[HOT] Current Disaster Response Projects

[russell . deffner]

Greetings HOT community,

 

We're waiting to get more information on the situation in Papua New Guinea
as they were struck with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake Sunday, followed by many
major aftershocks/secondary quakes (which continue, the last being less than
an hour before writing this). For now we have a fairly easy project to
prepare a basemap. I left it unrestricted, so those who have been asking for
a way to try out validation, have at it - just keep in mind the tips and
tricks from the Validation Webinar  . The project
can be found under Disaster Response on the Tasking Manger:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
 &campaign=Disaster%20Response 

 

We also still have urgent tasks for more experienced mappers for Cyclone
Gita, updating Tonga with new imagery:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL

&campaign=%23CycloneGita 

 

And a bit of validation left for the flooding in Bolivia which can be found
at the Disaster Response link above.

 

Thank you in advance for taking some time this week to map and/or validate a
bit for these response and recovery efforts!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

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

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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[HOT] Recent perceptions on the Aid charities

[john whelan]

Do we care?

Are we seeing a drop off in the numbers mapping?

Could someone put some numbers in so we can see a % figure on how bad the
problem is?  My expectation is considering the numbers involved the
fraction of aid workers involved would be very low.

The expense of vetting local volenteers or even employees is probably
something the accountants would like to keep to a minimum.

I note that in many areas one of the biggest problems is simply
corruption.  Food aid being sold in markets for example.  How realistic is
it to expect western european standards of behavior?

I was concerned that one of the OXFAM employees implicated appears to have
found a job with UNICEF.

Politically governments provide much of the funding for aid work.  It
doesn't make it easier for them.

Any thoughts or is it one of those things that are not to be discussed?

Thanks John
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Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Somali translation

[Philippe Verdy]

You should know that I'm increasing the basic support of languages on the
wiki, with all navigation tools, most important templates,
autocategorization, and the initial structure of categories.
Somali is in my list (along with others). "Minor" languages have been
neglected since long and I have installed some trackers to help find
occurences of pages, or those where basic translation does not work as
intended or does not display a suitable translation and only fallbacks
sometime to English.
This concerns several thousands of pages on the wiki. The more I work on
it, the more I detect new attempts to create these pages that are left
unreferenced and difficult to reach. This is a cleanup maintenance task but
it takes lot of time to do that on so many languages. Most of these
languages are still spoken by millions people, and are even official or
national languages recognized in those countries.
There's musch more on the wiki than just English, French, Japanese or
German; even Russian and the two major variants or Chinese has been partly
neglected, and Hindi and Urdu or Indonesian were completely left behind.
Laotian and Khmer as well (with some attempts to do Vietnamese).
I've done the basic work for Amharic, and already in my list of languages
to check : Tigrinya, Wolof, Zulu, Hausa, Yoruba, Swahili, Divehi, Igbo...
and of course Somali.
Note that I do not create a "Main Page" translation, but I've prepared the
"Portals" of OSM Community categories and some essential categories for
described features.


2018-02-25 20:04 GMT+01:00 Rebecca Firth :

> Hi Nick,
>
> Sadly my language skills don't allow me to help with this effort, but
> really love the idea and looks like a great project!
>
> Rebecca
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Nicholas Doiron  > wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Last year, I started working with translators to support more languages
>> in OpenStreetMap. This year, I'm interested in expanding that project to
>> the Somali language.  You can see the first mock-up of this project on
>> https://georeactor.github.io/osm-global/somali/about.html
>>
>> There are two tasks where Somali volunteers can help: translation and
>> approval. The professional translator's work won't show up on the official
>> website or iD editor until a second person checks it, so we can use even a
>> few minutes of volunteer time to check their work looks right.
>>
>> Please let me know if you are interested in a map-athon, translate-athon,
>> or some other collaboration on Somalia + Somaliland!  I can get you set up
>> on TranslateWiki and Transifex.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nick Doiron
>>
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Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Somali translation

[Rebecca Firth]

Hi Nick,

Sadly my language skills don't allow me to help with this effort, but
really love the idea and looks like a great project!

Rebecca

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Nicholas Doiron 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Last year, I started working with translators to support more languages in
> OpenStreetMap. This year, I'm interested in expanding that project to the
> Somali language.  You can see the first mock-up of this project on
> https://georeactor.github.io/osm-global/somali/about.html
>
> There are two tasks where Somali volunteers can help: translation and
> approval. The professional translator's work won't show up on the official
> website or iD editor until a second person checks it, so we can use even a
> few minutes of volunteer time to check their work looks right.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested in a map-athon, translate-athon,
> or some other collaboration on Somalia + Somaliland!  I can get you set up
> on TranslateWiki and Transifex.
>
> Regards,
> Nick Doiron
>
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Re: [HOT] Welcome Nature Club at Karatina University, Kenya - our 100th YouthMappers chapter!e 17

[Solis, Patricia]

Thank you Jorieke! Yes, anyone can certainly use that infographic, and
thanks to all that help us retweet, post, and share on social media to
celebrate all of the YouthMappers students. We are grateful to the USAID
communications team and the GeoCenter staff for creating this image and
distributing it broadly.

As for keeping going, there¹s no sign of interest letting up. In fact, we
have already since passed 100, so there are another dozen universities
with chapters coming online. These numbers change weekly! It¹s encouraging
on many levels to see our youth step up all around the world. We continue
to try to find ways to effectively engage them and keep up the quality
contributions.

Patricia



>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:17:34 +
>From: Jorieke Vyncke 
>To: "Solis, Patricia" , Tyler Radford
>   , "hot@openstreetmap.org"
>   , "missingm...@hotosm.org"
>   , "Levine, Rachel"
>   
>Subject: Re: [HOT] Welcome Nature Club at Karatina University, Kenya -
>   our 100th YouthMappers chapter!
>   
>
>Hi Patricia,
>
>Thanks for sharing. I just posted about it on the MM Facebook page ­ and
>retweeted tweets.
>I saw that you also had a great visual, @Levine,
>Rachel that¹s maybe something to share
>on our MM Instagram too?
>
>Great work, keep growing!
>
>Jorieke
>
>Jorieke VYNCKE
>Missing Maps Coordinator
>Manson Unit - MSF UK
>
>[MSF_dual_English_CMYK]
>MSF UK, 10 Furnival Street, London, EC4A 1AB
>+44 (0)20 7404 6600 || UK Charity Reg. No. 10265888
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