[HOT] Blog: Virtual invite to London this evening for HOT validators

[Pete Masters]

Hi all,

Have just posted this as an OSM diary, but just in case some of you don't
spend all morning watching the OSM diary feed, here is the link ;)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pedrito1414/diary/36232

Full text below.

Cheers,

Pete



It is the monthly London Missing Maps / HOT mapping party tonight.

For a while now, we have had a table or two at each mapathon where people
can sit if they want to learn to validate. And, with much thanks to the HOT
/ OSM stalwarts who have sat with them each month, we now have a gang of
new validators.

We identified validation early on as something we would have to address
with the mapping parties in London. We are bringing a lot of new mappers to
the table and they aren't necessarily coming via HOT or OSM. They are,
essentially, humanitarians, who have a desire to do something, rather than
just donate something. HOT and Missing Maps is a perfect fit, but they are
mapping novices.

Our community of validators are now doing great stuff helping guide the
newbies and ensure some quality control.

What we'd like to start doing now is connecting our London validators up
with the wider community of HOT validators. So, tonight we'd like to invite
any validators out there to join us. We will introduce our validators that
don't know to mumble and hope to have an ongoing chat between those in the
room and those joining remotely.

Our hope is that they will enrich the validator community within HOT and
also provide our new validators with some contacts who can help them as
they learn.

The event details are here and you can sign up as a remote validator:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/missing-mapshot-november-mapathon-tickets-19100443942


Mapping starts at 1830, but we might be a bit late getting the validators
set up on mumble as we usually prioritise onboarding the new people.

Let me know if you have any comments or questions.

Cheers,

Pete



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[HOT] Digital Revolutions Workshop, Bergen University

[Pierre Béland]

#DigiRevCMI New Information Technology Tools in 21st Century 
Politicshttp://www.cmi.no/news/?1585-digital-revolutions
My presention yesterday was the opportunity to review that last major  
OpenSteetMap / HOT Responses in the context of disaster and to show the various 
management aspects of such interventions plus quality problems / management in 
the context of such 
responses.https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/661120335845138432

I presented briefly the Semantic analysis I started of the 2015 Nepal response. 
Looking at the OSM Planet File for 2015-04-24 (before the Response) and 
2015-06-07 (After the response), I measured how the objects are related to OSM 
features. This important measure of quality, completes other quality measures 
of OSM data. It also gives us a global measure of quality, and can help us 
monitor the progression of the crowdsource effort and detect rapidly some 
tagging problems. The first step is to relate parents / childs (ie. relation, 
way, node) and find the tags that describe each OSM Feature.

Either before or after the Nepal Response, only 1% of the objects cannot be 
related to a feature such as highway, building, amenity, etc.  No key / value 
combination listed on the OSM Map Features wiki page (plus specific HOT 
disaster keys).  A 1% error shows a high ontologic precision of the data 
produced.  Data with no feature, is Invisible data. Either, there was syntax 
error in the key / value, no tag, or a contributor simply added a name or note. 
We need to look more closely at such patterns and find ways to correct them 
rapidly.
To show how we can focus on this "Invisible Data" and cure it, I created the 
JOSM NoFeature Mappaint style. It can be selected from the JOSM Mappaint 
Preferences. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/NoFeature. This Style 
shows the key-value combinations I selected for my OSM data analysis.  I invite 
HOT Validators to use this style and test it while validating data.

We also have access to  dynamic data (ie data created, modified, deleted).  I 
will analyze more in detail and try to identify patterns. Monitoring semantic 
quality of data produced can help to correct rapidly, revise instructions, etc.

This two day workshop is a great opportunity to discuss with other Digital 
Humanitarian Network contributors and thanks to Per Aarvik from SBTF and Bergen 
Universiy who organized this workshop.
 
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Re: [HOT] Digital Revolutions Workshop, Bergen University

[nicolas chavent]

Thanks Pierre for this heads up on this two days workshop that sounded
really interesting.
Excellent day to all,

Best,
Nicolas

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Pierre Béland  wrote:

> #DigiRevCMI New Information Technology Tools in 21st Century Politics
> http://www.cmi.no/news/?1585-digital-revolutions
>
> My presention yesterday was the opportunity to review that last major
> OpenSteetMap / HOT Responses in the context of disaster and to show the
> various management aspects of such interventions plus quality problems /
> management in the context of such responses.
> https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/661120335845138432
>
> I presented briefly the Semantic analysis I started of the 2015 Nepal
> response. Looking at the OSM Planet File for 2015-04-24 (before the
> Response) and 2015-06-07 (After the response), I measured how the objects
> are related to OSM features. This important measure of quality, completes
> other quality measures of OSM data. It also gives us a global measure of
> quality, and can help us monitor the progression of the crowdsource effort
> and detect rapidly some tagging problems. The first step is to relate
> parents / childs (ie. relation, way, node) and find the tags that describe
> each OSM Feature.
>
> Either before or after the Nepal Response, only 1% of the objects cannot
> be related to a feature such as highway, building, amenity, etc.  No key /
> value combination listed on the OSM Map Features wiki page (plus specific
> HOT disaster keys).  A 1% error shows a high ontologic precision of the
> data produced.  Data with no feature, is Invisible data. Either, there was
> syntax error in the key / value, no tag, or a contributor simply added a
> name or note. We need to look more closely at such patterns and find ways
> to correct them rapidly.
>
> To show how we can focus on this "Invisible Data" and cure it, I created
> the JOSM NoFeature Mappaint style. It can be selected from the JOSM
> Mappaint Preferences. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles/NoFeature.
> This Style shows the key-value combinations I selected for my OSM data
> analysis.  I invite HOT Validators to use this style and test it while
> validating data.
>
> We also have access to  dynamic data (ie data created, modified,
> deleted).  I will analyze more in detail and try to identify patterns.
> Monitoring semantic quality of data produced can help to correct rapidly,
> revise instructions, etc.
>
> This two day workshop is a great opportunity to discuss with other Digital
> Humanitarian Network contributors and thanks to Per Aarvik from SBTF and
> Bergen Universiy who organized this workshop.
>
> Pierre
>
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Re: [HOT] HOT awarded Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant

[Russell Deffner]

This is excellent Tyler,

 

Having been part of the brainstorming I can only say that I was beyond 
impressed with the quality of ideas presented and now that it will basically be 
‘out of my league’ since I’m not much of a coder or statistician – I can’t wait 
to see the prototype!

 

Congratulations and best wishes for success HOT!

=Russ

 

From: Tyler Radford [mailto:tyler.radf...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 11:29 AM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] HOT awarded Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant

 

Hi all,

 

HOT was recently awarded support from the Knight Foundation for an OSM data 
quality analysis tool. Thank you to the many HOT folks who worked on drafting 
and conceptualizing this idea!

 

http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/11/3/20-ideas-receive-support-knight-prototype-fund-media-and-information-projects/

 




Tyler Radford

Executive Director

email: tyler.radf...@hotosm.org

U.S. mobile: +1 617.285.2009

 

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team 

Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development

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[HOT] HOT awarded Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant

[Tyler Radford]

Hi all,

HOT was recently awarded support from the Knight Foundation for an OSM data
quality analysis tool. Thank you to the many HOT folks who worked on
drafting and conceptualizing this idea!

http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/11/3/20-ideas-receive-support-knight-prototype-fund-media-and-information-projects/


*Tyler Radford*
Executive Director
email: tyler.radf...@hotosm.org
U.S. mobile: +1 617.285.2009

*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team *
*Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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[HOT] Parse dutch translation

[Milo van der Linden]

Hello HOT,

Leon van der Meulen spent a good deal of effort updating the dutch
translation. Next week there will be a missing maps in Groningen (province
of the Netherlands) and a learnosm in dutch would be great.

I know not everything is complete yet, but would it be possible to parse
what we have so far so we can check out if all slugs work and if the basic
setup is good?

Please let us know.

Kind regards,

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Re: [HOT] HOT New Member Nominations - CLOSING THIS WEEK

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

I just want to remind everyone the nomination period for new HOT
Voting Members closes 6 November 2015 23:59 UTC.

If you are interested in becoming a voting member of our organization
please contact one of the current voting members you know from this
list:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Members

Or contact Russ Deffnerr (cc'd on this email) or myself and we will
help get things started.

All the details of the process are available in this document, new
member nominees should read it all the way through and the Membership
Code link in it ( direct link to Membership Code also pasted in
below).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk/

https://hotosm.org/sites/default/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf

Cheers,
Blake
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Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Blake Girardot
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to welcome all the people who will be considering becoming a
> voting member of HOT.
>
> HOT is a diverse community with a shared goal: Working together to
> serve people through collaboration and open data.
>
> Becoming a voting member is a very public declaration of your
> commitment that goal.
>
> The HOT/OSM community works on the ground in many places and HOT the
> organization does everything it can to support and build those
> efforts.  Becoming a voting member is another way you can increase
> your participation in and commitment to HOT's projects. The worldwide
> HOT/OSM community has accomplished amazing work over the past 5 years
> and I am honored to be a peer in that community and a voting member of
> HOT US Inc.
>
> I also wish to amplify Russ's mention of the importance of diversity
> to HOT. HOT is committed to making our community a safe space for
> people of any background.
>
> If anyone has any questions about HOT or about becoming a voting
> member, please just contact me whatever way is most convenient for
> you:
>
> blake.girar...@hotosm.org
> skype:jblakegirardot
> US: +1 734 330 8989
> HOT's mumble server (search in the OSM wiki for mumble)
>
> I love to quote Heather Leson, HOT US Inc.'s President: "Lets be
> awesome together."
> I look forward to working with everyone in the HOT/OSM community in
> the future (how great is it to be able to say that?)
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
> 
> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
> skype: jblakegirardot
> HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Russell Deffner
>  wrote:
>> Greetings Global Community of HOT,
>>
>>
>>
>> (my apologies, I meant to send this on Monday but was focused on our
>> Activations)
>>
>>
>>
>> There are never enough ways to thank you for all that you have done and
>> continue to do for HOT. It is my pleasure to announce that the Voting
>> Members of HOT have launched the nomination period for a New Member
>> Election. Voting Members are our ‘core team’ that handle governance such as
>> Bylaws, Board Member Elections, and of course - electing additional Voting
>> Members.
>>
>>
>>
>> The short-story of the way it works is, each existing member can nominate
>> one person, and if elected, that nominator mentors the nominee as they
>> navigate HOT/OSM and achieve their goals. Those of you who love what we are
>> doing and accept the long and grueling challenge of ensuring effective
>> governance of the organization as well as strengthening and growing it, I
>> welcome you to contact myself or any of the wonderful people you may have
>> worked with here: http://hotosm.org/voting-members - rights and
>> responsibilities are also defined in the Membership Code linked/attached to
>> that page.
>>
>>
>>
>> New Member Nominees are not required to campaign in any way, but are
>> encouraged to document their aspirations somewhere that will be linked to
>> the ballot (or otherwise work with their nominator to provide links/text for
>> the ballot). It is not easy to be elected as our existing membership takes
>> many things into account, including diversity. To be elected, a nominee must
>> gain written consent from ⅔ of the existing membership, in other word 57 of
>> the 86 current Voting Members must approve their nomination via ballot
>> (think of it as a petition requiring a certain number of signatures).
>>
>>
>>
>> Detailed procedures are documented here:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-83ZQvgXLentCAMS37gOPe1Lhmzs1UsqliohxfogJWk
>>
>>
>>
>> The nomination period ends November 6th; at which point nominees, their
>> nominator and/or supports will have until basically the end of November
>> (28th) to introduce themselves via the membership mailing list and/or
>> IRC/Mumble/etc. 

Re: [HOT] Follow up on Academic Research Discussion from the HOT Summit

[Robert Soden]

Great! Happy to be in touch with the university students.

Thanks,
Robert

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Ahasanul Hoque  wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> This is great. I have been encouraging the students to do their research
> about OSM /HOT data for long. Now some university and students are showing
> their interest to see the growing nature of OSM and HOT in Bangladesh. Some
> students already asked me for some possible research ideas, I have given
> them some what I already added in your docs. I shared the docs with them
> too. Lets see what they choose and write in proposal. I shall share you the
> update and connect them with you too.
>
> Thanks for the initiative.
>
> Ahasan
>
>
> .
> Ahasanul Hoque
> GIS & Env. Data Mgt Specialist
> 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.
> ''Env. Sant. & Waste Mangt in Developing Countries'| CES, UGENT- Belgium.
> Contact: hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com | Web:
> ahasanulhoque.com
> Skype: ahasan4u | Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp
>
> Please, Consider the Environment before Printing this Mail !!!
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Pete Masters 
> wrote:
>>
>> This is great, thanks to all who have contributed.
>>
>> I can say that, without a doubt, the Missing Maps project has already
>> benefited hugely from collaboration with researchers and academics.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Robert Soden 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We're live:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Academic_Partnerships
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Research_Topics
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Robert Soden 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > Thanks to everyone who has already given feedback!  I'm going to
>>> > incorporate and then put a draft up on the HOT wiki sometime in the
>>> > next week.  Please let me know if you have any other input.
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Robert
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Robert Soden 
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> Hi everyone,
>>> >>
>>> >> A few of us organized a group discussion at the HOT Summit back in
>>> >> April on
>>> >> partnerships with academic researchers.  Everyone in the session
>>> >> seemed to
>>> >> agree that research on HOTs activities has the potential to be
>>> >> beneficial
>>> >> and should be encouraged but that there needed to be a clearer
>>> >> statement
>>> >> from HOT both inviting that research as well as setting some
>>> >> ground-rules
>>> >> for how we would like to be approached, interacted with, and some of
>>> >> the
>>> >> research topics we thought would be valuable.
>>> >>
>>> >> Based on that session, we have drafted a short note here:
>>> >>
>>> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJmhy9Lpm67d1NfhwPV1fWfxsMZRU5bYxmK9e8DR3aI/edit
>>> >>
>>> >> and sketched a few initial ideas on what we think would be interesting
>>> >> to
>>> >> partner with academics on:
>>> >>
>>> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SmlYKkpl0tCV-5KKIuv25SWGgwf90OScgfwqfGXaBKg/edit#
>>> >>
>>> >> I think the goal, if there are no major objections, would be to get
>>> >> some
>>> >> input from the HOT community on both of these documents and then move
>>> >> them
>>> >> to wiki page where they could live as resources to point researchers
>>> >> to when
>>> >> they reach out to us.
>>> >>
>>> >> Please feel free to make any suggestions to the documents, follow up
>>> >> with me
>>> >> here, or send me an email offline - whichever you prefer.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks!
>>> >> Robert
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>
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>>
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