Re: [HOT] OSM Fiji linked with U-Report for TC Winston response

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Kate,

 

U-Report looks great, there are probably others that can give you better 
assistance, but I’m wondering if some of the errors are related to the 180th 
meridian? You might find some of the information you need on one of these 
pages: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/180th_meridian or 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Fiji 

 

I also don’t do much editing of political boundaries, but I’m sure if something 
needs fixed – it can be. Maybe a little more information on the exact nature of 
the ‘errors’ and someone can provide more details.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

  russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

  http://hotosm.org

 

 

From: Kate Learmonth [mailto:kate.learmo...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 2:30 PM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] OSM Fiji linked with U-Report for TC Winston response

 

Dear HOT list,

 

I am working with UNICEF Pacific to roll out U-Report Fiji as a pilot community 
feedback mechanism for TC Winston. This will be the first time it will be 
government-led and used in this type of emergency response. The Fijian 
Government is also interested in using U-Report for early warning, early 
response 

 

Due to errors in OSM for Fiji we are having trouble importing the map into the 
U-Report Fiji site https://fiji.ureport.in (live but not active). I am hoping 
someone on the HOT list can assist.

 

Any thoughts on how to correct and improve OSM Fiji?

 

I am copying part of an email below for further detail.

 

cheers

Kate

 

 

 

We are working closely with the Fijian Government on the implementation of 
U-Report Fiji as the foundations of a community feedback mechanism post Cyclone 
Winston. As you may be aware the U-Report websites map the polling data using 
OSM https://ureport.in (global site).

 

Our RapidPro Vendor Nyaruka has informed us that there isn't complete data for 
Fiji; including at State level with things not being correctly tagged. For 
example, the Western boundary has no administrative level. The Secretariat of 
the Pacific Community (SPC) Geosciences division works closely with the Fijian 
Government and has mapped to 1:50,000 in MapInfo and could provide the shape 
files to correct the boundaries and hopefully improve data completeness (proper 
permissions and licenses to use the data in OSM still needs to be formally 
requested). However, as I am new to OSM I am not sure how to go about 
correcting this information on such a large scale (fyi http://www.spc.int).

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[HOT] OSM Fiji linked with U-Report for TC Winston response

[Kate Learmonth]

Dear HOT list,

I am working with UNICEF Pacific to roll out U-Report Fiji as a pilot
community feedback mechanism for TC Winston. This will be the first time it
will be government-led and used in this type of emergency response. The
Fijian Government is also interested in using U-Report for early warning,
early response

Due to errors in OSM for Fiji we are having trouble importing the map into
the U-Report Fiji site https://fiji.ureport.in (live but not active). I am
hoping someone on the HOT list can assist.

Any thoughts on how to correct and improve OSM Fiji?

I am copying part of an email below for further detail.

cheers
Kate



We are working closely with the Fijian Government on the implementation of
U-Report Fiji as the foundations of a community feedback mechanism post
Cyclone Winston. As you may be aware the U-Report websites map the polling
data using OSM https://ureport.in (global site).



Our RapidPro Vendor Nyaruka has informed us that there isn't complete data
for Fiji; including at State level with things not being correctly tagged.
For example, the Western boundary has no administrative level. The
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Geosciences division works
closely with the Fijian Government and has mapped to 1:50,000 in MapInfo
and could provide the shape files to correct the boundaries and hopefully
improve data completeness (proper permissions and licenses to use the data
in OSM still needs to be formally requested). However, as I am new to OSM I
am not sure how to go about correcting this information on such a large
scale (fyi http://www.spc.int).
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Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

[Heather Leson]

HI folks,

here is our quick report back from the HOT Research Working Group.  We
talked about the opportunity for research literature reviews, shared
curriculum and TeachOSM.

Some next steps:
1. The Research Scramble could be asynchronous. We suggest people use the
Working Notes document below to get started.
2. Potential Summer Research intern(s) to do a Literature Review.
3. Research Working Group and allies would be advisors/Supporters for them.
4. Use SOTM US (Seattle), SOTM global (Brussels) and the HOT Summit to
review the suggested research agenda.


HOT Research (minutes and research scramble)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16iP5OmAGJYaBuhNr5uxbR8lGX-huhsNtTDQLDs7kfys/edit#

The goal is to collaborate on the content, then transfer this data to the
wiki  and/or website.

Some resources:

HOT Research Topics

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Research_Topics

HOT Academic Partnerships
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Academic_Partnerships



Looking forward to co-creating


Heather

Heather Leson
heatherle...@gmail.com
Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Heather Leson 
wrote:

> HI folks
>
> A few of us will meet to talk HOT and Research. All welcome.
>
> Date: Tuesday May 10th
> Times: 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
> Mode: Mumble
> How to mumble: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble
>
> Agenda:
> 1. Outline steps to do an asynchronous HOT Research Data Scramble
> 2. Ask Hot - how can we help researchers join/engage with HOT
> 3. Other business
>
> Some resources:
>
> HOT Research Topics
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Research_Topics
>
> HOT Academic Partnerships
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_Academic_Partnerships
>
> Thanks
>
> Heather
>
>
>
> Heather Leson
> heatherle...@gmail.com
> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
> Blog: textontechs.com
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[HOT] Humanitarian Mapathons for Children

[Tyler Radford]

Hi all,

A group of colleagues at Politecnico di Milano and I presented a webinar
last week entitled "Humanitarian Mapathons for Children". Both slides and a
recording are available. You might find some useful tips (and have ideas of
your own to share with us) about how we can all involve more young people
in the work we do.

http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/


*Tyler Radford*
Executive Director
tyler.radf...@hotosm.org
@TylerSRadford

*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team*
*Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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Re: [HOT] Japanese earthquake projects

[john whelan]

I had a reply this morning:

> First, the Facebook maps is using OpenStreetMap data in Japan area. After
our tasks, they updated map tiles by latest OSM map dataset.

I understand these projects have now been lowered from high pirority to low.

I think I'll go back to mapping Africa etc. for some reason mapping to
improve the map for Facebook just doesn't appeal.

Thanks John

On 9 May 2016 at 12:40, Russell Deffner  wrote:

> Greetings John and all,
>
>
>
> I will try to help connect you with the local team.  To ‘take us back’ and
> try to answer some of your questions – this response has from the start
> been coordinated by CrisisMappers-Japan. So maybe it is a language issue
> and they did not understand your message? However, what was maybe ‘missed’
> was a quick ‘identification’ by the local team, that the immediate search
> and rescue operations would be done by ‘traditional first responders’ who
> would have their own maps and such, so this has always been more a
> ‘long-term’ recovery/just further helping the wonderful efforts of
> OSM-Japan in general, however I too would like to know if that has changed
> and/or any ‘use cases’ that have come up since then.
>
>
>
> In general, these are good and valid questions/concerns, and HOT is always
> working to improve not only our own coordination, but how we better support
> these local groups.  Language barriers, time zones, and many other things
> contribute to communication challenges, so patience is always key around
> OSM.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 09, 2016 10:04 AM
> *To:* Mike Thompson
> *Cc:* hot@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Japanese earthquake projects
>
>
>
> I'm surprised to have no response to what is happening in Japan.  I think
> surprised is the polite way of putting it.
>
> I even tried to contact the project manager but no response.  It is now
> Tuesday morning in Japan.  I looked at a couple more.
>
> I note that 1799 wants the sea mapping, or at least a third of the tiles
> would seem to be over the sea.
>
> 1798 there is a high priority zone but much of it is not tiled.
>
> 1788 there is a high priority zone but some of it is not tiled.
>
> 1784 wow we've done a really good job of validating the sea on this one.
>
> 1786 again lots of sea to map.  We haven't managed to do the high priority
> zone.
>
> These are in addition to the issues on 1800.
>
> In total there are some dozen projects mostsy high priority relating to
> earthquakes in Japan that's asking for a lot of resources.  I think what
> we've ended up with is too few mappers spread out over too many projects to
> get anything useful done in a reasonable time frame.  Are they still high
> priority?
>
>
>
> Yes mappers don't cost anything in money terms but surely we can expect a
> higher standard of project management than appears to be the case here
> especially with Ecuador needing to be mapped at the same time.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 7 May 2016 at 18:27, john whelan  wrote:
>
> I've sent something to the project manager maybe we'll hear something
> after the weekend.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 7 May 2016 at 13:14, Mike Thompson  wrote:
>
> I would also note that it looks like we have some relatively new (8 total
> OSM change sets) mappers playing the role of validator and invalidating
> tasks for things beyond the requirement of the project (e.g. "incorrect
> paths set" when the project [#1844] only called for buildings).
>
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:02 AM, john whelan  wrote:
>
> I've been mapping and validating on Project 1800 but it doesn't make a lot
> of sense.
>
> The most difficult part to map is the built up areas with lots of very
> close buildings which in some ways I'd expect a city in Japan to have its
> own maps of buildings. Those tiles take time and lots of it.  The buildings
> are so close together that you really need the building tool to map them
> rather than squaring them afterwards.
>
> These tiles by the way still have a lot of buildings to be mapped even
> though the project says 82% complete I'd say we're only a third the way
> through the buildings.
>
>
> Then we have lots of tiles over the ocean, nothing there, and many many
> tiles over forest, again not much to map.
>
> Could someone expand a little more on who has asked for the mapping and
> what it will be used for?
>
> Thanks John
>
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

[Yantisa Akhadi]

Hi Paul,

I just saw at Twitter that Planet Labs just released imagery that is
available for OSM mapping, more info about it here:
https://www.planet.com/pulse/fort-mcmurray-wildfire/

Best,

*Yantisa Akhadi (Iyan)*
*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team*
Tel: +62 81 5787 03388  Email: yantisa.akh...@hotosm.org
hot.openstreetmap.org | openstreetmap.id

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Paul Norman  wrote:

> Fort McMurray is the 5th largest city in the province of Alberta and has
> been evacuated in the face of wildfires which have burned thousands of
> structures. Satellites have been tasked to gather imagery, but it probably
> won't be very useful imagery for OSM until the smoke has cleared.
>
> My guess is there won't be a HOTUS activation associated with this
> disaster. The HOT work people have been doing so far is mainly improving
> the state of the area in OSM with pre-disaster sources.
>
> If anyone gets openly licensed imagery for the area, I can host tiles from
> it.
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 11:45:49 -0400
> From: James  
> To: John Marshall  
> CC: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap 
> 
>
> I've created a task on my tasking manager for buildings in Fort McMurray.
> Tracing buildings can help us flag buildings affected by the fire
>
> http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John Marshall  wrote:
>
>> I will check with my contacts in my day job if they will release thier
>> imagery.
>>
>> I know DigitalGlobe are tasking thier satellites over Fort Mac.
>>
>> John Marshall
>> On May 5, 2016 11:39, "James"  wrote:
>>
>>> I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get
>>> satelite imagery.
>>> What I can do is create a task on tasks.osmcanada.ca for Fort McMurray
>>> and we can trace buildings as they are not all there
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <
>>> andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 As you are probably aware by now, a large portion of Fort McMurray,
 Alberta has been destroyed by forest fires.

 Is any freely licensed aerial imagery of the affected area available
 yet? Will the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team be creating a project
 for Fort McMurray?

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