Re: [HOT] Myanmar task on MapSwipe

2016-09-06 Thread Russell Deffner
Hi Laura and all, That is a pretty tight window for the QGIS grant, however I went ahead and added it to the Fundraising Working Group’s ‘pipeline’/spreadsheet. We meet every-other week, next one is Wednesday the 14th; however, we have some projects that are also time sensitive and we may do

[HOT] Posting Mapathon on Missing Maps Event Calendar

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Thompson
How does one get a mapathon posted to the event calendar here: http://www.missingmaps.org/events/ I filled out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdvsMHLor8mrDrHa-BQs2XzFb96vIrx3u--LHXWd1g7RncPg/viewform several weeks ago with information about the event, but it still isn't list

[HOT] Heads up!!! Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

2016-09-06 Thread Miriam Mapanauta
Hi HOT team This is a heads up, Hurricane Newton is hitting south of Baja California Sur (around Los Cabos) and the cost of the State of Sonora. Other volunteers from Mexico and myself are preparing the Wiki and we are trying to determine the areas that will need support. Stay tuned! Thanks in

Re: [HOT] Myanmar task on MapSwipe

2016-09-06 Thread Melanie Eckle
Hey Laura and Russell, thank you for your messages. We would be very interested to share ideas and discuss the QGIS grant. As part of the disastermappers heidelberg/ GIScience Research Group Heidelberg we were involved in the conceptualization and development of the MapSwipe App and would be exci

[HOT] Intro to JOSM, JOSM for iD users YouTube vids

2016-09-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Dear Friends, If you like mapping, you owe it to yourself to try out the JOSM desktop application for OSM mapping. It has some advantages over the OSM iD web browser based editor, but it is a little more complicated to use. I made a series of very informal, one take, no script, no editing, video

Re: [HOT] Intro to JOSM, JOSM for iD users YouTube vids

2016-09-06 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Nice on Blake. Will take a look. Best, - Enock On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: > Dear Friends, > > If you like mapping, you owe it to yourself to try out the JOSM > desktop application for OSM mapping. > > It has some advantages over the OSM iD web browser based editor,

Re: [HOT] HOT Working Groups (was Myanmar task on MapSwipe)

2016-09-06 Thread Russell Deffner
Thanks Melanie - I'll follow-up directly with you next. In the meantime, I'll hijack this thread to let everyone know - yes, we have a handful of working groups and new people are more than welcome to jump right in; the groups I participate in all have a 'standing list' of stuff we'd like to do

Re: [HOT] Posting Mapathon on Missing Maps Event Calendar

2016-09-06 Thread Benoit Fournier
Hi Mike, You may try https://github.com/MissingMaps/events Maybe the form is not in use anymore and should be removed. Best regards, Ben On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: > How does one get a mapathon posted to the event calendar here: > http://www.missingmaps.org/events/

Re: [HOT] HOT Working Groups (was Myanmar task on MapSwipe)

2016-09-06 Thread Laura O'Grady
Hi all, Here's the direct link to the application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3AdsVEHI2sP7o2U4zRlL8i9oSMZ7CUvk9TnHoct33yDLyBw/viewform?c=0&w=1 I've done a quick read through. It doesn't seem very onerous, especially if there's a reasonably thought out idea that fits the fun

[HOT] Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

2016-09-06 Thread Miriam Mapanauta
Hi Hot team Hurricane Newton is hitting Baja California Sur and the state of Sonora. Besides the harm that a hurricane can cause there are big risks of flooding in different areas. A colleague in the OpenStreetMap community in Mexico, Alberto Chung (cc) reacted in advance and prepared the follow

Re: [HOT] Posting Mapathon on Missing Maps Event Calendar

2016-09-06 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi Mike, We're looking into who has access to those form submissions. In the meantime, and if it's not too late, I can happily add your event(s) to the website if you send me the details. Sorry about the delays and confusion. All the best, Dan On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Benoit Fournier wrote

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

2016-09-06 Thread Andrew Buck
The linked task covers an enormous area, not only are the task squares themselves very big but the bounds of the entire task are quite large as well. It is not going to be possible to do meaningful map coverage over such a large area in the time in which the data would be relevant to first respond

Re: [HOT] Posting Mapathon on Missing Maps Event Calendar

2016-09-06 Thread Mike Thompson
Dan, Thanks! I followed Ben's advice and made a pull request on the Github repository. Hopefully that works. Mike On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Dan Joseph wrote: > Hi Mike, > We're looking into who has access to those form submissions. In the > meantime, and if it's not too late, I can hap

[HOT] AWG Meeting Summary | 6th September 2016

2016-09-06 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello HOTties, So we didn't run the meetbot during yesterdays meeting, because I thought it was only Russell and myself that were attending, but luckily Blake, Mikel and Cristiano showed up and some great ideas were discussed: - Have new students signup to the Activation curriculum course via