Re: [HOT] [MissingMaps] HOT is activating for Hurricane Irma

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi Milo,

There have been tasks for Sint Maarten/St. Martin. They are already finished. 
(http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3491  
and http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3486 
) 

Best,

Leon

> On 7 Sep 2017, at 16:35, Milo van der Linden  wrote:
> 
> Can we please have a project for Sint Maarten/St. Martin too?
> 
> On Sep 7, 2017 11:52, "Matt Sims"  > wrote:
> Hi Blake, all,
> 
> Just to let you know MapAction deployed a two person team yesterday to
> support the UNDAC team in Barbados and we are send a team out to Haiti this
> evening.
> 
> Where we can we'll feedback anything useful to you all.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> 
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> -Original Message-
> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM [mailto:blake.girar...@hotosm.org 
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> Sent: 07 September 2017 08:08
> To: HOT
> Subject: [MissingMaps] HOT is activating for Hurricane Irma
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> HOT has activated to support the Hurricane Irma response. We have good
> contacts with local responding organizations and international responding
> orgs.
> 
> I am working on announcing it more widely, it was just done in the last few
> hours and trying to get people to help with the activation.
> 
> We are working through the assessment of the activation protocol, but
> considering all of the current situation, it is affecting a wide scale area,
> a storm of great magnitude and we have good contacts with responding
> organizations. We do not have any specific requests yet. We reviewed
> Copernicus covered delineation maps and Copernicus rated as no damage and
> they were well mapped.
> 
> We are working off of the various hurricane forecasting products, like the
> National Hurricane Center to focus and prioritize the mapping while we
> monitor the international local response channels for help with
> prioritization.
> 
> Expect projects to change fast and often the priory area in a project will
> change, please review instructions often as they may keep you updated on the
> project.
> 
> We have focused so far on the Leeward Islands, which were already very well
> mapped, but we have filled in, fixed minor issues and validated 3 island
> groups so far which will be pushed to HDX
> 
> OpenStreetMap US has also started reviewing road data in the most likely
> affect counties.
> 
> Please spread the word.
> 
> The URL for Irma projects is: http://bit.ly/IrmaMapProjects 
> 
> 
> The tweet announcing it to retweet is:
> https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/905612899867119616 
> 
> 
> Dale, Nate, Mhairi and myself are working the activation primarily.
> 
> The coordination channel is on our slack, but we are happy to keep IRC
> updated as well.
> 
> Join the team ( https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ 
>  ) and then /join
> #disaster-mapping if you want to help with or watch the activation
> coordination.
> 
> Mhairi created the OSM wiki page for this activation:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2017_Hurricane_Irma 
> 
> 
> I believe that the Haiti-Talk list has some traffic related to prep for how
> this might affect Haiti and it would be really helpful if speakers of French
> would join that list to help keep the two communities well connected. (
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht 
>  )
> 
> Respectfully,
> Blake
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Re: [HOT] HOT Tasking Manager not responding !!!

[Leon van der Meulen]

No problems here in safari, firefox nor chrome.


> On 16 Jun 2016, at 09:27, Robert Banick  wrote:
> 
> I’m having the same error now. I was able to use the tasking manager 
> successfully about 3 hours ago however.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:55 PM Ahasanul Hoque  > wrote:
> Dear hot mappers,
> Is there any maintenance work ongoing for HOT task manager ? Its not 
> responding since last few hours and giving following responses. Is there 
> anybody facing the same issue or its something weird happens at my end ? 
> 
> 
> 
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[HOT] Advanced Mapathon in the Netherlands

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi all, especially you in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Next week there is another Mapathon organised with the Dutch Red Cross. We’ll 
be focussing not only on mapping, but also looking at existing data and 
Mapillary footage.
The focus is on Benin and Saba. More details: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/missing-maps-event-tickets-2731932283 
 

Best,

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[HOT] Nice article OSM: The simple map that became a global movement

[Leon van der Meulen]

Just saw this through the @decryptageo twitter account. Features Missing Maps.
> http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/osm-the-simple-map-that-became-a-global-movement/466280?platform=hootsuite
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Re: [HOT] [CrisisMappers] Research project on satellite imagery for crisis mapping

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi Patrick,

There is a Phd researcher working at the University of Groningen on the 
availability and actuality of imagery  from commercial parties. I’m sure he has 
some ideas or connections. His email is philipp.olbr...@rug.nl 
<mailto:philipp.olbr...@rug.nl>

Best,

Leon


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> On 08 Jan 2016, at 15:35, Heather Leson <heatherle...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Folks maybe you have input for Patrick?
> 
> Heather
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> Date: 8 Jan 2016 17:14
> Subject: [CrisisMappers] Research project on satellite imagery for crisis 
> mapping
> To: "crisismappers" <crisismapp...@googlegroups.com 
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> Cc: 
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> Dear CrisisMappers,
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> I'm doing research on the use of satellite imagery for crisis mapping. As 
> part of this research, I'm looking to create a conceptual map of the 
> landscape (who is currently doing what and how) around the use of satellite 
> imagery for disaster management (all phases of the disaster cycle). 
> 
> I'm thus very keen to speak with relevant experts in this space including 
> folks who analyze said imagery and end-users who use the resulting analysis. 
> So if this is your area of expertise, then I'd be very grateful for your 
> guidance-- could you kindly send me an email off list?
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Re: [HOT] Getting organised

[Leon van der Meulen]

Nice email John, I totally agree with this idea. What I hear from new
mappers is that they find it difficult to pick a task themselves. Something
I found difficult myself in the beginning was the fact that tasks for
experienced mappers are also shown in the first screen, e.g. imagery
adjustments, road checks. Often you'd only see the note when the task is
already opened. It would be nice to have some kind of filter (maybe even
automatically set) for new, intermediate and experience mappers in
combination with the prioritising you proposed.

About the validating Jim was talking I also strongly agree. Especially for
mapahtons it is crucial to have validators who are there at the same time.
Personal and immediate feedback really helps a lot.

Best,
Leon


2016-01-05 15:24 GMT+01:00 john whelan :

> HOT is evolving, we started off with mainly experienced OSM mappers
> mapping in response to short term emergencies.  Now do do a wider range of
> tasks with a wider range of mappers.
>
> We're seeing organisations such as MSF and the Red Cross guiding people
> who want to help them to mapping with HOT, so our mappers are changing.  It
> helps engage volunteers.
>
> We're starting to see more GIS and mapping being organised locally but
> still not as much as I'd like to see.  The locals are better at reading
> street names than people mapping from imagery.
>
> Currently http://tasks.hotosm.org/ is our splash page if you like.  At
> the moment we see two or three high priority projects followed by medium
> priority projects in date order, the most recent last.  So the medium
> priority projects get their five minutes of glory then drift down into the
> mass of medium projects.
>
> We end up with a large number of projects that get 25% done, 5% validated
> and drift on for years.
>
> I suggest we have ten slots set at high priority, that way we stand a
> chance of getting a few projects completed.
>
> Of these I suggest that MSF, American Red Cross get given two permanent
> high priority slots.  That would concentrate their minds on which of their
> projects are most urgent.  At the moment I suspect mappers are seen as a no
> cost resource and some projects that are still around where the ground
> workers have finished their tasks but we're still mapping.
>
> Of the others, I'd give three to other organisations for a period of say
> three months.  For example Cameroon has a mapping department, Bangladesh
> has an active community, Nepal again has an active community and there are
> others.  Let them decide which projects will do them most good.  They may
> make some mistakes but I hope it will develop a sense of ownership.
>
> The other five I'd let the board decide.
>
> Then we have the dead wood projects that clutter up the medium priority,
> these are projects where no one has mapped or validated for more than a
> month.  It maybe the imagery is poor, the instructions too complex, or
> whatever.  I'd downgrade these to low priority, that way the active
> projects would stand out more and again stand more chance of completion.
>
> It might even be worthwhile having a weighting attached to each project,
> the more active projects or highly validated projects move up the list the
> less active ones move down.  It just needs a tag for the task list to
> order.  The actual computation can be done off line say once a day and
> someone else can sort out the algorithm.
>
> Can we get more out of our mappers?
>
> I think we can.  On project 1390 I validated as people mapped.  New
> mappers got feedback, the advantage is they get a bit more involved and
> feel engaged.  So we got more tiles out of them.  We got 6 or more tiles
> out of a number of new mappers or ones who had mapped less than six tiles
> before, typically I'd expect one or two tiles from them.  On the data
> quality side I think it was up.  By correcting problems early on the new
> mappers made less mistakes that need intervention later on from the
> validation side.  However it takes effort, the faster the feedback the
> better the results.
>
> Validation is a tricky.  HOT isn't traditional OSM where individuals like
> to map park benches or waste bins.  There is a service level to be met, and
> if the building is five feet out, well that's probably good enough although
> we  should strive for accuracy.  It's a bit lets get something useful done
> with the resources we have.  Normal good management technique is catch them
> doing something right.  So invalidating a tile is the last thing you want
> to do.  I normally correct then leave a note, such as added fourteen
> settlements. Where possible third party it JOSM validation picked up the
> following: African wiki suggests higway=living street in an African small
> village may not be appropriate and I must confess I normally delete any
> zebra pedestrian crossing I come across in Africa.  There is another issue
> with experienced OSM mappers HOT has its own conventions, such as
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[HOT] #1394 - Kinshasa Floods

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi All,

I’m just checking out this task and some things just seem a little weird, for 
example this square: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1394#task/162
A lot of areas are traced more than once, and residential land use isn’t mapped 
consistently. Wouldn’t it be better to trace the whole city once as residential 
and remove the smaller areas? Some are traced between roads, others just seem 
to be randomly drawn. 

Best,

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Re: [HOT] #1394 - Kinshasa Floods

[Leon van der Meulen]

For now I tried to maintain most of the areas when possible but deleted a 
couple when they would fall in a larger residential area. I worked around the 
northern part of the priority area.
Please share your thoughts about this issue.

Best,

Leon


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> On 29 Dec 2015, at 11:52, Leon van der Meulen <leonvandermeu...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I’m just checking out this task and some things just seem a little weird, for 
> example this square: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1394#task/162 
> <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1394#task/162>
> A lot of areas are traced more than once, and residential land use isn’t 
> mapped consistently. Wouldn’t it be better to trace the whole city once as 
> residential and remove the smaller areas? Some are traced between roads, 
> others just seem to be randomly drawn. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Leon
> 
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[HOT] Missing Maps Event success

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi All,

Great to see all the events happening this week, our event at the University of 
Groningen in the Netherlands last week was a great success, over 80 people 
helped out mapping South Kivu and Cape town. 17.000 objects and 72.000 nodes 
were added. We made a nice movie 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJqFplgdRU=youtu.be 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJqFplgdRU=youtu.be> which shows 
enthusiastic people and a short explanation of the idea. Could be a nice 
promotion for future events, just wanted to share this with you all!

Best,

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Re: [HOT] Missing maps mapathon in Belgium

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hoi Joost,

At what time do you start?

groet,

Leon

> On 13 Nov 2015, at 16:51, joost schouppe  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that after a year, we will have the second 
> Missing Maps Mapathon in Belgium, again in Antwerp; december 9th. More info: 
> http://osm.be/nl/content/missing-maps-mapathon-antwerp 
> 
> 
> The location is sponsered and provided by the OSM-lovers at IPIS Research, a 
> peace mapping NGO based here.
> 
> There are some talks ongoing to bring Missing Maps to Gent and Brussels too, 
> so if you're there and want to help, let me know.
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Re: [HOT] Refugee Crisis

[Leon van der Meulen]

Henk Hoff is going to coordinate this kind of activities for the Red Cross from 
Budapest, maybe he has some ideas. I’ve included him in cc.

Best,

Leon

> On 10 Nov 2015, at 04:25, Mike Dupont  wrote:
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> I am thinking that the refugee crisis is something that might be
> mapped. It seems to be the biggest crisis in a long time yet no HOT
> activation. There are all types of things to map, starting with
> makeshift refugee camps.
> mike
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Bob
>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> In the Uk we are seeing groups of people setting up collection points for 
>> donation for refugees. Are there any mapping groups/tasks visualising data 
>> concerning refugees, coordinating aid,camps etc. I hope to pass this 
>> information on to various groups at State of the map Scotland
>> 
>> all the best
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Re: [HOT] task #1250 South Kivu road tags

[Leon van der Meulen]

That’s interesting! We would also need to figure out a way to get people to 
connect roads to each other instead of tracing them without connections. Would 
be a nice addition to the tracing guide as well.
I’m translating the learnOSM guide to Dutch, will have a look at the 
instructions and maybe add some of these as well.

Best,
Leon

> On 02 Nov 2015, at 10:24, Pete Masters <pedrito1...@googlemail.com 
> <mailto:pedrito1...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the heads up Leon. I will check the instructions and edit to make 
> it clearer. We have a tracing guide in the making, which I hope should 
> help
> 
> Also, we will soon start global validation of road networks in the areas 
> where tasks have been completed. This will hopefully catch this...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Leon van der Meulen 
> <leonvandermeu...@gmail.com <mailto:leonvandermeu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I see that a lot of roads are traced in task 1250, especially in the southern 
> squares, but with the wrong tags in my opinion. Different contributors all 
> tagged connecting roads as well as roads leading to a couple of houses as 
> paths.
> What should we do with this?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Leon
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[HOT] task #1250 South Kivu road tags

[Leon van der Meulen]

Hi All,

I see that a lot of roads are traced in task 1250, especially in the southern 
squares, but with the wrong tags in my opinion. Different contributors all 
tagged connecting roads as well as roads leading to a couple of houses as 
paths. 
What should we do with this?

Best,

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Re: [HOT] Subject: task #1250 South Kivu road tags

[Leon van der Meulen]

Thanks Ralph,

The highways I’ve checked were traced by different people, but in the same 
period. Maybe there was a mapping event going on then? 
It will certainly not put me off mapping, just wanted to check this with 
someone.

Best,
Leon

> On 01 Nov 2015, at 16:26, Ralph Aytoun  wrote:
> 
> Hi Leon,
>  
> I have had a look at http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1250#task/35 
>  that you worked on and can see 
> what you are referring to.
>  
> You have correctly tagged the highways as unclassified but (in this square) 
> someone else has come in and changed your tagging to track even though it is 
> clearly connecting a number of villages. (See attachment).
>  
> I will look at a few more squares to see if it is the same person that is 
> doing this and send them a polite message explaining the correct tagging.
>  
> Thank you for bringing this to our attention and please do not let it put you 
> off your mapping.
>  
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