Re: [HOT] Missing Maps launch tomorrow, and LearnOSM

2014-11-07 Thread Nick Allen
Charlotte, Although I'm very noisy on this list, I'm actually a very small cog in a great big machine. I know of this article http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/06/-sp-missing-maps-baraka-democratic-republic-congo-drc, and I know that Facebook twitter are being used extensively.

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps launch tomorrow, and LearnOSM

2014-11-07 Thread Pete Masters
Thanks for ABC link, Brad. A few others... http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/nov/06/-sp-missing-maps-baraka-democratic-republic-congo-drc http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/emergencies/2014/11/missing-maps-save-lives-click-mouse/

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps launch tomorrow, and LearnOSM

2014-11-07 Thread Heather Leson
HI folks, First off, congratulations on the Missing Maps Launch. You really are so very inspiring. As mentioned, a few of us are at the Crisismappers Conference and will raise a glass to you. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Fri, Nov

[HOT] Newbie support for Missing Maps

2014-11-07 Thread Pete Masters
Hello all, just wanted to add something on the Missing Maps launch.. There will be a lot of new mappers contributing today. I wondered if anyone on the list is planning to join us remotely this evening (1800 GMT onwards) and fancied offering to help newbie remote mappers if they get stuck. We

Re: [HOT] Newbie support for Missing Maps

2014-11-07 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, I'll be around to help this evening and will monitor that hash tag. Best wishes, Blake On 11/7/2014 8:22 AM, Pete Masters wrote: Hello all, just wanted to add something on the Missing Maps launch.. There will be a lot of new mappers contributing today. I wondered if anyone on the list

Re: [HOT] Newbie support for Missing Maps

2014-11-07 Thread Dan S
Hi all, Just to add: this will be a great time to be VALIDATING! If you can spare any time tonight or this weekend, then validating even one or two squares will be really useful to help make sure these newcomers are on the right track. Best Dan 2014-11-07 14:07 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot

Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Chris, In the last few years, wee have showed to the UN agencies and humanitarian organizations our professionalism and capacity to react / adapt rapidly. We are quite happy to collaborate to various projects like vaccination.  The Lubumbashi project with MSF-UK last spring is an example

Re: [HOT] International Conference of CrisisMappers (ICCM) and HOT Casual meetup

2014-11-07 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Just a reminder if you are joining us tonight in New York it would be great if you could drop me a note. We increased the reservation, but I just want to make sure we are okay on numbers. We'll be meeting at 7:30pm at SideBAR which is at120 E 15th St Thanks, -Kate On Thu, Nov 6, 2014

Re: [HOT] International Conference of CrisisMappers (ICCM) and HOT Casual meetup

2014-11-07 Thread Stephen Mather
♪ On Nov 7, 2014 2:52 PM, Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org wrote: Hi All, Just a reminder if you are joining us tonight in New York it would be great if you could drop me a note. We increased the reservation, but I just want to make sure we are okay on numbers. We'll be meeting at

[HOT] UNMIL Liberia place nodes import finished

2014-11-07 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi all: For your information, the UNMIL Liberia place nodes import (TM job 652) has been already completed. A big thank you to all the contributors, and specially to Ralf Stefan and Blake Girardot, who helped importing/merging the majority of those 14,000 nodes into the OSM database. Cheers,

Re: [HOT] UNMIL Liberia place nodes import finished

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Béland
Rafael Avila Coya wrote For your information, the UNMIL Liberia place nodes import (TM job 652) has been already completed. Great Thanks Rafael, and thanks to all those who participated.  I have seen Liberia progressing over the last two weeks.  We are sending every week an update file of 

Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

2014-11-07 Thread Yantisa Akhadi
I would like to add one article that I got recently: How mapping can increase disaster resilience: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/news/v.php?id=40247 Best, *Yantisa Akhadi (Iyan)* *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* Tel: +62 81 5787 03388 Email: yantisa.akh...@hotosm.org