Re: [HOT] Blog: What did we learn from mapping African megacity Dar es Salaam?
Dear all, thanks Hawa for sharing this blog post and congratulations for the success of the project. For those who are interested, with some former colleagues I wrote a paper for the Academic Track of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam where OpenStreetMap contributions patterns in Dar es Salaam were evaluated using a set of different indicators. The analysis revealed some interesting contribution patterns linked to the Ramani Huria activities. The paper is available at https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W8/147/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W8-147-2018.pdf Happy to discuss further! Best, Marco <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/appl_VGI> Il giorno dom 15 dic 2019 alle ore 12:07 Pete Masters via HOT < hot@openstreetmap.org> ha scritto: > Hawa, this is great... thanks so much! > > Kudos to all those involved in Ramani Huria! Watching the project and the > team adapt, develop and innovate has been a real pleasure... > > Also, I'm looking forward to reading more on the resilience academy - > sounds like a really interesting project... > > Cheers, > > Pete > > > > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 09:42 Hawa Adinani, wrote: > >> Hello HOT community, >> >> Greetings from Tanzania! We are wrapping up Ramani Huria >> <https://ramanihuria.org/en/>—a community-based mapping project in Dar >> es Salaam, Tanzania focused on flood resilience—our biggest project that >> ran for 4 years (2015 - 2019). I wrote a blog >> <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/what-we-learnt-from-mapping-african-megacity-dar-es-salaam/>, >> now posted on HOT's website reflecting the project and what we learned from >> implementing such an enormous project in one of Africa's Megacity, Dar es >> Salaam. >> >> Please take a few minutes to read and share this blog so we can reach a >> wider community. >> >> Thanks >> >> Hawa Adinani. >> Communications HOT- Tanzania and OMDTZ >> Phone and Whats App: +255757218451 >> Skype; hawa.adinani >> >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development >> web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | >> facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate >> <http://hotosm.org/donate> >> ___ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Tasking manager unstable
I also experienced the same problem when running my mapathon today at the European Commission - JRC in Ispra (Italy): https://tasks.hotosm.org/ was down, but for the purposes of the mapathon (introducing humanitarian mapping and introducing participants to mapping) the instance at https://tasks.teachosm.org was totally fine. This solution might be useful for many other people involved in mapathons during this week! Best, Marco Il giorno mer 13 nov 2019 alle ore 13:32 Felix Delattre < felix.delat...@hotosm.org> ha scritto: > Hi all, > > Yes, this is the worst time. Almost the whole tech team is sole focusing > on that emergency. > > We had earlier today some problems with a maintenance procedure that went > out of control. And at the moment we are facing the following issues on the > Tasking Manager that has been brought back: > > - Locking of tasks is not working and throws an error message. > - Login is failing for some, not for others > - Activities of late yesterday, such as projects that have been created, > might be lost in the database, as we had to use a backup from yesterday. > > We are working on solving it soon. And will report here and in our other > channels (slack, twitter.com/hotosm_tech and status.hotosm.org) more > information. > > In the meantime we can only offer alternative instances such as: > > * tm3.openstreetmap.id > * tasks-assisted.hotosm.org > * tasks.teachosm.org > > Please excuse the inconvenience and we will post any updates as soon as > possible. > > So far an update from the infrastructure experts on what happened earlier > today: > > > *Summary:* > > Tasking Manager is now back and working. Unfortunately, many email > addresses were lost and therefore some users who login will be asked for > their email addresses again. Projects are intact and unaffected > > > > *So what happened?* > > During the scheduled maintenance to upgrade Tasking Manager instance, > one of our automated scripts deleted our database. This is not unexpected. > But the backup we made before deletion was deleted along with the database. > In a nutshell, we lost the production database completely, including > automated backups. We however had a separate offline backup that was taken > manually yesterday. But we had stripped email addresses from this database > backup for privacy reasons. We had to restore email addresses from another > offline backup from 10 days ago to fix it. We are now closely monitoring > the DB and the application for any problems. > > > > *What can you expect in the future?* > > We learned many valuable lessons from this including our approach to > data backups, performance and stability. All our experiences from the > outages of recent past have made us think about how to overhaul our > approach to optimize our infrastructure. We will work to implement > processes to mitigate performance, deployment and stability problems over > the next few weeks. We are also working on a detailed RCA with technical > details of the outage. > We understand that this would have caused quite a bit of frustration and > we apologize for that. You can expect things to improve in the next few > weeks. As always, you can follow us on Twitter ( > https://twitter.com/hotosm_tech) or Slack for updates in addition to our > status page at (https://status.hotosm.org). > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:01 PM Jorieke Vyncke > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Yes, please HOT, can you do everything to keep the TM online and stable >> today / this week? >> It's GISday today and there are more than 30 mapathons worldwide and 100+ >> this week for OSMgeoweek. Mapathons are happening in Uganda, Nigeria, >> Amsterdam, Sydney, Rio, etc. >> At the moment I tell people to go to tasks.teachosm.org and MapSwipe, if >> the HOT TM is not working. >> Best regards, >> Jorieke >> >> Op wo 13 nov. 2019 om 11:51 schreef Pete Masters via HOT < >> hot@openstreetmap.org>: >> >>> I'm sure you are all aware, but just in case... this is geo week and >>> there are more than 70 mapathons planned for this week. Maybe updates from >>> the tech team need to be posted across channels on this as it is critical >>> infrastructure for all of these events and people might not be connected to >>> slack / list / facebook etc... >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Pete >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:38 AM Micheal Yani >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Tech team, we just want to let you know that the tasking >>>> manager isn't stable yet, It has has worked for 2 hrs and now is on and >>>> off. >>
Re: [HOT] Retention of mappers analysis
> > Does anyone have a script to analyse information about people mapping >> using a particular hashtag please? >> >> >> >> We would like to analyse how long our volunteers mapping with >> #TanzaniaDevelopmentTrust have been mapping for and how many edits they >> have done? >> >> >> > You can use this great tool from Pascal Neis: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=TanzaniaDevelopment It computes statistics over the last 30 days for a specific hashtag (min. 5 and max. 20 characters, so search for "TanzaniaDevelopment") Marco ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] ISPRS Project "Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover Intercomparison and Validation"
Dear HOT friends and colleagues, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) has recently founded the *Capacity Building project* named “Capacity Building for High-Resolution Land Cover Intercomparison and Validation” [1]. The main objective of the project is to develop learning material on the intercomparison and validation of high resolution Land Cover maps, which especially targets researchers and professionals in developing countries. This new learning material will be tested in three field workshops (two of which held in developing countries): in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) with the support of World Bank, in Nairobi (Kenya) with the support of the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, and in Delft (The Netherlands) within the ISPRS Technical Commission IV Symposium 2018. In the frame of this initiative, we kindly ask your help to fill two short questionnaires about: 1) the state of the art in training material on the intercomparison and validation of Land Cover maps, where we ask you to indicate available learning resources on the intercomparison and validation of Land Cover maps. The questionnaire is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4uUFzfPmzLE0vYUQxQ2aXmcQNOmRJ6yV-lZeVDGbTSzhgGQ/viewform If you are not aware of any of these resources, switch directly to the second questionnaire. 2) the Requirements and use cases for Land Cover maps production and validation, where we assess the awareness about Land Cover maps and ask about significant use cases/requirements. The questionnaire is available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetFVUqq-fSn1kjodtbzzFhsxa9nZBuik0egPrhv2vKi_fuaw/viewform We kindly ask to fill the questionnaires before *April 28, 2018*. Filling each questionnaire requires just a couple of minutes and will be of invaluable importance to reach the project objectives. Responses from people working in developing countries will be particularly useful. Thank you very much for your cooperation, Marco Minghini on behalf of the ISPRS Capacity Building Project: Prof. Chen Jun, Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli, Dr. Hao Wu, Dr. Marco Minghini, Mr. Peng Shu, Dr. Xinyan Zheng, Dr. Monia Elisa Molinari, Prof. Sisi Zlatanova Local Workshops Organizers: Msilikale Msilanga, Devotha Laurent, Phoebe Oduor and Kenneth Kasera [1] http://www.isprs.org/society/ecbi/default.aspx Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 23996409 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT mapathon in schools
Hello Rachele, Hello Tyler, ciao Marco, > > thank you all. Our idea is to incoporate a 'mapathon section' in > cartography labs we'll run at schools from next year. We've done some labs > at schools in the past years and they were very exciting for kids. Marco, > we are active in Veneto region, so we'll have for sure chance to get > acquainted. > That's a great idea, I know how much children are enthusiast about this experience! I wish you good luck on this. I work at Politecnico di Milano so we are not that far... > So, keep in touch and hope to see you at SOTM! > Sure, I'm part of the Organizing Team and I'm leading the Academic Track of the conference! All the best, Marco ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT mapathon in schools
Dear Rachele, I am Marco from Politecnico di Milano - thanks Tyler for mentioning us. As Tyler said, we have organized many "mini-mapathons" in schools (including elementary schools) so we have a lot of experience in running this kind of events. This is the biggest one we had: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination Should you need more information, feel free to contact me. Best, Marco Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 23996409 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> 2018-03-27 22:47 GMT+02:00 Tyler Radford <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org>: > Hi Rachele, > > Thanks for your message and proposed mapathon idea. More info on > organizing events is here: http://www.missingmaps.org/host/ > > There are others in the Italian community at Politecnico di Milano who > have done work on mapathons in schools. Yes, feel free use the Missing Maps > logo and submit your event to the Missing Maps website calendar. > > Tyler > > *Tyler Radford* > Executive Director > tyler.radf...@hotosm.org > @TylerSRadford > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook > <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <https://donate.hotosm.org> > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Rachele Amerini < > rachele.amer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm an italian geographer. I'm the president of Geograficamente, an >> associaton to promote the importance of geography to society. We'd like to >> organize HOT mapathons in schools for free and I'd like to know if we can >> use the HOT logo in events or, otherwise, how we can become member of the >> team. Thank you, >> >> kindly, >> >> Rachele >> >> ___ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] MM mapathons in Germany
Dear Bjoern, you can monitor the MM events page [1] and even the OSM current events page [2]. Best, Marco [1] http://www.missingmaps.org/events/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Current_events Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 23996409 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> 2017-08-28 15:53 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Hassler <bjohas...@gmail.com>: > Dear friends, > > what MM mapathons are there there in Germany? > > There seem to be some in Berlin and Heidelberg, and perhaps a few others > (less active?). > > Would love to hear from some of the organisers! > > Thanks! > Bjoern > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Mapping with Kids
Dear Heather and all, as Cristiano said, over the last few years we have organized at Politecnico di Milano what we called "mini-mapathons" in primary schools around Como and Milan (Italy) with 9 and 10 year-old children. For those interested, here you can find a paper about the educational value of the experience (it contains an analysis based on a questionnaire filled by the children after the event): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6BKomTX0AsKMnByQjhDZGFsYkk I am strongly interested in this topic so I'm happy to further chat about this. All the best, Marco Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) +39 02 23996409 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> 2017-07-01 10:00 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre <felix.delat...@hotosm.org>: > Hi Heather and dear HOT community, > > Great to learn about your projects! I would like to be in contact about > this topic. > > A couple of years ago, we have been conducting mapping workshops with > children (4th and 9th grade) and college students on Nicaragua's Caribbean > Coast: > > Here are a couple of articles (in English): > > * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/140/ > * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/141 > > Here you can find the publication of the community effort and the > methodology we elaborated: > > http://en.unicef.org.ni/publicacion/96/geotechnology-tool-innovation/ > (download link for the pdf at the bottom) > > Best, > Felix > > > > On July 1, 2017 1:50:25 AM GMT+02:00, Cristiano Giovando < > cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org> wrote: >> >> Hi Heather and all, >> >> Marco from Politecnico di Milano has been organizing similar events with >> even younger kids (fifth-graders!) and the results were impressive. I'm >> sure he'd be happy to share his opinions and experience. >> >> Some links: >> >> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_ >> map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination >> http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ (scroll down to the May 5th 2016 >> webinar) >> >> Happy mapping! >> >> Cristiano >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Heather & list, >>> tl;dr; - Let's chat. >>> >>> Since the beginning of the year, TeachOSM has been collaborating with >>> the American Geographical Society[1] to host a series of online workshops >>> for high school (but also college) instructors. The workshops are designed >>> to augment basic mapping training by helping teachers take the next step of >>> integrating open mapping to their curricula., The workshops also act as >>> an ongoing support service and forum for project development. >>> >>> As part of this collaboration, we're pulling together a 4-part Open >>> Mapping Summer Camp for teachers. It has not been announced yet as details >>> are still pending. But our plan is to introduce and test the modules in the >>> TeachOSM for High School curriculum[2]. The curriculum is designed to >>> compliment the AP Human Geography curriculum.[3] >>> >>> That's the gist of it. Happy to chat with any and all. Cheers, >>> >>> SEJ >>> >>> [1] http://americangeo.org >>> [2] https://github.com/shawnmgoulet/teachosm-for-high-school >>> [3] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-human-geography >>> >>> -- SEJ >>> -- twitter: @geomantic >>> -- skype: sejohnson8 >>> >>> Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! - Empedocles, >>> *Fragments, >>> 141.* >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Heather Leson <heatherle...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear colleagues, >>>> >>>> Many of you have teaching experience and have shared curriculum on >>>> TeachOSM. I'd be keen to talk with anyone who has does mapping workshops >>>> with high school students. >>>> >>>> This week I held a session with Ecole Internationale Geneva focused on >>>> Missing Maps techniques. The session plan is listed in the blog post. >>>> >>>> http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/2017/06/29/data-ifrc-maps-kids-hu >>>> manitarian-outreach-16/ >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Heather >>>> >>>> >>>> Heather Leson >>>> heatherle...@gmail.com >>>> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson >>>> Blog
[HOT] User removing highway tags from the Earthquake area (Uganda and Tanzania)
I just came thru this area [1] that I tried to map in the last few days and found out that someone has been removing the highway=* tag from a large number of ways. I wrote him a private message asking for the reason of his edits, but I'd like to share this problem with someone with more HOT experience in order to understand what's going on and how can we quickly fix this, as road mapping seems to me seriously important for the guys on the ground who use OSM to help the locals [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-1.2260/31.5053=HD Thanks Marco ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda
Hi Leonard; Just try removing "tms:[19]:" from that url and DG images should popup. Worked for me using iD. Hope it works for you too. Regards Marco___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] mapathon at GEOlab
Dear all, the GEOlab (Geomatics and Earth Observation laboratory) of Politecnico di Milano is hosting a mapathon today to contribute to the mapping efforts after the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador. Details here [1]. All the best, Marco [1] http://geolab.como.polimi.it/?page_id=2150 Marco Minghini, Ph.D. GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy) +39 031 3327540 marco.mingh...@polimi.it @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Bolivian Floods: landuse=forest or natural=wood?
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:33 PM, hyan...@gmail.com hyan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi hotties! Some of us are tracing polygons over tree areas, ones are using landuse=forest others natural=wood ¿which you consider more indicated? Mapping trees could be helpful for high level floods. The project GeoBolivia [1] recommended us multiple use (agroforestry), agricultural, forestry livestock and other places forest. This document (official) is the territorial classification plan goo.gl/6Dvmpkhttp://t.co/KlmZJQt49Z(in spanish). It is very difficult seeing aerial imagery determined what type of forest is . To my natural=wood is recommended, then the validation stage can contrast with the official document. Marco Antonio ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
