Hallo all,
As some of you already know in the last months I’ve been looking at HOT
community engagement, particularly at the key initiatives that organise HOT
mapping projects through the tasking manager. I want to understand better how
to build volunteer capacity, and how to then sustain it; i
I’m doing research on community engagement in HOT, so can answer some of these
at least partially.
> On 4 Jun 2015, at 23:34, Milo van der Linden wrote:
> 1. In pre-crisis taskprojects; Do you think it is important to have a person
> or organisation publishing announcements and "attracting" vo
> On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:29, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>
> It is my personal opinion that the level of expertise is less important then
> the motivation for people to participate and their abbility to adapt. As an
> example; What is better, a geospatial expert that is conceited or even cocky
>
Many thanks for these updates! Very interesting to see the progress you’re all
making.
Unfortunately the last link to Tyler’s document (below) only gives me a “file
not found” error — could someone send an updated link? I’d love to see the list
of key initiatives.
> On 5 Jun 2015, at 10:00, J
Hallo all,
I’d like to share a link to an OSM diary entry where I summarise part of a HOT
study I did earlier this year.
I was interested in understanding how first-time contributors engage with HOT:
how many hours of work do they contribute in the first days, and how long do
they keep contr
I finally found some time to write up a more detailed description as an OSM
diary post:
"Design proposal for a HOT quality assurance support tool"
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dekstop/diary/35620
I hope this can stimulate some debate about what a good QA support tool might
look like. In p
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 11:22, john whelan wrote:
>
> I'd also like to see a third option on the tasking manger "I've done some
> work but not completed the tile could someone review it please." I'd rather
> catch errors early and some new mappers may not feel confident enough to mark
> a tile
lem,
> since I'll just be one more user on the list.
>
> 3. Grids can be pretty large. Sometimes you just don't manage to map it
> completely in a short sitting. I know grids can be split, but...
>
> 4. Sometimes I'll for example only be mapping roads. Doing this
e and made the changes I like the best in a
>>>>> local copy of the tasking manager (screenshot in attachment). I'll
>>>>> implement the changes and make a pull request if we come to an
>>>>> agreement.
>>>>>
>>>>> -
I put together some slides for the Missing Maps powwow that’s happening in
Toronto atm, just put it online here:
http://talks.dekstop.de/Martin%20Dittus%20MM%20powwow%2020151015.pdf
There’s now a long backlog of stuff for me to write about, haven’t found time
for diary posts in a few weeks, but
Count me in, I’m up for it as well!
m.
> On 17 Oct 2015, at 10:39, Justin Temwani Ng'ambi
> wrote:
>
> Dear Sir,
> I totally subscribe to that. I would really be happy to contribute my ideas
> to the wider community.
>
> Waiting to discuss this in length at a group level for the sake of prog
Inspired by recent Transifex discussions I though it’d be interesting to see
what languages our contributors actually speak — to the extent that we can
easily find out.
See the top entries here, incl spreadsheet for the full listing:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dekstop/diary/36287
And
Ilya/Zverik has just amended the spreadsheet to also show translation progress
for each locale:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1udAGLSE88ob6OS5x1brf11JwDicIblW8LGVsxkG_0ww/edit?usp=sharing
m.
> On 9 Nov 2015, at 18:19, Martin Dittus wrote:
>
> Inspired by recent Transifex di
A quick diary post articulating a growing intuition, rather than a well-formed
concept. Maybe a useful provocation to start a discussion? :)
What is it that our volunteers get out of the act of mapping? Wikipedia has
direct utility to its contributors, while our maps tend to benefit others. Many
ness that motivation are essential to creating
> engaging educational materials. I'd suggest that there is a missing link
> between your two questions and the A,B,C answers to the questions.
>
> Specifically, I'd point to some of the work that Martin Dittus[1] and Nama
&
As someone who has sat on the board of a large community organisation (>1,000
members) I accept that some concerns are not suitable for wide distribution.
For example, if the board is asked to deal with a dispute among community
members, then the matter should be discussed in confidence unless e
Was just thinking it would be nice to get people closer together!
Unfortunately that week coincides with CSCW in SF where I’ll present my first
HOT paper :)
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/l.capra/publications/cscw2016.pdf (that's work
from last summer)
But considering how hard scheduling always
It seems to me there are really three separate concerns here.
1. Resuming Martin’s project. Russ addresses this.
2. OSM data quality discussions around HOT newcomers. That’s a big topic and an
ongoing discussion, and is maybe best discussed in the places Russ mentions.
Any such incident is pr
This has to do with the way permissions are set up in your PostgreSQL database:
the database user you’re using to connect to the database does not have the
permissions necessary to update PostGIS tables.
Try this in the PostgreSQL console:
GRANT select, insert, update, delete ON spatial_ref_sys
I’ve been playing with it today, and had a look at the front- and backend
codebase, and I’m very impressed — it exceeds my expectations of what I thought
possible for this tight timeframe!
A testament to HOT's participatory approach to project management; at every
step pulling in the right exp
I think that happens for people who haven’t mapped yet _after_ the tool was
released — it should probably show an explanation & a call to action (“go here
to start mapping”), but instead it simply throws a javascript error (check your
console).
m.
> On 8 May 2016, at 12:07, pia conrad mortens
Made the rounds on social media yesterday, I imagine a few of you have already
seen it.
http://www.terrapattern.com/
It’s a visual search for aerial imagery — "a prototype for helping people
quickly scan extremely large geographical areas for specific visual features”.
You mark a desired featur
"Message can now be sent to all the contributors of a project” Oooh that’s a
very interesting feature.
The associated ticket has some discussion of potential uses:
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues/719
The key items are probably:
- to thank people
- to let them know of chang
A great list!
I would further add the 2014/2015 report by Timo Lüge on the use of GIS
technologies in Ebola response and humanitarian efforts, it includes some
discussion of OSM and HOT, and how it relates to field work. Here’s the second
edition:
http://reliefweb.int/report/liberia/gis-support
Have a look at the report by Timo Lüge I linked earlier, it may be exactly what
you’re asking for: a wide-ranging evaluation of the MSF Ebola campaign,
commissioned by the MSF, but published in a form that is useful to other
organisations.
The link again:
http://reliefweb.int/report/liberia/gis
Hallo all,
I gave a talk at SotM in Brussels, summarising some of my key research findings
on HOT contributor engagement to date. Afterwards, Tyler asked me to summarise
my recommendations to organisers in a short message. I just saw that the
recording of the talk is already online, so I did a
> On 24 Nov 2016, at 20:22, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
> wrote:
>
>> In brief, I’d like to make three key recommendations:
>> • Carefully manage the tasking manager task listing during large disaster
>> events. People who join during these events don't tend to stay active for
>> long, and their c
After my talk at State of the Map in Brussels, Nick Allen asked: are newcomers
more likely to be retained if we give them positive validation feedback? I had
no answer at the time, but Tyler kindly gave me permission to look at the data
to find out. The resulting findings are now under peer revi
Thank you so much for proposing this, I think this would be well worth
organising! It’s an opportune moment as well to set some basic expectations.
With other communities I’ve experienced that as they mature they can develop a
greater resistance against outside researchers, often as a result of
produce more, provided it’s
feasible. No promises :)
Greetings from London,
Martin Dittus
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If you’re interested in the details — there are a number of challenges in
producing such data, and some caveats. Mostly it has to do with the
unstructured nature of changeset comments.
I’m likely
Thanks for the detailed note Pierre!
We seem to be on the same page — such stats are wonderfully misleading.
I’ve tried grouping HOT projects in the past based on the available metadata
and have indeed encountered all the obstacles you mention. Part of my
motivation to share this was also to
Mar 2015, at 18:59, Martin Dittus wrote:
>
> Hallo all,
>
> Here are two basic rankings of HOT project activity in the last year, based
> on map contributions in the past 12 months. Discussion on IRC suggested that
> this data might be useful to others, so I’m sharing it wit
> On 23 Mar 2015, at 20:35, Pierre Béland wrote:
>
> The number of changesets is also a gross estimate of the contributor efforts.
> How to compare a contributor that adds 100 buildings, one changeset for each
> (we see this often with new contributors) with a contributor that has a few
> tho
Two classic papers on the topic:
Soden, R. and Palen, L. (2014). "From Crowdsourced Mapping to Community
Mapping: The Post-Earthquake Work of OpenStreetMap Haiti.”
https://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/Papers/HaitiCOOP_Final.pdf
Zook et al (2010), “Volunteered geographic information and crowdsourci
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