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Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:48 AM, nicolas chavent <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for the details and would be definitively great to have use cases > to help out tech GIS folks operating in ESRI to convince their manager not > only to consume OSM and opendata but also to contribute and be part of this > GIS data dialogue > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Good point, will talk about this with them, but do you know more about >> this project and its state and OSM in it? Did not find the way to >> > browse the data it has. >> >> Andrew can explain more, but the idea is that if you are an organization >> already using ESRI web services, it's then simple to create an Open Data >> site for sharing your data on your own site. So a humanitarian organization >> already using ESRI tools could use this workflow to share data for import >> into OSM. Since it's built into the tools and marketing, organizations are >> confronted with the concepts of Open Data. It's pretty new, so I haven't >> seen this in the wild yet, but perhaps Andrew could share some examples. >> >> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 8:41 AM, Severin Menard < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good point, will talk about this with them, but do you know more about >> this project and its state and OSM in it? Did not find the way to browse >> the data it has. >> Le 8 avr. 2014 11:01, "Mikel Maron" <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Another item worth promoting and discussing, if not already on the >> agenda, is esri's open data initiative http://opendata.arcgis.com/, led >> by our own Andrew Turner. Adoption of this folder and approach would allow >> HOT's humanitarian partners to more easily share relevant data into OSM; >> for instance, the Zaatari imports >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mikelmaron/diary/19912. As well, would >> open up minds and says use to consider our brand of openness in OSM. >> Mikel >> >> ------------------------------ >> * From: * nicolas chavent <[email protected]>; >> * To: * Mikel Maron <[email protected]>; >> * Cc: * Severin Menard <[email protected]>; [email protected]< >> [email protected]>; >> * Subject: * Re: [hotosm-membership] OSM for the humanitarian GIS >> * Sent: * Tue, Apr 8, 2014 5:32:49 AM >> >> HI Mikel >> >> Thanks for pointing to those resources of ESRI: significan progresses >> since their first release of the OSM Editor embedded into ArcGIS 10.0 soon >> after the Haiti earthquake following suggestions by some of us. >> >> Sev and I will make sure to talk with the ESIR pople behind those tools >> while maintaining up the dialogue with the other ESRI folks assisting the >> International NGOs (IGOs), International Organizations (IOs) and UN >> Agencies as well as with their Response Team with the view to foster uses >> and contibutions to the use of OSM in the Humanitarian - Development >> continuum. >> >> Aside of the software, as pointed out by Sev, there is a user >> requirements analysis dimension to the attending of this #GISfortheUN >> Conference. This a significant part of the "classic" actors of the Hum/Dev >> GIS scene that UNOST/UNITAR, ITU and ESRI succeeded in gathering in Geneva >> for the third time. It's good to attend the event in a *listening* *mode*and >> seek the most thorough understanding (ideally with usecases) of how in >> 2014 April those actors are using GIS/RS, imagery and OSM, neogeography, >> VGI, VTCs to achieve their mandate. >> >> Less classic actors attend as well Drone Adventures (UAVs), SBTF/DHN >> folks and the social part of the conference with practiioners of this >> whole/large Hum/Dev GIS/RS/Space-based community is rich for our >> network/relation building. This completes well the relation built over >> activations, on-the-ground work as well as coordination positions in the >> Digital Humanitarian Network, and other fora. >> >> We will share back during and after the conference. >> >> ++ >> Nico >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> Severin >> >> You may already be aware, there is an extension for ArcGIS to interact >> with OSM. May be useful to gauge if folks there would find it helpful for >> working with us. >> http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/openstreetmap >> https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-osm-editor >> >> -Mikel >> >> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >> On Monday, April 7, 2014 7:37 PM, Severin Menard < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am currently at the GIS for the UN <http://gisfortheun.com/>conference in >> Geneva, organized by ESRI (for those who do not know nothing >> about GIS, it is a kind of Microsoft for GIS softwares - except they work >> better than Windows 8 :). Good update about ESRI products and capacities >> cause I did not use ArcGIS much (or at all) since 2011. I am definitely an >> Open source software fan, but ESRI still remains by far the first GIS >> software used by humanitarian organizations and we need to see how to >> interact with it so that the OSM data is more (and more) used, what is >> basically our main goal. But actually the ESRI workshops will stand >> tomorrow and the day after to know how ESRI. Today was more keynotes and >> kind of speed presenting from various organizations. Was great to meet >> people from MapAction and SBTF but also responders, GIS officers from the >> UN we meet less and see either their use of OSM, sometimes massive, or >> their limited knowledge about it. We really have a lot to fill on this. >> Providing more consolidated data is also a key, as often OSM mixes very >> precise detailed areas to some others scarcely mapped. Improving this >> should clearly one main collective objective (I talked about it a few weeks >> ago here <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sev_hotosm/diary/21038>) >> and the TM v2 will be a great help. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Severin >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nicolas Chavent >> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ >> Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 >> Email: [email protected] >> Email: [email protected] >> Skype: c_nicolas >> Twitter: nicolas_chavent >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Nicolas Chavent > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ > Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 > Email: [email protected] > Email: [email protected] > Skype: c_nicolas > Twitter: nicolas_chavent >
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