[HOT] Digital Humanitarian Network partner Humanity Road situation reports on Typhoon Koppu (Lando)

[Blake Girardot]

HOT is a member of the Digital Humanitarian Network

http://digitalhumanitarians.com/partner-type/network-member

One our partners in the DHN, Humanity Road, released this update a few
hours ago, and is continuing to monitor and publish situation reports:

Humanity Road has published an initial situation report on Typhoon
Koppu (Lando), #LandoPH.  It made landfall in Casigura, Aurora
Province at 1:00am on 18 Oct.
http://humanityroad.org/super-typhoon-koppu-landoph/

Regards,
Blake
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[HOT] Missing Maps TM projects in DRC

[maning sambale]

Hi,

We will be hosting a Missing Maps event next week in Mapbox BLR office
in celebration of Open Access Week [0].  We decided to work on DRC.
Most of the published projects over DRC are fairly complete [1].
However, I'm seeing unpublished/draft for MissingMaps.  Can we work on
the news ones? We expect mostly n00bs (but we will teach them JOSM) so
I guess "easy" projects like roads and landuse=residential is the best
task.


[0] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/open-access-week/
[1] http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority=asc=DRC
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[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - South Kivu DRC here we come!

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

As you might know HOT hosts some informal get togethers via HOTs voice
and IRC servers on Saturday afternoons, and one is not officially
happening today, but that is the great thing, we don't need anything
official :)

Our friends at MSF UK, are really trying to kick out some South Kivu
mapping in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part the Missing
Maps project.

They have currently have a Project on the HOT Tasking Manage that is
at 76% and I thought if we all could all give a few task squares today
and tomorrow we can make a big dent in that last stretch.

This is my favorite type of mapping, roads and residential areas only :)

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1192

Validators needed, but lets not invalidate anything, lets just fix,
finish and thank for the weekend :)

Lets show MSF UK what we can do!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Blake

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Re: [HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

[Justin Temwani Ng'ambi]

Dear Sir,
I totally subscribe to that. I would really be happy to contribute my ideas
to the wider community.

Waiting to discuss this in length at a group level for the sake of progress

Regards,
Justin Ng'ambi.
On Oct 16, 2015 2:27 PM, "Geoffrey Kateregga" 
wrote:

> Hi Blake,
>
> Please count me in, I am part of the community and I think I have
> something to contribute as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Blake Girardot  > wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> We still need for community members to join the community working group.
>>
>> If you even considered it and thought "oh they do not need me." or "I
>> do not know what I could contribute" now is the time to reply to me
>> and jump in!
>>
>> Lets do this! We need YOU, I am not kidding!
>>
>> As Heather is fond of saying: "Let's all be awesome together!"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Blake
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Blake Girardot
>>  wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > The Community Working Group is going to start have regular projects
>> > and meetings and we need you :)
>> >
>> > This group is going to be working on ways of building our community
>> > and will need people who are good at creative fun things to help grow
>> > and strengthen the HOT community.
>> >
>> > I t will also focus on ways of working with partner communities to
>> > strengthen our community integration and help support their missions.
>> >
>> > I imagine it will work closely with the Training WG and the
>> > Communications WG to accomplish everyone's goals as well.
>> >
>> > The working group will follow the typical HOT WG format and be led by
>> > two community Co-Chairs. There will also be one Board Member working
>> > in the group as well to help with projects and keep the board updated
>> > on activities.
>> >
>> > Everyone has something to contribute to this group because everyone is
>> > a member of the HOT community. Besides there will be stickers and
>> > badges how can you say no? We need people with a wide diversity of
>> > skills (especially language skills) so if you are looking for a good
>> > way to build  your real world experience building online communities
>> > this is a great opportunity.
>> >
>> > And I mean real opportunity as HOT's President, Heather Leson will be
>> > very involved as the Board member working with the group.
>> >
>> > If you have not met our President yet, Heather is a pioneer in
>> > creating and building this new phenomenon of Digital Humanitarians, a
>> > leader in building on line communities and is a sought after speaker
>> > at Humanitarian conferences around the world for her expertise and
>> > insights into online humanitarian work. Working with her on this is
>> > going to be an amazing experience.
>> >
>> > So if you are at all interested, please contact me as I am helping get
>> > it kicked off, and we can talk about it at length. Especially if you
>> > have the desire and the capacity for a slightly higher time commitment
>> > to be a Co-Chair :)
>> >
>> > I look forward to speaking with you all more as part of the Community
>> WG !
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Blake
>> >
>> > --
>> > 
>> > Blake Girardot
>> > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>> > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
>> > skype: jblakegirardot
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 
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Re: [HOT] Community Working Group kickoff and call for members

[Martin Dittus]

Count me in, I’m up for it as well!

m.

> On 17 Oct 2015, at 10:39, Justin Temwani Ng'ambi  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> I totally subscribe to that. I would really be happy to contribute my ideas 
> to the wider community.
> 
> Waiting to discuss this in length at a group level for the sake of progress
> 
> Regards,
> Justin Ng'ambi.
> 
> On Oct 16, 2015 2:27 PM, "Geoffrey Kateregga"  
> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
> 
> Please count me in, I am part of the community and I think I have something 
> to contribute as well.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Blake Girardot  
> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> We still need for community members to join the community working group.
> 
> If you even considered it and thought "oh they do not need me." or "I
> do not know what I could contribute" now is the time to reply to me
> and jump in!
> 
> Lets do this! We need YOU, I am not kidding!
> 
> As Heather is fond of saying: "Let's all be awesome together!"
> 
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Blake Girardot
>  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The Community Working Group is going to start have regular projects
> > and meetings and we need you :)
> >
> > This group is going to be working on ways of building our community
> > and will need people who are good at creative fun things to help grow
> > and strengthen the HOT community.
> >
> > I t will also focus on ways of working with partner communities to
> > strengthen our community integration and help support their missions.
> >
> > I imagine it will work closely with the Training WG and the
> > Communications WG to accomplish everyone's goals as well.
> >
> > The working group will follow the typical HOT WG format and be led by
> > two community Co-Chairs. There will also be one Board Member working
> > in the group as well to help with projects and keep the board updated
> > on activities.
> >
> > Everyone has something to contribute to this group because everyone is
> > a member of the HOT community. Besides there will be stickers and
> > badges how can you say no? We need people with a wide diversity of
> > skills (especially language skills) so if you are looking for a good
> > way to build  your real world experience building online communities
> > this is a great opportunity.
> >
> > And I mean real opportunity as HOT's President, Heather Leson will be
> > very involved as the Board member working with the group.
> >
> > If you have not met our President yet, Heather is a pioneer in
> > creating and building this new phenomenon of Digital Humanitarians, a
> > leader in building on line communities and is a sought after speaker
> > at Humanitarian conferences around the world for her expertise and
> > insights into online humanitarian work. Working with her on this is
> > going to be an amazing experience.
> >
> > So if you are at all interested, please contact me as I am helping get
> > it kicked off, and we can talk about it at length. Especially if you
> > have the desire and the capacity for a slightly higher time commitment
> > to be a Co-Chair :)
> >
> > I look forward to speaking with you all more as part of the Community WG !
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Blake
> >
> > --
> > 
> > Blake Girardot
> > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
> > skype: jblakegirardot
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
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> Geoffrey Kateregga
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> Tanzania
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> 
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Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake IDP Camp Sites Validation

[Hagellach37]

Dear Tylor, Dear Pierre,

thank you for your comments.

I added some additional information to the description of the pyBossa
task and also indicated that it is part of an acasdemic study.

Since we just started our analysis, it is maybe to early to discuss the
results. Nevertheless, it is good to know that there are other studies
regarding the quality of OSM data. Once we get the first results, I will
definitely have a closer look at what the guys from are doing.

Kind regards,
Benni

Am 15.10.2015 um 21:21 schrieb Tyler Radford:
> Hi Benni,
>
> Thanks for sharing your work. There is another ongoing study of post-Nepal
> OSM data quality focusing on IDP camps. This is being undertaken by ITHACA
> www.ithacaweb.org. It may be useful to chat with their team - let me know
> if I can put you in contact.
>
> Best
> Tyler
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:
>
>> Hi Benni,
>>
>> I suggest that you update the Shelter Dynamics Observer page to indicate
>> that this is an academic study to develop the methodology in assessing such
>> IDP Camps when the situation evolve rapidly in such crisis context.
>>
>> The primary role of HOT and the OSM community in such responses is to
>> produce rapidly the basemap and offer Maps and Services to support the
>> humanitarians that deploy in affected areas. Many organizations are
>> involved in damage or IDP camp assessments other and this is not done only
>> from interpretation of aerial imagery.
>>
>> In such Humanitarian Activations, communications among various
>> organizations and flexibility are key factors. Our Coordination team, the
>> DHNetwork partner organizations, Imagery providers, UN Agencies and
>> international organizations are in constant contact and re-evaluate
>> constantly the situation and actions to take. After the first evaluation of
>> the Kathmandu IDP camps, the decision was taken to let the field teams in
>> Kathmandu revise assessments of IDP camps in these urban areas since it was
>> easy for them to access camps in the Kathmandu valley.
>>
>> This was not the case for the remote areas in the mountains and the bad
>> news coming from various sources convinced the Coordination Group to reorient
>> the OSM remote mapping priority to complete rapidly the basemap for these
>> areas not yet mapped in detail.  There was almost no communication with
>> many isolated villages, with often no roads, landslides and constant risks
>> with the earthquake aftershocks.
>>
>> regard
>>
>> Pierre
>>
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>> *Envoyé le :* Mardi 13 octobre 2015 10h09
>> *Objet :* [HOT] Nepal Earthquake IDP Camp Sites Validation
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm Benni from disastermappers Heidelberg. Pete Masters recently wrote a
>> post about a crowdsourcing application that uses PyBossa to identify
>> human settlements in South Kivu for the Missing Maps project. First of
>> all, thank you for the great feedback.
>>
>> Currently I'm working on a study to assess the quality of IDP camp sites
>> mapping after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. You may agree that in
>> situations like the Nepal earthquake we still have problems validating
>> all the incoming data. Nevertheless, this step is crucial and especially
>> for IDP camps it determines the further usage of the data in the field.
>> Many camps became outdated just after a few days after the earthquake.
>> Therefore, I created a microtasking validation task similar to the
>> PyBossa task for the Missing Maps project. I think, that this may help
>> to fasten up the validation process with special regard to features that
>> are temporally dynamic like IDP camps.
>>
>> Since I know that many of you contributed to the Nepal earthquake
>> mapping efforts I would be glad if some of you could help to validate
>> the OSM data. If you would like to contribute just follow the link:
>> http://crowdmap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/app/shelter_dynamics/
>>
>> You find additional information on our blog:
>>
>> https://disastermappers.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/help-us-validating-2015-nepal-earthquake-idp-camp-sites-in-openstreetmap/
>>
>> Futhermore, I set up a googledoc for any feedback our ideas you may
>> have. It's here:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MElXJkIE4b2ruu22zZQiQ7gRaTT9GPIpYgpiOE7hbs/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>> Benni
>>
>>
>>
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