[HOT] Moving on with the Election
Dear All I have sat back over the last few days, as have many members and watched with interest the different posts from the different parties. As a Voter, and a potential board member who has to work with the other people elected to the board, I am very interested in looking toward the future, not the past, and what the people who may be elected want to achieve for HOT the NGO, HOT the Volunteer Community, but most importantly, for the people that we came together to help in the first place. The email exchanges have almost all focused on the past and only a very few points. Yes these are important, but also, the future actions of the board are also just as important. Any open issues will be resolved in the first month or two. There is still another 10 or 11 months of work ahead and much to do. In terms of any issues that have been brought to light, I am absolutely confident that the membership is capable of electing a board who is able of deal with what ever needs to be done in the best interests of the organization and the membership, so lets move on to other business. I call on all candidates to focus on the positive aspects of what THEY will do for HOT as an elected board member and provide the voting membership with the most information on their capabilities, ideas and visions for HOT in the coming year. Regards Mark Cupitt If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence See me on Open StreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] PAM Cyclone : UNOSAT Damage Assessment for Vanuatu
UNOSAT maintain a Damage assessment map for GDAC, this to help coordinate among organizations.See https://gdacs-smcs.unosat.org/ UNOSAT triggered the Space Charter on Friday 13th based on request from UN OCHA Regional Office for the Pacific. They have since do a range of damage assessment products. See www.unitar.org/unosat/maps Pierre De : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr À : HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Samedi 21 mars 2015 11h22 Objet : [HOT] PAM Cyclone : UNOSAT Damage Assessment for Vanuatu UNOSAT produced damage assessments from Pleiades post-disaster imagery. These are reported by zone. We can see the result for Port-Villa and and Taana island on this UNOSAT live map. Note that you can select OSM as the base layer.https://unosatgis.cern.ch/live/TC20150313VUT/ Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Moving on with the Election
Hi Mark, Our discussions showed that we have little information at this point of the election abouth the Board and ED actions over the last year. Their absence in the discussion tend to show that they are not ready to share with the members, that they dont agree with values of accountability to the membership. As I expressed before, actions should be taken to assure that the membership can better play his democratic role in the organization. To address these problems of accountability, openess, involvement of membership, I invite you and others to present to the membership your philosophy of management in the organization, how you see that we can have more accountability, mechanisisms or directions for the members to play a greater role or otherwise why you would prefer status quo. And surely, you should present any other elements of management of this organization that you think are essential to reorient. regard Pierre De : Mark Cupitt markcup...@gmail.com À : Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 8h52 Objet : [HOT] Moving on with the Election Dear All I have sat back over the last few days, as have many members and watched with interest the different posts from the different parties. As a Voter, and a potential board member who has to work with the other people elected to the board, I am very interested in looking toward the future, not the past, and what the people who may be elected want to achieve for HOT the NGO, HOT the Volunteer Community, but most importantly, for the people that we came together to help in the first place. The email exchanges have almost all focused on the past and only a very few points. Yes these are important, but also, the future actions of the board are also just as important. Any open issues will be resolved in the first month or two. There is still another 10 or 11 months of work ahead and much to do. In terms of any issues that have been brought to light, I am absolutely confident that the membership is capable of electing a board who is able of deal with what ever needs to be done in the best interests of the organization and the membership, so lets move on to other business. I call on all candidates to focus on the positive aspects of what THEY will do for HOT as an elected board member and provide the voting membership with the most information on their capabilities, ideas and visions for HOT in the coming year. Regards Mark Cupitt If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence See me on Open StreetMap ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Request for feedback for a HOT workshop
HI Jorge, Kate Chapman did this Keynote at Linux Conf in January 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhDFmcWdQ48 have a great event! Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi all, This Friday in the context of the 9th edition of the Spanish FOSS4G event Pedro-Juan[1] and me will deliver a workshop about OSM and HOT. For this workshop we've done a good bunch of work on translating into Spanish the coordination guide of LearnOSM[2], and updated the HOT and MappingParty weekend howto pages of the wiki[3][4]. With all these texts and the beginner guide we've combined (I think) a good set of materials so the attendants will have more than enough to work during the workshop and afterwards. So now my first request. Do you have at hand any good, updated general talk about HOT? I have found a nice talk from Severin[6] from last SoTM that it's even in Spanish (great!). My second request is if you have any recommendation for an active task manager project to work with new and intermediate users, as we probably have some people completely new to OSM and others will come with some experience. Thanks in advance! [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Pedro-Juan_Ferrer [2] http://learnosm.org/es/coordination/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Humanitarian_OSM_Team [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Mapping_Weekend_Howto [5] http://taller-hot-jsl-2015.readthedocs.org/es/develop/ [6] http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/humanitarian-openstreetmap-team-respuesta-masiva-y-organizada-ante-y-post-crisis ? -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz -- Jorge Sanz Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response
Thanks for this note Pierre. It is my understanding that this is the longest activation that HOT has done? I truly appreciate all the leadership and efforts of the global community, partners and supporters. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the field. As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last year epidemic. See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors. https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720 regard Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response
Hi Heather, The Central Africa Republic and South Sudan Activations initiated by Severin in 2013 are the longest but with less intensity then the West Africa outbreak. These are what Sev calls the orphan activations, those that we forget too often, with less media coverage. Thanks to Severin for supporting in uneasy context, developping interconnections with humanitarian organizations in the field, experimenting with routing tasks on the Task Manager. I dont have statistics for South Sudan and CAR. This is something I promized to Severin and did not have time to do with this so intense year volunteering for the Ebola outbreak. For the West Africa Ebola outbreak, we are nearly at 16 millions objects edited. This compares with 4.5 million objects for the Haiyan Cyclone in Philppines (2014) and 1.6 millions objects in Haiti (2010). What is particular with the this Ebola activation is the extent of the mapping (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone largely covered). MSF has setup from the beginning, march 24, a workflow where we can work closely with CartONG and MSF to support tracking the people at risk of infection. This response grew up with Red Cross plus the various Imagery providers sharing images. It was at the same time a very challenging and emotional mission for the leaders / core support group volunteering for this mission, seing all the medias updates that show the epidemy progressing and people isolated in tents as we covered more and more areas to support rapidly the thousand of Red Cross and MSF field teams doing case tracing and from august supporting the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). At the same time this were very interesting challenges intensifying the collaboration with the various organizations and the UNMEER. OSM is the deFacto basemap of this mission with a multitude of products and visualizations based on OSM. Many others, I am sure, share this mixed emotions about such a mission. Like we said this week discussing on the Skype coordination group for the Ebola with other UNMEER participants, at this point we should be both optimistic - realistic. This is not time to stop helping for the relief of populations, the to provide better sanitary conditions and to contribute to the economic recovery of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Cheers for all of the OSM community people who remotely contributed from internet. And cheers to MSF, Red Cross, CartON, UNMEER and all the humanitarian in the field. Many of them we are in contact and want to say we are still with them. Pierre De : Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Cc : HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 12h15 Objet : Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response Thanks for this note Pierre. It is my understanding that this is the longest activation that HOT has done? I truly appreciate all the leadership and efforts of the global community, partners and supporters. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the field. As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last year epidemic. See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors. https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720 regard Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal
Hi Pete, Yes, this exactly something I've been thinking about--specifically along the lines of remote mapathons where in-person training is not an option and previous exposure to OSM is limited. The project's not launched yet (hopefully we'll be announcing it later this week--will announce here on the listserv when we do. The project is mapping logging roads across the Congo Basin), I'm counting on having some project observations/feedback by the end of April to share at the Summit. I've already submitted a talk for our project, but would of course be willing to share thoughts before or at the conference. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like to propose a talk or panel for the HOT Summit on the subject of large scale, virtual mapathons. The way the HOT community responds in waves following a crisis, or a request from an NGO, is incredible. Truly impressive. The Missing Maps project obviously benefits from this capacity and commitment and many of you have contributed to Missing Maps tasks. Missing Maps has had considerable success in bringing new people into HOT via the tasking manager at mapathons. We think that, at the London Missing Mapathons alone, we have had over 500 people attending and contributing and the vast majority of these are new to HOT. At a physical event, we are able to train and support these new mappers in order to try and maintain high quality data. This is great, but we are faced with the problem of scaling this model of participation. In London, we can't find venues big enough to cope with demand (last month, 80 places were booked in less than three hours) and we do not have the capacity within MSF, the British Red Cross and the local HOT community to significantly increase the number of mapathons we host. There are more and more Missing Maps events happening independently of (although supported by) the organisations involved, which is hugely welcome. But, the fact remains that there is appetite for involvement from many more places than there are mapathons. One of the potential ways to feed this appetite (and by extension, expand the capacity of HOT) is to organise regular, large scale remote mapathons, with training, context, tasking and support built in. I would love to explore this possibility with you guys and thought the summit might be a good place to start the conversation. Is anyone up for joining me in presenting this idea for discussion? I am not sure yet whether a panel, a talk or a workshop is the most appropriate and I don't claim to be an expert (although I would love to share our London experiences with you), so it would be great to collaborate on this. If anyone is interested, please drop me a line. Cheers, Pete -- *Pete Masters* Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org http://www.missingmaps.org/ *@pedrito1414* https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps *@theMissingMaps* https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Request for feedback for a HOT workshop
Hi all, This Friday in the context of the 9th edition of the Spanish FOSS4G event Pedro-Juan[1] and me will deliver a workshop about OSM and HOT. For this workshop we've done a good bunch of work on translating into Spanish the coordination guide of LearnOSM[2], and updated the HOT and MappingParty weekend howto pages of the wiki[3][4]. With all these texts and the beginner guide we've combined (I think) a good set of materials so the attendants will have more than enough to work during the workshop and afterwards. So now my first request. Do you have at hand any good, updated general talk about HOT? I have found a nice talk from Severin[6] from last SoTM that it's even in Spanish (great!). My second request is if you have any recommendation for an active task manager project to work with new and intermediate users, as we probably have some people completely new to OSM and others will come with some experience. Thanks in advance! [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Pedro-Juan_Ferrer [2] http://learnosm.org/es/coordination/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Humanitarian_OSM_Team [4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES:Mapping_Weekend_Howto [5] http://taller-hot-jsl-2015.readthedocs.org/es/develop/ [6] http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/humanitarian-openstreetmap-team-respuesta-masiva-y-organizada-ante-y-post-crisis ? -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz -- Jorge Sanz Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Idea - Panel on Academic Research HOT
This is indeed a very interesting topic. Especially on maters of how open mapping collaboration projects/systems contribute to under-representation and misrepresentation. From: Chad Blevins [cblev...@usaid.gov] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 9:41 PM To: Robert Soden Cc: hot Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Idea - Panel on Academic Research HOT Hello Robert, This is an excellent topic, and a conversation I would participate in. The GeoCenter continues to work with GWU each semester, and have started to coordinate with universities overseas. It would be great to share our experience, and learn from others. Overall the process is coming along nicely. Cheers, Chad On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Robert Soden robert.so...@gmail.commailto:robert.so...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking about submitting a panel proposal for the HOT Summit on academic partnerships with HOT. Potential topics for discussion could include research ethics, opportunities for documenting HOT's efforts, and the kinds of questions that the HOT community would see benefit from having academic investigation into. There is tremendous scholarly interest in OpenStreetMap these days and HOT is an important reason for that. I think it could be useful for us as a community to articulate what partnership with academic researchers might look like and what we might hope to gain from this. If you have interest in participating in this panel or just have thoughts that you would like to see covered, please drop me a line here or off-list. Look forward to seeing everyone at the Summit. Thanks! Robert ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.orgmailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Chad Blevins GeoCenter U.S. Global Development Lab USAID 202-712-0464 ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think it would be a good idea to produce stats in the OSM database and even make a blog on the response of the OSM communities in Africa that contributed despite the meager technical and financial resources and Internet conditions failed to this activation. thank you Rod! Le 23/03/2015 09:06, Rod Bera a écrit : According to the logs on the HOT list it started on 24th, with 45-50 e-mails related to the ebola response in the first 24 hours, and 3 tasks initiated that same day, which tends to show a pretty good reactiveness. It could be instructive to do the same investigations directly in the OSM base. My feeling is that on this crisis the emerging African OSM communities made a difference. Rod On 22/03/15 17:01, Pierre Béland wrote: March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the field. As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last year epidemic. See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors. https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720 regard Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVD9qNAAoJEMfio1n+jsURHVYP/A4btEvNkeCH8YEVBESkh+ve GzwiX30RnfAsHzoblkgIR0eCTCR3YmJYeMjRigMyNncZSMQ6as11F+N55pYvu+79 uhcZVh8nvSbeRiuTSJtX0AnTC6TMHTIjjxRBjgFbl3TV5CYjKNw2lLRdZmKQYKBM a2ierdwFQTSGR/4olexXyFU8KupmveITFqXKQO9N6WE530ETcK9VLpHATJYJaCRq A+FAo7yq/Xj/QeEDJdhcAgRvuiMwJBLqmRCXcHWi5tJ3fy/RzIu1axXOnARSvk3+ gh2Xy6OB+s0irh9M+wfteCQHPjKdXWSpVjFmFkecCTWTG6vutB43I+krSfTn4eXC bhmQ0au5Os6EULgq9RnNsrQU1RXZSnj9mrhI+KMFOfPcdW7Zn3aC0JPb+rt1f6nJ zd2S++MG/d6N+KXcmJQge8C70vARH237cZZQ4VyYwTWzE8Fw5gWHaodeFavP7hGw 7OMyfjS5rSr074eDyKlDVxXUx6W4b9iu11WeirJ8EBEtpdYbncRh9QhyLoZOmh23 jZS8WgLwMuHQvqAkvjf21dmSsnApDnHM3JTPUFCQkBht6/A0t9MSqbXwMSGIpzgA qXi41/2cx46/alV+rms1PQTWuG1hX8omR13W92EXSP2t80y5hsxguw0kNRFA6la3 DpZcUuUVToTXeP0O6F+0 =OUl8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response
According to the logs on the HOT list it started on 24th, with 45-50 e-mails related to the ebola response in the first 24 hours, and 3 tasks initiated that same day, which tends to show a pretty good reactiveness. It could be instructive to do the same investigations directly in the OSM base. My feeling is that on this crisis the emerging African OSM communities made a difference. Rod On 22/03/15 17:01, Pierre Béland wrote: March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the field. As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last year epidemic. See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors. https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720 regard Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Rod Béra, MCF Géomatique/ Lecturer, Geomatics et SIG pour l'Environnement /and Environmental GIS Agrocampus-Ouest|65 r.Saint-Brieuc|CS84215|35042 Rennes cedex|France +33 (0) 223 48 5553 - roderic.b...@agrocampus-ouest.fr ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014
Hi Martin, It is uneasy to build a statistic that would reflect the various activities. Coordination through the Task manager is only one part of the mapping done for projects. It might be ok a mapathon where you worked only coordinating through the Task Manager. Aslo, Hashtags are not always added to the changeset comment. The best way to reflect the contributor activity is to go through the history and extract changesets corresponding to a bbox closed to the each Task Manager extent and corresponding to the period of the project. 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 thousands objects in one edit. About the grouping, you have main activities like the Ebola outbreak. At the same time you can have various mapping projects that contribute to this action. For example, a missing map party on Ebola, where should we classify it. Also, the Task Manager represents only one part of contributions. As an example, for the Ebola outbreak the experienced mappers move around and correct / enhance various elements of the map without coordinating through the Tasking manager. Pierre De : Martin Dittus mar...@dekstop.de À : hot hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 14h59 Objet : [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014 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 with the list. HOT projects ranked by edit activity from Mar 2014 - Feb 2015 (inclusive): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12TjMDsgPoEQadiUWbpKjotTMYKPo5NY4W7EDipHnE7Y/edit?usp=sharing The first tab shows a ranking of all tasking manager projects by number of changesets, the second by number of contributors. This data is not yet captured by the tasking manager: I’m only looking at participation that actually resulted in changes on the map. To this purpose I identify changesets in the OSM edit history that were tagged with a HOT project id. I’m curious what other people can read from this data, e.g. whether it matches your intuitions of popular HOT activities. Of course these kinds of rankings are of dubious utility — projects are rarely directly comparable in their scope, and larger activations may be structured in all kinds of ways. Same goes for changesets as a metric. Does anyone have good suggestions for how one could meaningfully group the hundreds of HOT projects? E.g. I could aggregate stats for all #MissingMaps/#MapLesotho/Ebola Outbreak projects, are there similar tags I should be looking for? Are these actually meaningful distinctions when looking at contribution outcomes? Any requests for other stats? I’d be happy to produce more, provided it’s feasible. No promises :) Greetings from London, Martin Dittus --- 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 undercounting: automated iD changeset comments were only introduced in mid-August 2014, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mcld/diary/24123 — I’m not identifying earlier contributions that have not been tagged manually. I’m likely undercounting: HOT projects use multiple tagging conventions for changeset comments, most prominently #hotosm-project-938 and #hotosm-task-907 but also #hotosm-Ebola-892 and similar. I'm being quite lenient in what I expect but may not catch all projects. I also noticed the tag #hotosm-cap103 which is not actually referring to a project ID, that's an activation (Projet Cap103”). And — I don’t have project titles for projects that aren’t public any longer. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal
Pete, Count me in. I'll be happy to pass on learnings from #MapLesotho and to learn from others Dave Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:13:19 + From: Pete Masterspedrito1...@googlemail.com To:hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Subject: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal Message-ID: CABetw9fRdWpUE8939bYUFJ5jk7=kpbbzkgn617jjannrjqn...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi all, I'd like to propose a talk or panel for the HOT Summit on the subject of large scale, virtual mapathons. The way the HOT community responds in waves following a crisis, or a request from an NGO, is incredible. Truly impressive. The Missing Maps project obviously benefits from this capacity and commitment and many of you have contributed to Missing Maps tasks. Missing Maps has had considerable success in bringing new people into HOT via the tasking manager at mapathons. We think that, at the London Missing Mapathons alone, we have had over 500 people attending and contributing and the vast majority of these are new to HOT. At a physical event, we are able to train and support these new mappers in order to try and maintain high quality data. This is great, but we are faced with the problem of scaling this model of participation. In London, we can't find venues big enough to cope with demand (last month, 80 places were booked in less than three hours) and we do not have the capacity within MSF, the British Red Cross and the local HOT community to significantly increase the number of mapathons we host. There are more and more Missing Maps events happening independently of (although supported by) the organisations involved, which is hugely welcome. But, the fact remains that there is appetite for involvement from many more places than there are mapathons. One of the potential ways to feed this appetite (and by extension, expand the capacity of HOT) is to organise regular, large scale remote mapathons, with training, context, tasking and support built in. I would love to explore this possibility with you guys and thought the summit might be a good place to start the conversation. Is anyone up for joining me in presenting this idea for discussion? I am not sure yet whether a panel, a talk or a workshop is the most appropriate and I don't claim to be an expert (although I would love to share our London experiences with you), so it would be great to collaborate on this. If anyone is interested, please drop me a line. Cheers, Pete ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Idea - Panel on Academic Research HOT
This is a really interesting area re. ethnography and visualisation, and directly affects how locals perceive what they are mapping, not to mention the ethical perspectives of 'colonial gaze'. Would love to see careful discussion on this. Thanks for the idea. R On 23/03/2015 00:07, Martin Dittus wrote: 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 bad experiences. Maybe there’s an opportunity to articulate early what a healthy researcher/community relationship can look like. I’ve some experiences from this and other communities I can share. (I also sent you an email off-list.) m. On 22 Mar 2015, at 21:48, Robert Soden robert.so...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking about submitting a panel proposal for the HOT Summit on academic partnerships with HOT. Potential topics for discussion could include research ethics, opportunities for documenting HOT's efforts, and the kinds of questions that the HOT community would see benefit from having academic investigation into. There is tremendous scholarly interest in OpenStreetMap these days and HOT is an important reason for that. I think it could be useful for us as a community to articulate what partnership with academic researchers might look like and what we might hope to gain from this. If you have interest in participating in this panel or just have thoughts that you would like to see covered, please drop me a line here or off-list. Look forward to seeing everyone at the Summit. Thanks! Robert ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Rupert Allan UK: +44 (0)7970 540 647 USA: +1 904 377 8003 Africa: +263 776 452 793 Skype: Reuben Molotov Email: a...@rupie.idps.co.uk Web/Blog: www.rupertallan.com Facebook: Reuben Molotov/'Voyages of the Ketch Sandpiper' ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response
Hi Rod If I remember correctly, our CartONG friends contacted us, the core leaders, on the 22 by Skype to agree on the collaboration with CartONG / MSF-ch and establish the AOI's. They then bought the first three images from Pleiades for Gueckedou, Kissidougou and Macenta. I thought that we started to map before the 24. I remember looking around Geckedou, to see this blank map and no imagery available. And yes, we more officially started the 24, talking on the HOT list and starting the Ebola Activation. No one could imagine at the time what it came to be over the last year. And then, yes, tomorrow is the official date where HOT / OSM activated to respond to this health emergency. What it is important to mention, is these Activtions are realized voluntary, both by the Leaders of the activation, the developpers and the Support team, plus all those who contributed in various ways. We are almost at 16 million objects edited, more then 3,000 contributors from 100 countries. Definitevely, This Ebola Activation is a reference after Haiti in 2010. I cannot mention all those that contributed to this action. For our records, please update the wiki page for this activation documenting your contribution. When a major activation start, these records help us to identify actions and people that can contribute. Thanks first to Andrew Buck who joined in with me for the Mali activation in early 2013. We also co-coordinated the Haiyan and Ebola activation. More recently, Blake Girardot joined-in and supported in various ways such as learning material, etc, etc. Others also contribute on the Activation working group where we can collectively share some responsabilities about managing such OpenStreetMap responses Thanks also for these fantastic contributions. - The Imagery is an important aspect of our remote responses to disasters. Except the first three images, the imagery providers offered all the imagery necessary for this Activation : HIU (US State Dept), MapBox, Airbus Space Defense. - Imagery support at HOT : Jean-Guilhem Cailton, Mikel Maron and Fred Moine who looked at imagery. - Tasking Manager Validation process : Russell Defner + others (Russell please mention) - Learning Material - Task manager and other tools development - Daily exports - Mapping parties - Communications, Updates, etc. - The more then 3,000 contributors from more then 100 countries ! Thanks all. And please others, do not hesitate to complete, help me in providing a minimum of retrospective on this great last year of contribution. regard Pierre De : Rod Bera r...@goarem.org À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 5h06 Objet : Re: [HOT] One year ago the HOT community started West Africa Ebola response According to the logs on the HOT list it started on 24th, with 45-50 e-mails related to the ebola response in the first 24 hours, and 3 tasks initiated that same day, which tends to show a pretty good reactiveness. It could be instructive to do the same investigations directly in the OSM base. My feeling is that on this crisis the emerging African OSM communities made a difference. Rod On 22/03/15 17:01, Pierre Béland wrote: March 22 2014, we started to monitor this humanitarian response. Thanks to all of those who contributed, who are still supporting the humanitarians in the field. As discussed this week with the humanitarian organizations and UN Agencies on our skype coordination group, we should be both optimistic with the progress in reduction of cases and realistic in the efforts to maintain to control this epidemic and help the West Africa countries the most affected to build better sanitation conditions and restart the economies severly affected by the last year epidemic. See the twitter to thanks all the OSM contributors. https://twitter.com/pierzen/status/579626398857502720 regard Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Rod Béra, MCF Géomatique/ Lecturer, Geomatics et SIG pour l'Environnement /and Environmental GIS Agrocampus-Ouest|65 r.Saint-Brieuc|CS84215|35042 Rennes cedex|France +33 (0) 223 48 5553 - roderic.b...@agrocampus-ouest.fr ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014
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 with the list. HOT projects ranked by edit activity from Mar 2014 - Feb 2015 (inclusive): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12TjMDsgPoEQadiUWbpKjotTMYKPo5NY4W7EDipHnE7Y/edit?usp=sharing The first tab shows a ranking of all tasking manager projects by number of changesets, the second by number of contributors. This data is not yet captured by the tasking manager: I’m only looking at participation that actually resulted in changes on the map. To this purpose I identify changesets in the OSM edit history that were tagged with a HOT project id. I’m curious what other people can read from this data, e.g. whether it matches your intuitions of popular HOT activities. Of course these kinds of rankings are of dubious utility — projects are rarely directly comparable in their scope, and larger activations may be structured in all kinds of ways. Same goes for changesets as a metric. Does anyone have good suggestions for how one could meaningfully group the hundreds of HOT projects? E.g. I could aggregate stats for all #MissingMaps/#MapLesotho/Ebola Outbreak projects, are there similar tags I should be looking for? Are these actually meaningful distinctions when looking at contribution outcomes? Any requests for other stats? I’d be happy to produce more, provided it’s feasible. No promises :) Greetings from London, Martin Dittus --- 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 undercounting: automated iD changeset comments were only introduced in mid-August 2014, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mcld/diary/24123 — I’m not identifying earlier contributions that have not been tagged manually. I’m likely undercounting: HOT projects use multiple tagging conventions for changeset comments, most prominently #hotosm-project-938 and #hotosm-task-907 but also #hotosm-Ebola-892 and similar. I'm being quite lenient in what I expect but may not catch all projects. I also noticed the tag #hotosm-cap103 which is not actually referring to a project ID, that's an activation (Projet Cap103”). And — I don’t have project titles for projects that aren’t public any longer. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] HOT Summit panel / talk proposal
Thank you all for the excellent idea! Pete - would you mind submitting your proposal through the summit Website? The CfP is closing tonight and we must have all proposals submitted in order to start arranging the schedule. http://summit.hotosm.org/talk Thanks and please spread this reminder through your channels! On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:48 AM, James Conkling james.lane.conkl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pete, Yes, this exactly something I've been thinking about--specifically along the lines of remote mapathons where in-person training is not an option and previous exposure to OSM is limited. The project's not launched yet (hopefully we'll be announcing it later this week--will announce here on the listserv when we do. The project is mapping logging roads across the Congo Basin), I'm counting on having some project observations/feedback by the end of April to share at the Summit. I've already submitted a talk for our project, but would of course be willing to share thoughts before or at the conference. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I'd like to propose a talk or panel for the HOT Summit on the subject of large scale, virtual mapathons. The way the HOT community responds in waves following a crisis, or a request from an NGO, is incredible. Truly impressive. The Missing Maps project obviously benefits from this capacity and commitment and many of you have contributed to Missing Maps tasks. Missing Maps has had considerable success in bringing new people into HOT via the tasking manager at mapathons. We think that, at the London Missing Mapathons alone, we have had over 500 people attending and contributing and the vast majority of these are new to HOT. At a physical event, we are able to train and support these new mappers in order to try and maintain high quality data. This is great, but we are faced with the problem of scaling this model of participation. In London, we can't find venues big enough to cope with demand (last month, 80 places were booked in less than three hours) and we do not have the capacity within MSF, the British Red Cross and the local HOT community to significantly increase the number of mapathons we host. There are more and more Missing Maps events happening independently of (although supported by) the organisations involved, which is hugely welcome. But, the fact remains that there is appetite for involvement from many more places than there are mapathons. One of the potential ways to feed this appetite (and by extension, expand the capacity of HOT) is to organise regular, large scale remote mapathons, with training, context, tasking and support built in. I would love to explore this possibility with you guys and thought the summit might be a good place to start the conversation. Is anyone up for joining me in presenting this idea for discussion? I am not sure yet whether a panel, a talk or a workshop is the most appropriate and I don't claim to be an expert (although I would love to share our London experiences with you), so it would be great to collaborate on this. If anyone is interested, please drop me a line. Cheers, Pete -- Pete Masters Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org @pedrito1414 @theMissingMaps facebook.com/MissingMapsProject ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Cristiano Giovando Technical Project Manager Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team cristiano.giova...@hotosm.org http://hot.openstreetmap.org ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014
These heatmaps are interesting. Neis changeset online map shows intensity of mapping only with the outset of the bbox. Such heatmap could show the intensity of contribution in various areas based on the number of objects. To use this functionality for an online map with Openlayers or similar javascript tool, we would surely need to aggregate the data. Otherwise, I dont see with a project like the Ebola outbreak, how we could manage nearly 16 millions objects to represent on the Heatmap. Pierre De : Martin Dittus mar...@dekstop.de À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Cc : hot hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 23 mars 2015 18h32 Objet : Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014 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 gently nudge project creators to tag more consistently :) Such metadata can be very useful for large-scale evaluations and visualisations. Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: The best way to reflect the contributor activity is to go through the history and extract changesets corresponding to a bbox closed to the each Task Manager extent and corresponding to the period of the project. Yeah I’ve done that in the past on an older OSM history dump, that’s how this world map of HOT contributions was created: https://twitter.com/dekstop/status/565211831720235009 Although that image actually visualises individual edits, not just changesets. m. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Most active HOT projects since March 2014
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 gently nudge project creators to tag more consistently :) Such metadata can be very useful for large-scale evaluations and visualisations. Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: The best way to reflect the contributor activity is to go through the history and extract changesets corresponding to a bbox closed to the each Task Manager extent and corresponding to the period of the project. Yeah I’ve done that in the past on an older OSM history dump, that’s how this world map of HOT contributions was created: https://twitter.com/dekstop/status/565211831720235009 Although that image actually visualises individual edits, not just changesets. m. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
