[HOT] How open maps and data are being used to improve access to (renewable) energy in rural Tanzania

For those interested in access to renewable energy and minigrids, IFC has published an interesting article on how OpenStreetMap data is being used to inform decision making around investments in mini-grids and solar home systems, and how open data collected and analyzed as part of one of our

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

Hi Jorieke, I know Ivan has been working on some forms of open source/lightweight vehicle tracking recently. Ivan, do you have more details? Would this be fit for purpose & ready for use? best, Paul On 9-1-2019 13:50, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Hello all, Forwarding you a question from Last, our

Re: [HOT] HDM preset

Hi Jorieke, we're slowly starting work on updating the HDM. First part of that is the data model in the new Export tool. Please hop over to the #export-tool slack channel for input on that. Greetings from the mapathon at the MSF compound in Yumbe! Paul ~ sent from mobile On Jul 12, 2017 1:55

[HOT] Mapping activities to support the refugee response in northern Uganda

Hi all, I wanted to share some updates on our project in Uganda with you. Many thanks to our team in Uganda (Stefano, Geoffrey, Douglas, Carmen, Deo, Kate, Lydia, and everyone else helping out). They're doing amazing work to support UNHCR, MSF, Catholic Relief Services and other NGO partners

Re: [HOT] Using the HOT Tasking Manager for field data upload to OSM projects

t; How may be of help since am close to northern part of Uganda tobe specific Masindi.Any response is welcomed. Thanks On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Paul Uithol <paul.uit...@hotosm.org <mailto:paul.uit...@hotosm.org>> wrote: Hi Paul, Did you happen to see the post by N

Re: [HOT] Using the HOT Tasking Manager for field data upload to OSM projects

Hi Paul, Did you happen to see the post by Nate from earlier today, on the "Community chat for a field mapping management application"? We'll be developing this over the coming months specifically to aid large scale field mapping and data collection, and should be trialling it in our current

Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

| facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://donate.hotosm.org/> ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- *Paul Uithol* Director, Community Projects Email: paul.ui

[HOT] The Guardian on "the great age of cartography"

Just spotted this one, it's a very nice read if you have some time to spare: "Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories" at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/07/faultlines-black-holes-glaciers-mapping-uncharted-territories. Includes great recognition again

[HOT] New project around refugee crises in northern Uganda (South Sudan) and Istanbul (Syria)

Hi all, I'd like to let you know about a new project HOT has started work on, focusing on improving open data quality, dissemination and service delivery around two of the largest refugee crises at the moment - South Sudanese refugees settling in northern Uganda, and Syrian refugees living

Re: [HOT] Issues with HOT export tool

Hi Calist, I'm afraid this might be yet another instance of the issue in https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool2/issues/129 manifesting itself. Work will be done soon to improve the export tool, but I don't know the exact timeline on this. Cristiano or Mhairi do perhaps? For now, in your

Re: [HOT] Showcases - What has been done with HOT's effort

___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- *Paul Uithol* Project Manager Email: paul.uit...@hotosm.org <mailto:paul.uit...@hotosm.org> Twitter: @PaulUithol <https://twitter.com/pauluith

Re: [HOT] HDX | A New HDX Data Lab in Dakar [job]

Thanks for the heads up Heather! Jorieke has already gotten me in touch with some people from our community in Senegal. I'll hopefully be seeing some of them next week, and will definitely bring this opportunity to their attention! Paul ~ sent from mobile On Oct 5, 2016 7:02 AM, "Heather Leson"

Re: [HOT] OpenAerialMap Dare a Salam imagery

Hi, The imagery had disappeared for a while indeed, but I got a message couple of weeks ago they're back up - at https://api.mapbox.com/v4/worldbank-education.pebkgmlc/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoid29ybGRiYW5rLWVkdWNhdGlvbiIsImEiOiJIZ2VvODFjIn0.TDw5VdwGavwEsch53sAVxA (I'd also comment

[HOT] Tagging evacuation centers

Hi all, Something that recently came up in Tanzania in discussions with municipals officials and the Tanzanian Red Cross Society is mapping of proposed evacuation centers. I've found some text on this on the talk-us list

[HOT] Article on HOT in OneWorld (Dutch only at the moment)

Hi all, Don't think a link to this article has been posted yet - https://www.oneworld.nl/werelddoeners/digitale-reddingswerkers. It's a very nice introduction and explanation to HOT's work, featuring quite a bit of input from Nama Budhathoki, Blake, people from the Red Cross, MSF, Canadian

Re: [HOT] iD tags changed? Re: Difficulty in communicating with iD users

Hi, Could you please clarify - have the underlying tags and values themselves changed, or just their descriptions/UI? It sounds like the latter to me from your response. The former would be bad, the latter is something we could/should adapt to. And yes, "unclassified" does confuse people, but

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Accuracy ( international women's day)

Hi Gertrude, OSMTracker uses GPS - the buttons are normally disabled until you have a lock. After that, it will give you an estimation of the accuracy of your location, for example: "Accuracy: 5m". I think they'll probably use the GPS receiver's hdop (horizontal dilution of precision) figure for

Re: [HOT] Crowd2Map rural Tanzania

Hi Janet, We’re getting people in rural Tanzania to map data about their communities using EpicollectPlus. Please can anyone advise: 1. if there is any way to tell up to date the Bing satellite images are and how often they are updated as some of the points we are trying to add weren’t

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps: Dar es Salaam - Ramani Huria3

Hi Mike, Looping in Innocent again, he'll be subscribing soon ;) Best, Paul On Feb 24, 2016 9:26 PM, "Mike Thompson" wrote: > We had planned to use project #1446 for two upcoming mapathons (this > evening and tomorrow evening). I just looked and even though it says 30% >

Re: [HOT] project 1446 - Missing Maps: Dar es Salaam - Ramani Huria3

Hi Mike, The informal settlements around Dar extend quite far - so we can continue putting up more tasks for a bit longer I think ;). Adding Innocent, who's our lead mapping supervisor for Ramani Huria. best, Paul On 09-02-2016 19:01, Mike Thompson wrote: I am assisting the University of

[HOT] Mapping stories from the field in Uganda

Good evening from Uganda! After spending three weeks in Mbale and mapping 11 districts there, we've now moved on to Tororo, another town in the east, close to the Kenyan border. One of the students we've worked with from UCU Mbale, Hillary Musundi, has written an amazing story on his

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit 2016

Sounds great! If I'm around home/Netherlands by that time, will definitely be there & at SOTM as well. Can help with organization as well. best, Paul On 27-01-2016 14:24, Ben Abelshausen wrote: Count me in too! We may even have a nice venue already... :-) On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:08 AM,

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Troubles opening Tasking manager in josm and potlatch

Hi all, One more confirmation. Occurred on a number of our student's computers this morning. Fortunately, I'd seen Blake's comment on https over breakfast ;). Saved us a lot of time trying to figure out what's happening, thanks! Simply removing the 's' from the url did the trick for us.

Re: [HOT] African Roads on Satelite

Hi, Let me see if I can find a couple of good examples (combination of aerial/ground location) from the region where we're currently running a ground survey (eastern Uganda). Not seen anything like the motorway - the example looks pretty European. When in doubt, I usually tell our mappers

[HOT] Update on Mapping Financial Services in Uganda

Hi all, wanted to share an update with you on our preparations for the project in Uganda - and draw attention to some of the happy notes over the past year, among all negative news. It's at https://hotosm.org/updates/2015-12-30_mapping_financial_services_in_uganda_starting_january_2016. Happy

Re: [HOT] Question [about the/à propos du] HOT Export

Hi Augustin, The export tool does not possess exhaustive query logic; since data filtering is based on JOSM preset files, and that's not what these where invented to do. The way to go here would indeed be to do the filtering of the resulting dataset through a desktop GIS app, like QGIS.