[HOT] Request for mapping: Colombia - Venezuela border crossings / solicita HOT por crisis en frontera colombo-venezolana

2015-09-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Greetings everyone, HOT member and coordinator in Colombia, Humberto Yances, received a request from a local OCHA Colombia official to map some border areas that are currently dealing with a displaced persons crisis. Humberto provided this overview of the situation (machine translated):

Re: [HOT] street view for Liberia

2015-09-01 Thread Blake Girardot
for operational or > business reasons as permitted by law. No representation is made that this > message or its attachments are without defect. > > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/

Re: [HOT] South Sudan mapping - abandoned / destroyed buildings / settlements

2015-09-01 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Andrew, Yes, please map buildings and settlements that are visible but damaged or destroyed. It is really helpful to map things you come across that you think are interesting or important (man made towers, bridges, dams, etc) but are not in the instructions. You are never limited by the

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 29th Edition

2015-08-29 Thread Blake Girardot
encourage to join as well. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT

[HOT] South Sudan mapping - nice feedback and some new projects

2015-08-29 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, We received a very nice email from the Information Manager working at the South Sudan NGO Forum Secretariat, a group of national and international NGOs working in South Sudan. http://southsudanngoforum.org/ He expressed how helpful the mapping Missing Maps and HOT have done is to

Re: [HOT] New JOSM Plugin - Imagery Brightness/Contrast, Sharpen, RGB Adjust - among others

2015-08-24 Thread Blake Girardot
into the shadows. MIke On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 4:25 PM, FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA fofana.13b...@gmail.com mailto:fofana.13b...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Blake, i just try this plugins but as you say it don't work very well 2015-08-22 19:12 GMT+00:00 Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com

[HOT] New JOSM Plugin - Imagery Brightness/Contrast, Sharpen, RGB Adjust - among others

2015-08-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, A very useful plugin was released last week for JOSM that should allow for the adjustment of imagery to make it easier for mapping. The Plugin is called RasterFilters because it applies filters to raster layers, but for us non experts, that just means we can adjust

Re: [HOT] Knight Prototype Fund Brainstorm

2015-08-17 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, The result of this brainstorming session is HOT's completed application to the Knight Foundation Prototyping August 2015 Round which we now have up for review and comment by interested individuals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aE4Rk0D7QUpbrsVo3QHNDGNKDh8rUW5kKJo4TZ2pw80

Re: [HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Oops, Aug 15th Edition I mean :)

2015-08-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Sorry for the double mail, today, Augh 15th is what I meant :) On 8/15/2015 4:00 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi all, As you might know HOT hosts some informal get togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons once in a while, and one is happening today. We use the HOT Mumble server

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 8th Edition

2015-08-15 Thread Blake Girardot
up some new projects not related to Myanmar. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT

Re: [HOT] Adding Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim to the tags

2015-08-13 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Suzan, I think multiple tags are required to map them completely. If you look over: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:denomination I think you can mark them pretty well. A stupa seems to most likely also include

Re: [HOT] double buildings

2015-08-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Dan, I made a quick 30 second video demonstrating what I was trying to explain. I worked to the north and south of the task area, but I downloaded the OSM data before I did anything in those areas. https://youtu.be/QS3WIH-8WGk Cheers, Blake On 8/12/2015 10:44 PM, Daniel Specht wrote:

Re: [HOT] double buildings

2015-08-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Dan, When you work in JOSM you should be downloading the data outside the area that was automatically downloaded. Just make sure you un-check the box create a new layer in the download dialog box. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I am misunderstanding something.

[HOT] URGENT Myanmar Landslide Affected Villages ** New Updated Project **

2015-08-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, Thank you to all the mappers who helped with the first Myanmar project, it got done amazingly well and in record time and the requesting organization asked me to pass along their thanks and appreciation for all the contributions we have made so far. There was a real lack of detailed,

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - Aug 8th Edition

2015-08-08 Thread Blake Girardot
Coordination could join up too since that is essentially what we are working on at the moment. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot

Re: [HOT] leisure=common

2015-08-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, If it is a one of the traditional areas that HOT tags as leisure=common then we can tag it as one. Those areas are large, short grass or ground/grass areas in villages or settlements, often with paths walked across them. They are typically common areas for the settlement. It

Re: [HOT] Difficulty with the Task Manager

2015-07-06 Thread Blake Girardot
I would try clearing all your cookies for the Tasking Manger and the main openstreetmap.org website if you haven't tried that yet. cheers, blake On 7/6/2015 10:01 PM, Suzan Reed wrote: I've had to wait a few minutes, up to two or three, then I have to login each time. Switched to Chrome

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon 4th of July Edition - Now and the next 3 to 4 hours

2015-07-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons, and one is happening today. We use the HOT Mumble server, you download a simple client (windows, andriod, ios, linux) and connect and thats it, all the info you need is

Re: [HOT] Quarterly Newsletter?

2015-07-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, The general newsletter idea has been around in various forms for a while now. What it needs is someone to step up, take ownership and commit to doing it. It does not have to be complicated or extravagant, just collect some snippits of info from as many of the different groups doing

[HOT] Support HOT by supporting the OpenStreetMap Foundation

2015-07-02 Thread Blake Girardot
Dear Fellow HOT Community Members, I wanted to take one moment to remind everyone that HOT and the work we do relies on a good strong OpenStreetMap ecosystem. One great way to help ensure that OpenStreetMap stays strong is to join the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).

Re: [HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world

2015-06-23 Thread Blake Girardot
On 6/24/2015 12:12 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: The Replace Geometry functionality in JOSM can be used to redraw rapidly the buildings. Adding instructions in the Task Manager, it should be easy for the contributors to follow the workflow using the Replace Geometry. I did a rapid test, moving

Re: [HOT] Map-a-thon getting 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error

2015-06-20 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Nick, Just to be complete for future reference as I had not heard of it before and I can see it happening to other HOT mapping groups in the future: We think this is not related to HOT or the Tasking Manager. We suspect that it is related to OpenStreetMap in general and the process of

Re: [HOT] humanitarian font

2015-06-16 Thread Blake Girardot
wow, nice, thank you for pointing that out. those look really useful. On 6/16/2015 3:20 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: For those that need to integrate icons in applications, you might be interested by this Humanitarian Font collection available from Github. http://unhcr.github.io/Humanitarian-Font/

[HOT] HOT Tagging - Temporary Working Group - please join

2015-06-15 Thread Blake Girardot
info will be posted there. Cheers, Blake -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https

[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon is happening today and in full swing!

2015-06-13 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons, and one is happening today. We use the HOT Mumble server, you download a simple client (windows, andriod, ios, linux) and connect and thats it :)

Re: [HOT] Saturday Mapternoon is happening today and in full swing!

2015-06-13 Thread Blake Girardot
wrote: Saturday afternoon is when? I'm EST Thanks John On 13 June 2015 at 11:03, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As you might know Russ Deffner is hosting some informal get-togethers via HOTs voice server on Saturday afternoons, and one

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Student Survey Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Goethe-University Frankfurt

2015-06-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi all, All of the people involved in sending the survey request have contacted me and followed up with the HOT Board. They have all expressed their sincere apologies for the concerns they caused and stopped their current method of contacting people. Because HOT and OSM in general are

Re: [HOT] HOT Working Groups

2015-06-11 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Dan, Glad you are here! You are encouraged to join any of them you think would be interesting and rewarding for you, they all need additional members. Feel free to drop in on any of the meetings and introduce yourself and see how they go and if you think you can find an enjoyable way to

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] Student Survey Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Goethe-University Frankfurt

2015-06-11 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Katja, I am investigating this further, to my knowledge HOT has not given this University nor any one else permission to use our systems and data for anything other than HOT mapping. Random contacts from people and organizations you do not know should always be treated with great caution

[HOT] Hi everyone, just doing a simple test, please ignore

2015-06-10 Thread Blake Girardot
Sorry for the interruption. -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] Activations Working Group Meeting Today, 14:00 UTC (now :)

2015-06-09 Thread Blake Girardot
The Activations WG is meeting today Tuesday, Jun. 9th 2015 at 14:00 UTC via IRC Hi all, Sorry for the late reminder but the Activation WG is meeting on IRC as we speak. Logs will be available of course if you can't attend. I will be giving an

Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

2015-06-09 Thread Blake Girardot
I think it is a great idea. Most of our meetings are in irc and meetbot makes nice work of the meeting minutes. There are a few people in the irc channel most of the active hours, I don't think anyone needs to be a board member. We might want to adjust the output to include a mediawiki

[HOT] Google Hangout Mapping Questions and Answers - Today, Jun 6, 14:00 UTC

2015-06-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I am going to give this another try :) I will use Google Hangouts to do live questions and answers for mapping so I can give demonstrations, answer questions and share my screen to show how I would map things. Today, in a few hours at 14:00 UTC

Re: [HOT] Disaster Relief Organizations in Ghana

2015-06-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Enock, I do not know if this answers your question or not, but this is a web page for people who would be collecting and packaging relief packages of different types: http://www.umcor.org/UMCOR/Relief-Supplies Normally you would package and send them to the organization for them to

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat on Mumble

2015-05-30 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, Label: This is just a name for the server for yourself, enter: HOT Address: The actual address of the server, enter: talk.hotosm.org Port: The port that the server uses, leave this at the default value of: 64738 On 5/30/2015 6:30 PM, john whelan wrote: And the server name is?

Re: [HOT] Database, OSM HOT (Was: Request for information about common set of tags for HOT)

2015-05-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Springfield, Here is how I get useful thematic layers out OSM: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/How_To_Convert_osm_.pbf_files_to_Esri_Shapefiles And here is an example files generated through what I would guess is a similar process every 30 mins: http://nepal.piensa.co/

Re: [HOT] Request for information about common set of tags for HOT (Was: OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos)

2015-05-20 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I just want to put a small slow down on this process. HOT is in the midst of discussing its over all tagging strategy and needs to do so on the public lists shortly here. quickly as to the potential helicopter landing sites: aeroway=helipad Is _only_ for confirmed helipads.

Re: [HOT] OSM Nepal Reponse - Links to various infos

2015-05-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Stefan, HOT (and OSM) tagging has grown and evolved since we first started 5 or 6 years ago that is for sure. And given the somewhat intermittent participatory nature of OSM and the wiki things can for sure get out of sync. We would welcome any assistance with updating, streamlining and

Re: [HOT] How to fully cover a grid square.

2015-05-14 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pete, I have really wanted something like has been discussed in this thread for a while now. Your opaque indicator of reviewed areas reminds me of an idea we had for a JOSM plugin to help with these scanning type mapping tasks: One of those overhead spotlights that follows you around

Re: [HOT] Again task 1088

2015-05-11 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Barbara, I know you already have your question worked out, but I thought I would just follow up on the list to hopefully catch someone's attention. The NE portion of the task square in question: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1018#task/2777 Really could use the hand of someone who has a

Re: [HOT] Live, interactive video training for mapping available

2015-05-07 Thread Blake Girardot
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, So I think I can do a Google hangout to do some mapping training. I think I have all the issues worked out. It might not be ideal but if anyone wants to give it a try

Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice - connecting paths

2015-05-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi that is an excellent example. Between the buildings you are right I don't see a path and more over, we don't really need a path between those two individual buildings if that is what you were referencing. But I do see a path going off into the woods to the NNE that I would map, even

[HOT] One quick report from the HOT Summit

2015-05-03 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Everyone, Sitting here in the airport waiting to get back home after the HOT Summit 2015 I had some time to reflect on the Summit and the one thing that I wanted to share with everyone as soon as possible in light of the Nepal activation is how much good will there is toward HOT and OSM in the

Re: [HOT] Revisiting task tiles marked done.

2015-05-03 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pat, you can just Review the Work button and map away and then unlock it when done. You might leave a comment on the task that says you revised it with whatever imagery you used. Thank you for helping map! Cheers, Blake On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Pat Tressel ptres...@myuw.net wrote:

Re: [HOT] Urgent Request - Nepal Earthquake - What data can be shared on the maps?

2015-05-02 Thread Blake Girardot
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit 2015 Program Announcement

2015-04-29 Thread Blake Girardot
if there is video streaming of the talks planned? I know this is quite a lot of work to do, and I could perfectly understand if this is not going to be possible. But in case it is, I'd not like to miss quite some of the talks. Thank you. Felix On 03/31/2015 04:29 PM, Blake Girardot wrote

Re: [HOT] Nepal Activation Summary Update April 28, 2015

2015-04-28 Thread Blake Girardot
-- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

2015-04-26 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Heather and Nama, Currently projects 994 and 1001 cover several of Nama's priority areas, especially 994. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/994 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1001 I have updated those projects to show the priority areas Nama has identified. However, those projects are

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pierre, I can get the initial files in place tonight and hopefully get it handed off to someone to cover it during next week. Cheers, Blake On 4/25/2015 8:44 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: The road network info is very important for this response. Any volunteer to setup a Daily OSMand daily

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, In addition to the tasking manager projects, we are coordinating some very specific and important infrastructure mapping via the HOT mumble voice server. If you want to learn more about detailed mapping that goes on in the early hours after an emergency like this, joining us

Re: [HOT] Installing tasking manager in AWS

2015-04-18 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Maning, I have done this and I think it works fine on a micro for a few number of people. You can try the now slightly out of date TM2 ami I have here: Debain7.6.aws.2 with OSM HOT Tasking Manager 2.7 - ami-66a9280e This is a Debian Wheezy image with OSM HOT TM 2.7 Root device type: ebs

Re: [HOT] Slum mapping project need help to imagery stitching

2015-04-18 Thread Blake Girardot
This whole process is another example of why I love HOT: Community members learning about mapping and working with or forming local mapping groups to address local needs. Trying new things and learning new technology, sharing and learning locally. Reaching out to the larger community for

[HOT] HOT Summit 2015 Early Registration Reminder

2015-04-08 Thread Blake Girardot
-15938457355 Please let us know if you have any questions! Best wishes, Blake Girardot HOT Summit 2015 Organizing Committee Member -- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing

[HOT] Communications Working Group Meeting Tomorrow, Friday, April 3rd

2015-04-02 Thread Blake Girardot
The Communications WG is meeting Friday, April 3rd, at 20:00 UTC via Skype --- Just like all our working groups, it is open to everyone to join and participate in. The main focus is communication to audiences outside the immediate HOT and OSM communities. If

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Mapathon - Going on now

2015-03-28 Thread Blake Girardot
available? I have it up johnwhelan3316 Thanks John On 28 March 2015 at 13:36, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, There is at least one Missing Maps mapathon going on right now. The main Tasking Manager Project focus is: http

[HOT] Missing Maps Mapathon - Going on now

2015-03-28 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, There is at least one Missing Maps mapathon going on right now. The main Tasking Manager Project focus is: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/955 We could use some encouraging validation if you have any extra time today. The Activity tab will help you find tasks that were recently

Re: [HOT] Validating

2015-03-27 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, I think what you write makes a lot of sense. And as the person who wrote you says, this is also a very common feeling new mappers have, not being sure if they should mark a task done. I think currently people who do create projects in the tasking manager try and keep what to map

Re: [HOT] validating tiles

2015-03-25 Thread Blake Girardot
This is kind of a very subtle point, but I have written about it before: I find it difficult to validate tiles because they so often need more work and are not really done. That leaves me with these choices: 1. Do the mapping myself, which I usually do, but then I have less time for

Re: [HOT] Request for remote GIS help

2015-03-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Kieran, I gave this a try and sent Kieran a file to print but have not heard back from him yet if it would be suitable for him. If anyone has more experience with this and feels confident they can generate a good file for him to use, I would encourage you to do so. I used programmer

Re: [HOT] Post-disaster imagery for Vanuatu

2015-03-17 Thread Blake Girardot
wishes, Blake On 3/18/2015 12:37 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: Hi, Pleiades satellite image of Port-Vila, also taken on Sunday 15th (cloudy), is now included in the same TMS layer. Best wishes, Jean-Guilhem Le 17/03/2015 20:58, Blake Girardot a écrit : Hi Denis, I also think the offset

Re: [HOT] Post-disaster imagery for Vanuatu

2015-03-17 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Denis, I also think the offset varies a little bit from place to place so you might need to adjust it more than once. And what works in one place might not be the same for another place. Just remember to try and match up the image to the already existing mapped in roads and data.

Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Activtion - UNMEER request to Enhance Routing

2015-03-16 Thread Blake Girardot
I would use the existing conditional: structure that lets you specify months. It has the advantage of being accepted already and routing software should already be able to parse it. On 3/16/2015 7:58 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: Hi Rafael, the problem is that we would not use appropriately

Re: [HOT] Identification of Communication towers

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Martin, These are challenging to spot and hard to tag correctly without local knowledge I just discovered. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dcommunications_tower I usually find towers by seeing the shadow they cast, that is the big indicator to me. Here are a few

Re: [HOT] Identification of Communication towers

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
s:mikelmaron On Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:03 AM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Martin, These are challenging to spot and hard to tag correctly without local knowledge I just discovered. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dcommunications_tower I

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? Drazen points out that Geofabrik provides this 12 hours old export of the area: http://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania.html Regards, Blake

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? Vanatu is not currently covered by the Export server supported areas so I can't generate this file that way. ___

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? I will do this part now. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? I created an .obf file for Vanatu taken from the most recent 2015-03-14-21:22:02 GMT Geofabrik Oceania extract.

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I want to let you know I just got done updating the Vanuatu specific data exports from OSM we provide to the humanitarian organizations responding to Vanuatu. You have more than doubled the amount of map data in OSM about this nation in a little less than 24 hours!

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, We have talked about making them more widely available and we do include them in some of the W. Africa instructions or pass them out to mappers individually, sometimes as part of validation feedback. I have a short list of revisions is partly why I have not moved them out from my

Re: [HOT] West African HOT Mapping Tips

2015-03-14 Thread Blake Girardot
they cannot give a general overview as a before/after does. Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, We have talked about making them more widely available and we do include them in some

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Call #3 Audio Recording available

2015-03-12 Thread Blake Girardot
, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Blake Girardot blake.girar...@hotosm.org wrote: Hi everyone, If you would like to download or listen to the most recent community call you can find it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3e9e8ckalgp7z3/HOT_CommunityCall_3_2015-03-12.mp3?dl=0 If it asks you to make an account

Re: [HOT] HOT Community Calls reminder (this Wednesday and Thursday) - happening now

2015-03-11 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi just a reminder, the first meeting is going on now on Mumble. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble Cheers, Blake On 3/11/2015 3:45 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: Dear HOT community, As a friendly reminder, we are having three HOT Community Calls on Mumble over the next couple of

Re: [HOT] Seeking nomination for the board elections

2015-03-09 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, This is great news! Thank you so much for running for Board member Jorieke! Jorieke is exactly the kind of person I think we will be lucky to have sit on our Board. She is an enthusiastic supporter of local OSM communities and backs up her talk with action and field work! Her

[HOT] Birth of a New E-Mail List - HOT Announcements Only

2015-03-09 Thread Blake Girardot
questions you can contact me or the Communications Working Group at the above address. Best wishes, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Volunteer ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] A wish for the next Board

2015-03-08 Thread Blake Girardot
On 3/8/2015 3:00 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: Hi all, It has been great to see the new contributors and partners joining in the past year, bringing their contributions, enthusiasm, competences, uses and support, and all the great things that were done, and that will continue. This can be

Re: [HOT] OpenAerialMap - Catalog Tech Challenge - Deadline extended to March 15th

2015-03-07 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that the deadline to submit proposals has been extended until March 15th, so if you were thinking of submitting, you still have time. Cheers, Blake On 2/19/2015 10:43 PM, Blake Girardot wrote: Hi everyone! As you may have heard (we hope you have

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

2015-03-06 Thread Blake Girardot
On 3/6/2015 2:29 PM, Heather Leson wrote: 3. Gender Are you a women? Please run for the Board. Ask me any questions and I can help. Claire was on the Board with me this past year. It made a difference in dynamic. One thing that we have not broached enough is the what I like to call the mapper

Re: [HOT] Contacting mappers with spaces in their names

2015-03-06 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, You can just type it in directly with square brackets around the name: @[First Last] for example That should do it, it just will not auto complete. cheers, Blake On 3/6/2015 2:21 PM, john whelan wrote: How do you do it? GEES +NN so looks like a student group of students but making

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

2015-03-04 Thread Blake Girardot
this process as best we can. Thanks, Joseph On 4 March 2015 at 19:28, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, It is my privilege to nominate Heather Leson for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors. Heather

Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

2015-03-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, I don't see any unmapped buildings. There was one hut that I mapped. I suspect all those bare spots in the fields are just some artifact of how they are farmed, it didn't look to me like there were buildings in there. I tend to agree there are probably paths all along those fields.

Re: [HOT] project/917#task/61

2015-03-04 Thread Blake Girardot
comes along with a different approach it can be unvalidated. Cheerio John On 4 March 2015 at 15:36, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I don't see any unmapped buildings. There was one hut that I mapped. I suspect all those bare spots

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

2015-03-04 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, It is my privilege to nominate Heather Leson for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Board of Directors. Heather is a dedicated and tireless HOT member and current Board member but most importantly, she always expresses and represents what to me are the core values of HOT:

[HOT] Training WG Meeting Today, Monday March 2nd, 18:00 UTC

2015-03-02 Thread Blake Girardot
The Training WG is meeting Monday, March 2nd, 2015 at 18:00 UTC via IRC Everyone is welcome to attend. If you like working on training, support, translation or teaching materials please checkout the Training WG. Recently our focus has been on

[HOT] Tasking Manager Long Term Priorities and Planning

2015-02-23 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, The Technology Working Group would like to start an email discussion or a few discussions about what people who use the HOT Tasking Manager think should be the primary focus areas for development going forward. Activation Coordinators and people who create/manage/run Projects

[HOT] Tremendous response to our HOT Summit scholarship outreach!

2015-02-23 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, It was not too many days ago I wrote you all about the HOT Summit 2015 Scholarship program and I am very happy to say the response has been pretty overwhelming. It is a very diverse group of HOT community members representing about 13 countries so far. The application form is

Re: [HOT] What is a hot activation?

2015-02-19 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Fred, My responses are in line below. On 2/18/2015 10:25 AM, Frederic Moine wrote: What is ahot activation? I saw this slide presentation 16 17 on Gaza. I have activate this task this summer during my holiday as an OSM contributor. I posted the announcement on OSM lists include HOT. I was

Re: [HOT] Canaan Haiti Mapping

2015-02-18 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Ahasan, The links are: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/879 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/870 Those work. Cheers, Blake On 2/19/2015 5:41 AM, Ahasanul Hoque wrote: Hi Dale, The links are not working Would you plz check ?. Thanks Ahasan On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Dale Kunce

[HOT] HOT Summit 2015 - Scholarship Program Announcement

2015-02-18 Thread Blake Girardot
Greetings everyone! The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is hosting a 3 day HOT Summit 2015 event in Washington D.C. April 30th to May 2nd 2015. It will be a chance for volunteer mappers, educators, community builders, humanitarians, geographers, programmers and other folks interested in

Re: [HOT] Call for HOT Photos

2015-02-17 Thread Blake Girardot
I asked Will about it today and he said he had not done anything with it for months but we didn't get a chance to talk about how he felt about the flickr group. I am also not sure the difference between a group and just tagging something hotosm. I guess people join a group and get notices and

Re: [HOT] Validation

2015-02-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi John, It is a difficult question you ask as I feel the same way you and Nick do, I really don't want to invalidate squares to avoid discouraging people. I tend to almost never invalidate a square unless it is obvious that someone clicked done thinking that meant they were just done

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-12 Thread Blake Girardot
On 2/12/2015 12:25 PM, nicolas chavent wrote: Reading through your points in favour of Linkedin, I still fail to see the gain in audience since after more than 5 years, both the HOT Project and HOT US Inc (the US NGO) are well established entities not only within the OpenSource and OpenData

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Nicolas, Taking your comments, Severin's comments and Augustin's comments into consideration and after getting feedback from the HOT Communications WG I revised the description of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team organization on LinkedIn. I tried very hard to make sure it described

Re: [HOT] HOT is now on LinkedIn

2015-02-12 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi, When this issue first came up I did a search for 'non profits on linkedin' and found a great deal of advice that suggested it was a very good channel that non profits often over look. As already mentioned it connects us to a world of professionals that might otherwise never hear of our

[HOT] Communications Working Group Meeting Tomorrow, Friday, Feb 6th

2015-02-05 Thread Blake Girardot
The Communications WG is meeting Friday, Feb 6th, at 20:00 UTC via Skype --- Just like all our working groups, it is open to everyone. The main focus is communication to audiences outside the immediate HOT and OSM communities. If you have an interest in

Re: [HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?

2015-02-01 Thread Blake Girardot
If you can't find someone with experience locally then I seem to recall that there have been some training sessions using Google+? Google Hangouts Live On Air is what I have used to do remote training before. It works pretty well. It allows screen sharing so the presenter can work on their

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-23 Thread Blake Girardot
On 1/23/2015 3:47 PM, john whelan wrote: I've noted a fairly large number of buildings mapped as area=yes which I changed to building=yes there are probably half a dozen mappers mapping in this way. This is the default way the iD web editor tags a polygon if you do not follow up and put a

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-22 Thread Blake Girardot
On 1/22/2015 7:20 PM, john whelan wrote: Is there a setting to make the GPS traces stand out more in JOSM, ie purple or some such? Preferences - Display Settings Tab on left - Colors tab in middle - GPS Point entry line click that line GPS Point then click the choose button at the

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian Mapping for a class

2015-01-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Oh very cool! Thank you very much for considering us for your class :) I know people have really good suggestions for your question, but the main consideration for me is judging or grading or evaluating based on the quality of mapping, not quantity. I just spent several hours last week

Re: [HOT] Bangladesh track tracing (and chasing!)

2015-01-22 Thread Blake Girardot
Ok, I had a conflict on my first trace :) and the OAM meeting is starting so I am going to close up tracing for now and will give it a go later. cheers, blake On 1/22/2015 5:36 PM, Pete Masters wrote: Hi guys, another request from Dhaka! Sajjad, our hero for today (and surely a future

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