Re: [HOT] Announcing HOT's Executive Director

2015-10-04 Thread Alex Barth
Congratulations, Tyler! On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > HI Everyone! > > We are excited to announce that *Tyler Radford* has accepted the position > of Executive Director of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Since Tyler was > named Interim Executive Director 5 months ago, H

[HOT] Tornado: Bridge Creek Oklahoma

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Barth
Disclaimer: This is NOT an official HOT activation. I'm sending this email to give folks a heads up in case they map in Oklahoma too. Nepal remains top priority. Wednesday a Tornado hit Bridge Creek Oklahoma [1]. Together with Maptime Oklahoma we over here at Mapbox have done a quick round of trac

Re: [HOT] Nepal: Call for data

2015-04-27 Thread Alex Barth
Thank you everyone, I've gathered all contributions here on this thread on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Other_Data On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > We're looking for the following spatial data of Nepal: > > -

Re: [HOT] Printable street maps for Nepal.

2015-04-27 Thread Alex Barth
We'll be working on print maps today here https://github.com/osmlab/mapbox-studio-humanitarian-print.tm2/issues/1 On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Will do Pierre > > > On Monday, April 27, 2015, Pierre Béland wrote: > >> Could somebody document this on the wiki page? >> >

Re: [HOT] Printable street maps for Nepal.

2015-04-27 Thread Alex Barth
Done. On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: > Could somebody document this on the wiki page? > > > Pierre > > -- > *De :* Nirab Pudasaini > *À :* Sajjad Anwar ; hot@openstreetmap.org; Prabhas > Pokharel > *Envoyé le :* Lundi 27 avril 2015 8h24 >

[HOT] Nepal: Call for data

2015-04-26 Thread Alex Barth
We're looking for the following spatial data of Nepal: - Population density - Geological risk zones - Populated places - Any other data that could be useful in the context of the earthquake This is data that allows for assessing additional needed imagery, tracing priorities, and likeliness of dam

Re: [HOT] Not Gone...A Change in Relationship

2015-03-09 Thread Alex Barth
Kate thanks for all your hard work and leadership to support and grow the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team. Much luck for the new challenge, I'm glad you're not going far, staying in the open source mapping realm! On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > > Dear HOT community > > In J

Re: [HOT] DC happy hour with HOT

2014-07-23 Thread Alex Barth
Drats, will miss this as I'm out in Austria but some of my colleagues like Aaron and Ian said they'd love to come. Note there's a pre party for the Tech Lady Hackathon that same day in the Mapbox Garage. This one's going on long for sure. So if you're still longing for more hanging out after the H

Re: [HOT] Why OpenAerialMap?

2014-07-03 Thread Alex Barth
Congrats! On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Stephen Mather wrote: > Very nice. > On Jul 3, 2014 1:50 PM, "Kate Chapman" wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm excited to officially announce the reboot of the OpenAerialMap >> project(1). Imagery is core to HOT's work and vital after a disaster. >> Fortun

[HOT] Nola, C.A.R. imagery down to ZL 20

2014-05-08 Thread Alex Barth
We just rendered fresh imagery for: Nola, C. A. R. This was identified as very high priority with no imagery. Slippy map is available at http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.nola/page.html#16/3.5205/16.0576 Tile images are at: http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.nola/{z}/{x}/{y}.png This

Re: [HOT] Mobaye, C.A.R. imagery down to z19

2014-05-08 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Severin Menard wrote: > Is there any required aknowledgement we need to put regarding the imagery? Please just say: "Imagery: Mapbox/Digital Globe" where appropriate. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://li

Re: [HOT] Why use OpenStreetMap and not other maps in disaster situations?

2014-04-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Sazal Sthapit wrote: > While I do have some idea to answer this question in bits and pieces, I > was wondering if we could come up with specific advantages and > disadvantages of using OpenStreetMap over other maps. What else would you use ;) ? Here's why OSM wor

Re: [HOT] The London HOT Congo Mapathon

2014-04-25 Thread Alex Barth
Great. Are there any areas you need imagery for? Please let us know here https://www.mapbox.com/labs/request and say it's for the "HOT Congo Mapathon" in the notes. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Harry Wood wrote: > It's high time we had a London H.O.T. event, so I've worked with Ivan from

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Guinea - West Africa, Mapping to support CartONG - MSF-CH - IFRC

2014-04-10 Thread Alex Barth
This is amazing. It's worth emphasizing to the world out there that this type of response is not possible with any other map but OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21623 On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Mark Cupitt wrote: > Brilliant .. No other words to describe it

Re: [HOT] imagery request coordination tool

2014-04-04 Thread Alex Barth
Mikel - Right on, we need to work on coordinating imagery needs in emergencies. I've been involved a couple of times in the past in sourcing imagery for emergencies and the key challenge for someone who's between the responding community and potential sources like e. g. Digital Globe is to: a) f

Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Guinea - West Africa, Mapping to support CartONG - MSF-CH - Red Cross

2014-03-29 Thread Alex Barth
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > In the rural areas where no Bing Imagery is available, we use the Landsat > Imagery prepared by Jean-Guilhem to identify the landuse areas. Pierre - can you share specific areas where imagery is needed? Alex __

Re: [HOT] Map dangerous areas

2013-11-18 Thread Alex Barth
Aside form the obvious (work by day, don't go by yourself, start with the less dangerous parts) I absolutely recommend using a trustworthy local partner who knows the area / community well. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Idriss TINTO wrote: > The police office released a list of places where

Re: [HOT] collection of imagery agreements?

2013-08-14 Thread Alex Barth
I've been tinkering with a general OpenStreetMap dedication license, designed for cases where source data should be opened to OSM contribution but all other rights should be reserved: https://github.com/osmlab/odl Would be awesome to see this go somewhere, but needs some legal work to refine. On

Re: [HOT] [Reflexion] Where does LearnOSM end, where does the OSM wiki begin?

2013-07-24 Thread Alex Barth
+1 for at least keeping the main purpose and the main focus of LearnOSM on the beginner's guide. Also from a user interaction perspective, i. e. keep the entire experience focused on getting people started on OSM. Place small links for the advanced folks. Where advanced materials live - Wiki or Lea

Re: [HOT] UAVs

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Barth
Load up those GeoTiffs and render them out as tiles with Tilemill, just sayin :) On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Banick, Robert wrote: > Hi All, > > Great to see this getting time in the sun. Everyone in the humanitarian > space has been chattering about UAVs for a while now, but no one seem

Re: [HOT] State of the Map US Scholarships

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Barth
Thanks Kate for spreading the word! I'd love to have many submissions from the HOT community for SOTM US. The application of OSM for humanitarian purposes remains one of its strongest use cases, I would love to see again great talks by HOT folks. The call for session proposals is open until April

Re: [HOT] LearnOSM Launches with New Design

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Barth
Thanks everyone for the encouraging words. - For PDF I suggest we just do print friendly pages that anyone can convert to PDF, cheap to maintain, satisfies offline needs https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/56 - Just ignore on-GitHub build errors, this is b/c of the CNAME file that has to poi

Re: [HOT] GIS South America

2013-03-21 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Dan - Any links to prior experience, prior work, specific interests? Would make it easier to pass around your request. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Daniel McCrory wrote: > I'm currently researching the possibility of finding work (whether paid or > unpaid) within the conservation / deve

Re: [HOT] Knight News Challenge Submission

2013-03-19 Thread Alex Barth
http://cl.ly/image/2E1j2s1o1c3y ! On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > Schuyler and I submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge for > the MapMill project used during Hurricane Sandy. > > > https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/mapmi

Re: [HOT] HOT is Now Tax Exempt in the US

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
w00t! On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > We received some very good news today. HOT received notification from > the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States that we have > been approved and are now a 501(c)(3). 501(c)(3) status is a tax > exempt statu

[HOT] learnosm down?

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Barth
This appears to be done to me and others [1]: http://www.learnosm.org/ DFEOJM says it's up: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/learnosm.org [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ni/2012-December/10.html Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250

[HOT] Working on LearnOSM

2012-12-14 Thread Alex Barth
Jue and I have started working on building out the new LearnOSM. If you're looking for us, we'll be hanging out in #learnosm on irc.oftc.net https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/8 Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 20

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Barth
message with subject or body 'help' to > hot-requ...@openstreetmap.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > hot-ow...@openstreetmap.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
pping activities. Any other body wishing to create a map will have to apply for permission to do so — and can expect to have their activities and their outputs controlled as a result." On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Alex Barth wrote: > > Ok, I have created a quick blog post here that co

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
s in control, I am of the > point of view to accelerate the project instead of stopping it. Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
tp://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
o maps at all? > > Toby > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > > "The proposed Bill will require all government or private agencies involved > > in surveying and mapping to register themselves with the SoP. Failing to do > > so wil

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
Pakistan? This might require keeping an official > list of members and getting new mappers to add their name to the list > which isn't really cool... but maybe better than no maps at all? > > Toby > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > > "The p

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

2012-11-28 Thread Alex Barth
by the national mapping > > agency. > > > > http://dawn.com/2012/11/21/pakistanis-lost-without-maps/ > > > > Best, > > > > Mark > > > > > > ___ > > HOT mailing list > > HOT@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.o

Re: [HOT] HOT Sandy response in US News OpEd

2012-11-27 Thread Alex Barth
sts.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Sandy hurricane Google Map

2012-10-29 Thread Alex Barth
/lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Event in Vienna/AT: Int'l UN Crowdsourced Mapping

2012-10-19 Thread Alex Barth
e able to > travel. > > Event: Dec 3-5 2012 / Application deadline: Oct 19, 2012 > > United Nations International Expert Meeting on Crowdsource Mapping for > Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response > > http://

Re: [HOT] Update: Gulu / Lira mapping exercise

2012-10-10 Thread Alex Barth
gt; 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > > _______ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Eurosha project staffing

2012-10-10 Thread Alex Barth
4617 3334 > Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 > Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org > Skype: c_nicolas > Twitter: nicolas_chavent > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth ht

Re: [HOT] WANTED: speaker to present OSM/HOT activities in a workshop around crisis preparedness and humanitarian aid organized by the Federal Office for Civil protection and Disaster Assistance in Ge

2012-09-22 Thread Alex Barth
HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] HOT tutorship program for supporting OSM communities in the developing countries

2012-08-22 Thread Alex Barth
NARD > Current HOT Acting Project Director > _______ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Northern Uganda Tracing Exercise / Sprint

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Barth
> Best, > Robert > > Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red > Cross > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > > ___