Re: [HOT] Eu Aid Volunteers and OSM

2014-10-23 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
A lot of rewards are also going to you Nicolas! 2014-10-22 21:22 GMT+02:00 nicolas chavent nicolas.chav...@gmail.com: Thanks Jorieke for sharing this on the list : it's interesting indeed and surely rewarding of all the efforts put into this project on your side, the ones of the many

Re: [HOT] A new, very good, article about HOT from Fast Company

2014-10-23 Thread Christian Ledermann
very good article indeed :-) I particularly like the quote: “Google's business model is selling advertising, so it's simply the business case,” says Andrew Buck, a volunteer coordinator with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). “Starbucks isn't paying for Google to advertise over there so

Re: [HOT] HOT Projects issues triaging - third iteration

2014-10-23 Thread Dražen Odobašić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, HOT Projects issues triaging - third iteration is scheduled for TODAY @17:00 UTC [0] on mumble chat [1]. Dražen [0] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Issue+triaging+-+third+iterationiso=20141023T17 [1]

Re: [HOT] Eu Aid Volunteers and OSM

2014-10-23 Thread nicolas chavent
Thanks Jorieke, highest credit for Sev then since he followed the Eurosha mapping teams of Burundi, Central African Republic and Kenya. But truly you and the other mappers from the EUROSHA project made it easy for Sev and I to find the energy, stamina to work with you starting and growing OSM in

Re: [HOT] Eu Aid Volunteers and OSM

2014-10-23 Thread maning sambale
Thanks for this article jorieke. Indeed Project NOAH is Ph govt's major effort to produce accurate hazard maps for the whole country. Osm complements these efforts as a major source of exposure data. We already trained some of noah's young scientists on how to edit/use osm data. Maning Sambale

Re: [HOT] [talk-ph] Eu Aid Volunteers and OSM

2014-10-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
It seems the article is missing from the European Commission website so here's a mirror: http://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/eu-aid-volunteer-uses-digital-mapping-help-prepare-disasters-phlippines On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:50 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for

Re: [HOT] seeking your help on OSM data extraction tutorial

2014-10-23 Thread Vivien Deparday
Hi Mikel, Jeff and I worked on this a while ago: http://learnosm.org/en/osm-data/ that could be revamped and enhanced. There is also at least one new QGIS plugin to get OSM data. I have not tried it yet but it would be nice to integrate if it works well as the current default one has some issues.