Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin

2015-02-10 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Sorry: On my last email, [4] = https://flic.kr/p/r8D1xD Rafael. On 10/02/15 22:06, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: > Hi Rafael, John, > > We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice > collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI. > > For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly becau

Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin

2015-02-10 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi, Jorieke: Thanks for sharing your views. I've been working with the UNICEF data import in CAR, and using that import to map thousands of new roads in that country since a year ago. Apart from GNS data, I used the WRI data from the import that you EUROSHA folks were doing in the TM [1]. Althou

Re: [HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin

2015-02-10 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Hi Rafael, John, We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI. For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly because indeed there is no local community and it is some of the few existing data for that country. For Cameroon we let this

[HOT] Calling all Activation coordinators

2015-02-10 Thread Mhairi Ohara
Hello Hotties, I would like to shout out to all the current Activation coordinators to discuss the implementation of the 'Activation Documentation and Coordinators Course Creation Sprint' budget draft. Would you please be so kind as to reply to this message, so I can grab your e-mails and send yo

[HOT] New task of urban mapping in Erbil, Iraq

2015-02-10 Thread Claire Halleux
Hi everyone, If some of you want to practice a bit more of urban mapping, here is your chance! I've just created a new small task for an urban suburb of Erbil in Iraq. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/886 Some field mapping will follow in the next few days, hopefully after most buildings have been

[HOT] 2015 Feb Activation Working Group Meeting - Northeast Nigeria Crisis.

2015-02-10 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi all, As anticipated by Severin and Althio, a short note about the Northeast Nigeria Crisis for discussion in the next AWG. The Northeast Nigeria has been affected for years now by a complex humanitarian crisis fueled by the insurgency of the Boko Haram group which has gradually gained in inten

Re: [HOT] Need Suggestions: Union Mapping

2015-02-10 Thread Pete Masters
Ahasan, great news, man... Do the volunteers not have their own android phones. In the final days mapping hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar, they were using osmand on their own devices. Also, I think there might some gps units around that Jorieke left the previous time she was there. In addition to the

[HOT] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting

2015-02-10 Thread Severin Menard
Oops sorry I sent the email to another list! Please read below On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Severin Menard wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a reminder that, as we are the second Tuesday of the month, the > Activation Working Group meeting will occur today at 2PM UTC on IRC on the > #hot IRC channe

[HOT] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting

2015-02-10 Thread althio
Forwarding to HOT - English. -- Forwarded message -- From: Severin Menard Subject: [Hot-francophone] 2015 February Activation Working Group Meeting To: "hot-francoph...@openstreetmap.org" Hi all, Just a reminder that, as we are the second Tuesday of the month, the Activation Wo

[HOT] Google Summer of Code 2015 Ideas

2015-02-10 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Hello HOTties! We are planning to apply for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) [0] as a mentoring organization and we need your input for ideas to propose. GSoC is a program that sponsors students to write code for open source projects. Most college students anywhere in the world are eligible to partici

[HOT] OAM Survey

2015-02-10 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Hello, As one of the first steps in the development of OAM, we are publishing a short user requirement survey to collect feedback and ideas: http://goo.gl/forms/kUK0nQ7wJh If you use aerial or satellite imagery in your humanitarian mapping projects (e.g. for tracing or visual analysis), we invit

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Cupitt
Hi Sev, have tried to address some of your concerns in line .. below Cheers Mark Cupitt "If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence" See me on Open StreetMap On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Severin Menard wrote: > Dear