[HOT] Share your HOT stories at Tech4Dev 2016

Hello HOTies, Blake and I were given the opportunity to organize a breakout session at the 2016 Tech4Dev Conference, organized by EPFL and Unesco. http://cooperation.epfl.ch/2016Tech4Dev/BreakoutSessions The title is "Open Geodata and Imagery for Humanitarian Mapping". We'd love to hear about yo

[HOT] Invitation: Access for All Mapathon, November 19th

Hello – The OpenStreetMap Institutions group is pleased to invite you to our OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week 2015 hub event, the Access for All Mapathon , on Thursday November 19th f

[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting

Hello everyone, With the daylight savings change for many of us, we doodled for a better meeting time of the Activation Working Group and that happened to end up as 0:00/24:00UTC. So, hopefully that works for most of those interested in the group; what I've noticed with a lot of these working g

[HOT] Eastern Afghanistan Earthquake Update

Dear HOT Community, As we approach the second week of mapping in response to the Eastern Afghanistan Earthquake I just wanted to give a quick update. As reported by UN OCHA in their latest Flash Update

[HOT] 2016 Women in Open Source Award

Hello! It's time to nominate our superheroes, those women who put their heart and skills into open data, software and HOT. Deadline is November 30th. Submit your nomination today! http://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source?sc_cid=7016000wxWPAAY -- Cristiano Giovando Humanitarian O

Re: [HOT] task #1250 South Kivu road tags

That’s interesting! We would also need to figure out a way to get people to connect roads to each other instead of tracing them without connections. Would be a nice addition to the tracing guide as well. I’m translating the learnOSM guide to Dutch, will have a look at the instructions and maybe

Re: [HOT] Follow up on Academic Research Discussion from the HOT Summit

Hi Robert, This is great. I have been encouraging the students to do their research about OSM /HOT data for long. Now some university and students are showing their interest to see the growing nature of OSM and HOT in Bangladesh. Some students already asked me for some possible research ideas, I ha

[HOT] Cyclone Chapala

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, It has been a busy couple of weeks for HOT and it looks like our work may not be done yet. Tropical cyclone Chapala is predicted to make landfall on the southern coast of Yemen later today. The storm is currently a category 3, but is

Re: [HOT] task #1250 South Kivu road tags

Thanks for the heads up Leon. I will check the instructions and edit to make it clearer. We have a tracing guide in the making, which I hope should help Also, we will soon start global validation of road networks in the areas where tasks have been completed. This will hopefully catch this...