Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

Hi John, Since others have commented on your points regarding buildings, I'll add one comment to your point on HOT support of projects on the ground. In short, this is a huge area of focus for us. HOT is currently supporting 12 communities with training, devices for mapping, and basic funding to

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

I'm not disputing HOT does a lot of good work but what I'd like to see is more initiatives and projects being run by local groups. Developing this expertise is I think very important. Yes we can run projects in these areas and they do a lot of good but we can do more and one of the mores is devel

[HOT] Fwd: National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership accepting applications

*Tyler Radford* Executive Director tyler.radf...@hotosm.org @TylerSRadford *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* *Help us #mapthedifference

Re: [HOT] Fwd: National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership accepting applications

This is exactly what I think would earn us some brownie points with OSM provided we can point to some of the work that is independent of the main NGOs. Cheerio John On 11 Dec 2017 1:33 pm, "Tyler Radford" wrote: > > *Tyler Radford* > Executive Director > tyler.radf...@hotosm.org > @TylerSRadfor

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

Are we talking about Task Manger projects initiated and run by local project managers or something else? If we are talking about Task Manger projects then I suggest asking the project manager(s) to do a write up on their experiences and see if this can be brought to the attention of OSMWEEKLY. We

[HOT] Thank you to all our GeoWeek mappers and organizers!

(Please see below for French, German, and Spanish) Hello Mappers, Thank you for your incredible efforts organizing this year's OSM GeoWeek! In total, we had 230 public events in 48 countries. We had almost 100 extra events this year and increased our country footprint by 6 countries. Togethe

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

John, I am not sure what you are trying to say, but to help you understand “Microgrants” I can explain some of them to you. I am helping the WAMM (West African Motorbike Mappers) who are in Sierra Leone. The lead for this was Ivan Gayton from Medicins sans Frontieres and Rupert Alan (A regular

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

I accept what you say Ralph but the motorcycle project is being run by an conventional European or North American NGO. It's organised mapping. >The result will be a dedicated group in each country that will continue the work, train more local people and expand the mapping community. So is there