Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-27 Thread Steve Doerr
On 26/03/2019 18:24, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In some countries (Mali for example), HOT is by far the institution with the most notoriety related to Openstreetmap - and it is often the only one. There, Openstreetmap appears to be a humanitarian mapping project under supervision and

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 3/26/19 8:31 PM, john whelan wrote: Apparently I'm the mapper who is the 4th in Mali and currently I do not map for HOT. HOT does not have a monopoly in Mali. Yes - rural Mali in Openstreetmap owes a lot to you. I'm the one who is first on that list (I'm more a urban mapping sort or

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread john whelan
Apparently I'm the mapper who is the 4th in Mali and currently I do not map for HOT. HOT does not have a monopoly in Mali. Cheerio John Cheerio John On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 2:26 PM Jean-Marc Liotier, wrote: > In some countries (Mali for example), HOT is by far the institution with > the most

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
In some countries (Mali for example), HOT is by far the institution with the most notoriety related to Openstreetmap - and it is often the only one. There, Openstreetmap appears to be a humanitarian mapping project under supervision and sponsorship of HOT. The confusion is real and the least

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > Am 26.03.2019 um 16:19 schrieb Tom Hughes : > > That redirect was setup many years and and it's highly > unlikely we would do it now, at least other than with the > direct approval of the board. back then Hot probably wasn’t even incorporated themselves, but now that

Re: [OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread Tom Hughes
On 26/03/2019 15:02, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Is there a formal connection between Hot Inc. and the OpenStreetMapFoundation? I just noticed hot.openstreetmap.org gets redirected to Hot Inc. It was not really obvious from their homepage to understand that it is

[OSM-talk] HOT and the OSMF

2019-03-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Is there a formal connection between Hot Inc. and the OpenStreetMapFoundation? I just noticed hot.openstreetmap.org gets redirected to Hot Inc. It was not really obvious from their homepage to understand that it is a Hot Inc. site and not (or is it?) an OSMF site. https://www.hotosm.org/ Do you