Re: [HOT] Small Grant Opportunity

[Heather Leson]

Hey, maybe we should find a place to put small grants that Hotties could
apply for for their projects.

eg. http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-awards/community-grants
It is free to join and then you might be eligible.

Heather

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Twitter: HeatherLeson
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Russell Deffner
wrote:

> Hello HOTties,
>
>
>
> This may not be within the cost/benefit realm of HOT as an organization,
> and the deadline is the end of the month; but thought individuals could
> look it over and see if it may work for a local OSM community:
>
> http://www.gsdi.org/node/888
>
>
>
> =Russ
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[HOT] Small Grant Opportunity

[Russell Deffner]

Hello HOTties,

 

This may not be within the cost/benefit realm of HOT as an organization, and
the deadline is the end of the month; but thought individuals could look it
over and see if it may work for a local OSM community:

http://www.gsdi.org/node/888 

 

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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Christian Lenz (clenzch)]

Pierre, merci beaucoup pour ta proposition. I started exactly as you
propose, in principle following the tagging guide line in the wiki.

Does it make sense to tag "small" areas with "flood_prone"? Maybe the
whole area is flood prone during rainfall events. We don't know how old
the water is. Is it ground water? Was it raining a few days before? I
think it's in the middle of a desert...

Checking the available Bing imagery
(http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/#) I found that
the images are mainly from Aug/2010 - Oct/2011. According to:
http://de.climate-data.org/location/766672/ it seems (more or less)
reasonable that the images might have been during a rainy time.

So my point is: Isn't there the possibility that we see much more water
than there is "in reality"? It might even be very seldom that flooding
occurs...

Is there any possibility to get IR channel imagery of Bing or someone
else with high enough resolution? Maybe we could use them to distinguish
deep water wells from shallow (and temporarily) flooded zones?

Chris



On 03/06/2014 11:23 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> This is more or less man_made, like the ponds inside habitation walls.
>
> Went back to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water.
>
> I propose that we follow the suggestion to use the tag combination
> natural=water 
> water=pond.
>  
> Pierre
>
> 
> *De :* Christian Lenz (clenzch) 
> *À :* hot@openstreetmap.org
> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 17h07
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
> Should we tag the ponds with "landuse=pond" or with "natural=water"
> and "water=pond"? For me it looks like the ponds are more natural than
> man_made... Or does anyone find some good guideline to distinguish man
> made ponds?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On 03/06/2014 10:59 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
>> I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that
>> there is often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.
>>
>> Andrew and others might be better then me to spot if any water wells.
>>
>>  
>> Pierre
>>
>> 
>> *De :* Severin Menard 
>> 
>> *À :* Pierre Béland  
>> *Cc :* "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
>>  
>> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
>> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>>
>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland > > wrote:
>>
>> Hi Severin
>>
>> In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of
>> Intermittent ponds
>> 
>> url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>>
>> If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I
>> think tha a polygon should be trace around all the zone with the
>> tag flood_prone=yes, plus identify the more permanent ponds. I
>> mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and have mapped a few of the
>> flood_prone areas as an example.
>>
>> I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as
>> Bassikounou itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in
>> charge of the field assessment.
>>
>>
>> The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the
>> cattles operating around the well. For Mali activation we were
>> able to spot such wells by observing odd looking "fans" around
>> them in the aerial imagery made by the cattles circulation.
>>
>> Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou?
>> Would be good to document this with the examples provided through the
>> discussions for Mali
>>
>>
>> See discussion for Mali
>> 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>>
>>  
>> Pierre
>>
>> 
>> *De :* Severin Menard > >
>> *À :* "hot@openstreetmap.org "
>> mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org>>
>> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
>> *Objet :* [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around
>> Bassikounou, a town close to the border with Mali, for a
>> development project about drinkable water. The approach is the
>> same than for Walikale in DRC. To know
>> more: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>>
>> As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is
>> from, for and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved,
>> please make suggestions.
>>
>> The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg
>> intermittent ponds - ple

Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Christian,

This is more or less man_made, like the ponds inside habitation walls. 

Went back to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water. 

I propose that we follow the suggestion to use the tag combination
natural=water  

water=pond.

 
Pierre 




 De : Christian Lenz (clenzch) 
À : hot@openstreetmap.org 
Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 17h07
Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
 


Should we tag the ponds with "landuse=pond" or with "natural=water" and 
"water=pond"? For me it looks like the ponds are more natural than man_made... 
Or does anyone find some good guideline to distinguish man made ponds?

Chris





On 03/06/2014 10:59 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:

I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that there is 
often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.
>
>Andrew and others might be better then me to spot if any water
wells.
>
>
>
> 
>Pierre 
>
>
>
>
> De : Severin Menard 
>À : Pierre Béland  
>Cc : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
> 
>
>
>Hi Pierre, 
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:
>
>Hi Severin
>>
>>In this  Task Manager job descripton,
  there are examples give of Intermittent
  ponds 
url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>>
>>If you zoom-out, it seems that all this
  zone is flood_prone. I think tha a polygon
  should be trace around all the zone with
  the tag flood_prone=yes, plus identify the
  more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly
  inside Bassikounou and have mapped a few
  of the flood_prone areas as an example.
>>
>I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou 
>itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field 
>assessment.
>
>>The film about the water well operation is
  interesting wit the cattles operating
  around the well. For Mali activation we
  were able to spot such wells by observing
  odd looking "fans" around them in the
  aerial imagery made by the cattles
  circulation.
>>
>Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou? Would be 
>good to document this with the examples provided through the discussions for 
>Mali
>
>>See discussion for Mali 
>>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>Pierre 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> De : Severin Menard 
>>À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
>>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
>>Objet : [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>> 
>>
>>
>>Hi, 
>>
>>
>>ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a town 
>>close to the border with Mali, for a development project about drinkable 
>>water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know more: 
>>http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>>
>>
>>As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for and 
>>about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make suggestions.
>>
>>
>>The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds - 
>>please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an idea 
>>how to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
>>
>>
>>I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web, to 
>>have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.
>>
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>Severin
>>
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Re: [HOT] Mongolia Translation

[Russell Deffner]

Thanks,

Actually Michael Kappas pointed me back to
 http://www.translate.google.com -which I
checked before our trip, but at the time did not have Mongolian - it does
now!  So I'll be testing it out, I actually have a translator app on my
phone, but it translates Mongolian very poorly; but this seems to do much
better and actually works with Cyrillic characters.

=Russ

 

From: nicolas chavent [mailto:nicolas.chav...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 7:34 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: hot; Severin Menard
Subject: Re: [HOT] Mongolia Translation

 

Hi Russ

You may ask assistance as well from Translators W/o Borders (TWB) who are
member of the Digital Hum Network (DHN). 

Sev opened up a relation for HOT to benefit from their expertise. 

This was actually one thing that I was going to recommend: build more on
this partnership + other VTCs with translation capacities to get additional
translation man power (we got some in HOT for sure) and do a better job at
tackling the first degree of inter/multi culturality at work: which is
breaking the barrier of Language. 

I am happy to help facilitate this with Sev.

Best, 
Nico

 

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Russell Deffner 
wrote:

Hello,

 

I just wanted to know if there is anyone on this list that could translate
Mongolian to English (or French) and vice versa.

 

Our local community there has a very hard time reaching out to us because of
the language barrier, so it would be great if I could tell them to just
email the list in Mongolian and we'll figure it out.

 

Currently they are doing their best to ask questions in english, but I can
tell it is difficult and time consuming.

 

Thank you,

=Russ


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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Pierre Béland]

Bonjour Christian,

For the flood_prone, as you say it would be better to map the entire enrea 
eventually. This to be confirmed from people who could observe locally. 


 
Pierre 




 De : Christian Lenz (clenzch) 
À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 17h40
Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
 


Pierre, merci beaucoup pour ta proposition. I started exactly as you propose, 
in principle following the tagging guide line in the wiki. 

Does it make sense to tag "small" areas with "flood_prone"? Maybe
the whole area is flood prone during rainfall events. We don't know
how old the water is. Is it ground water? Was it raining a few days
before? I think it's in the middle of a desert... 

Checking the available Bing imagery
(http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/#) I found that the 
images are mainly from Aug/2010 - Oct/2011. According to: 
http://de.climate-data.org/location/766672/ it seems (more or less) reasonable 
that the images might have been during a rainy time.

So my point is: Isn't there the possibility that we see much more
water than there is "in reality"? It might even be very seldom that
flooding occurs... 

Is there any possibility to get IR channel imagery of Bing or
someone else with high enough resolution? Maybe we could use them to
distinguish deep water wells from shallow (and temporarily) flooded
zones? 

Chris




On 03/06/2014 11:23 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:

Hi Christian,
>
>This is more or less man_made, like the ponds inside habitation
walls. 
>
>Went back to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water. 
>
>I propose that we follow the suggestion to use the tag
combination
>natural=water  
>
>water=pond.
>
> 
>Pierre 
>
>
>
>
> De : Christian Lenz (clenzch) 
>À : hot@openstreetmap.org 
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 17h07
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
> 
>
>
>Should we tag the ponds with "landuse=pond" or with "natural=water" and 
>"water=pond"? For me it looks like the ponds are more natural than man_made... 
>Or does anyone find some good guideline to distinguish man made ponds?
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>
>
>On 03/06/2014 10:59 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
>
>I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that there is 
>often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.
>>
>>Andrew and others might be better then me to
spot if any water wells.
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>Pierre 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> De : Severin Menard 
>>À : Pierre Béland  
>>Cc : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
>>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
>>Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>> 
>>
>>
>>Hi Pierre, 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:
>>
>>Hi Severin
>>>
>>>In this  Task Manager job
  descripton, there are
  examples give of
  Intermittent ponds 
url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>>>
>>>If you zoom-out, it seems
  that all this zone is
  flood_prone. I think tha a
  polygon should be trace
  around all the zone with
  the tag flood_prone=yes,
  plus identify the more
  permanent ponds. I mapped
  rapidly inside Bassikounou
  and have mapped a few of
  the flood_prone areas as
  an example.
>>>
>>I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou 
>>itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field 
>>assessment.
>>
>>>The film about the water
  well operation is
  interesting wit the
  cattles operating around
  the well. For Mali
  activation we were able to
  spot such wells by
  observing odd looking
  "fans" around them in the
  aerial imagery made by the
  cattles circulation.
>>>
>>Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassi

Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Christian Lenz (clenzch)]

Should we tag the ponds with "landuse=pond" or with "natural=water" and
"water=pond"? For me it looks like the ponds are more natural than
man_made... Or does anyone find some good guideline to distinguish man
made ponds?

Chris




On 03/06/2014 10:59 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that
> there is often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.
>
> Andrew and others might be better then me to spot if any water wells.
>
>  
> Pierre
>
> 
> *De :* Severin Menard 
> *À :* Pierre Béland 
> *Cc :* "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland  > wrote:
>
> Hi Severin
>
> In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of
> Intermittent ponds
> 
> url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
> If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I
> think tha a polygon should be trace around all the zone with the
> tag flood_prone=yes, plus identify the more permanent ponds. I
> mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and have mapped a few of the
> flood_prone areas as an example.
>
> I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as
> Bassikounou itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in
> charge of the field assessment.
>
>
> The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the
> cattles operating around the well. For Mali activation we were
> able to spot such wells by observing odd looking "fans" around
> them in the aerial imagery made by the cattles circulation.
>
> Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou?
> Would be good to document this with the examples provided through the
> discussions for Mali
>
>
> See discussion for Mali
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
>  
> Pierre
>
> 
> *De :* Severin Menard  >
> *À :* "hot@openstreetmap.org "
> mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org>>
> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
> *Objet :* [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
> Hi,
>
> ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around
> Bassikounou, a town close to the border with Mali, for a
> development project about drinkable water. The approach is the
> same than for Walikale in DRC. To know
> more: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>
> As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is
> from, for and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved,
> please make suggestions.
>
> The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg
> intermittent ponds - please find a link provided by the local
> Watsan specialist tp have an idea how to identify them on Bing
> imagery - and trees).
>
> I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in
> the web, to have a better idea of what look like the streets and
> the outskirts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Pierre Béland]

I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that there is 
often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.

Andrew and others might be better then me to spot if any water wells.


 
Pierre 




 De : Severin Menard 
À : Pierre Béland  
Cc : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
 


Hi Pierre,





On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:

Hi Severin
>
>In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of Intermittent 
>ponds 
>url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
>If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I think tha a 
>polygon should be trace around all the zone with the tag flood_prone=yes, plus 
>identify the more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and 
>have mapped a few of the flood_prone areas as an example.
>
I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou 
itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field 
assessment.

>The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the cattles 
>operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able to spot such wells 
>by observing odd looking "fans" around them in the aerial imagery made by the 
>cattles circulation.
>
Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou? Would be good 
to document this with the examples provided through the discussions for Mali

>See discussion for Mali 
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
>
>
> 
>Pierre 
>
>
>
>
> De : Severin Menard 
>À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
>Objet : [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
> 
>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a town 
>close to the border with Mali, for a development project about drinkable 
>water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know more: 
>http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>
>
>As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for and 
>about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make suggestions.
>
>
>The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds - 
>please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an idea how 
>to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
>
>
>I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web, to 
>have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Severin
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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Severin Menard]

Hi Pierre,




On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland  wrote:

> Hi Severin
>
> In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of
> Intermittent ponds url=
> http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
> If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I think tha a
> polygon should be trace around all the zone with the tag flood_prone=yes,
> plus identify the more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou
> and have mapped a few of the flood_prone areas as an example.
>
I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou
itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field
assessment.

>
> The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the cattles
> operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able to spot such
> wells by observing odd looking "fans" around them in the aerial imagery
> made by the cattles circulation.
>
Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou? Would be
good to document this with the examples provided through the discussions
for Mali

>
> See discussion for Mali
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   --
>  *De :* Severin Menard 
> *À :* "hot@openstreetmap.org" 
> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
> *Objet :* [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
> Hi,
>
> ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a
> town close to the border with Mali, for a development project about
> drinkable water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know
> more: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>
> As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for
> and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make
> suggestions.
>
> The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds
> - please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an
> idea how to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
>
> I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web,
> to have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

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Yes, this video is amazing.  After mapping literally hundreds of these
wells we have still never seen one up close.  What's more, we now know
what causes the 'fans', it is the animal walking away from the well to
pull up the bucket.  This video is very helpful in understanding these
wells and in confirming that we are mapping them correctly.

A big thanks to those who made this video and a heads up to any aid
organizations or others in the field that things like this which don't
seem important or useful can in fact be very important to our
volunteers in understanding the place they are mapping.

- -AndrewBuck




On 03/06/2014 01:10 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> Hi Severin
> 
> In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of
> Intermittent ponds
> url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
>  If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I
> think tha a polygon should be trace around all the zone with the
> tag flood_prone=yes, plus identify the more permanent ponds. I
> mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and have mapped a few of the
> flood_prone areas as an example.
> 
> The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the
> cattles operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able
> to spot such wells by observing odd looking "fans" around them in
> the aerial imagery made by the cattles circulation.
> 
> See discussion for Mali
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
> 
> 
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 
> 
>  De : Severin Menard
>  À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"
>  Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14 Objet :
> [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around
> Bassikounou, a town close to the border with Mali, for a
> development project about drinkable water. The approach is the same
> than for Walikale in DRC. To know more:
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
> 
> As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is
> from, for and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved,
> please make suggestions.
> 
> The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent
> ponds - please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist
> tp have an idea how to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
> 
> I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in
> the web, to have a better idea of what look like the streets and
> the outskirts.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
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Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Severin

In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of Intermittent 
ponds 
url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC

If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I think tha a 
polygon should be trace around all the zone with the tag flood_prone=yes, plus 
identify the more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and have 
mapped a few of the flood_prone areas as an example.

The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the cattles 
operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able to spot such wells 
by observing odd looking "fans" around them in the aerial imagery made by the 
cattles circulation.

See discussion for Mali 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells


 
Pierre 




 De : Severin Menard 
À : "hot@openstreetmap.org"  
Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
Objet : [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
 


Hi,

ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a town 
close to the border with Mali, for a development project about drinkable water. 
The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know more: 
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447

As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for and 
about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make suggestions.

The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds - 
please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an idea how 
to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).

I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web, to 
have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.

Sincerely,

Severin
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[HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Severin Menard]

Hi,

ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a
town close to the border with Mali, for a development project about
drinkable water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know
more: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447

As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for
and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make
suggestions.

The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds -
please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an idea
how to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).

I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web,
to have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.

Sincerely,

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Re: [HOT] HOT Projects

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Ralph,

Thanks for your interest in helping out with the project, we always
need more volunteers and people like yourself with cartography
experience are especially valuable.

In answer to your question regarding job priorities the best way to
follow this is usually to look at the 'Featured' jobs on the task
manager.  We try to keep the featured list fairly short and keep it
only to the most urgent work at any given time.  Generally anything on
the featured list is of roughly equally priority unless otherwise
noted in the job description.

As far as working on really old jobs, these are generally much less
important although extra mapping on them never hurts.  We plan to map
the whole world eventually so if there are areas which are nearly
complete except for just a few small bits it is nice to have these
filled in, but like I said lower priority.  Usually they are left over
after a crisis has finished up and the ground teams have moved on to
somewhere else so the remote mappers moved on with them.  I would not
recommend spending too much time on any of the old jobs unless there
is one that interests you for some reason.

Hope this answers your questions.

- -AndrewBuck



On 03/04/2014 04:23 AM, AYTOUN RALPH wrote:
> Hi All, To start, congratulations to all the new voting members, to
> the newly elected Board and the new Chair. Also to say thank you
> for a very user friendly system that has been put in place so far. 
> I know you have quite a lot on your plate trying to make sense of
> the spate of Humanitarian projects that came flooding in so am not
> expecting an immediate response. However there are quite a few of
> these projects which have been requested and started but not
> completed. Are we still to go round completing these projects or
> have some now fallen by the wayside as no longer required. My 
> request is some kind of indicators to let us at the mapping level
> know which projects we should be working on to completion and in
> what order of priority so we can best serve the interests of
> Humanitarian efforts. Good luck in your new positions and I look
> forward to helping as best I can. Thanking you Ralph Aytoun 
> Cartographer (Retired)
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Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager server changes

[nicolas chavent]

Hi Drazen

Thanks for this !

Best,
Nico


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Dražen Odobašić wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> we have moved the Tasking Manager (http://tasks.hotosm.org) to the server
> with
> more resources.
>
> We also changed the hosting environment, previously it was
> apache2+mod_wsgi, and
> currently we are running on nginx+uwsgi. The hosting environment should not
> really affect anything, however, if you have some time please click
> around, and
> test.
>
> Thank you,
>
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Re: [HOT] Mongolia Translation

[nicolas chavent]

Hi Russ
You may ask assistance as well from Translators W/o Borders (TWB) who are
member of the Digital Hum Network (DHN).
Sev opened up a relation for HOT to benefit from their expertise.
This was actually one thing that I was going to recommend: build more on
this partnership + other VTCs with translation capacities to get additional
translation man power (we got some in HOT for sure) and do a better job at
tackling the first degree of inter/multi culturality at work: which is
breaking the barrier of Language.
I am happy to help facilitate this with Sev.

Best,
Nico


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Russell Deffner
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I just wanted to know if there is anyone on this list that could translate
> Mongolian to English (or French) and vice versa.
>
>
>
> Our local community there has a very hard time reaching out to us because
> of the language barrier, so it would be great if I could tell them to just
> email the list in Mongolian and we'll figure it out.
>
>
>
> Currently they are doing their best to ask questions in english, but I can
> tell it is difficult and time consuming.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
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[HOT] Mongolia Translation

[Russell Deffner]

Hello,

 

I just wanted to know if there is anyone on this list that could translate
Mongolian to English (or French) and vice versa.

 

Our local community there has a very hard time reaching out to us because of
the language barrier, so it would be great if I could tell them to just
email the list in Mongolian and we'll figure it out.

 

Currently they are doing their best to ask questions in english, but I can
tell it is difficult and time consuming.

 

Thank you,

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[HOT] Tasking Manager server changes

[Dražen Odobašić]

Hi all,

we have moved the Tasking Manager (http://tasks.hotosm.org) to the server with
more resources.

We also changed the hosting environment, previously it was apache2+mod_wsgi, and
currently we are running on nginx+uwsgi. The hosting environment should not
really affect anything, however, if you have some time please click around, and
test.

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Re: [HOT] London hack weekend

[Katie Filbert]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Pierre GIRAUD wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Dan S  wrote:
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > Thanks for the info. (It seems odd to work on v1 if it is going to be
> > replaced.) It would be nice to see that user-feedback if you're
> > willing to share it.
>
> I just shared it with you.
>
> >
> > Do I understand right that your "v1 upgrade" label means features from
> > v1 that are not yet in v2?
>
> Exactly.
>
> >
> > Also: is it correct that the right way to contribute to v2 would be to
> > start with the "master" branch of the "pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2"
> > project?
>
> This is correct. Once the project is mature enough it will be moved to
> the hotosm organization.
>

We can try to poke at migrating stuff to v2, if it's helpful.  I need to
look through the code and the list of features needed to migrate.

Cheers,
Katie



>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
> >
> > 2014-03-04 12:31 GMT+00:00 Pierre GIRAUD :
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Thanks Katie for paying attention to the tasking manager and willing
> >> to contribute.
> >>
> >> First of all, for your information, the development of the tasking
> >> manager will eventually be switched to v2. Hopefully this spring. In
> >> priority, we'll try to have the features available in v1 added to v2.
> >>
> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2/issues?labels=feature+request+%28v1+upgrade%29&page=1&state=open
> >> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/V1-Features-List
> >>
> >> The v2 might be too weak for now if you want to contribute but if you
> >> feel confident enough there's a lot to do.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, the v1 can still be enhanced until we officially
> >> switch development to v2.
> >> For example, as proposed by Yanista, I think that working on #192 is
> >> worth. Even designing the workflow or user interface without coding
> >> anything would help a lot.
> >>
> >> My last suggestion regarding the tasking manager is analyzing the
> >> user's feedback. There's a google drive doc I can share. I didn't have
> >> time to summarize its content and pick ideas from the large amount of
> >> great feedback written there by several different users. Bugs or
> >> feature requests could simply be turned into github issues.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pierre
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Katie Filbert 
> wrote:
> >>> I will be at OSM London hack weekend in March (8-9).
> >>>
> >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London/London_Hack_Weekend_Mar_2014
> >>>
> >>> Curious if any other hot folks will be there?
> >>>
> >>> I might like to poke at the tasking manager or something else
> hot-related.
> >>>
> >>> I see numerous issues and features for tasking manager. Any that would
> be
> >>> particularly helpful to work on? or other tools?
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Katie
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> filbe...@gmail.com
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[Pierre GIRAUD]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Dan S  wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> Thanks for the info. (It seems odd to work on v1 if it is going to be
> replaced.) It would be nice to see that user-feedback if you're
> willing to share it.

I just shared it with you.

>
> Do I understand right that your "v1 upgrade" label means features from
> v1 that are not yet in v2?

Exactly.

>
> Also: is it correct that the right way to contribute to v2 would be to
> start with the "master" branch of the "pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2"
> project?

This is correct. Once the project is mature enough it will be moved to
the hotosm organization.

>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
> 2014-03-04 12:31 GMT+00:00 Pierre GIRAUD :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks Katie for paying attention to the tasking manager and willing
>> to contribute.
>>
>> First of all, for your information, the development of the tasking
>> manager will eventually be switched to v2. Hopefully this spring. In
>> priority, we'll try to have the features available in v1 added to v2.
>> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2/issues?labels=feature+request+%28v1+upgrade%29&page=1&state=open
>> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/V1-Features-List
>>
>> The v2 might be too weak for now if you want to contribute but if you
>> feel confident enough there's a lot to do.
>>
>> On the other hand, the v1 can still be enhanced until we officially
>> switch development to v2.
>> For example, as proposed by Yanista, I think that working on #192 is
>> worth. Even designing the workflow or user interface without coding
>> anything would help a lot.
>>
>> My last suggestion regarding the tasking manager is analyzing the
>> user's feedback. There's a google drive doc I can share. I didn't have
>> time to summarize its content and pick ideas from the large amount of
>> great feedback written there by several different users. Bugs or
>> feature requests could simply be turned into github issues.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pierre
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Katie Filbert  wrote:
>>> I will be at OSM London hack weekend in March (8-9).
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London/London_Hack_Weekend_Mar_2014
>>>
>>> Curious if any other hot folks will be there?
>>>
>>> I might like to poke at the tasking manager or something else hot-related.
>>>
>>> I see numerous issues and features for tasking manager. Any that would be
>>> particularly helpful to work on? or other tools?
>>>
>>> https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager
>>>
>>> https://github.com/pgiraud/osm-tasking-manager2
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Katie
>>>
>>> --
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>>> filbe...@gmail.com
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>>>
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>>
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