[HOT] Moving on with the Election

2015-03-23 Thread Mark Cupitt
Dear All I have sat back over the last few days, as have many members and watched with interest the different posts from the different parties. As a Voter, and a potential board member who has to work with the other people elected to the board, I am very interested in looking toward the future,

Re: [HOT] PAM Cyclone : UNOSAT Damage Assessment for Vanuatu

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
UNOSAT maintain a Damage assessment map for GDAC, this to help coordinate among organizations.See https://gdacs-smcs.unosat.org/ UNOSAT triggered the Space Charter on Friday 13th based on request from UN OCHA Regional Office for the Pacific. They have since do a range of damage assessment

Re: [HOT] Moving on with the Election

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Mark, Our discussions showed that we have little information at this point of the election abouth the Board and ED actions over the last year. Their absence in the discussion tend to show that they are not ready to share with the members, that they dont agree with values of accountability

Re: [HOT] Request for feedback for a HOT workshop

2015-03-23 Thread Heather Leson
HI Jorge, Kate Chapman did this Keynote at Linux Conf in January 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhDFmcWdQ48 have a great event! Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org

Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response

2015-03-23 Thread Heather Leson
Thanks for this note Pierre. It is my understanding that this is the longest activation that HOT has done? I truly appreciate all the leadership and efforts of the global community, partners and supporters. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com

Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Heather, The Central Africa Republic and South Sudan Activations initiated by Severin in 2013 are the longest but with less intensity then the West Africa outbreak. These are what Sev calls the orphan activations, those that we forget too often, with less media coverage. Thanks to Severin

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal

2015-03-23 Thread James Conkling
Hi Pete, Yes, this exactly something I've been thinking about--specifically along the lines of remote mapathons where in-person training is not an option and previous exposure to OSM is limited. The project's not launched yet (hopefully we'll be announcing it later this week--will announce here

[HOT] Request for feedback for a HOT workshop

2015-03-23 Thread Jorge Sanz
Hi all, This Friday in the context of the 9th edition of the Spanish FOSS4G event Pedro-Juan[1] and me will deliver a workshop about OSM and HOT. For this workshop we've done a good bunch of work on translating into Spanish the coordination guide of LearnOSM[2], and updated the HOT and

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Idea - Panel on Academic Research HOT

2015-03-23 Thread Jude Mwenda Ntabathia
This is indeed a very interesting topic. Especially on maters of how open mapping collaboration projects/systems contribute to under-representation and misrepresentation. From: Chad Blevins [cblev...@usaid.gov] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 9:41 PM To: Robert

Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response

2015-03-23 Thread fofana
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think it would be a good idea to produce stats in the OSM database and even make a blog on the response of the OSM communities in Africa that contributed despite the meager technical and financial resources and Internet conditions failed to this

Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response

2015-03-23 Thread Rod Bera
According to the logs on the HOT list it started on 24th, with 45-50 e-mails related to the ebola response in the first 24 hours, and 3 tasks initiated that same day, which tends to show a pretty good reactiveness. It could be instructive to do the same investigations directly in the OSM

Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Martin, It is uneasy to build a statistic that would reflect the various activities. Coordination through the Task manager is only one part of the mapping done for projects.  It might be ok a mapathon where you worked only coordinating through the Task Manager. Aslo, Hashtags are not always

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal

2015-03-23 Thread Dave Corley
Pete, Count me in. I'll be happy to pass on learnings from #MapLesotho and to learn from others Dave Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:13:19 + From: Pete Masterspedrito1...@googlemail.com To:hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Idea - Panel on Academic Research HOT

2015-03-23 Thread Rupert Allan
This is a really interesting area re. ethnography and visualisation, and directly affects how locals perceive what they are mapping, not to mention the ethical perspectives of 'colonial gaze'. Would love to see careful discussion on this. Thanks for the idea. R On 23/03/2015 00:07, Martin

Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Rod If I remember correctly, our CartONG friends contacted us, the core leaders, on the 22 by Skype to agree on the collaboration with CartONG / MSF-ch and establish the AOI's. They then bought the first three images from Pleiades for Gueckedou, Kissidougou and Macenta. I thought that we

[HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014

2015-03-23 Thread Martin Dittus
Hallo all, Here are two basic rankings of HOT project activity in the last year, based on map contributions in the past 12 months. Discussion on IRC suggested that this data might be useful to others, so I’m sharing it with the list. HOT projects ranked by edit activity from Mar 2014 - Feb

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal

2015-03-23 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Thank you all for the excellent idea! Pete - would you mind submitting your proposal through the summit Website? The CfP is closing tonight and we must have all proposals submitted in order to start arranging the schedule. http://summit.hotosm.org/talk Thanks and please spread this reminder

Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Béland
These heatmaps are interesting.  Neis changeset online map shows intensity of mapping only with the outset of the bbox. Such heatmap could show the intensity of contribution in various areas based on the number of objects. To use this functionality for an online map with Openlayers or similar

Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014

2015-03-23 Thread Martin Dittus
Thanks for the detailed note Pierre! We seem to be on the same page — such stats are wonderfully misleading. I’ve tried grouping HOT projects in the past based on the available metadata and have indeed encountered all the obstacles you mention. Part of my motivation to share this was also to