[HOT] Last day for Mapbox crowdfunding matching - Lets make sure we hit 10k!

2015-11-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Everyone, As you may know Mapbox has graciously offered to match the first USD $10,000 in our crowdfunding campaign but the deadline to reach that 10k is tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 20th. We are close with about $1100.00 left to reach the 10K. If anyone has been waiting to donate or putting it off

[HOT] Article and video in Dar Post on HOT/World Bank community mapping project

2015-11-19 Thread Tyler Radford
Hi all, A recent update from our project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. World Bank team member Deogratius Minja is interviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=920-Uuzlais It's currently the featured video on the front page: http://www.darpost.com/ Congrats to the team! *Tyler Radford* Executive D

Re: [HOT] Today is GIS Day

2015-11-19 Thread Tyler Radford
Great! For all mapathon organizers, in case you didn't see this link from Mikel Maron, here are some tools to help you to motivate mappers during your events: http://osmgeoweek.org/metrics/ https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ (may take time to load) http://live.openstreetmap.fr/ *Tyler Radf

Re: [HOT] Today is GIS Day

2015-11-19 Thread Vao Matua
Thanks for the encouragement Tyler. The attendees of the Portland Oregon GIS Day mapathon enjoyed watching the progress of all the ongoing mapathons. Emmor On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Tyler Radford wrote: > All, > > Today is Day 3 of OSM Geo Week: GIS Day. I encourage everyone to take 10

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

2015-11-19 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi friends I'm mining a few actionable nuggets from this discussion. * Document (or link to documentation) on how the OSMTM works in the wiki, including structure of changeset comments.* Update guidance to encourage mappers to add their own insights in changeset comments* Share more the downstre