Russell!
>
> Good to hear you used the bot, and I am also glad to hear it worked.
>
> I checked out the log at
> http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-06-23.txt
>
> And followed the links:
>
> 15:21:12  Minutes:
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.html
>
> 15:21:12  Minutes (text): 
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.txt
>
> 15:21:12  Log:
> http://dogodigi.net/logs/hot/2015/hot.2015-06-23-14.04.log.html
>
> From my home location, these links are reachable, so I do not understand 
> completely what can be wrong.
> Can you please try again, maybe refresh the browser? Maybe have someone else 
> also try the links?
> As far as I know I haven't set up any black or whitelisting, so I am a bit 
> puzzled of why they are unreachable.
>
> I appologize for any inconvenience. Please let me know how I can be of 
> service!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Milo
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2015-06-23 19:16 GMT+02:00 Russell Deffner :
>
> Hello Milo,
>
>
>
> I used the meetbot today for the Activation Working Group.  All the
> commands seemed to work fine, but when I ended the meeting, the links the
> bot spit out were no good.  Can you point me to the ‘root’ URL and/or
> investigate what happened; the meeting occurred 14:00-15:20 roughly on 23
> June.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 4:22 PM
> *To:* 'Milo van der Linden'
> *Subject:* RE: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
>
>
> Hi Milo,
>
>
>
> Yes please (in regards to admin) – and would wonder if you know Mumble as
> well? We have an ‘expert’ but he is very busy nowadays and often our
> ‘Parliamentarian’ ‘falls-asleep’ it would be great to have a better
> solution – as he also (and currently really only) is our echo-test bot.
>
>
>
> Let’s maybe chat sometime soon,
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> Russell Deffner
>
> Chairperson for the Voting Members
>
> Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org
>
> US Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: +1-970-217-4195
>
> OSM/Skype: russdeffner
>
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
>
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>  | Contact
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> | Donate 
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>
>
>
>
> *From:* Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net ]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:09 PM
> *To:* hot
> *Subject:* [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel
>
>
>
> Hello hotties,
>
> I have set up a meetbot in the #hot irc channel. This adds enhancements to
> help streamline online meetings by automagically creating minutes. The
> commands that can be used are simple and well documented[1] and will after
> the #endmeeting command is issued, generate the minutes and show the links
> to the minutes[2]. Currently the meetbot is running indefinitly on one of
> my servers.
>
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Could this be of use?
>
> 2. Since I will not always be present at IRC meetings; is/are there
> anybody that would like to have admin access to control the bot and be able
> to start meetings? And would they have to be boardmembers?
>
> Your advice would be highly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> milo/miblon
>
>
> [1]http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=community:using-meetbot
> [2]www.dogodigi.net/logs/hot/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> [image: Image removed by sender. http://www.dogodigi.net]
> 
>
> *Milo van der Linden*
>
> web: dogodigi 
> tel: +31-6-16598808
>
>
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: About " openstreetmap " Name Conflict

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/06/15 17:18, Lester Caine wrote:

On 23/06/15 16:43, john whelan wrote:


We checked and found the keyword is your company's registered trademark.
But have not registered in China,Hong Kong,Taiwan. So we inform you to
confirm whether this registration will affect and conflict your company.
If this registration will not affect and conflict your company, then we
can finish registering for them as per our duty. If this registration
will affect and conflict your company. Please contact us by telephone or
email within 10 workdays, so we can better handle the issue.


I've had a couple of these relating to my own company names and I simply
replied that the business was not authorised by me to use the names and
if they traded using them they would be in violation of my copyright. I
did not hear any more about the matter, and nothing was registered as
far as I can see. I think this just needs the same sort of letter from
someone, but in this case several international bodies can object to the
trademarking of what is an international open source project?


As everybody else has said, it is just a scam and should be ignored.

One thing I can pretty much guarantee is that they haven't received any 
reqeusts from anybody.


The usual giveaway is that they use complete nonsense phrases like 
talking about registering "internet keywords" which is not a concept 
that actually exists!


At best they are looking to sell you an overpriced domain registration 
and at worst, well who knows.


Tom

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Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Alfred,
Andrew and I did coordinate the Activation and passed some time around all of 
this area.  We did everything possible working remotely to make the map. But 
there are limits to our mapping contribution. We cannot add local infos. 

This is a great opportunity to have somebody like you and other people from the 
local community to complete the map adding POI and address names. We will be 
pleased to support your community. And as you saw working on Skype with Andrew, 
there are interesting ways to support at distance.

There was already some mapping done for Bo last year before the international 
community contributed to complete the coverage of Bo.
I agree with you Andrew, the building outlines are quite sketchy. It would be 
easy to erase / redraw. But I think that it is important to keep history of the 
work done  before by local mappers. We should then avoid to erase / redraw the 
buildings.
We can prepare Task Manager Jobs to have the collaboration of the HOT-OSM 
community to revise the geometry of buildings and roads.
The Replace Geometry functionality in  JOSM can be used to redraw rapidly the 
buildings. Adding instructions in the Task Manager, it should be easy for the 
contributors to follow the workflow using the Replace Geometry. I did a rapid 
test, moving the building aside, re-tracing it and then selecting the Replace 
Geometry to update it's geometry. It works fine.  Revising highways should be 
easier.

For the Field work, we can provide you some learning material and support you 
in the first steps to update the map.

regard
 
Pierre 

  De : Andrew Buck 
 À : hot@openstreetmap.org 
 Envoyé le : Lundi 22 juin 2015 20h19
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world
   


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Thank you Alfred for introducing yourself to the mailing list and for
your interest in joining our community.  Just to let everyone know,
Alfred and I spoke via skype last week and discussed his mapping of
the town of Bo. He has contributed hundreds of POI names and addresses
for the town already and is interested in further collaborating with
HOT in order to more effectively map the town.  I suggested that he
post a message here to introduce himself and join the list so we could
discuss with the broader group how best to move forward in finishing
the map of the town.

As it currently stands, the town of Bo has most of the buildings
mapped (although they were apparently mapped from old imagery) as well
as most of the roads.  This means the additional tracing work by our
remote volunteers could contribute is somewhat limited, but not
completely impossible to make further contributions.  For example, the
imagery the buildings were traced from was mis-aligned according to
bing/gps traces in the area and also the building shapes are not quite
perfect.

This situation means the mapping is a bit trickier than just working
from a blank slate, however I think it is an interesting opportunity
to test our skills on a more complete town as well as working out a
good workflow for integrating remote and on the ground mapping and
trying to find better ways of doing both.

I encourage others who are experienced mappers to have a look at the
town, how it is mapped so far, and to think about how we might move
forward from this point.  Alfred is interested in doing more ground
surveys with his team, so I think we can have a really interesting mix
of local and remote participation and this could be a really good test
case for more detailed mapping.

I look forward to hearing what others on the list think about this
project and am excited to see how this will progress.

- -AndrewBuck
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Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

[Blake Girardot]

On 6/24/2015 12:12 AM, Pierre Béland wrote:


The Replace Geometry functionality in  JOSM can be used to redraw
rapidly the buildings. Adding instructions in the Task Manager, it
should be easy for the contributors to follow the workflow using the
Replace Geometry. I did a rapid test, moving the building aside,
re-tracing it and then selecting the Replace Geometry to update it's
geometry. It works fine.  Revising highways should be easier.


After Andrew showed me how to use Replace Geometry, I use it quite often 
now.


I made a _very_ informal instructional video on how I use Replace Geometry:

https://youtu.be/Kv5AOmX8M9g (7 mins long)

Cheers,
Blake

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Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

[Pierre Béland]

this is great Blake 
 
Pierre 

  De : Blake Girardot 
 À : Pierre Béland ; "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
 
 Envoyé le : Mardi 23 juin 2015 18h35
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world
   




On 6/24/2015 12:12 AM, Pierre Béland wrote:

> The Replace Geometry functionality in  JOSM can be used to redraw
> rapidly the buildings. Adding instructions in the Task Manager, it
> should be easy for the contributors to follow the workflow using the
> Replace Geometry. I did a rapid test, moving the building aside,
> re-tracing it and then selecting the Replace Geometry to update it's
> geometry. It works fine.  Revising highways should be easier.

After Andrew showed me how to use Replace Geometry, I use it quite often 


now.

I made a _very_ informal instructional video on how I use Replace Geometry:

https://youtu.be/Kv5AOmX8M9g (7 mins long)

Cheers,
Blake


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