[HOT] SotM: Call for session proposals and Scholarship fund
Hi all, I'm delighted to report that the planning for State of the Map 2016 is going well. We have now opened the call for session proposals (presentations). You have until Saturday 21st May to submit your idea. Please see: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/04/19/propose-your-session-to-state-of-the-map-2016/ We have also opened the scholarship programme. This has the same deadline so don't hesitate. The option is there if you need it so don’t let the cost of travel stand in your way! https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/04/25/we-want-you-at-state-of-the-map-apply-for-a-scholarship/ Hope to see many of you in Brussels! :-) Best regards, Ben p.s. There are still sponsorship opportunities should your business want to support OSM via this route. If interested drop us a note. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] [info-hotosm] Re: need contact info for a mini-mapathon
Blake, et al. I'm in iD and trying to get back to the walkthrough an I'm having issues not being able to. One you are in a real edit mode and get out, I'm not able to find the means to get to the Walkthroughb. JOhnB From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM To: John Bocan Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon Hi John, This looks like quite a good project both for the needed map data and as an introduction to HOT and OSM mapping in general: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1753 It is not a small area for just one mapathon, but we can add a tag to the default changeset comments so you could track how everyone contributes. Or you could just ask people to concentrate on one small area of the larger project to have a more visual localized impact from the mapping. Also, if you could introduce JOSM (with the building_tools plugin installed)? That is a lot more GIS'ish of a tool and might be a bit more comfortable for GIS pros than iD. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ It is of course an open source project so it has its rough edges from a UI perspective, but overall a very nice tool for OSM mapping. But iD works great too, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the more advanced tool. I have attached a .geojson file of the project I linked to above so you can review it (JOSM needs a plugin to open .geojson files if you are using josm) Please let me know if you have any more questions and thank you again for doing the mapathon and showing more GIS pros what we do. We are really trying to incorporate more GIS professionals in our volunteer work because we often need actual GIS skills to support the humanitarian orgs that use our data. Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:54 PM, John Bocan wrote: > Thanks very much! > JohnB > > > > From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM > To: John Bocan > Cc: Tyler Radford ; "i...@hotosm.org" > > Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 10:18 AM > Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon > > Hi John, > > Thank you very much for doing the mapathon. It is really cool that GIS > pros are interested in our project. > > Let me see what I can find out and I will write you back later today. > > Cheers, > Blake > > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors > skype: jblakegirardot > HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org > > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:45 PM, 'John Bocan' via Info > wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> I am emailing "info" for a good project for a mini-mapathon that I am >> organizing for GIS professionals at the West Virginia GIS conference being >> held this week. As described below in a previous email, it will be this >> Friday, May 6 at 10:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm EDT. This event will be a >> hands-on workshop for conference-goers using stationary computers. At >> most >> we will have 23 but since this is the very last event of the conference, >> we >> may not have that amount. >> >> I am also presenting a session on crowd-source mapping which will have an >> emphasis on OSM and especially, HOT mapping. Most folks will be >> ESRI-centric >> in terms of their experience so I'll still need to walk through working >> with >> the iD editor and how things are done via OSM. >> >> I registered my event with Missing Maps but I've not heard from them yet. >> >> Best Regards, >> John Bocan, GISP >> Morgantown, WV >> >> >> From: Tyler Radford >> To: John Bocan >> Cc: HOT Openstreetmap >> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 6:11 PM >> Subject: Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon >> >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks for emailing. What you are doing sounds great. Thanks for >> organizing >> this and helping spread the word! >> >> As you get slightly closer, you could email i...@hotosm.org. One of our >> team >> members will respond. We can find a project which needs the most help in >> the >> few days before the event. >> >> Tyler >> >> Tyler Radford >> Executive Director >> tyler.radf...@hotosm.org >> @TylerSRadford >> >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development >> web | twitter | facebook | donate >> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:12 AM, John Bocan wrote: >> >> Greetings all, >> >> This is the first time I'm posting to the group, but I've been an avid >> reader of the list for almost a year. I am looking to have kind of a >> mini-mapathon for Friday, May 6th. It will be actually a hands-on workshop >> for the West Virginia GIS Conference. The maximum size is 23 and we'll be >> using desktop machines in one of the computer labs at the university >> (WVU).
Re: [HOT] [info-hotosm] Re: need contact info for a mini-mapathon
Hi John, It is on the right side of the screen, the bottom icon "help". On the "help" panel there is a button to start the walk through again at the bottom. Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:08 PM, John Bocan wrote: > Blake, et al. > > I'm in iD and trying to get back to the walkthrough an I'm having issues not > being able to. One you are in a real edit mode and get out, I'm not able to > find the means to get to the Walkthroughb. > > JOhnB > > > > From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM > To: John Bocan > Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 1:07 PM > Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon > > Hi John, > > This looks like quite a good project both for the needed map data and > as an introduction to HOT and OSM mapping in general: > > http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1753 > > It is not a small area for just one mapathon, but we can add a tag to > the default changeset comments so you could track how everyone > contributes. > > Or you could just ask people to concentrate on one small area of the > larger project to have a more visual localized impact from the > mapping. > > Also, if you could introduce JOSM (with the building_tools plugin > installed)? That is a lot more GIS'ish of a tool and might be a bit > more comfortable for GIS pros than iD. > > https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ > > It is of course an open source project so it has its rough edges from > a UI perspective, but overall a very nice tool for OSM mapping. > > But iD works great too, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of > the more advanced tool. > > I have attached a .geojson file of the project I linked to above so > you can review it (JOSM needs a plugin to open .geojson files if you > are using josm) > > Please let me know if you have any more questions and thank you again > for doing the mapathon and showing more GIS pros what we do. We are > really trying to incorporate more GIS professionals in our volunteer > work because we often need actual GIS skills to support the > humanitarian orgs that use our data. > > Cheers, > Blake > > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors > skype: jblakegirardot > HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:54 PM, John Bocan wrote: >> Thanks very much! >> JohnB >> >> >> >> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM >> To: John Bocan >> Cc: Tyler Radford ; "i...@hotosm.org" >> >> Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 10:18 AM >> Subject: Re: [info-hotosm] Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon >> >> Hi John, >> >> Thank you very much for doing the mapathon. It is really cool that GIS >> pros are interested in our project. >> >> Let me see what I can find out and I will write you back later today. >> >> Cheers, >> Blake >> >> Blake Girardot >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors >> skype: jblakegirardot >> HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org >> >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:45 PM, 'John Bocan' via Info >> wrote: >>> Greetings all, >>> >>> I am emailing "info" for a good project for a mini-mapathon that I am >>> organizing for GIS professionals at the West Virginia GIS conference >>> being >>> held this week. As described below in a previous email, it will be this >>> Friday, May 6 at 10:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm EDT. This event will be a >>> hands-on workshop for conference-goers using stationary computers. At >>> most >>> we will have 23 but since this is the very last event of the conference, >>> we >>> may not have that amount. >>> >>> I am also presenting a session on crowd-source mapping which will have an >>> emphasis on OSM and especially, HOT mapping. Most folks will be >>> ESRI-centric >>> in terms of their experience so I'll still need to walk through working >>> with >>> the iD editor and how things are done via OSM. >>> >>> I registered my event with Missing Maps but I've not heard from them yet. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> John Bocan, GISP >>> Morgantown, WV >>> >>> >>> From: Tyler Radford >>> To: John Bocan >>> Cc: HOT Openstreetmap >>> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 6:11 PM >>> Subject: Re: [HOT] need contact info for a mini-mapathon >>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> Thanks for emailing. What you are doing sounds great. Thanks for >>> organizing >>> this and helping spread the word! >>> >>> As you get slightly closer, you could email i...@hotosm.org. One of our >>> team >>> members will respond. We can find a project which needs the most help in >>> the >>> few days before the event. >>> >>> Tyler >>> >>> Tyler Radford >>> Executive Director >>> tyler.radf...@hot
