Re: [HOT] Help digitize walking papers info

2014-03-24 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Thanks a lot for setting this up Andrew! Here we are starting with a new (and sadly my last) field day! Al the best and thanks all for this great collaboration! Jorieke Op maandag 24 maart 2014 heeft Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Rod Bera
Hi all, Is there a way we can assist on this one? The virus has now reached Conakry. As far as I recall it's the first time the disease finds its way to such a populated area... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22/ebola-guinea_n_5014500.html Rod

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Russell Deffner
Rod, If there is a way we can provide aid, then yes! I am not familiar with either the area or the disease, so not much help there; but - typically we might assist the local mapping community (if there is one) with remotely tracing the area from available imagery. If there isn't a local

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Kate Chapman
Just a correction on the email address. The general HOT email address is i...@hotosm.org. Thanks, -Kate On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org wrote: Rod, If there is a way we can provide aid, then yes! I am not familiar with either the area or the

[HOT] Tasking Manager - service update - request limitation

2014-03-24 Thread Dražen Odobašić
Hi, we recently had kinda like DDOS attack from the IP subnet 197.239.66.0 which resulted in a temporary unavailability of the http://tasks.hotosm.org/ around 11:20 CET. To help maintain service availability we introduced a limit of 10 requests per second per single IP address. This should not

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, MSF is working on this crisis: http://reliefweb.int/report/guinea/ebola-epidemic-declared-guinea-msf-launches-emergency-response Considering our growing partnerships with them, I would advice to contact them to know how we could help them the best we can. The report does not mention which

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Bonjour Alexandre, Aurais-tu des réponses aux questions que se pose la communauté HOT : - quel MSF se trouve en Guinée ? - que pourrions-nous cartographier en priorité (si tant est que nous disposions d'imagerie Bing) ? - comment cette donnée serait utilisée (sur le terrain, au siège pour la

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Ah, I forgot to say that I heard Bing imagery is scarce over Guinea (eg over Conakry), but I did not check. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, MSF is working on this crisis:

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Oops, I missed the good addressee! :) On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote: Bonjour Alexandre, Aurais-tu des réponses aux questions que se pose la communauté HOT : - quel MSF se trouve en Guinée ? - que pourrions-nous cartographier en priorité (si

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Johan Emilsson
Hello, Latest update: Tests on suspected cases of deadly Ebola virus in Guinea's capital Conakry are negative. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-26717490 Regards, Johan On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote: Ah, I forgot to say that I heard Bing

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager - service update - request limitation

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Drazen, Thanks for setting this. What is the best channel to report such unavailability? This mailing list? Github? Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Dražen Odobašić dodo...@geoinfo.geof.hrwrote: Hi, we recently had kinda like DDOS attack from the IP subnet

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager - service update - request limitation

2014-03-24 Thread Dražen Odobašić
On 24.03.2014 13:59, Severin Menard wrote: Hi Drazen, Thanks for setting this. What is the best channel to report such unavailability? This mailing list? Github? Sincerely, Severin At the moment, this mailing list... ___ HOT mailing list

[HOT] FW: International Services - Special Event Brown Bag Lunch Learn - April 3

2014-03-24 Thread Russell Deffner
Next month’s topic may be the one I felt the most queasy about while reading so far… =Russ From: Tim Bothe [mailto:tim.bot...@redcross.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:36 PM To: Russell Deffner Subject: International Services - Special Event Brown Bag Lunch Learn - April 3

Re: [HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for your interest Nadeem. I would recommend installing mumble so we can discuss the project in detail. - -AndrewBuck On 03/23/2014 10:34 PM, Nadeem Sardar wrote: yes i am from Pakistan. i have experience with HOT mission Indonesia. if i

Re: [HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan

2014-03-24 Thread Severin Menard
Hi, This is awesome, I feel that with both of you Mark and Nadeem, there will be a great balance between will, experience, local knowledge and availability and a great mentor with Andrew! I am on IRC if ever needed. Maybe we can discuss all together (I mean on this list) about how to make the

Re: [HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan

2014-03-24 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi there, Pierre and I will be happy to help out with Sev there, remaining primarily focused on DRC/CAR and Mauritania. ++ Nico On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, This is awesome, I feel that with both of you Mark and Nadeem, there will be a

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Rod Bera
Hi Russ, Thank you for your answer. I agree there is always a way to improve the quality of geometry and basic tagging (building=yes). But I feel this crisis has something specific: no destruction of infrastructure (which is quite limited on the heath side btw), virulent epidemic (80%ish

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Russell Deffner
You are welcome, and thank you Rod! It is important to discuss how we can assist, especially when it was not obvious to me how HOT would be able. My main point is something that we have discussed previous, and has been 'sidelined' temporarily, is our process - it was the activation working

Re: [HOT] Ebola in Conakry, Guinea

2014-03-24 Thread Rod Bera
Hi Johan, good news! But what action should we have taken in case the test turned to be positive? Rod On 24/03/14 13:57, Johan Emilsson wrote: Hello, Latest update: Tests on suspected cases of deadly Ebola virus in Guinea's capital Conakry are negative.

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-24 Thread Mikel Maron
Audrey  simultaneously looking for high resolution imagery to facilitate the work. Do you already have a source, or is this something you are also looking for assistance with? -Mikel   * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:48 PM, nicolas chavent

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Re-sending this mail so that it goes to all of the original participants. On 03/24/2014 05:46 PM, Joseph Reeves wrote: Hi Andrew, Did you intend to send this email only to membership@ ? I'm guessing Audrey wouldn't have seen it? Best,

Re: [HOT] *** Emergency Request *** Guinea Conakry- Gueckedou, Macenta, Kissidougou

2014-03-24 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Everyone, We've created a task using Landsat-8 imagery to get the basemapping started. With the Landsat-8 imagery itisn't really possible to map buildings, but we can get a head start on populated areas and roads. Here is the link: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/463 Tasking Manager Admins