[HOT] RFC Ending on emergency=rescue_stations

[Russell Deffner]

Dear Humanitarian OSM Community,

There sure has been a bunch of tagging proposals that are of interest to us
lately. Here is one more that has already gone through a bit of an
iteration but now looks to be headed for a vote soon (and as so, I'll opt
not to post when the vote starts as it's just around the corner).

Please take a look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rescue_Stations
and the discussion on the OSM Tagging list.

Seasons greetings everyone!
=Russ

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[HOT] Hazard Tagging RFC

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

Thanks to Toni, the Disaster Services Team Lead, for reminding me there was
another tagging proposal recently that could be good for HOT to be involved
in developing. That is hazard=*

The initial Request For Comment (RFC) came at the end of November and there
has been quite a bit of discussion on the tagging list, so I will just
point you to the archives for this one:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/

Interesting note that the proposal page (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/hazard) says this was
originally drafted in August of 2007; so a good example of how sometimes a
tagging schema can either (or both) take a long time to develop into a
stage ready for official adoption, or can be used for many, many years
before all the pieces finally come together for a vote.

As with the last RFC's forwarded here, feel free to reply - but best to
discuss or comment directly on the proposal wiki's discussion page or the
OSMF's tagging mailing list.

Happy Tagging!
=Russ

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[HOT] Fwd: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tag:healthcare=vaccination_centre

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings,

Forwarding another tagging proposal relevant to mapping COVID-19 features,
specifically vaccination centers in this case. This is the Request For
Comment (RFC) stage, so please feel free to join the conversation on the
Tagging mailing list or the proposal discussion wiki-page.

Happy Tagging!
=Russ

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Joseph Eisenberg 
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -
Tag:healthcare=vaccination_centre
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools 


https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:healthcare%3Dvaccination_centre

healthcare=vaccination_centre "A healthcare facility where people are
vaccinated"

The tag healthcare=vaccination_centre is proposed to map a vaccination
centre: a healthcare facility specifically dedicated to administering
vaccinations to individuals, to provide immunisation against infectious
diseases. This tag should be used for locations which are specifically
designed or designated for vaccination, and which are not a general clinic,
hospital or doctor's office (which already have tags). These centres may be
located in permanent structures and intended for long-term use for multiple
vaccination programs, or might be semi-permanent or short-term facilities
located in tents or other mobile structures which are designed for a single
vaccination campaign.

It may be used with the recently proposed tag vaccination=* (which looks
like it will be approved this week - voting is ongoing) which can specify
the specific vaccination or vaccinations which are available at the
location, e.g. vaccination=covid-19.

Other facilities also administer specific vaccinations in addition to their
primary healthcare purpose as a hospital, clinic, doctor's office,
midwife's office, nurse post, etc. These should be tagged with the tag
appropriate for the primary feature, such as amenity=hospital,
amenity=clinic, amenity=doctors, healthcare=midwife, healthcare=nurse, etc.
- in contrast, this new tag is for dedicated vaccination centres.

Please comment on the proposal discussion page (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Tag:healthcare%3Dvaccination_centre)
or here.

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Re: [HOT] Vaccination Centre Tagging

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings again everyone,

I still have to do some reading myself before deciding, but in follow-up to
my informing about the RFC...

Here is the announcement that voting is now open regarding Vaccination
tagging:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-December/056642.html

If you are new to the OSM tagging proposal and voting, it all happens on
the wiki, here is the page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/vaccination
And here is the page on the general proposal process:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process

Happy Tagging!
=Russ

P.S. You are more than welcome to jump in and give your opinion on whether
or not you think this tagging is a good idea, but I suggest everyone read
the tagging list email thread as well as the discussion tab of the proposal
wiki-page and make their own decision.

Russell Deffner
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 9:35 AM Russell Deffner 
wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> As many of us are interested in the subject, I thought it prudent to
> notify you of the newly proposed Vaccination Centre tag:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/vaccination
>
> For more information, as with all proposed tagging schema - the OSM
> Tagging list <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> is where
> the discussion is taking place. The specific email announcing the proposal
> is
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-November/056410.html
>
> Please do join the conversation on the wiki-page, or on the OSM Tagging
> list, as the intent is to use this for (hopefully soon) upcoming COVID
> Vaccination centers (centres).
>
> Best regards,
> =Russ
>
> *Russell Deffner*
>
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[HOT] Vaccination Centre Tagging

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings all,

As many of us are interested in the subject, I thought it prudent to notify
you of the newly proposed Vaccination Centre tag:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/vaccination

For more information, as with all proposed tagging schema - the OSM Tagging
list <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> is where the
discussion is taking place. The specific email announcing the proposal is
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2020-November/056410.html

Please do join the conversation on the wiki-page, or on the OSM Tagging
list, as the intent is to use this for (hopefully soon) upcoming COVID
Vaccination centers (centres).

Best regards,
=Russ

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[HOT] 6 Tropical Systems, 1 Earthquake and a Global Pandemic

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

In the past, during this time of the year, many people are winding down
with work, traveling to see their friends and family, and enjoying the
change in seasons. For me, and many others, that feels like a distant
memory from a long, long time ago. However, every day it is *you, our
community*, that gives us hope that we are not as far from that place as it
may seem.

I must ask however, that you join us this holiday season in giving back to
the so, so many that have been impacted by disasters. Since late October,
we have responded to:

   - Typhoon Molave, after impacting the Philippines in an area where
   mapping had already been initiated by MapBeks <https://www.mapbeks.org/>
   it took a direct path to Vietnam, where the burgeoning community asked HOT
   to manage the response <https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=Molave>.
   One project has been completed, thank you! But at least three others need
   your mapping and quality control assistance!
   - At the end of October, in the Aegean Sea a magnitude 7.0 earthquake
   struck, toppling buildings in Izmir, Turkey
   <https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=Izmir>. The local organization, Yer
   Çizenler <http://yercizenler.org/en/home/>, created two projects. Both
   still have mapping, as well as validation needs.
   - On the first of November Typhoon Rolly (local name) took aim at the
   Philippines, doing significant damage and requiring additional mapping
   projects <https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=RollyPH>. The three
   projects have been mapped, but the OSM PH
   <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines> community still
   welcomes quality assurance assistance!
   - A few days later, Hurricane Eta on the other side of the globe took
   aim at Central America. Initially causing storm surge, wind and rain damage
   to the Nicaraguan coast. Eta then continued its path of devastation with
   torrential rains, causing flooding and landslides in Honduras, Guatemala
   and Panama.* So far* three projects
   
<https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=Disaster%20Response=Nicaragua>
   have been launched; one is complete, the other two need mapping and
   validation help.
   - On the heels of Hurricane Eta, Hurricane Iota made landfall just 15
   miles down the Nicaraguan coast further compounding the flooding and damage
   in Central America. We are treating our response to Iota as part of the Eta
   response - projects forthcoming will cover areas damaged by one or both of
   the storms. Where possible HOT is collaborating with local community and
   local organizations.
   - *Not to be forgotten in the storms...* Nearly 20,000 mappers have
   answered the call to help us provide data essential to combatting the
   COVID-19 global epidemic, read more
   <https://www.hotosm.org/projects/hot-covid-19-response/>. And although
   we are temporarily putting a pause on making COVID projects Urgent
   priority, we are still working to fulfill requests of Governments, Agencies
   and Aid Organizations to plan and prevent the spread as best we can. So
   far, HOT has generated 345 mapping projects; combined with community
   initiatives, a total of 432 COVID related projects have been created on the
   HOT instance of the OSM Tasking Manager <https://tasks.hotosm.org/>.
   - Unfortunately, that won't be the last incident we deal with this
   holiday season. We have heard that Cyclone Gati has struck the Horn of
   Africa in the last 24 hours, so as we monitor the situation and determine
   if we can provide any assistance, we must ask that you continue to be
   stalwart champions of OpenStreetMap.

If you did not notice the pattern above - we welcome all the mapping, but
we are falling behind on being able to assure quality. It's a process we
call "validation" where a *second pair of eyes* looks over the mapping -
even the best mappers sometimes miss things. It does take some expertise
but if you think you know OpenStreetMap well enough, then please do fill
out the short-form at https://bit.ly/HOTValidators

It has been a very busy time for the Disaster Service Team at HOT, but your
support literally keeps us going, and giving responders and aid agencies
essential data to save lives makes it all worth it. We are Thankful for
your contributions this and every year!

Sincerely,
=Russ

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[HOT] Update! Recent Disaster Activty

[Russell Deffner]

 Dear HOT Community,

The last few weeks have been especially challenging, given the number of
disasters occurring around the world. This is a quick update on the six
incidents we have been experiencing. But first, let me ask everyone reading
this message to do one, or more, of the following to help:

   - Visit https://tasks.hotosm.org, find a suitable project, preferably a
   project with Urgent priority (use the filters if needed), and map at least
   one task. If half of the readers in our mailing list do this, that could
   finish the largest of the projects (or several of the smaller ones).
   - If you are an experienced OpenStreetMap contributor, please visit
   https://bit.ly/HOTValidators and sign up to become a Validator to help
   us ensure high-quality data is delivered to responders and aid agencies
   - Spread the word, such as on Social Media or directly to friends and
   family. Tell them about OpenStreetMap, the Tasking Manager, the MapSwipe
   app, and all of your favorite ways and reasons you participate. You can
   also take it one step further and host a mapathon! Mapathons are especially
   encouraged during GeoWeek, November 15-21; register your event here:
   
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0o_FrsoGlpqKlG9q1WumFV8sW8P9yhH4Udln_1fQbYjXn9A/viewform
   - Last, if you’re over-the-top dedicated like we are and want to be a
   part of the Disaster Services Team (DST), you can start by attending
   meetings of the Activation Working Group. Ask how in our #disaster-mapping
   Slack channel here: https://slack.hotosm.org

Now for the run-down of the Disaster Incidents we are leading, managing,
supporting, and/or monitoring. For more details on each situation, see our
blog: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/fall-2020-disaster-responses/

   - *Hurricane Zeta*: coordination calls for Zeta in the USA ended on
   Friday
   - *Typhoon Molave*: the local community in the Philippines were already
   engaged when Molave landed. Extended effects in Vietnam, including
   landslides. HOT activated by request of local mappers. Projects:
   https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=Molave
   - *Aegean Sea Earthquake* (Turkey): 7.0  magnitude earthquake &
   following tsunami. Yer Çizenler leading the activation, HOT supporting.
   Projects: https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=Izmir
   - *Super Typhoon Rolly* (Goni) affected the Philippines, the local team
   is already engaged, the storm is now heading towards Vietnam. Projects:
   https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=RollyPH
   - *Hurricane Eta* - Made landfall November 3 as a category 4 hurricane.
   HOT currently estimating needs while establishing contact with local
   community
   - *COVID-19*: 225 days since we activated, 323 projects managed by HOT,
   with about 100 others managed by the community. Projects:
   https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?text=covid

Sincerely,
=Russ

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[HOT] Izmir Earthquake, Cyclones, Mapping Needed!

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

I am emailing to ask for your assistance mapping Izmir, Turkey. Yesterday,
October 30th, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the region encompassing
south/southeast Greece and western Turkey with the epicenter being the city
of Izmir, home to about 4 million residents.

Initial reports are that human losses were minimal, which is good news.
However, buildings have collapsed in the city of Izmir and our partners in
Turkey, Yer Çizenler, will be visiting the sites to collect data today
(October 31st). So they could use your help mapping the priority areas on TM
Project #9717 <https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/9717>

Cyclone Molave has also been wreaking havoc in the western pacific, causing
heavy rains and a major landslide in Vietnam. The area is not very heavily
populated, so our Project #9716 <https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/9716>
was quickly mapped - although there is still some validation work to do.
Cyclone Goni is targeting the Philippines today and current forecasts place
it going directly over the capital of Manila tonight into tomorrow
(November 1st), the greater metropolis being home to about 13 million
residents. So stay tuned here, the Tasking manager, and/or our Slack (
Slack.hotosm.org to sign up) for further information as these situations
unfold.

Thank you for supporting the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team!
=Russ

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[HOT] Continue to Map (and Swipe) Against COVID!

[Russell Deffner]

 Dear HOT Community,

Sunday 11 October marked 200 days since we declared the HOT Activaton to
support the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our Activation
Coordination Team has been incredibly busy engaging local governments,
non-governmental organizations, and local communities to support the
creation and use of geospatial data to inform decisions on how best to
address the crisis.

To date, we have led or supported mapping operations in 24 countries, with
a few other OSM communities doing similar work on their own. So far, 341
Tasking Manager projects have been created. These projects have relied on
over 16,000 contributors[0], likely including most of you reading this
email.

Most importantly, this message is a thank you to everyone who has
contributed to the response so far! You have made a big impact for
communities around the world.

Geospatial data and maps are only tools for healthcare and aid workers to
plan and execute the delivery of services. Until there is a vaccine or cure
we will need to continue to do all we can to help slow the spread of this
terrible disease that has already impacted so many lives.

Now with over one million fatalities globally[1], and still thousands more
every day, I ask for your help again. We have more projects being
published[2] - including beginner-friendly ones - but also urgently need
intermediate and advanced mappers, and especially validators[3] to ensure
we are delivering the highest quality data we can muster. As it stands now,
about half of the 341 projects still need some level of effort to complete
and at the current rate of progress (about 85% of one project is completed
each day) it will take the community roughly another 200 days to finish -
and that is without identifying further needs or receiving additional
requests for help.

We all want this pandemic to be over, and you can make a tangible
difference in minimizing its impact... by mapping! If you don’t have time
to map, do not overlook the assistance you can provide from your phone with
Mapswipe[4]! When you’re standing in line - or maybe more with the times,
waiting for your order to arrive - jump on to Mapswipe and help us
determine where there are areas in need of a Tasking Manager project! Thank
you again, so much, for your time and effort to combat the COVID-19
pandemic.

Sincerely,
=Russ

[0] Frequently updated stats:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/COVID-19#Effort_made
[1] The Coronavirus App: https://coronavirus.app/toll
[2] The Tasking Manager: https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=COVID-19
[3] So you want to validate? Form: https://bit.ly/HOTValidators
[4] Mapswipe website: https://mapswipe.org/

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[HOT] Beirut Response Concluded

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

We are pleased to announce that after about 7 weeks and at least 220
experienced mappers coming together to digitize over 54,000 buildings in
the greater Beirut metropolitan area; as of Tuesday, the 22nd, we have
completely mapped, and validated, the area requested by the Lebanese Red
Cross, giving them the data they need to continue the long road of recovery.

Though our work is complete here (for now), let's not forget that this was
in response to the explosion at the port in Beirut that killed 190 people,
leveled nearby buildings and damaged others up to 24 kilometers away,
totalling an estimate of $15 billion in damages (source
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion>). And the local
OpenStreetMap community is still working on a variety of initiatives to
help recovery efforts as well as prepare for future events.

If you are interested in seeing what OpenMapLebanon is up to, visit their
website: https://openmaplebanon.org/ - HOT will continue to support their
efforts as the remaining response turns into recovery, in turn becoming
preparedness and mapping for general usage.

Thank you to everyone who played a part in this mapping response!

On behalf of the HOT Disaster Services Team and Activation Working Group,
=Russ

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[HOT] Beirut Extended Damage Mapping

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

Many thanks to the amazing mappers in Lebanon who had the entire downtown
Beirut area mapped; including the Port area where the recent explosion
occurred. And, for quickly mapping the aftermath dramatically captured in
imagery such as that donated by Planet and MAXAR (some can be viewed on
openaerialmap.org).

However, the greater Beirut metropolis is quite big and much remains
unmapped. In response to a request by the Lebanon Red Cross to map the area
up to about 8 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosion (damage has
been reported up to 24 kilometers out); we have created a project to map
the missing structures: https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/9164 - as the
local community focuses on capturing Mapillary imagery in the field and
helping the more severely impacted central Beirut - please consider helping
map remotely the areas that too will need help in the coming days, weeks
and months.

Sorry beginner mappers, Beirut is quite densely populated and there are
lots of pockets of mapping by locals that we want to preserve, so this
project is restricted to intermediate and advanced mappers.

Join the conversation on Slack (slack.hotosm.org) #disaster-mapping channel.

Sincerely,
=Russ

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[HOT] COVID-19 Response Update

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT Community,

We are quickly approaching 100 days since HOT officially activated for the
coronavirus pandemic; of course that was some time after the virus began to
take its course. However, since then we have made some amazing progress
mapping those areas which local communities or partner organizations have
requested help.

In total 199 projects have been created! That's a total of roughly 124,000
square kilometers and almost 82,000 tasks! Of which 87% has been mapped and
61% has been validated; with 44 projects being completely mapped,
validated, archived and the data delivered to the requesting organization
for use in the fight against COVID-19.

Very impressive work! However, as the virus is not done with us yet, we are
far from being done with the mapping. Just this week we got several more
requests and several of our microgrant recipients have now launched;
therefore... more projects, area and tasks will be added to those totals
soon. So we will still need your help - as mappers, as validators, as
working group members and general volunteers.

Want to map? Head to tasks.hotosm.org and select the highest priority COVID
project available to you. Validators - also, please stick to the highest
priority project(s) so we can try to get them 100% complete and archived.
Want to help in other ways, head to https://bit.ly/HOTWG this is where you
will find all the active Working Groups. The Activation Working Group is
the most focused on Disasters, but find the group that fits your interest,
each group contributes in various ways to our ability to provide maps for
humanitarian aid and development work around the globe.

Sincerely,
=Russ

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[HOT] COVID-19 For The Long Haul

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

I'll make this brief. We have 72 projects for coronavirus response on the
Tasking Manager, dozens more in draft and more that we are working with
partners to determine mapping needs.

Whenever you have the time and energy this weekend, and potentially any day
for months to come, please consider contributing to any of these projects.
You can just search the Tasking Manager for "covid" to bring up all the
available projects, or follow this link:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL=covid


Especially crucial are our Validators! With so many projects in so many
locations, it will be a monumental task to keep up on validation. If you
have the role, please leave the mapping to the newer contributors and help
us keep our quality up and give instructions to mappers as soon as
possible. If you are not a validator yet but think you could be, feel free
to fill out this short form: http://bit.ly/HOTValidators - If you feel you
still need some training, stay tuned to our Working Group calendar for the
next webinar: http://bit.ly/HOTWG

May you stay safe and healthy!
=Russ

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[HOT] COVID-19 - How you can help

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

We have been receiving more and more inquiries about our response to
COVID-19, also known as the Corona-virus, so we thought it prudent to put
together a message of what we are doing, and willing to do, regarding
mapping for this response.

NOTE: HOT suggests remote mapping events only while COVID-19 remains a
significant threat to public health. We have some guidance on how to
conduct a successful remote-mapathon
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Shy05ZnRJp5xSbZWcUH_41caBNaV2yzazECbN5ngwOU/edit?usp=sharing>
from our partners in Missing Maps. Heed local warnings and restrictions
before attending any mapping events in person or mapping in the field.

As always, we respond to formal requests, typically from partners such as
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, the Red Cross/Red Crescent
societies and others to our Activation Working Group email and Slack
disaster-mapping channel. This does not guarantee an Activation by HOT as
we still need to assess that what we ask of our volunteers - you - is
obtainable in a timeframe that will result in assisting the response.

In regards to COVID-19, HOT has not yet received an official request. In
light of that, we are suggesting that local OpenStreetMap Chapters &
Communities make the discovery and launch projects to map those resources
that are lacking in your area. HOT is here to assist with identifying those
resources and where they are lacking, getting projects set-up on the
Tasking Manager, or if needed, getting you trained and on-boarded to create
projects for your community, as well as communication/recruiting mappers
from the crowd to help with your mapping efforts.

NOTE: For healthcare and aid organizations looking for geospatial data, we
continually push OpenStreetMap extracts to the Humanitarian Data eXchange
(HDX) <https://data.humdata.org/>. We are currently working to ensure
updates for the most impacted countries are available. Do let us know if
you have data needs not being met!

In order to make an impact on COVID-19, HOT will rely heavily on local
communities. While we work with partners to identify things that can be
achieved on a global scale; we encourage you to look for things you can do
locally to assist health care and aid workers nearby. Here’s a short list
of things you and your local OSM community can do to prepare for and reduce
the longevity of COVID-19...


   1.

   Start by comparing the completeness of healthcare facilities in
   OpenStreetMap here:https://healthsites.io/map
   2.

   You can also use healthsites.io to directly input missing healthcare
   facilities and attributes.
   3.

   Look at the road network in your area, often in large disease outbreaks
   it is of critical importance to have a complete road network. Consider
   using the MapWith.AI <https://www.mapwith.ai> site to speed up the
   process by having AI assist your road network mapping.
   4.

   See if there are other data-sources available (and compatible) for
   bringing into OpenStreetMap, such as healthcare facilities, major
   transportation network features, or even buildings in general;
follow the import
   guidelines <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines> for
   including 3rd party data.
   5.

   Or, map the ‘old-fashioned way’ by digitizing features from satellite
   imagery.


And reach out either directly, or by replying to this list, if you need
guidance;

=Russ

Russell Deffner

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Disaster Services Coordinator - Activation Working Group

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

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Re: [HOT] damage as a tag - not docu,

[Russell Deffner]

Just a quick note; HOT does not formally do damage tagging, mainly because no 
tagging schema exists. In the past, members of HOT tried various tagging but 
results for remote damage assessment were poor.

I personally would be glad to see a community driven tagging schema developed 
but if not we (HOT) will need to document what we come up with for usage in 
disaster response and recovery.

One glaring issue has been that typically the tags persist much longer than the 
damage.

=Russ

> On Feb 6, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> It looks like HOT is using the tag 'damage' for something. It is not 
> documented as to what it means. Further is this information kept current or 
> just added and forgotten? In at least one case the tag goes back to 2011.
> 
> 
> When will HOT start to document what tags they are using, and what they are 
> used for on the OSM wiki? This is not good behavior for HOT in OSM.
> 
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[HOT] Flood Mapping in Djibouti - Your Help Needed!

[Russell Deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

Currently the city of Djibouti is facing severe floods. Our partners,
MapAction, have deployed and are now in the field helping coordinate the
response with maps. Unfortunately, as with many places, there is no
existing basemaps. OpenStreetMap has good coverage for roads, but we need
your help to trace the buildings. Sorry new mappers, this is very dense and
difficult mapping, so we are restricting the first projects to intermediate
and advanced mappers. There are plenty of projects more suited to beginners
that you can get familiar with first, then we'll gladly have your help too.

UNOCHA is also helping and created the highest priority project,
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7446. Those who are intermediate or
advanced, please start with project 7446 and focus on the priority area, as
that has seen the worst of the flooding. Likely we will try to complete
Balbala (project 7444) next, stay tuned to the Tasking Manager for projects
and priorities!

Thank you,
=Russ

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Re: [HOT] GeoWeek is coming soon!

[Russell Deffner]

My apologies, seems the hyperlinks got scrubbed from my previous
email. Here are the ones you need to know...

Info on event hosting: http://www.missingmaps.org/host/
Form to register an event:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SG9DW7ZyEC9Vf78RbApUfBYAQPSIReyxbupGJPCqjtw/edit
Those events will end up on both...
- GeoWeek Events: http://osmgeoweek.org/events/
- & Missing Maps Events: http://www.missingmaps.org/events/

Hope that clarifies things, of course, email me or Rachel for any
further questions!

=Russ

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 9:24 PM Russell Deffner
 wrote:
>
> (Please see below for French, Spanish, Catalan, German and Arabic
> translations.  Please feel free to share these with your networks!)
>
> Hello,
>
> I hope this email finds you well. We (Russell Deffner and Rachel
> Levine, on behalf of the Missing Maps cooperative) wanted to reach out
> and share another big thank you for your participation in past years’
> OSM Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) events. We are less than one
> month out from this year’s GeoWeek and can’t wait to see what this
> awesome community can accomplish! In past years, our partnership with
> the American Red Cross, MSF, HOT, MapGive, YouthMappers, PEPFAR, and
> many more, has led to hundreds of events taking place all over the
> world.  This has allowed for thousands to contribute to OSM in a
> responsible and meaningful way.
>
> This year, OSM GeoWeek will be held during the week of November 11th -
> 16th and we’ll be focusing on tasks related to climate change and
> extreme weather events.  In partnership with groups such as the
> Climate Center, an International Federation of Red Cross and Red
> Crescent Societies (IFRC) reference center, we’ll be posting tasks
> that both new mappers and validators can work on over the course of
> the week.
>
> “Acting before a disaster in the window of time between a forecast and
> a shock depends on the possibility to know when, where and who to
> target. Although weather forecast science and risk information
> management is progressing, there are still critical gaps to address to
> be able to take early action up to scale.”
>
> -  Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser with the Climate Center
>
>
> OSM GeoWeek presents a great opportunity for students and colleagues
> alike to participate in something both meaningful and fun. As you
> know, participants don’t need any special expertise, just basic
> computer skills. Events can be of any size, and registration is easy,
> just fill out this form and your event will be registered on both the
> GeoWeek and Missing Maps event pages.
>
>
> We hope you will join us again this year! Please share this invitation
> with your colleagues
>
> and networks, and especially students and help us spread the word by
> using #OSMGeoWeek2019 on social media.  Please let me know if you have
> any additional questions and I look forward to hearing back from you!
>
>
> All the best and happy mapping,
>
> Russell Deffner and Rachel Levine
>
> (on behalf of the OSM Institutions Group and the Missing Maps Partnership)
>
>
>
> Bonjour,
>
> J'espère que vous allez bien ! Je tenais à vous remercier encore une
> fois pour votre participation aux événements de la Semaine de
> sensibilisation à la géographie et OpenStreetMap (OSM GeoWeek) de l'an
> dernier. Nous sommes à un mois de la GeoWeek de cette année et j'ai
> hâte de voir ce que cette formidable communauté peut accomplir ! Ces
> dernières années, notre partenariat avec la Croix-Rouge américaine,
> MSF, HOT, MapGive, YouthMappers, PEPFAR, et bien d'autres, a donné
> lieu à des centaines d'événements à travers le monde. Cela a permis à
> des milliers de personnes de contribuer à OSM d'une manière
> responsable et utile.
>
> Cette année, la OSM Geoweek aura lieu durant la semaine du 11 au 16
> novembre et nous nous concentrerons sur les projets liés au changement
> climatique et aux phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes.  En partenariat
> avec des groupes tels que le Climate Center, un centre de référence de
> la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du
> Croissant-Rouge (FICR), nous afficherons des projets sur lesquelles
> les nouveaux cartographes et validateurs pourront travailler pendant
> la semaine.
>
> "Agir avant une catastrophe dans le laps de temps entre une prévision
> et un choc dépend de la possibilité de savoir quand, où et qui cibler.
> Bien que la science des prévisions météorologiques et la gestion de
> l'information sur les risques progressent, il y a encore des lacunes
> importantes à combler pour être en mesure de prendre des mesures
> précoces à l'échelle pertinente."
>
> - Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser au Climate Center
>
&

[HOT] GeoWeek is coming soon!

[Russell Deffner]

(Please see below for French, Spanish, Catalan, German and Arabic
translations.  Please feel free to share these with your networks!)

Hello,

I hope this email finds you well. We (Russell Deffner and Rachel
Levine, on behalf of the Missing Maps cooperative) wanted to reach out
and share another big thank you for your participation in past years’
OSM Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) events. We are less than one
month out from this year’s GeoWeek and can’t wait to see what this
awesome community can accomplish! In past years, our partnership with
the American Red Cross, MSF, HOT, MapGive, YouthMappers, PEPFAR, and
many more, has led to hundreds of events taking place all over the
world.  This has allowed for thousands to contribute to OSM in a
responsible and meaningful way.

This year, OSM GeoWeek will be held during the week of November 11th -
16th and we’ll be focusing on tasks related to climate change and
extreme weather events.  In partnership with groups such as the
Climate Center, an International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC) reference center, we’ll be posting tasks
that both new mappers and validators can work on over the course of
the week.

“Acting before a disaster in the window of time between a forecast and
a shock depends on the possibility to know when, where and who to
target. Although weather forecast science and risk information
management is progressing, there are still critical gaps to address to
be able to take early action up to scale.”

-  Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser with the Climate Center


OSM GeoWeek presents a great opportunity for students and colleagues
alike to participate in something both meaningful and fun. As you
know, participants don’t need any special expertise, just basic
computer skills. Events can be of any size, and registration is easy,
just fill out this form and your event will be registered on both the
GeoWeek and Missing Maps event pages.


We hope you will join us again this year! Please share this invitation
with your colleagues

and networks, and especially students and help us spread the word by
using #OSMGeoWeek2019 on social media.  Please let me know if you have
any additional questions and I look forward to hearing back from you!


All the best and happy mapping,

Russell Deffner and Rachel Levine

(on behalf of the OSM Institutions Group and the Missing Maps Partnership)



Bonjour,

J'espère que vous allez bien ! Je tenais à vous remercier encore une
fois pour votre participation aux événements de la Semaine de
sensibilisation à la géographie et OpenStreetMap (OSM GeoWeek) de l'an
dernier. Nous sommes à un mois de la GeoWeek de cette année et j'ai
hâte de voir ce que cette formidable communauté peut accomplir ! Ces
dernières années, notre partenariat avec la Croix-Rouge américaine,
MSF, HOT, MapGive, YouthMappers, PEPFAR, et bien d'autres, a donné
lieu à des centaines d'événements à travers le monde. Cela a permis à
des milliers de personnes de contribuer à OSM d'une manière
responsable et utile.

Cette année, la OSM Geoweek aura lieu durant la semaine du 11 au 16
novembre et nous nous concentrerons sur les projets liés au changement
climatique et aux phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes.  En partenariat
avec des groupes tels que le Climate Center, un centre de référence de
la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du
Croissant-Rouge (FICR), nous afficherons des projets sur lesquelles
les nouveaux cartographes et validateurs pourront travailler pendant
la semaine.

"Agir avant une catastrophe dans le laps de temps entre une prévision
et un choc dépend de la possibilité de savoir quand, où et qui cibler.
Bien que la science des prévisions météorologiques et la gestion de
l'information sur les risques progressent, il y a encore des lacunes
importantes à combler pour être en mesure de prendre des mesures
précoces à l'échelle pertinente."

- Catalina Jaime, Senior Risk Adviser au Climate Center

L’OSM Geoweek est une excellente occasion pour des étudiants comme
pour des collègues de participer à quelque chose d’utile et d'amusant.
Comme vous le savez, les participants n'ont pas besoin d'une expertise
particulière, seulement de compétences informatiques de base. Les
événements peuvent être de n'importe quelle taille, et l'inscription
est facile, il suffit de remplir ce formulaire et votre événement sera
enregistré à la fois sur les pages de la GeoWeek et de Missing Maps.

Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez à nous cette année encore !
Veuillez partager cette invitation avec vos collègues et vos réseaux,
et surtout les étudiants, et aidez-nous à faire passer le mot en
utilisant #OSMGeoWeek2019 sur les réseaux sociaux.  Si vous avez
d'autres questions, n'hésitez pas à m'en faire part, j'ai hâte d'avoir
de vos nouvelles !

Bonne et heureuse cartographie,

Russell Deffner and Rachel Levine

(au nom du OSM Institutions Groups et du projet Missing Maps)


Hola,

Espero que este email te encu

[HOT] Two Activations! Mappers, Validators and More Needed!

[russell . deffner]

Dear HOT Community,

 

Yesterday our colleagues in Turkey asked for assistance in response to the
earthquakes there, several projects on the Tasking Manager could use your
help! For detailed information, visit
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Denizli_Earthquakes 

 

Yesterday we also sized-up, and made the decision to preemptively Activate
for, Cyclone Lekima; a handful of projects are on the Tasking Manager for
those islands directly in the path. Details can be found at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cyclone_Lekima 

 

It's the early days of these responses, so lots of uncertainty still; stay
tuned to tasks.hotosm.org <https://tasks.hotosm.org/>  or come to the
#disaster-mapping channel on Slack (slack.hotosm.org
<http://slack.hotosm.org/> ) to be part of the coordination. Of course we'll
try to keep everyone informed through this list, social media, etc. and you
can always email and/or join the Activation Working Group directly, cc'd on
this message.

 

Thank you!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Disaster Services Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

 
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[HOT] Special Community Webinar: ml-enabler! Wednesday, July 24th at 1500UTC

[russell . deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

You are invited to a special HOT Community Webinar. Our Tech team, and
partners, have been hard at work and are ready to welcome you to a
presentation on the ml-enabler.

 

"The ml-enabler is a piece of software designed to provide the glue between
machine learning input and consuming applications (like the Tasking
Manager)."

 

Interested to know more? Register here: http://bit.ly/ml-enabler

 

On behalf of the Community and Tech Working Groups,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

 
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[HOT] Urgent Disaster Mapping

[russell . deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

Hope you might have some time this weekend to lend a hand mapping for the
two new responses we have going:

 

1.  We activated to assist the refugee situation from Venezuela with an
Advanced, very difficult, buildings project:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/5792 - so if you’re up for the challenge
(and have achieved Advanced mapper level on the TM) then please do
contribute there! Also check-out the wiki-page for more details:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ayuda_Venezuela 
2.  We activated for a request by the International Federation of the
Red Cross, Red Crescent to assist with the floods and Cyclone Idai in
Mozambique; and now our partners, Médecins Sans Frontières, has added
additional needs in Zimbabwe. Head over to the Tasking Manager,
(https://tasks.hotosm.org/) for all of the projects, or visit the Cyclone
Idai wiki-page for more details (still working on them a bit):
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cyclone_Idai 

 

Also, for you ‘old hats’ around HOT, we’ve moved our list of current
activations to:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Humanitaria
n_OpenStreetMap_Team if you’re looking for that.

 

Sincerely,

=Russ

 

On behalf of the Disaster Mapping Coordination Team

and Activation Working Group

 

Russell Deffner

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

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[HOT] HOT Uganda Webinar Recording (was: RE: How to create participatory maps with refugees & host communities)

[russell . deffner]

Thank you Rebecca, HOT Uganda and participants!

 

Just FYI, the webinar recording now has a new, more permanent, home on our 
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm 

 

=Russ, 

Community Working Group Volunteer

 

From: Rebecca Firth  
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 7:16 PM
To: hot 
Subject: Re: [HOT] How to create participatory maps with refugees & host 
communities

 

Hi,

 

Thanks to everyone who joined the webinar this morning and participated in the 
discussion! You can find the recording here if you missed it: 
https://zoom.us/recording/share/YHteqJFBkwPOMk4zN86glmWrQ8sYstbFms20RigK1uewIumekTziMw?startTime=1547730158000

 

Community Working Group will be circulating details of the February webinar 
shortly,

 

Thanks,

 

Rebecca

 

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:30 PM Rebecca Firth mailto:rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org> > wrote:

  Hi,

 

Tomorrow, the HOT Uganda team is hosting a webinar on their lessons learned 
mapping with refugee & host communities, and invite discussion from others who 
might have experience/questions. If you'd like to sign up, the details are 
here:   bit.ly/HOTUganda . 

 

Thanks,

 

Rebecca 

 

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Director, Community & Partnerships

  rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org

@RebeccaFirthy

 

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development

  web |   twitter |  
 facebook |   donate

 




 

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Director, Community & Partnerships

  rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org

@RebeccaFirthy

 

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development

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[HOT] 150 Donors to Get DigitalGlobe Match!

[russell . deffner]

Greetings all!

 

Although I beat, and then raised, my individual goal for the annual HOT
microgrant fundraising campaign; it really isn't about hitting the dollar
amount today. On the last day of the year, if we can get 4 more people to
donate anything (>=$1) we will get a $5000 match from DigitalGlobe. Visit:
mapthedifference2019.causevox.com/russdeffner to learn more about my
personal appeal and fundraising so far.

 

Where this money goes is important to me, and everyone involved in the
OpenStreetMap project. This is how we help 'seed' communities in some of the
most rural places on earth (such as Mongolia, which I have a special
affinity for). Even if we don't hit our goal to fund 10 microgrants; about
every $4000 we can support 1 community.

 

If we can get this match from DG, we will be well over half our goal and are
looking at a handful of microgrants (which will be easier to manage) but it
would be a nice surprise to see a big push at the end to get as many
projects as possible funded.

 

Thank you and Happy New Year!

=Russ

 

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Voting Member, Contractor, Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

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[HOT] HOT Activation Working Group Meeting - Protocol Review

[russell . deffner]

Greetings humanitarian OpenStreetMap community,

 

The HOT Activation Working Group have our regularly scheduled meeting
tomorrow, Friday 7/12/18 at 1500UTC.

We meet on the #hot IRC channel (bridged to #hot_irc_channel on the HOT
Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation 

 

We are not slowing down for the end-of-the-year; at least not yet - as
discussed last time, the focus of tomorrow's agenda will be on conducting a
review and update to the Activation Protocol
<https://www.hotosm.org/downloads/HOTActivationProtocol.pdf>  and curriculum
for the Disaster Coordination training courses
<http://courses.hotosm.org/course/index.php?categoryid=2> . 

 

Looking forward to seeing you there!

=Russ

 

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Voting Member, Contractor, Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

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[HOT] Advanced JOSM Webinar November 10 1400utc

[russell . deffner]

Greetings all,

 

On behalf of the HOT Training and Community Working Groups, we invite you to
an Advanced JOSM webinar on Saturday November 10th at 1400utc. Register for
details and calendar link here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-community-webinar-advanced-josm-tickets-514
19405827 

 

We look forward to helping you learn more about the powerful JOSM editor; as
such, we expect those attending to have a good foundation of the tool
beforehand. You can get up to speed by working through the training modules
on LearnOSM.org <https://learnosm.org/en/josm/start-josm/>  or watch the
recording of our JOSM Basics <https://youtu.be/tF3MIHoPzoI>  webinar. 

 

We hope to see you in November for this special community/training event!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Join the Activation Working Group!

[russell . deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

Centered around the initial idea that became the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team (HOT) was 'activating' the global volunteer network to respond to
crisis, anywhere, anytime. Whether it be forces of nature or man-made
disaster, we can and would contribute to a robust basemap for response and
aid organizations to utilize in planning, logistics and execution of life
saving and life sustaining operations. Dale Kunce, of the American Red Cross
- International Disaster Services, and Voting Member of HOT gave a great,
short presentation at State of the Map - Detroit last weekend. I hope you'll
take a moment to watch: https://youtu.be/1Jht0aM-80o 

 

This is one of the best 'packaged' descriptions of why we 'do what we do',
over and over - because somehow we haven't figured out how to stop disasters
from happening - that I have ever seen. Thank you Dale! It is always
difficult to get the response and aid orgs to tell us how they use OSM
during/after an incident and here you tell many of those stories in one.

 

If you're still reading, you must be interested in the disaster services
that HOT provide. So, I invite you to join the next meeting of the
Activation Working group, tomorrow (October 12) at 1400UTC on IRC #hot
channel (or #hot_irc_channel on Slack) to learn more. Ahead of time, and if
you want to be a member of the AWG, please visit: http://courses.hotosm.org/
- take the Activation Essentials course and the optional endorsement to join
the mailing list and roster. Activation coordination is fairly easy, if done
in a relatively coordinated fashion and the courses and working group are
your entry to the coordination team.

 

Hope to 'see' you tomorrow,

=Russ

 

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Voting Member, Contractor, Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting 1400utc

[russell . deffner]

Greetings HOT community,

 

We welcome everyone to the regularly scheduled meeting of our Activation
Working Group today, Friday September 14, at 1400UTC (about ½ hour, sorry
for the short notice). We meet on the #hot IRC channel (bridged to
#hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation  

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program; we
are currently Activated to coordinate or support a handful of incidents and
can use your help!

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

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Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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Re: [HOT] Demande d'être administrateur à OSM Tasking Manager ou (création de tâche )

[russell . deffner]

français ci-dessous translate.goole.com

 

Hi Lassine,

 

Forgive the delay and what I imagine will be a poor google translation below.

 

I will try to find someone who can help you in French. In the meantime feel 
free to reply to me directly about becoming a Project Manager on the HOT 
Tasking Manager. We do about an hour of training and demonstration before 
allowing new project managers. The HOT TM is used by over 70 organizations and 
there are currently 300 project managers, so we need to ensure a minimum level 
of fair use for all. Please let me know a bit more about what you want to do as 
potentially YouthMapper projects would be better on the TeachOSM Tasking 
Manager.

 

Thank you for your inquiry,

=Russ

 

Salut lassine,

Pardonnez le retard et ce que j'imagine sera une mauvaise traduction google 
ci-dessous.

Je vais essayer de trouver quelqu'un qui peut vous aider en français. En 
attendant, n'hésitez pas à me répondre directement pour devenir chef de projet 
sur le gestionnaire de tâches HOT. Nous faisons environ une heure de formation 
et de démonstration avant de permettre aux nouveaux chefs de projet. HOT TM est 
utilisé par plus de 70 organisations et compte actuellement 300 chefs de 
projet. Nous devons donc garantir un niveau minimum d'utilisation équitable 
pour tous. S'il vous plaît laissez-moi savoir un peu plus sur ce que vous 
voulez faire, car potentiellement les projets YouthMapper seraient mieux sur le 
gestionnaire de tâches TeachOSM.

Merci pour votre demande,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team> Wiki |  
<http://hotosm.org/updates> Blog |  
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team#Communication> 
Contact |  <http://hotosm.org/donate> Donate

 

From: Lassine Sanankoua  
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 11:23 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Demande d'être administrateur à OSM Tasking Manager ou (création 
de tâche )

 

J'ai l'honneur de solliciter auprès de votre haute bienveillance mon 
inscription sur la liste d'administrateur de HOT OSM,. Nous sommes une 
organisation universitaire de contribution dans les Projets Youthmappers.

Le nom de organisme s'appelle Etudiant au Laboratoire HoPE à l'Université des 
Sciences Sociales et de Gestion de Bamako. 

Veuillez agrée l'exprssion de ma profonde gratitude.

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Re: [HOT] AWG Meeting Schedule

[russell . deffner]

Hi Victor,

 

The meeting tomorrow is canceled, but I will be around if there is something 
you want to discuss.

 

=Russ

 

From: Victor Sunday  
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2018 1:50 PM
To: Russell Deffner 
Cc: activat...@hotosm.org; hot 
Subject: Re: [HOT] AWG Meeting Schedule

 

Hi Russ Goodevening

Do you mean a chat for tomorrow?

Victor

 

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:00 PM, mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> > wrote:

Greetings everyone,

 

A few key people are either unavailable or traveling, so not sure availability 
for our regular meeting of the Activation Working Group.  I will be around, but 
won’t call it an ‘official’ meeting. There is a lot of disaster activity at the 
moment, so if you have updates/needs/etc. or are interested in getting more 
involved, jump onto IRC or Slack around the usual time ~1400utc and we can 
chat. The next regular meeting would be on the 31st, which is the HOT Summit, 
so if people are interested we could try to do an in-person meeting/BOF that 
afternoon?

 

Otherwise, consider we probably won’t have a regular, remote, meeting until 
September 14th – please email activat...@hotosm.org 
<mailto:activat...@hotosm.org>  or join the #disaster-mapping channel on Slack 
for any immediate needs.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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Donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> 

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[HOT] AWG Meeting Schedule

[russell . deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

A few key people are either unavailable or traveling, so not sure
availability for our regular meeting of the Activation Working Group.  I
will be around, but won't call it an 'official' meeting. There is a lot of
disaster activity at the moment, so if you have updates/needs/etc. or are
interested in getting more involved, jump onto IRC or Slack around the usual
time ~1400utc and we can chat. The next regular meeting would be on the
31st, which is the HOT Summit, so if people are interested we could try to
do an in-person meeting/BOF that afternoon?

 

Otherwise, consider we probably won't have a regular, remote, meeting until
September 14th - please email activat...@hotosm.org
<mailto:activat...@hotosm.org>  or join the #disaster-mapping channel on
Slack for any immediate needs.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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Contact |  <http://hotosm.org/donate> Donate

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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] HOT Activation Updates

[russell . deffner]

Yes Pete, the HOT community list has been cc’d; 

 

Please feel free to share, but forgive the typos, etc. – it was getting late. 
Especially I hope the Indonesia team will forgive me! HOT Indonesia is leading 
the response to the recent earthquake, tasks can be found here: 
http://tasks.openstreetmap.id/ 

 

All the best!

=Russ

 

From: Pete Masters  
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 3:50 AM
To: Activation Working Group 
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [activation hotosm] HOT Activation Updates

 

Russ, this is a great update, thanks... And, kudos to everyone involved!

 

Do you share this with the general mailing list? (Just so you know, it has been 
shared in the Nigeria Youth Mappers Whatsapp)

 

Cheers,

 

Pete

 

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:49 PM mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> > wrote:

Greetings HOT Activation Coordinators, and community,

 

Brief: Thank you for supporting HOT Disaster Relief efforts; join the AWG for 
other ways to help!

 

We have been now been Activated for three months straight with about a dozen 
separate incidents we have either coordinated or supported a local coordination 
effort. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has contributed either 
through mapping and validating, or especially in the often chaotic initial 
coordination efforts. 

 

Here are some highlights:

*   We quickly mapped 18,000 buildings in Somalia so UNITAR could create 
estimates and maps for flood relief.
*   Supporting OSM Colombia, we Mapswipe-d a large area around the 
Hidroituango dam and about 150 dedicated mappers digitized about 50,000 
buildings in the area most at risk of dam failure.
*   Mostly standing by and watching, we also created a project to help the 
local mappers get ahead of the eruption of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii, making 
about 60,000 changes to the map including the fissures and lava flows.
*   In Guatemala, the Fuego Volcano had a much more violent eruption and we 
activated to map over 17,000 structures around the volcano that were 
susceptible to lahar and landslide.
*   A much larger area was impacted by flooding in Sri Lanka, so far about 
100,000 buildings have been traced and for longer-term recovery efforts, we 
still have more area to map. 
*   In Japan we had first a major earthquake and CrisisMappers – Japan and 
OSM – Japan jumped into action mapping. By the end of June 1 million changes to 
the map had already been made. Then the country was hit by heavy rains causing 
major flooding, so we offered our support to the mapping efforts needed there. 
There continues to be recovery projects for Japan on the Tasking Manager.
*   When Ebola made a resurgence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 
April-May, OpenStreetMap-RDC launched an effort along with local government and 
Médecins Sans Frontières to map the area. The incredible effort of about 850 
mappers to digitize over 250,000 structures as well as thousands of kilometers 
of roads and waterways, quickly got the basemap of the area complete. Now there 
is a new outbreak, but we are prepared to support OSM-RDC again.
*   Also recently, we have had a few smaller responses; one to map villages 
in the Andes mountains for a volunteer team bringing supplies. Another dam 
failure, this time in Laos, also needed some mapping. Fortunately a lot of the 
area this time was Mapswiped and mapped before in the malaria elimination 
campaign.

 

I know that is a lot with not much detail, and I would like to do more to keep 
you informed. However, with as many responses as we have been handling, there 
is not a lot of time for writing emails, blogs, etc. We could really use more 
help, our coordination teams are made up of 10 “roles” but often it’s only a 
few of us doing a handful of roles each. Don’t know what you might be 
interested in, or interested in just one aspect of disaster coordination, 
that’s fine; head over to http://courses.hotosm.org/ - take the Activation 
Essentials course and see what role you might want to help with. If you’re 
interested in all of what we do in disaster, same thing – take essentials and 
the optional ‘assignment’ to join the Activation Working Group, mailing list 
and roster and we will plug you right in.

 

Thank you again for your dedication to disaster mapping with HOT,

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] HOT Activation Updates

[russell . deffner]

Ok Steven and all, links have been fixed; although there are a lot in that 
first section, so let me know if you find any still broken.

 

Thanks again,

=Russ

 

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Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 

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Donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> 

 <http://summit.hotosm.org/> 

 

 

From: Steven Boyd  
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:11 PM
To: russell.deff...@hotosm.org; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: HOT Activation Updates

 

Russell,

 

Thank you for the update on recent activations.

 

I have started doing the Activation Essentials course. Am finding most of the 
links to referred to broken following the website being updated.  

 

Am able to find some of the documents Code of Conduct again but not others. 
Appreciate any assistance you could provide.

 

Regards

 

Steven


Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:48:56 -0600
From: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
To: mailto:activat...@hotosm.org> >
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org> 
Subject: [HOT] HOT Activation Updates
Message-ID: <01d301d42dcf$473605f0$d5a211d0$@hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org> >
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Greetings HOT Activation Coordinators, and community,



Brief: Thank you for supporting HOT Disaster Relief efforts; join the AWG
for other ways to help!



We have been now been Activated for three months straight with about a dozen
separate incidents we have either coordinated or supported a local
coordination effort. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has
contributed either through mapping and validating, or especially in the
often chaotic initial coordination efforts. 



Here are some highlights:

*   We quickly mapped 18,000 buildings in Somalia so UNITAR could create
estimates and maps for flood relief.
*   Supporting OSM Colombia, we Mapswipe-d a large area around the
Hidroituango dam and about 150 dedicated mappers digitized about 50,000
buildings in the area most at risk of dam failure.
*   Mostly standing by and watching, we also created a project to help
the local mappers get ahead of the eruption of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii,
making about 60,000 changes to the map including the fissures and lava
flows.
*   In Guatemala, the Fuego Volcano had a much more violent eruption and
we activated to map over 17,000 structures around the volcano that were
susceptible to lahar and landslide.
*   A much larger area was impacted by flooding in Sri Lanka, so far
about 100,000 buildings have been traced and for longer-term recovery
efforts, we still have more area to map. 
*   In Japan we had first a major earthquake and CrisisMappers – Japan
and OSM – Japan jumped into action mapping. By the end of June 1 million
changes to the map had already been made. Then the country was hit by heavy
rains causing major flooding, so we offered our support to the mapping
efforts needed there. There continues to be recovery projects for Japan on
the Tasking Manager.
*   When Ebola made a resurgence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in
April-May, OpenStreetMap-RDC launched an effort along with local government
and Médecins Sans Frontières to map the area. The incredible effort of about
850 mappers to digitize over 250,000 structures as well as thousands of
kilometers of roads and waterways, quickly got the basemap of the area
complete. Now there is a new outbreak, but we are prepared to support
OSM-RDC again.
*   Also recently, we have had a few smaller responses; one to map
villages in the Andes mountains for a volunteer team bringing supplies.
Another dam failure, this time in Laos, also needed some mapping.
Fortunately a lot of the area this time was Mapswiped and mapped before in
the malaria elimination campaign.



I know that is a lot with not much detail, and I would like to do more to
keep you informed. However, with as many responses as we have been handling,
there is not a lot of time for writing emails, blogs, etc. We could really
use more help, our coordination teams are made up of 10 “roles” but often
it’s only a few of us doing a handful of roles each. Don’t know what you
might be interested in, or interested in just one aspect of disaster
coordination, that’s fine; head over to http://courses.hotosm.org/ - take
the Activation Essentials course and see what role you might want to help
with. If you’re interested in all of what we do in disaster, same thing –
take essentials and the optional ‘assignment’ to join the Activation Working
Group, mailing list and roster and we will plug you right in.



Thank you again 

Re: [HOT] HOT Activation Updates

[russell . deffner]

Hi Steven, 

 

Thank you for letting me know, apparently we didn’t re-direct everything…

 

Will have a quick look and let you know when I think I’ve fixed them…

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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Web <http://hotosm.org/>  | Wiki 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team>  | Blog 
<http://hotosm.org/updates>  | Contact 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team#Communication>  | 
Donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> 

 <http://summit.hotosm.org/> 

 

 

 

From: Steven Boyd  
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:11 PM
To: russell.deff...@hotosm.org; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: HOT Activation Updates

 

Russell,

 

Thank you for the update on recent activations.

 

I have started doing the Activation Essentials course. Am finding most of the 
links to referred to broken following the website being updated.  

 

Am able to find some of the documents Code of Conduct again but not others. 
Appreciate any assistance you could provide.

 

Regards

 

Steven


Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:48:56 -0600
From: russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
To: mailto:activat...@hotosm.org> >
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org> 
Subject: [HOT] HOT Activation Updates
Message-ID: <01d301d42dcf$473605f0$d5a211d0$@hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org> >
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Greetings HOT Activation Coordinators, and community,



Brief: Thank you for supporting HOT Disaster Relief efforts; join the AWG
for other ways to help!



We have been now been Activated for three months straight with about a dozen
separate incidents we have either coordinated or supported a local
coordination effort. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has
contributed either through mapping and validating, or especially in the
often chaotic initial coordination efforts. 



Here are some highlights:

*   We quickly mapped 18,000 buildings in Somalia so UNITAR could create
estimates and maps for flood relief.
*   Supporting OSM Colombia, we Mapswipe-d a large area around the
Hidroituango dam and about 150 dedicated mappers digitized about 50,000
buildings in the area most at risk of dam failure.
*   Mostly standing by and watching, we also created a project to help
the local mappers get ahead of the eruption of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii,
making about 60,000 changes to the map including the fissures and lava
flows.
*   In Guatemala, the Fuego Volcano had a much more violent eruption and
we activated to map over 17,000 structures around the volcano that were
susceptible to lahar and landslide.
*   A much larger area was impacted by flooding in Sri Lanka, so far
about 100,000 buildings have been traced and for longer-term recovery
efforts, we still have more area to map. 
*   In Japan we had first a major earthquake and CrisisMappers – Japan
and OSM – Japan jumped into action mapping. By the end of June 1 million
changes to the map had already been made. Then the country was hit by heavy
rains causing major flooding, so we offered our support to the mapping
efforts needed there. There continues to be recovery projects for Japan on
the Tasking Manager.
*   When Ebola made a resurgence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in
April-May, OpenStreetMap-RDC launched an effort along with local government
and Médecins Sans Frontières to map the area. The incredible effort of about
850 mappers to digitize over 250,000 structures as well as thousands of
kilometers of roads and waterways, quickly got the basemap of the area
complete. Now there is a new outbreak, but we are prepared to support
OSM-RDC again.
*   Also recently, we have had a few smaller responses; one to map
villages in the Andes mountains for a volunteer team bringing supplies.
Another dam failure, this time in Laos, also needed some mapping.
Fortunately a lot of the area this time was Mapswiped and mapped before in
the malaria elimination campaign.



I know that is a lot with not much detail, and I would like to do more to
keep you informed. However, with as many responses as we have been handling,
there is not a lot of time for writing emails, blogs, etc. We could really
use more help, our coordination teams are made up of 10 “roles” but often
it’s only a few of us doing a handful of roles each. Don’t know what you
might be interested in, or interested in just one aspect of disaster
coordination, that’s fine; head over to http://courses.hotosm.org/ - take
the Activation Essentials course and see what role you might want to help
with. If you’re interested in all of what we do in disaster, same thing –
take essentials and the optional ‘assignment’ to join the Activation Working
Group, mailing list and roster and we will plug you rig

[HOT] HOT Activation Updates

[russell . deffner]

Greetings HOT Activation Coordinators, and community,

 

Brief: Thank you for supporting HOT Disaster Relief efforts; join the AWG
for other ways to help!

 

We have been now been Activated for three months straight with about a dozen
separate incidents we have either coordinated or supported a local
coordination effort. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has
contributed either through mapping and validating, or especially in the
often chaotic initial coordination efforts. 

 

Here are some highlights:

*   We quickly mapped 18,000 buildings in Somalia so UNITAR could create
estimates and maps for flood relief.
*   Supporting OSM Colombia, we Mapswipe-d a large area around the
Hidroituango dam and about 150 dedicated mappers digitized about 50,000
buildings in the area most at risk of dam failure.
*   Mostly standing by and watching, we also created a project to help
the local mappers get ahead of the eruption of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii,
making about 60,000 changes to the map including the fissures and lava
flows.
*   In Guatemala, the Fuego Volcano had a much more violent eruption and
we activated to map over 17,000 structures around the volcano that were
susceptible to lahar and landslide.
*   A much larger area was impacted by flooding in Sri Lanka, so far
about 100,000 buildings have been traced and for longer-term recovery
efforts, we still have more area to map. 
*   In Japan we had first a major earthquake and CrisisMappers – Japan
and OSM – Japan jumped into action mapping. By the end of June 1 million
changes to the map had already been made. Then the country was hit by heavy
rains causing major flooding, so we offered our support to the mapping
efforts needed there. There continues to be recovery projects for Japan on
the Tasking Manager.
*   When Ebola made a resurgence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in
April-May, OpenStreetMap-RDC launched an effort along with local government
and Médecins Sans Frontières to map the area. The incredible effort of about
850 mappers to digitize over 250,000 structures as well as thousands of
kilometers of roads and waterways, quickly got the basemap of the area
complete. Now there is a new outbreak, but we are prepared to support
OSM-RDC again.
*   Also recently, we have had a few smaller responses; one to map
villages in the Andes mountains for a volunteer team bringing supplies.
Another dam failure, this time in Laos, also needed some mapping.
Fortunately a lot of the area this time was Mapswiped and mapped before in
the malaria elimination campaign.

 

I know that is a lot with not much detail, and I would like to do more to
keep you informed. However, with as many responses as we have been handling,
there is not a lot of time for writing emails, blogs, etc. We could really
use more help, our coordination teams are made up of 10 “roles” but often
it’s only a few of us doing a handful of roles each. Don’t know what you
might be interested in, or interested in just one aspect of disaster
coordination, that’s fine; head over to http://courses.hotosm.org/ - take
the Activation Essentials course and see what role you might want to help
with. If you’re interested in all of what we do in disaster, same thing –
take essentials and the optional ‘assignment’ to join the Activation Working
Group, mailing list and roster and we will plug you right in.

 

Thank you again for your dedication to disaster mapping with HOT,

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Tasks to mapping some affected places by "friaje" in Lima, Perú

[russell . deffner]

Johna and all,

 

There is only a little validation left on project 4918; high hopes it will be 
completely finished by tomorrow. Do you need any assistance exporting the data 
or any other needs for the relief effort?

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

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From: Paul Stewart  
Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 9:34 AM
To: Johnattan Rupire 
Cc: activat...@hotosm.org; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] Re: Tasks to mapping some affected 
places by "friaje" in Lima, Perú

 

Hi,

 

The link is https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/4918, but there's not much left to 
map!

 

Best,

 

Paul

 

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, 16:30 Johnattan Rupire, mailto:jarja...@riseup.net> > wrote:

Thank you Paul,
so, we wait for the link to start mapping.

Best,

Johna


El 2018-08-01 03:17, Paul Stewart escribió:
> Hi Johnattan,
> 
> The buildings project has been created and is ready to launch. We can
> start right away. There are hundreds rather than thousands of
> buildings in the area so it won't take very long to complete.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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[HOT] Join the HOT Activation Working Group!

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We welcome everyone to the regularly scheduled meeting of our Activation
Working Group tomorrow, Friday August 3, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot IRC
channel (bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on
the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation 

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program; we
are currently Activated to coordinate or support five incidents and can use
your help!

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Tasks to mapping some affected places by "friaje" in Lima, Perú

[russell . deffner]

Hi Johnattan,

Sorry to hear this friaje is so bad; yes we can help. We're still working 
several other responses, so I'm hoping to get one of our disaster coordination 
trainees to take this on for you.  If you want to join us in our 
#disaster-mapping channel on Slack, feel free: http://slack.hotosm.org/ 
Otherwise we will try to get the first project up as soon as possible. Feel 
free to also reach out to me direct.

Is there any order of priority with the 6 areas?
=Russ

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-Original Message-
From: Johnattan Rupire  
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 5:11 PM
To: hot 
Subject: [HOT] Tasks to mapping some affected places by "friaje" in Lima, Perú

Hi all,
in Perú we are living, sadly, as every year, the down of the temperature, that 
we know as "friaje", many places was affected. Some days ago, Anibal, an 
humanitarian volunteer, share in our telegram group, news about an emergency 
situation in highlands of Lima [0]. After some troubles in josm to read the 
geojson files generated in it, we have now the areas about the communities that 
Anibal notified as the impacteds.[1]

He, and his team, will going to these areas to carry on some humanitarian help. 
We, in Lima, can to collaborate this time only with remote mapping. Can someone 
help us to create the tasks for this?

We want to mapping ways, waterways, and buildings. As the areas are
little, we think we can map the farming areas too. 

[0]http://unidad4x4ayudaemergenciasperu.blogspot.com/2018/06/peru-victimas-de-quemaduras-por-el-frio.html
[1]https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yoinATPMNyADRRvO3d0qok2v7big9gYf?usp=sharing

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[HOT] Activation Working Group Today 1400utc on IRC

[russell . deffner]

Greetings HOT community,

 

We will have our regularly scheduled meeting of the Activation Working Group
in about an hour and a half, Friday June 22, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot
IRC channel (bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found
on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation  

 

Please join us if you are interested in helping coordinate all of these
Disaster Response initiatives!

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Buildings in DR Congo

[russell . deffner]

Hi John,

 

Both of those are archived, so there should not be any (further) 
conflict/overlap.

 

=Russ

 

From: john whelan  
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 6:34 AM
To: HOT 
Subject: [HOT] Buildings in DR Congo

 

I'm seeing a fair number of duplicates.

 

#hotosm-project-4696

and 

 

#hotosm-project-4708

 

appear to overlap.  I'm unable to reach either on the tasking manager.

 

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Re: [HOT] activating Kilauea, HI area

[russell . deffner]

Hi Roger,

 

Our Disaster Mapping program is guided by a similar protocol (I’m pretty sure 
DG’s has bits from ours ;) You can get info here: 
https://www.hotosm.org/projects/hot_training_center 

 

The short version is we have an Activation Working Group that coordinates our 
response. In the case of Hawaii, the local mappers pretty much took care of 
things without needing an HOT activation.  However, we almost always support in 
some way and helping with imagery is something we can do.

 

Best bet to just chat with folks and see what might work is to join our Slack: 
http://slack.hotosm.org/ either the #disaster-mapping channel or #imagery-coord 
would do. Or you can email activat...@hotosm.org <mailto:activat...@hotosm.org> 
 to direct message the working group.

 

Thanks for asking, happy to help!

=Russ

 

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Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

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Contact |  <http://hotosm.org/donate> Donate

 

From: Roger Rustad  
Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 12:04 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] activating Kilauea, HI area

 

Open Street Map team,

 

What is the best way to ask this group to activate an area for a disaster? 

 

In Digital Globe’s disaster activation protocol, and it says that the listed 
partners will leverage the open imagery and data made available (Open Street 
Map is included) and to solicit them for feedback after an emergency. 

 

https://dg-cms-uploads-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/document/file/235/DigitalGlobe_Disaster_Response_Open_Data_Activation_Protocol.pdf
 

 

We at ITDRC are working with the Hawaii Tracker group on providing 
communications tools so that they can upload their pictures of the lava flow. 
As you might guess, however, this is a painfully slow process and we were 
exploring ways that we might accelerate this with more up-to-date satellite 
pictures of the area. 

 

Could someone point me in the right direction to make a request? 

 

Rog 

 

P.S. Those needing more information can email me (rrus...@itdrc.org 
<mailto:rrus...@itdrc.org> ) , and I can loop in the right people at Hawaii 
Tracker I’m dealing with.  There are also two main ways we openly collaborate – 
FB and Telegram.

 

FB – Hawaii Tracker - https://www.facebook.com/groups/hawaiitracker/ 

Telegram – Hawaii Tracker (general discussion) - https://t.me/hawaiitracker 

Telegram – Hawaii Tracker (tech people) - http://bit.ly/2LLNRvH (messages here 
are relayed into a ITDRC member slack channel)


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[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting Friday 5/25 1400utc

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We will have our regularly scheduled meeting of the Activation Working Group
tomorrow, Friday May 25th, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot IRC channel
(bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation  

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program,
there are quite a few incidents we are supporting local communities respond
to; they can use your help!

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

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[HOT] Activation Working Group May 11 1400UTC

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We will have our regularly scheduled meeting of the Activation Working Group
tomorrow, Friday May 11th, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot IRC channel
(bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation 

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program, we
have several incidents we are monitoring and may need help with!

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

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Activation Working Group Co-lead

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[HOT] Activation Working Group - 4/27 1400UTC

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We will have our regularly scheduled meeting of the Activation Working Group
tomorrow, Friday April 27th, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot IRC channel
(bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation 

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program
even if you're not yet 'in' the group, we can get that set up for you
afterward if you think it's something you want to participate in for longer
term experience in disaster management.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Activation Working Group Co-lead

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Re: [HOT] hotosm task 580? in Namibia

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Hi John,

 

Possibly from another TM instance (i.e. if they left the default changeset 
comment)? So best bet is probably just directly giving feedback to the mapper 
via changeset discussion or message via their profile.

 

=Russ

 

From: john whelan  
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 4:50 PM
To: HOT 
Subject: [HOT] hotosm task 580? in Namibia

 

names ending in Westwood possibly some sort of school? 

I've added tags to a few hundred untagged ways.  There doesn't seem to be a 
task 580 in HOT the mapping is fairly recent.

Is here any way to give a bit of feedback since there are so many untagged 
ways?  Mainly buildings, well roughly where the buildings are the shapse are 
bit odd.  I've also deleted a number of duplicate buildings that had the same 
sort of changeset tags on them.



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[HOT] Activation Working Group - 4/13 1400UTC

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We will have our regularly scheduled meeting of the Activation Working Group
tomorrow, Friday April 12th, at 1400UTC. We meet on the #hot IRC channel
(bridged to #hot_irc_channel on Slack). More info can be found on the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Act
ivation 

 

Please join us if you are interested in the HOT Disaster Mapping program
even if you're not yet 'in' the group, we can get that set up for you
afterward if you think it's something you want to participate in for longer
term experience in disaster management.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

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Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Activation Working Group Co-lead

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[HOT] Activation Working Group Meeting 3.16 1400UTC

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Greetings HOT,

 

We welcome you to join the Activation Working Group tomorrow (March 16th) at
1400UTC. We will start with just text chat on the #hot IRC
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC>  channel, which is bridged to
#hot_irc_channel in the HOT Slack <https://slack.hotosm.org/> . We may move
to voice if those in attendance think it would facilitate the conversation
more effectively. In that case we will use Mumble
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble> , an Open Source voice and text
platform we use for HOT Membership meetings. The agenda, notes and other
information can be found on the AWG wiki-page
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Ac
tivation> .

 

Thank you for supporting HOT's mission!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Current Disaster Response Projects

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Greetings HOT community,

 

We're waiting to get more information on the situation in Papua New Guinea
as they were struck with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake Sunday, followed by many
major aftershocks/secondary quakes (which continue, the last being less than
an hour before writing this). For now we have a fairly easy project to
prepare a basemap. I left it unrestricted, so those who have been asking for
a way to try out validation, have at it - just keep in mind the tips and
tricks from the Validation Webinar <https://t.co/PLqYJQ8kj7> . The project
can be found under Disaster Response on the Tasking Manger:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
<https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL=Disaster%20Resp
onse> =Disaster%20Response 

 

We also still have urgent tasks for more experienced mappers for Cyclone
Gita, updating Tonga with new imagery:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL
<https://tasks.hotosm.org/contribute?difficulty=ALL=%23CycloneGita>
=%23CycloneGita 

 

And a bit of validation left for the flooding in Bolivia which can be found
at the Disaster Response link above.

 

Thank you in advance for taking some time this week to map and/or validate a
bit for these response and recovery efforts!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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[HOT] Validation Friday Webinar!

[russell . deffner]

Hello everyone,

 

Just a reminder that you don't want to miss tomorrow's #ValidationFriday
Webinar, RSVP on Eventbrite for details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-community-webinar-validation-training-ticke
ts-42506916331 

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] mapping mines

[russell . deffner]

Hi Joost,

 

Do you mean mines, like landmines, or mining for gold kind of mine?  I know 
CartONG where doing de-mining (landmine kind) Mapswipe projects if that’s the 
kind you’re talking.  Don’t know of anyone mapping mining operations for 
resources kind of mining.

 

=Russ

 

From: joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM
To: HOT 
Subject: [HOT] mapping mines

 

Hi,

 

I was just in contact with an organisation that might be interested in mapping 
mines in the South in OSM, particularly in conflict areas. Are there any 
exisiting efforts I should be aware of?

We were a bit frustrated by the lack of depth of the (documented) tagging, it 
would be interesting to get some experts on the subject to look at how we can 
improve this.


 

-- 

Joost Schouppe

OpenStreetMap   | Twitter 
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[HOT] HOT Community Webinar: Validation February 23 1600UTC

[russell . deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

Happy #ValidationFriday! I invite you to join the Community Working Group on
the last Friday of February (the 23rd) for a Validation Training presented
by Matt Gibb of the American Red Cross.  I have hosted a similar webinar
with Matt before and it was a great training for anyone from those who have
never validated a task before to those who are professional validators.  He
has spent an incredible amount of time teaching and perfecting validation
skills, you are sure to pick up a new trick or two. 

 

I am really looking forward to this and hope you are too. follow this link
for details and to register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-community-webinar-validation-training-ticke
ts-42506916331 

 

Merry Mapping (and Validating)!

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

[Russell Deffner]

Hmm, not even logged-in I see:


^^Mapper level required^^^Validator role 
required ^^Difficulty

 

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:26 PM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

It looks as if mere mortals can't see the metadata section.  I can see 
"Validator role required:Yes" but not the level for the validator.

 

Thanks for the information.

 

Cheerio John

 

On 21 December 2017 at 20:49, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Yep, if you go into a project page as if you intend to map; on the bottom of 
the description is the ‘metadata’ section; including at the very bottom “Mapper 
level required” and “Validator role required”.  If mapper level is required, it 
correlates to the Difficulty.

 

Welcome!

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 6:41 PM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

So its done on a project level and each project can have different 
requirements?  Is it possible to see what these are for a particular project?

 

Thanks John

 

On 21 December 2017 at 20:03, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Hi John, yes in the TM3 you can restrict validation to those who have been 
given the role by a project manager.  You can also restrict mapping to only 
those who have achieved (or been promoted) to Intermediate or Advanced mapper 
status.

 

Merry Mapping!

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:58 PM
To: HOT
Subject: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

There seems to be some new restriction on some mappers.

 

Thanks John

 

 

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Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

[Russell Deffner]

Yep, if you go into a project page as if you intend to map; on the bottom of 
the description is the ‘metadata’ section; including at the very bottom “Mapper 
level required” and “Validator role required”.  If mapper level is required, it 
correlates to the Difficulty.

 

Welcome!

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 6:41 PM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

So its done on a project level and each project can have different 
requirements?  Is it possible to see what these are for a particular project?

 

Thanks John

 

On 21 December 2017 at 20:03, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Hi John, yes in the TM3 you can restrict validation to those who have been 
given the role by a project manager.  You can also restrict mapping to only 
those who have achieved (or been promoted) to Intermediate or Advanced mapper 
status.

 

Merry Mapping!

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:58 PM
To: HOT
Subject: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

There seems to be some new restriction on some mappers.

 

Thanks John

 

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Re: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

[Russell Deffner]

Hi John, yes in the TM3 you can restrict validation to those who have been 
given the role by a project manager.  You can also restrict mapping to only 
those who have achieved (or been promoted) to Intermediate or Advanced mapper 
status.

 

Merry Mapping!

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:58 PM
To: HOT
Subject: [HOT] who can validate in TM3?

 

There seems to be some new restriction on some mappers.

 

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Re: [HOT] [Osmf-talk] [hotosm-membership] Re: Code of Conduct Reminder

[Russell Deffner]

Hi all,

I would prefer to participate in mailing lists that are governed by CoC and 
enforced by an organized group rather than individuals.

=Russ

-Original Message-
From: Dan S [mailto:danstowell+...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 11:11 AM
To: Rafael Avila Coya
Cc: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org; Mapa Nauta; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] [Osmf-talk] [hotosm-membership] Re: Code of Conduct Reminder

Hi

It does seem to me that more clarity would be good here, i.e. slightly
disentangling the lines of accountability regarding the hot@ mailing
list.

Mikel's response has logical sense, but it's probably not clear to the
average participant in the hot@ mailing list whether they are
automatically made a part of the HOT community. Whether the best
clarification is to have two mailing lists, or for the info page
 to make clear whether
it is in general governed by HOT's rules, I don't know.

Best
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Re: [HOT] sporadic validation report

[Russell Deffner]

Bryan,

 

I hope you know that HOT appreciates all you do; personally I don’t disagree 
with leaving communication channels that are more frustration than anything 
else.  My point being, that message was against the Code of Conduct for all 
community members participating in HOT related tools and platforms, including 
this public list.  However, retaliating against HOT the organization because of 
one ‘random’ person’s email, I don’t agree with.  Everyone should consider that 
they are communicating with other human beings and when IRL does that kind of 
communication work to get the results you’re after?  

 

If there is anything I can do to moderate and send people to the correct means 
to ‘air their grievance’ you are welcome to contact me directly,

=Russ

 

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Voting Member+

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Contact |  <http://hotosm.org/donate> Donate – Please Help Us #MapTheDifference

 

 

From: Bryan Housel [mailto:br...@7thposition.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:57 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: Ralf Stephan; osm-hot
Subject: Re: [HOT] sporadic validation report

 

Russ I *am* on this mailing list.  But good news for all of you - I’m 
unsubscribing. 

I don’t prioritize features for people or organizations who hate me.

 

Thanks though,

Bryan

 

 

 





On Dec 13, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

 

Hi Ralf,

 

I hope it doesn’t need much explaining, but that message doesn’t belong on the 
HOT mailing list for 2 reasons.  1) The iD developers are not necessarily on 
the HOT mailing list (this list is for discussing things related to the 
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)  <https://hotosm.org/> 
https://hotosm.org).  2) The message is in conflict with our Code of Conduct  
<https://www.hotosm.org/hot_code_of_conduct#fullversion> 
https://www.hotosm.org/hot_code_of_conduct#fullversion

 

It would be unfortunate if we need to so quickly put the new community CoC into 
practice, but this message would be a good example for when to put our foot 
down.

 

Please take a break and think before corresponding with us,

=Russ

 

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Contact |  <http://hotosm.org/donate> Donate – Please help us #mapthedifference!

 

 

From: Ralf Stephan [ <mailto:gtrw...@gmail.com> mailto:gtrw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 9:45 AM
To:  <mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org> hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] sporadic validation report

 

Hello,

just now 5 out of 5 people that registered within the last 24 hours and worked 
on task #3939 did not square their buildings. I hate you, iD devs.

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Re: [HOT] sporadic validation report

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Ralf,

 

I hope it doesn’t need much explaining, but that message doesn’t belong on the 
HOT mailing list for 2 reasons.  1) The iD developers are not necessarily on 
the HOT mailing list (this list is for discussing things related to the 
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) https://hotosm.org).  2) The message is 
in conflict with our Code of Conduct 
https://www.hotosm.org/hot_code_of_conduct#fullversion 

 

It would be unfortunate if we need to so quickly put the new community CoC into 
practice, but this message would be a good example for when to put our foot 
down.

 

Please take a break and think before corresponding with us,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

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Donate <http://hotosm.org/donate>  – Please help us #mapthedifference!

 

 

From: Ralf Stephan [mailto:gtrw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 9:45 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] sporadic validation report

 

Hello,

just now 5 out of 5 people that registered within the last 24 hours and worked 
on task #3939 did not square their buildings. I hate you, iD devs.

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Re: [HOT] Looking for a contact with OSM contributors in the area of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

[Russell Deffner]

Cristian,

There might be some others on this list that know the area, but you might have 
better luck asking on the OSM India mailing list or forum; both links can be 
found on the WikiProject India page: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India 

Hope that helps,
=Russ

-Original Message-
From: Cristian Consonni [mailto:crist...@balist.es] 
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 7:30 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Looking for a contact with OSM contributors in the area of 
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Hi.

I am Cristian and I am member of OpenStreetMap Italia. I have been asked
by a student - at the University of Bergamo, Italy - that wants to
perform some analysis on OpenStreetMap around the area of Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh, India if I could put her in contact with some local OSM
contributors. Does anybody contribute to OSM in that area or can you
point me towards some local user and/or group?

Thank you.

Cristian

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[HOT] HOT Activation for Iran-Iraq Earthquake

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT community,

 

After initial size-up last night, we have today received a request from
UNOSAT and have decided to Activate to fulfill that request for buildings in
the area of impact from the Iran-Iraq Earthquake.  The USGS recorded it as a
7.3 magnitude around 1800 UTC yesterday (Nov 12th). Since initial reports,
the PAGER report
<https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000bmcg#pager>  has
been upgraded to a red alert for significant casualties.

 

Unfortunately, much of the area that is populated is rather dense and
difficult mapping so we are going to utilize the TM3 functionality to
restrict to intermediate or advanced mappers. To become an intermediate
and/or advanced mapping, keep mapping and you'll get the status as you
progress.  Head to tasks.hotosm.org to help map!

 

To become an Activator and be part of the coordination, visit:
http://courses.hotosm.org/ and start the Activation Essentials course.

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/> 

 

 

 

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Re: [HOT] Activation Coordination Courses: How-To and earn your Activation "Community Care Role" badge at the same time.

[Russell Deffner]

Thanks Blake, once we can catch a break it is my intention to update the 
courses as they are about 2 years old already which is a bit shocking to me. 
Mainly just wanted to let everyone know my email is russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Typing this from our small Puerto Rico mapathon here at State of the Map - US,
=Russ

> On Oct 21, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM 
>  wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> The amount of help you all have provided over the last 6-7 weeks is
> outstanding and I have many thanks from major organizations around the
> world to pass on to each and everyone of you. My inbox has several
> requests to pass on thanks you, everyone who has OSM mapped or helped
> with any HOT/OSM activity ever literally.
> 
> So many people have really stepped up and helped, dedicated so much
> care and effort to helping in whatever small way we could and several
> folks have really stepped up gone above and beyond, probably working
> too much. You have all done awesome work and many organizations, some
> huge and some small, have used the data you generated to make a
> difference in people's lives.
> 
> Which leads me to the topic of this email.
> 
> The HOT Activation teams have really done incredible work, many long
> hours for several weeks in a row now, some of them volunteering more
> than full time for 7 straight weeks.
> 
> Professionalism, experience, continuity and dedication are critical.
> 
> Self care and community care are just as critical.
> 
> This means, taking breaks, taking time off, making sure you and your
> peers are getting enough sleep, food, water. I have the honor of
> volunteering alongside you and other dedicated, tops in their field,
> people who continually amaze me at their high level of skills,
> experience and professionalism making a huge difference to people on
> the ground. The only way we can all maximize our impact is by taking
> care of ourselves too. 8 hours off is worth so much more than 20 hours
> straight.
> 
> So please, let us all take a few moments to make sure we are meeting
> all our self care needs and make yourself feel good by taking a break
> for a job amazingly done so far.
> 
> But that also means we need people to join the Activation teams so
> people can feel even better taking time off for self care.
> 
> In the big picture everyone is part of the activation team, everyone
> who maps, edits the wiki, helps or has helped HOT/OSM in any way in
> the past (the OSM data has been built over years and every bit of it
> is important) is part of the activation team.
> 
> But there is a HOT Activation protocol and there are formal roles that
> make a commitment and take on real responsibility for several parts of
> an activation. It just takes available time and experience and
> knowledge to fill one of the formal roles. HOT has a process to bring
> people's skills up in the Activation Coordination process, formal
> teams and roles. And you can learn how to get started joining an
> activation team by taking the self paced courses that train you to be
> a part of an Activation team.
> 
> There are only 2, top level, fully peer endorsed Activation Leads at
> the moment. That means they have completed every course in the
> Activation Coordination group of courses. And they have gone further
> and helped out in every role over the course of a few years, in actual
> or simulated activations and earned the edorsement of their peers.
> 
> (There are several of you reading this email who are fully qualified
> of course and can step in for any role in any activation, including
> Lead, just as you have done for years, you just have not gone through
> the courses and requested the peer endorsement. The content of the
> course is so good, you want to click through them all. I promise you
> it will not be a waste of your time, but it will take a few days to
> click through them all. Trust me, it is worth it. Just watch the video
> below and you will be able to click through each course in about 20
> mins just as I did in the video, I think there are 11 courses.)
> 
> The online course software is not great, but the content is amazing.
> You will learn what you need to know and feel confident contributing
> to the world of Activation coordination. HOT/OSM needs you.
> 
> I just took the Community Care course as I know it is something we
> needed and I wanted to see what we should be doing.
> 
> I created a 20 minute long, very informal (that means I mumble a lot
> and talk too softly) video in American English that shows you how to
> use the HOT Courses website to take a course and I walk through the
> full content of the Community Care course. The information in the
> course itself is something we all need. I encourage everyone to at
> least suffer through the video and read along with me as we learn most
> of the great material in that important course together.
> 
> The signs and symptoms section and the how to self care parts are the
> 

[HOT] NOTICE: Tasking Manager 3 Launch

[Russell Deffner]

Hello all,

 

We're in the process of making the switch; there should be only a short
period of downtime before the Tasking Manager Version 3 is live!

 

Thank you all for your input, participation and patience as we make this
important upgrade!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

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Re: [HOT] Hurricane Maria: DG post-event imagery as WMS?

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Nick,

 

Dominica is mapped; we haven’t been requested or working on post-disaster 
mapping yet.  It would be best to have the mapathon work on any of the existing 
projects at: http://tasks.hotosm.org/ 

 

Join us on the #disaster-mapping channel on slack 
(https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/) if you’d like to discuss the coordination.

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

 <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

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From: Nick McWilliam (MapAction) [mailto:nmcwill...@mapaction.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:06 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Hurricane Maria: DG post-event imagery as WMS?

 

Hi All,

 

I’ve been contacted by a mapathon team working on Dominica. They’d like to use 
the latest imagery provided by DigitalGlobe: 
https://www.digitalglobe.com/opendata/hurricane-maria/post-event

 

Does anyone know if this has been set up as a WMS / TMS / WMTS for use in JOSM 
please?

 

Their mapathon starts today, so any quick replies much appreciated. (Meanwhile 
I’ve suggested they start with existing imagery.)

 

Many thanks,

Nick.

 

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[HOT] HOT Activation for Puebla, Mexico Earthquake

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

We have now activated for the Puebla Earthquake.  The first project on 
http://tasks.hotosm.org (#3597) now and are coordinating with Miriam on further 
mapping tasks.

 

The mapper response to the (I think I count 6 separate events in the past month 
now: 2 hurricanes, 2 floods and now 2 earthquakes) has been incredible; we ask 
you to continue helping us provide critical data for response and aid agencies 
to provide services as quickly and efficiently as possible.  Stay tuned to the 
Tasking Manager or the wiki-pages here: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team#Current_Remote_Mapping_Actions
 

 

Thank you to everyone mapping and coordinating the response!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Voting Member/Volunteer Disaster Mapping Coordinator

Email:  <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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From: Tyler Radford [mailto:tyler.radf...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 4:33 PM
To: hot
Cc: Mapa Nauta
Subject: [HOT] Puebla, Mexico - 7.1 earthquake

 

Dear all

 

Mexico recently experienced a 7.1 earthquake affecting Puebla and Mexico City.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000ar20#executive

 

Shaking was felt strongly and there is fairly significant damage in Puebla and 
Mexico City.

 

Enrique Zapata, General Director of Open Data from the Office of the President 
of Mexico made a request for post event imagery donations. I discussed with 
Miriam Gonzalez OSM Mexico (cc) a few minutes ago and will follow up as we 
learn how we can best assist response.

 

Thank you to all of you who are already helping with Hurricane Maria, 
Bangladesh Floods, and the Oaxaca Mexico earthquake response.

 

Tyler

 

 

Tyler Radford

Executive Director

 <mailto:tyler.radf...@hotosm.org> tyler.radf...@hotosm.org

@TylerSRadford

 

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Re: [HOT] How to get the name of the creator of a task on the Tasking Manager?

[Russell Deffner]

Michael, 

I think it only shows on the project preview from the 'home page'; 
http://tasks.openstreetmap.id/?sort_by=priority=asc=43 - if 
you follow that you should see "created by"...

=Russ

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From: Michael Reichert [mailto:naka...@gmx.net] 
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 10:21 AM
To: Pierre GIRAUD
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] How to get the name of the creator of a task on the Tasking 
Manager?

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Hi Pierre,

Am 29.07.2017 um 18:14 schrieb Pierre GIRAUD:
> It's also written at the bottom of the "description" tab.

I am logged in into the *Indonesian* instance and the information is
missing on the description tab. There is just the green button
"instructions" which links to the instructions tab.

http://tasks.openstreetmap.id/project/43

Does the Indonesian instance use an older version? Or is it just a bug
because the description is empty? If it is so, I will have a look at
the bug tracker on Github.

Best regards

Michael

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Re: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

[Russell Deffner]

Yes, the typical Tasking Manager projects (with squares vs. arbitrary task 
size) are not really good for doing large natural/landuse features like forest. 
Not sure what project(s) that is and if it's asking for that, more likely and I 
often see mappers adding features that are not requested in the project. It can 
make a tough time stitching all those forest bits together although in this 
case it doesn't look too bad, yet.
=Russ

-Original Message-
From: Kretzer [mailto:kret...@gmx.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 6:11 AM
To: HOT Openstreetmap
Subject: [HOT] Chequerboard Pattern

Hi,
have you noticed how the use of the Task Manager sometimes produces nice 
patterns like here:  http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/5.5244/25.1862 ?

You can see that at least some users are very diciplined in staying inside the 
box :-)

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[HOT] Malaria Campaign Updates

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

It has been an incredible collective effort to conduct this massive mapping
campaign to help end malaria.  If you have not seen it yet, check out
Mapbox's blog and graphics of the work done so far:
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/world-malaria-day/ 

 

On Tuesday, World Malaria Day, about 360 mappers came together for this
campaign and ended up tracing over 94,000 buildings in Zimbabwe. I can't say
"Wow, Thank You!" enough. 

 

Although World Malaria Day is over, the disease is not, and neither is the
mapping. Please continue to spread the word and share the link directly to
the campaign on the Tasking Manager: http://bit.ly/2miQUyZ - or for more
information, the project page:
https://www.hotosm.org/projects/malaria_elimination_campaign 

 

For the youthmappers chapters, there will be one more round of the Mapping
To End Malaria Challenge which will run May 1 - June 4; more info and
registration can be found here:
https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-03-06_malaria_mapping_youthmappers_chall
enge 

 

For those chapters currently competing in round 2, I just looked at
preliminary stats and there is literally a one(1) building difference
between two contenders; with several others on their heels for 2nd and 3rd
place. A good push this weekend could really make the difference for a
handful of teams.

 

Thank you everyone for supporting this campaign and Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Project Manager - Malaria Elimination Campaign

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) 

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[HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge Round 2

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT Community,

 

The second round of the youthmappers mapping challenge to eliminate malaria
begins tomorrow (April 3). If you or someone you know is part of a
youthmappers chapter anywhere in the world, please feel free to forward
along this email. You do need to be an existing chapter of youthmappers
<http://www.youthmappers.org/>  to be eligible for prizes, but anyone can
help us map.

 

Read more on our blog:
https://hotosm.org/updates/2017-03-06_malaria_mapping_youthmappers_challenge

 

To get started,
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w8t5kmGOydZJ9aGrC3fWCz2s8X2BmntHZtukqYs5Q
hs> register your group here - mapping projects can be easily located using
this search url: http://bit.ly/2miQUyZ - please map only the projects
created by me (russdeffner) on the Tasking Manager.

 

Any questions, please ask;

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Activation. floods in Peru

[Russell Deffner]

Thanks Maning,

A few of us are in the telegram chat with the local community; I'll be mostly 
mobile today, so great to have your help if more projects are needed.

=Russ

-Original Message-
From: maning sambale [mailto:emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 9:15 AM
To: Daniel O'Connor
Cc: HOT
Subject: Re: [HOT] Activation. floods in Peru

Hi everyone,

Im in Lima at the moment but movement is limited due to the crisis.  I
can do a bit of work but my Spanish is limited.
At least I can help prepare tasks if local community have defined
areas to work on.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Daniel O'Connor
 wrote:
> One possible thing that is a little different to some past activations is
> the availability of gps data via improve-osm.org - it might be worth
> checking that against flood affected areas to see if it highlights missing
> roads well.
>
> Additionally, strava's GPS 'slide' tool built into ID may allow some
> fast/accurate tracing of any missing roads/cloudy imagery.
>
> For example:
> http://strava.github.io/iD/#background=Bing=16.23/-77.23724/-11.13873=,
>
> Obviously neither is going to be 'complete', but may be helpful to quickly
> target areas to map.
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Johnattan Rupire 
> wrote:
>>
>> I wrote to activat...@hotosm.org to ask for setup these tasks.
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>> El 16/03/17 a las 12:12, Johnattan Rupire escribió:
>>
>> Wiki is here:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2017_Floods_in_Peru
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> El 16/03/17 a las 11:47, hyan...@gmail.com escribió:
>>
>> To whom it may concern the coordination is in https://t.me/osmPe
>> (Telegram) a new wiki is on the go.
>>
>> Para aquellos interesados la coordinación es en https://t.me/osmPe
>> (Telegram) una nueva wiki está en camino.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Humberto Yances
>>
>> 2017-03-16 11:20 GMT-05:00 Johnattan Rupire :
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> In Peru we are experiencing a difficult time due to the impact that is
>>> causing the floods in the country, especially in the north. This is why we
>>> want to open a task in the Task Manager to call people to the mapping of
>>> areas near Piura.
>>>
>>> It would be the first time we have activated an alert of this type here,
>>> Humberto Yances has offered to collaborate with us, so here goes the thanks
>>> and the invitation to other collaborators.
>>>
>>> Those who have experience mapping flood events, please also share their
>>> insights, tips or recommendations on how we could get started and how best
>>> to collaborate from the map.
>>>
>>> We are looking for contact with the respective authorities here, we hope
>>> to get their attention at some point.
>>>
>>> Regards!
>>>
>>> Johnattan Rupire
>>>
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Re: [HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Milo,

 

Yes, it would! And although we’re highlighting malaria, the data we are 
generating will assist in other disease interventions. I’m definitely not the 
expert on the difference and similarities of these diseases and their treatment 
and prevention strategies. I think the best place to come together around this 
topic is the #health channel on Slack (https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/).

 

Or contact me directly if you want to chat,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

 <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

 <http://hotosm.org/> http://hotosm.org

 

From: Milo van der Linden [mailto:m...@dogodigi.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 12:20 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: hot
Subject: Re: [HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge

 

Yesterday I met the folks from https://denguehack.org and with ICM-Jamaica we 
been looking at Zika.

 

Wouldn't it be great if we could go for a "Mosquito Borne Diseases" challenge 
to attract a wider audience and given it is the same breed of mosquito that we 
are targeting?

 

Kind regards,

 

Milo

 

Op 6 mrt. 2017 17:09 schreef "Russell Deffner" <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>:

Greetings HOT Community,

 

Today we are launching a challenge for youthmappers chapters to help us map to 
eliminate malaria. If you or someone you know is part of a youthmapper chapter 
anywhere in the world, please feel free to forward along this link: 
https://hotosm.org/updates/2017-03-06_malaria_mapping_youthmappers_challenge 

 

Just need to have one member of the chapter register on a short google form, 
then use a unique hashtag for your group in your changeset comment for your 
edits to count.

 

 
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w8t5kmGOydZJ9aGrC3fWCz2s8X2BmntHZtukqYs5Qhs> 
Register your group here, mapping projects are found here 
<http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority=asc=eliminate+malaria,>
 , please map projects created by ‘russdeffner’.

 

Any questions, please ask;

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT Community,

 

Today we are launching a challenge for youthmappers chapters to help us map
to eliminate malaria. If you or someone you know is part of a youthmapper
chapter anywhere in the world, please feel free to forward along this link:
https://hotosm.org/updates/2017-03-06_malaria_mapping_youthmappers_challenge


 

Just need to have one member of the chapter register on a short google form,
then use a unique hashtag for your group in your changeset comment for your
edits to count.

 

 
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w8t5kmGOydZJ9aGrC3fWCz2s8X2BmntHZtukqYs5Q
hs> Register your group here, mapping projects are found here
<http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority=asc=eliminate+ma
laria,> , please map projects created by 'russdeffner'.

 

Any questions, please ask;

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

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Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for less?

[Russell Deffner]

On this topic, there has been concern over validators doing so much deletion of 
recently mapped objects.  This triggers a few monitoring sites that watch for 
'suspicious changesets'; it doesn't mean much in the immediate, but thinking 
longer term for the OSM project, those algorithms could be used for automatic 
warnings or blocks.  I think no matter what, we're always going to be dealing 
with poor mapping, so we should also look at some best practices/rules of thumb 
for when to delete versus improve a previously mapped feature.  Although I do 
find myself deleting and re-drawing sometimes, I try to minimize that as there 
is something to preserving the original mappers contribution.  This can also be 
an issue for trying to calculate mappers contributions for a mapathon or 
project if a validator unnecessarily deletes the objects.

To quickly touch on project creation; I think roads and settlements/residential 
areas go well together - they both should be done with larger task squares than 
for building projects, but not sure it matters too much which one comes first, 
but for disaster response as an example, I would think roads and settlements 
are first priority followed by buildings.

Happy Mapping,
=Russ

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From: Andrew Buck [mailto:andrew.r.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:20 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] Could we get more out of our mappers by asking for less?

> I think this is a different conversation, I would prefer mappers take a
> little more time and care, some buildings I've seen mapped have little
> relationship to the size or shape of the building.
> 
> Cheerio John

I agree on this.  Especially with respect to buildings.  Roads are
fairly easy to add refinements to by doing them one at a time and using
the replace geometry tool in JOSM, however poorly mapped buildings take
longer to clean up than simply deleting them and mapping them fresh.

I would rather see a user add 10 buildings that are high quality then
100 or even 1000 that have to be remapped by someone else.  Having to
map something that has already been mapped poorly by someone else is
really disheartening.  On the one hand you spend your whole time mapping
thinking about how your work is duplicating that of someone else, and on
the other hand you feel bad about removing their contribution from the
database.  So you get hit with it on both fronts.

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Re: [HOT] #2559 - Jigawa State Road Network

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Manuel, you can unsubscribe yourself here:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot - towards the bottom.

=Russ

 

From: Manuel Ramón Ternero Vega [mailto:manter...@hotmail.es] 
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 4:44 PM
To: john whelan; hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] #2559 - Jigawa State Road Network

 

 

Please I dont want otrecieve more emails from this group

  _  

From: john whelan 
Sent: 18 February 2017 17:33
To: Daniel Specht
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] #2559 - Jigawa State Road Network 

 

Additionally if you don't map the settlements then how do you know where the
highways are?  Does it really need tracks?

Cheerio John

 

On 18 February 2017 at 11:04, Daniel Specht  wrote:

If all hamlets are to be connected to the road network and all residential
roads mapped, I'd recommend allowing tiles to be split into 64 parts rather
than 16. The current tiles are big enough to intimidate mappers to want to
map below tertiary roads.


 

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[HOT] Community Webinar: YouthMappers

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT <http://hotosm.org/> ) is launching
monthly Community Webinars to share the interesting activities our Community
is up to!

 

The webinar series kicks off on Thursday February 16th with Patricia Solis
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-solis-aa46209?authType=NAME_SEARCH
hToken=nYdC=en_US=2537929731486140493412=1
=471=vsrp_people_res_name=VSRPsearchId%3A2537929731486140493412%
2CVSRPtargetId%3A28409884%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3A
NAME_SEARCH>  and Chad Blevins
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-blevins-5590b352?authType=NAME_SEARCH
Token=xlZI=en_US=2537929731486140580335=2=
31=vsrp_people_res_name=VSRPsearchId%3A2537929731486140580335%2C
VSRPtargetId%3A185365077%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3AN
AME_SEARCH>  talking through the journey to set up YouthMappers
<http://www.youthmappers.org/> . Youthmappers have embedded regular mapping
groups in over 50 universities worldwide in just a year, and aim to grow a
generation of young leaders to create resilient communities, and to define
their world by mapping it.

 

We welcome you to join us for the webinar - register here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-community-webinar-youthmappers-presentatio
n-tickets-31635520694> .

 

Look forward to speaking with you then. Happy Friday all!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Email: russell.deff...@hotosm.org

OSM/Skype: russdeffner

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[HOT] 'Tis the Season - Thank you for making #mapthedifference a success

[Russell Deffner]

Season's Greetings HOT,

 

We all have another reason to celebrate this weekend, our #mapthedifference
campaign has passed our goal of $30,000 USD. This enables us to launch the
micro-grant program and directly support the growth of local OSM communities
around the globe in 2017. Don't hesitate to continue donating
(https://donate.hotosm.org/) - the more funds, the further the program can
reach.

 

A big thanks to DigitalGlobe for pushing us over the mark with a $10K
donation; Mapbox for their $10K donation challenge, and all of the 175
donors so far. Speaking of DigitalGlobe, I mentioned last week that we'll be
working together to assist the Clinton Health Access Initiative eliminate
malaria, jump onto project #2396 <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2396>  if
you have some time to help.

 

Have a great weekend/Happy Holidays,

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

[Russell Deffner]

I’m not sure what’s causing that, on one of my machines I did get just the 
project boundaries but not the task ‘squares’; they do come up if you take a 
random task.

=Russ

 

From: Kevin Bullock [mailto:kbull...@digitalglobe.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:54 PM
To: hot
Cc: Russell Deffner; john whelan
Subject: Re: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

 

John, Phil - it’s not a rectangular grid, but it is there, I can confirm I can 
see it. Try taking a random task and you should see it as well.  

 

Kevin

 

 

On Dec 18, 2016, at 4:19 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I'm still not seeing a grid.

Cheerio John

 

On 18 December 2016 at 13:24, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Hi Phil, sorry for the delayed reply. It’s a large area so it might take a 
moment to load; it’s also a bit different from our traditional projects as 
we’re pre-identifying the populated places so the grid isn’t just blanketed 
across the area but narrowed in where there are structures. Let me know if 
you’re still having issues or have other questions.

 

Thanks,

=Russ

 

From: Phil (The Geek) Wyatt [mailto:p...@wyatt-family.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:58 PM
To: 'Russell Deffner'; 'hot'
Subject: RE: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

 

I am not seeing any grid on that project. I will check again later.

 

Cheers - Phil

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:53 AM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

 

Hi everyone,

 

HOT and DigitalGlobe are teaming up to support the Clinton Health Access 
Initiative’s fight against malaria (more info to come).  Our first area of 
interest is northern Botswana.  The area has been mapped before but much of 
that mapping was done and hasn’t been updated in several years.  So this will 
be much more validation than raw mapping.

 

If you have some time this weekend, we would appreciate you pitching-in on 
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2396 

 

Thank You!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russell.deff...@hotosm.org

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Re: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Phil, sorry for the delayed reply. It's a large area so it might take a
moment to load; it's also a bit different from our traditional projects as
we're pre-identifying the populated places so the grid isn't just blanketed
across the area but narrowed in where there are structures. Let me know if
you're still having issues or have other questions.

 

Thanks,

=Russ

 

From: Phil (The Geek) Wyatt [mailto:p...@wyatt-family.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 2:58 PM
To: 'Russell Deffner'; 'hot'
Subject: RE: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

 

I am not seeing any grid on that project. I will check again later.

 

Cheers - Phil

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:53 AM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

 

Hi everyone,

 

HOT and DigitalGlobe are teaming up to support the Clinton Health Access
Initiative's fight against malaria (more info to come).  Our first area of
interest is northern Botswana.  The area has been mapped before but much of
that mapping was done and hasn't been updated in several years.  So this
will be much more validation than raw mapping.

 

If you have some time this weekend, we would appreciate you pitching-in on
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2396 

 

Thank You!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Help fight malaria with some OSM validation!

[Russell Deffner]

Hi everyone,

 

HOT and DigitalGlobe are teaming up to support the Clinton Health Access
Initiative's fight against malaria (more info to come).  Our first area of
interest is northern Botswana.  The area has been mapped before but much of
that mapping was done and hasn't been updated in several years.  So this
will be much more validation than raw mapping.

 

If you have some time this weekend, we would appreciate you pitching-in on
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2396 

 

Thank You!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Community Presentations - Call for Presenters

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT Community!

 

The Community Working Group has, over the last several months, been
exploring and preparing to host 'community presentations'. This is a great
opportunity to present your local mapping efforts, cool things you've done
with OSM data or maps, related tech projects or anything you think the HOT
community would want to know more about.

 

If you are interested in giving a presentation, let us know with this short
form:
https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefOd8-Wh5JYbj2nh_O6gP
UnUVK_KX6Byf6zS6Mqtd2nAoqag/viewform and we'll get back to you on
scheduling, etc.

 

We also have a meeting tomorrow (Friday) at 1500 UTC on our Mumble
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble>  server, please come by and chat
if you're interested in either presenting or being part of the working
group.

 

I look forward to hearing more stories from this amazing community!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] AWG Meeting Wednesday 11/2 at 1400UTC

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings all,

 

We have the Activation Working Group meeting tomorrow (11/2) at 1400UTC. All
are welcome to join, the meetings are on IRC:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC

 

Happy Mapping,

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Community Working Group 1400UTC

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

The Community Working Group has made some great progress testing various
platforms for hosting online presentations (aka Community Hour) but in my
opinion we haven't found the 'right one' yet. If you have any experience or
desire to help us explore platforms we are meeting tomorrow 10/14 at
1400UTC. Our meetings are on Mumble, if it's your first time it takes a bit
of setup, start here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble 

 

Thank you for contributing to HOT in so many ways!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon (15-1700UTC)

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

>From time to time we try to get informal chats going on Saturday's on the
HOT Mumble server. This is a great time to just chat with however many
people show up about anything OpenStreetMap, and sometimes just general
discussion about things. It's also a good chance to just set-up Mumble in
case you want to join meetings that happen there such as the public OSMF
Board Meetings, several of the HOT Working Groups and Member meetings. And
most of the time there are a few people just hanging out who can answer
HOT/OSM questions. If it's your first time using Mumble, start here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble 

 

We hope to 'see' some of you today!

=Russ

 

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[HOT] Reinventing the Community Working Group

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT Community,

 

You are invited to participate in the Community Working Group
<https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/?hl=en#!forum/community> . As
we have struggled to really find a 'niche' for this group, this will be the
group's first meeting under a bit different objective. I will be introducing
the concept of 'Community Hour', where the members of the CtyWG help
facilitate online presentations at least monthly. So we're looking for
people who can help schedule and facilitate online presentations. If you
want to present at a community hour, that will come soon after the group
updates the Terms of Reference and draft some procedures for how we'll find
presenters.  

 

The meeting is this Friday the 16th at 1400 UTC.  We will be meeting on
Mumble <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble>  so please set-up ahead
of time and if you're new to Mumble it's best to show up a bit early so if
you do have problems someone can help.

 

Happy Mapping and all the other HOT/OSM stuff you do!

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda

[Russell Deffner]

Geoffrey and all, here is the PAGER from USGS: 
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006nkx#pager – they often 
change, so when I was looking their estimates for fatalities and economic 
impact was relatively low.

Copied Activation WG in case there is a need to stand up a team.

=Russ

 

From: Geoffrey Kateregga [mailto:geoffrey.katere...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:00 PM
To: HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
Subject: [HOT] Earthquake in Tanzania and Uganda

 

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits Tanzania and Uganda, 12 people reported dead, 
hundreds injured 
http://earthquake-report.com/2016/09/10/strong-earthquake-lake-victoria-region-on-september-10-2016/

 

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Re: [HOT] [activation hotosm] AWG Meeting Summary | 6th September 2016

[Russell Deffner]

Thank you Mhairi,

 

Just for clarification, I wasn’t under the assumption we are “migrating” away 
from Moodle. At this point that would be premature as ‘functionality’ in Moodle 
provides us two very important components: testing peoples’ knowledge/retention 
of materials and a badging/roster system. I see the GitBooks version more as 
our ‘content management’ – i.e. it will hopefully be easier to add, remove and 
enhance the content there. Once all the content is ‘ported’/duplicated in 
GitBooks my hope is it will be easier to ‘migrate’ content to LearnOSM and 
eventually we can reduce Moodle to basically just the maintenance of the 
Activation Roster. I also think it’s going to take some time (probably months) 
since those of us who attended the AWG meeting don’t have much extra time; 
maybe during SotM/Summit sprint time, but we’d be ‘competing’ with more 
interesting things happening at the conference. I was actually planning on 
helping validate during the MM event at SotM.

 

So, long story short, everyone should continue utilizing the Courses on our 
Moodle site (http://courses.hotosm.org) as we also have non-Activation training 
there and have talked about more courses for ‘staff training’ in the future. 
Several of the courses are already recommended training for working groups; 
such as the Reporting and Public Relations role courses for our Communications 
WG volunteers.

 

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

 <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

 <http://hotosm.org/> http://hotosm.org

 

 

From: Mhairi O'Hara [mailto:mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:19 PM
To: Activation WG; HOT
Subject: [activation hotosm] AWG Meeting Summary | 6th September 2016

 

Hello HOTties,

 

So we didn't run the meetbot during yesterdays meeting, because I thought it 
was only Russell and myself that were attending, but luckily Blake, Mikel and 
Cristiano showed up and some great ideas were discussed:

*   Have new students signup to the Activation curriculum course via a 
Google Form
*   Each new student will be buddied up with an Activation mentor to guide 
them and show them the ropes
*   Migrate the Activation course content from Moodle to GitBooks which is 
more user friendly and easier to maintain
*   Arrange an Activation sprint during the Summit/SOTM to move the content 
and get input from the community
*   Move Activation WG meetings to the 1st Wednesday of each month at 1400 
UTC (next meeting will be on the 5th October 2016)

 

Unfortunately I won't be attending the events at the end of the month in 
Brussels, so I leave it up to the other four to coordinate the best time and 
see it through. Please use the following Google Doc to get yourselves started:

 

https://docs.google.com/a/hotosm.org/document/d/1Frg8CYCPB12YUjeljK8E0sHv81UM7EPDkBrlXIYPIyg/edit?usp=sharing

 

Kind regards,

 

Mhairi


 

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Re: [HOT] HOT Working Groups (was Myanmar task on MapSwipe)

[Russell Deffner]

Thanks Melanie - I'll follow-up directly with you next.

In the meantime, I'll hijack this thread to let everyone know - yes, we have a 
handful of working groups and new people are more than welcome to jump right 
in; the groups I participate in all have a 'standing list' of stuff we'd like 
to do but just not enough time/people. The groups can be found here: 
https://hotosm.org/working-groups - each group picks their own forum, frequency 
of meetings, etc. and only Community and Security are 'inactive' but it's our 
hope to have a 'chair' for all groups by end-of-year (at least that was my 
choice for accomplishable goal in 2016). There is also this calendar: 
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hotosm.org_848e89aaiab04ag94d23rqn558%40group.calendar.google.com
  - time default is Iceland/UTC

Any questions about working groups or 'how to join' I'd be happy to answer,
=Russ

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-Original Message-
From: Melanie Eckle [mailto:melanieec...@gmx.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 12:41 PM
To: la...@lauraogrady.ca; russell.deff...@hotosm.org
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org; pedrito1...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [HOT] Myanmar task on MapSwipe

Hey Laura and Russell,

thank you for your messages. We would be very interested to share
ideas and discuss the QGIS grant. As part of the disastermappers
heidelberg/ GIScience Research Group Heidelberg we were involved in the
conceptualization and development of the MapSwipe App and would be
excited to take this further.

Kind regards,

Melanie Eckle


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Re: [HOT] Myanmar task on MapSwipe

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Laura and all,

 

That is a pretty tight window for the QGIS grant, however I went ahead and 
added it to the Fundraising Working Group’s ‘pipeline’/spreadsheet. We meet 
every-other week, next one is Wednesday the 14th; however, we have some 
projects that are also time sensitive and we may do a ‘less formal’ FWG meeting 
this week.

 

If you’re interested in this stuff, we definitely welcome more people (i.e. 
more people == more opportunities we can apply for). Let me, Tyler or Cheryl 
know and we can get you into the mailing list, etc.

 

Sincerely,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

 <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

 <http://hotosm.org/> http://hotosm.org

 

 

From: Laura O'Grady [mailto:la...@lauraogrady.ca] 
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 3:27 PM
To: Pete Masters
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] Myanmar task on MapSwipe

 

Hi Pete,

 

Thanks for sharing this data in QGIS format with the list. I look forward to 
taking a closer look.

 

Speaking of QGIS they currently have a grant application call (due date 
Thursday September 15th, 2016):

 

http://blog.qgis.org/2016/08/04/qgis-grants-call-for-applications/

 

I noticed one of the potential projects they might fund is:

 

·Implementing a new feature in QGIS

If there are any developers out there who have ideas about a plug-in that might 
be used in conjunction with the Tasking Manager and/or MapSwipe that HOT would 
find useful I'd be happy to read over and provide feedback on a grant proposal 
for this funding call. I have experience writing/reviewing grants with some 
technological aspect but not specifically with this organization.

 

Best wishes,

 

Laura 

 

-

Laura O'Grady

la...@lauraogrady.ca

 

 


On Sep 5, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Pete Masters <pedrito1...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi all, how are you?

 

Thought some of you might be interested in this: myanmar-results-100.zip 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwsMM5hElkXEZVdEMWtiS20zVUk/view?usp=sharing_eid=57cda93f>
 

 

It's the full results from MapSwipe contributors for the MSF-requested Myanmar 
project. There's a qgis project file, shapes for admin boundaries and a results 
geojson.

 

This will be the first MapSwipe task that informs a tasking manager project, so 
we need to work out how best to do that over the coming days!

 

The project in MapSwipe was completed in around 60 hours by just more than 1000 
people, which we are super pleased with. Looking forward to see how it affects 
the TM process!

 

Would love to hear your questions and conmments / suggestions...

 

Cheers,

 

Pete

 




 

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Re: [HOT] Highway=residential in Africa

[Russell Deffner]

Hi John,

 

Road classification, as most of us are well aware, is difficult to say the 
least.  My opinion is that what suggest as ‘best practice’ for remote mapping 
in Africa is to use this as a guide: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa 

 

However, looking over it, I think it does need a ‘refresh’; it doesn’t even 
mention trunk or service tags (not even a ‘don’t use’ rule of thumb), however, 
I wonder if that image for primary roads doesn’t better show a ‘trunk road’.

 

Specifically, I think all road classification is only as good as the local 
community, because often you can’t tell ‘significance’ or function without 
local knowledge.

 

=Russ

 

From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:21 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Highway=residential in Africa

 

When validating I'm seeing a large number of highways in rural areas tagged as 
highway=residential rather than highway=unclassified mainly by new mappers in 
maperthons but even one or two project managers are using this designation and 
I'm not sure why.

My expectation is a few highways within a landuse=residential ie mainly towns 
or larger villages would be so tagged but not those outside.

 

Thoughts?  

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Re: [HOT] Fundraising Working Group June 8 1700 UTC

[Russell Deffner]

Oops, so many groups I forget how to invite people to which ones; for the
FWG, please join the mailing-list by visiting
https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/#!forum/fundraising and 'apply
for membership', i.e. send us a quick introduction.

 

Then you can visit agendas and such :)

=Russ

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 12:36 PM
To: hot (hot@openstreetmap.org)
Cc: fundrais...@hotosm.org
Subject: Fundraising Working Group June 8 1700 UTC

 

Hello HOT community,

 

We do have lots of great working groups, and I get the pleasure to invite
you to the Fundraising WG. Please see
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zEXCx6qCGxRKSc9hV5IkorR1l0AAezFnBbVjnxJeJq
M for agenda and details.

 

Also, you can stay tuned to all the WG's schedule from:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hotosm.org_848e89aaiab04ag94d
23rqn...@group.calendar.google.com
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hotosm.org_848e89aaiab04ag94
d23rqn...@group.calendar.google.com=1> =1 

 

Best regards,

=Russ

 

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Re: [HOT] Imagery

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings Dharini,

 

For more information on the imagery we used for the HOT Activation, see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#Available_Imagery 

 

In many cases we collaborate with imagery providers, example being project 1920 
we were able to secure imagery from just days before the flooding began. 
Sometimes we do ‘post-event’ mapping from imagery, but of course the best data 
will come from locals. We’re always going to be supporting the growth of the 
local community and if you are still interested in helping, check out the 
‘resilience’ projects (1280, 1340 and 1923).

 

=Russ

 

From: "Michael Heißmeier" [mailto:michae...@digital-filestore.de] 
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 6:54 AM
To: dharini dube
Cc: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [HOT] Imagery

 

Hi Dharini,

 

whether Google's imagery is more recent or not is not really relevant for us 
because their Terms of Use do not allow us to use their imagery for OSM.

 

Best Regards

Michael

  

Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2016 um 08:23 Uhr
Von: "dharini dube" 
An: hot@openstreetmap.org
Betreff: [HOT] Imagery

Hi,

I am new to OSM and HOT mapping. I was doing the Sri Lanka flood mapping 
projects 1914 and 1915 and I was looking at the Bing and mapbox satellite 
imageries and compared them to satellite imagery on Google maps, there was a 
lot of difference in terms of the features like buildings, streams etc. Many of 
them are missing here in OSM. Which one is more recent OSM or Google.

Dharini Dube
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Re: [HOT] #1915 - Sri Lanka Floods: Eastern Kelani River Basin instruction contradiction

[Russell Deffner]

Nope Alan, you were completely correct; adding back the list in case others 
were wondering. That was a literal ‘lost in translation’ issue; as we’ve had 
folks working furiously to get everything translated into the local languages.

 

So, sorry and thanks for pointing things out when they don’t make sense; it’s 
reworded now, hope it’s clearer (and non-contradictory now).

 

=Russ 

 

From: alan.ruth.br...@gmail.com [mailto:alan.ruth.br...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
Alan Bragg
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 9:19 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Subject: Re: [HOT] #1915 - Sri Lanka Floods: Eastern Kelani River Basin 
instruction contradiction

 

Hi Russ,

Thanks, I understood that and that's what I was doing but the second part of 
the instruction doesn't make sense to me. It you can "use Mapbox to trace and 
then align it with Bing imagery."

That would be wrong according to your message. There'd be a bunch of buildings 
traced in Mapbox and then moved to align with Bing.

I must be missing something.

Thanks for the quick response.

Alan

 

 

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Hi Alan,

 

Yes, sorry – hard to write this short and sweet.

 

Basically east of Ambulgama both Bing and Mapbox imagery source ‘changes’; in 
particular the ‘hi-res’ tiles of Mapbox (i.e. beyond zoom level 17) is not 
available.

 

So, you’ll be able to see the buildings better in Bing. So I’ve been 
accomplishing tracing by either just leaving Bing as is, trace the buildings, 
then switch to Mapbox and drag them to line-up, as we’ve still checked and 
although the offset is ‘less’ between Bing and Mapbox, Mapbox is still in 
better alignment.

 

Another ‘fancier’ way to do this is check to see if the roads are lined up with 
the Mapbox imagery, if so, you can adjust the Bing Imagery first, then trace 
off that and you’ll be all lined up.

 

But Mapbox is also more recent imagery, so there might be new construction.

 

In other words, you really should be using both imagery sources for this area 
to ‘get the best picture’.

 

=Russ

 

From: Alan Bragg [mailto:alan.d.br...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 7:11 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] #1915 - Sri Lanka Floods: Eastern Kelani River Basin instruction 
contradiction

 

​I'm afraid I don't understand the instructions for task #1915.

 

 "Either use Bing to trace features and then align it with Mapbox or use Mapbox 
to trace and then align it with Bing imagery.​"

 

The second half of the above sentence seems to be the exact opposite of the 
first half.

Can someone please clarify. 

 

 

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Re: [HOT] #1915 - Sri Lanka Floods: Eastern Kelani River Basin instruction contradiction

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Alan,

 

Yes, sorry – hard to write this short and sweet.

 

Basically east of Ambulgama both Bing and Mapbox imagery source ‘changes’; in 
particular the ‘hi-res’ tiles of Mapbox (i.e. beyond zoom level 17) is not 
available.

 

So, you’ll be able to see the buildings better in Bing. So I’ve been 
accomplishing tracing by either just leaving Bing as is, trace the buildings, 
then switch to Mapbox and drag them to line-up, as we’ve still checked and 
although the offset is ‘less’ between Bing and Mapbox, Mapbox is still in 
better alignment.

 

Another ‘fancier’ way to do this is check to see if the roads are lined up with 
the Mapbox imagery, if so, you can adjust the Bing Imagery first, then trace 
off that and you’ll be all lined up.

 

But Mapbox is also more recent imagery, so there might be new construction.

 

In other words, you really should be using both imagery sources for this area 
to ‘get the best picture’.

 

=Russ

 

From: Alan Bragg [mailto:alan.d.br...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 7:11 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] #1915 - Sri Lanka Floods: Eastern Kelani River Basin instruction 
contradiction

 

​I'm afraid I don't understand the instructions for task #1915.

 

 "Either use Bing to trace features and then align it with Mapbox or use Mapbox 
to trace and then align it with Bing imagery.​"

 

The second half of the above sentence seems to be the exact opposite of the 
first half.

Can someone please clarify. 

 

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Re: [HOT] Getting HOT data as a layer for Sahana

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Chamal,

 

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by ‘get the OSM data…as a layer’, but yes, 
generally all the data in OpenStreetMap is openly available. See 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#For_Aid_Organizations 
for some links and information to various export services and other information 
on generally how to get and use OSM data.

 

Let us know if that doesn’t answer your question,

=Russ

 

From: Chamal Nanayakkara [mailto:chamal.y...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 4:13 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Getting HOT data as a layer for Sahana

 

Hi guys,

 

A friend of mine is currently working on a Sahana deployment in Sri Lanka, and 
he wants to know if they can get the OSM data being aggregated through HOT as a 
layer. If anyone can provide any contacts for getting this done, that'd be 
great too. If there is a possibility, please let me know or you can contact him 
directly: Ramindu Deshapriya (rasad...@gmail.com)

 

Thanks and regards,

Chamal Nanayakkara

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[HOT] Calling all mappers!

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings everyone,

 

Thank you so much to those who have been mapping away in Sri Lanka! We
recently published http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1914 as we're nearly
complete with 1913. Validators a special thanks for what is quite a
difficult clean-up in some parts, the density of buildings should be less in
these next couple areas. Remember to use Mapbox as it's more recent and is
better aligned with GPS data from the area; if you're using the remote link
from the Tasking Manager it should load by default in iD and JOSM.

 

Stay tuned to the wiki for more details and information:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#Mapping_Priority 

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

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http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/> 

 

 

 

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Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

[Russell Deffner]

Mike, Claudia and all;

 

As usual, you can help us ‘time’ things by adding a link, etc. to the incident 
wiki-page: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#Mapathon_events 

=Russ

 

P.S. So sorry, have another business meeting at the same time, so won’t be at 
the Denver event :(

 

From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 9:18 AM
To: Robert Banick
Cc: HOT Openstreetmap
Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts 
in Sri Lanka

 

Robert,

 

Thanks!

 

Mike

 

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Robert Banick  wrote:

Hi Mike,

 

We have tasks 1914 and 195 already lined up, so worry not, you’ll have plenty 
to do :-) Our requested area of interest is massive so we broke it into three 
parts to make it more “digestible”. 

 

If task 1913 nears completion one of the tasking manager admins will “release” 
task 1914. If this is a concern mid-mapathon please contact Mikel Maron or 
Blake Girardot promptly and they’ll sort you out.

 

Cheers,

Robert

 

 

 

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:52 PM Mike Thompson  wrote:

Blake,

 

We are having a mapathon this evening in Denver Colorado US.  We would like to 
help out with Sri Lanka.  It looks like the #1913 is rapidly progressing.  Will 
there be another similar Sri Lanka project posted, or is #1913 cover the entire 
impacted area?

 

Mike

 

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Claudia Mocci  wrote:

Hi Blake
We have the second mapping meeting ,tomorrow night ,with SardiniaOpenData 
associates and volunteers and the topic is the Tasking Manager.
This will be our priority.
Happy to help and thanks to share

Claudia

Il 18/mag/2016 23:54, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM"  ha 
scritto:

I should have mentioned, please share this via your social media channels.

Here is a tweet from HOT to re-tweet:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236

Regards,
Blake

Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
 wrote:
> Sri Lanka has been hit in the past few days by flooding:
> https://www.bing.com/search?q=sri+lanka+flooding
>
> HOT has been asked to activate and immediately start tracing buildings
> by the Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka, who work closely
> with World Bank GFDRR. They are in urgent need of detailed housing
> unit information.
>
> There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager:
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/
>
> This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to
> find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and
> provide geo data for. This means that you should check the front page
> of the tasking manager often, different jobs to support different
> ground activities might be coming up.
>
> HOT members Robert Banick and Mikel Maron will be leading HOT's
> response to this crisis. They can be contacted at:
>
> mikel.ma...@hotosm.org
> rban...@gmail.com
>
> For more information visit the 2016 Sri Lanka Floods wiki-page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods
>
> If you’d like to help with coordination, speak up, and we’ll bring you
> into the Slack channel and Trello.
>
> Regretfully,
> Blake
> 
> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> President, HOT Board of Directors
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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

 <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

 <http://hotosm.org/> 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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Re: [HOT] Japanese earthquake projects

[Russell Deffner]

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

[Russell Deffner]

Thanks for the info Paul, sorry to hear (when the ‘probability of ignition’ is 
high near me, I live on constant edge of when will that evacuation call come).

 

Another aspect of why and when HOT responds, isn’t necessarily geographic based 
– it’s based on ‘how well is OSM already mapped’ and ‘what kind of local OSM 
community exists’.  In both Canada and India, there is a great local OSM 
community; and I looked at the area around Fort McMurray – it’s pretty much 
mapped. The Uttarakhand state/province in India seems to lack buildings, but 
the road network and populated places is pretty good.

 

Of course there are many in HOT and on this list that can help set-up exports 
and connect response and aid organizations.  If there is any direct need for 
anything, we also have Members who are leaders in these local OSM communities 
and can also help connect folks.

 

Sincerely,

=Russ

 

From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 5:27 PM
To: hot
Cc: talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

 

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  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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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

[Russell Deffner]

This may be useful to determine where: 
http://nrsc.gov.in/Forest_Fire_Uttarakhand - note I found some chatter about 
‘false alarms’ as the MODIS satellite detects heat, so often ‘controlled’ fires 
(i.e. cooking, trash burning, etc.) also shows up. (more info on MODIS 
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/ )

=RUss

 

From: arungra...@gmail.com [mailto:arungra...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Arun 
Ganesh
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 6:53 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: Praveen Kalura; HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
Subject: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

 

Praveen, have you found any good sources of information on the exact location 
and damage of the fires. The media reports vary widely and its unclear what the 
ground situation is.

 

Are you in touch with anyone on the ground who is part of the relief efforts 
who can provide more clarity?

 

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> 
wrote:

Hi Praveen and all,

 

As a student of Forest Fire Science and the HOT Disaster Mapping Program, I 
would be interested in discussing and possible assisting with a mapping effort. 
 However, I personally don’t have much ‘extra’ time on my hands recently. Of 
course, many of us understand ‘what OSM can do’, but before HOT as an 
organization formally asks for a massive volunteer effort – unfortunately we 
have limited resources (people) and must prioritize.  That said – any and all 
are welcome to ‘use the model’ to organize mapping; I should be able to 
‘size-up’ the situation later today.

 

=Russ

 

From: Praveen Kalura [mailto:praveenkal...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:49 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

 

 

-- Forwarded message --
From: Praveen Kalura <praveenkal...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [HOT] Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
To: maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>

Hi Maning,

 

Answers for respective questions.

 

1. The OSM data can be used by Non Government organisations (NGO), Volunteers 
at field, Government forest Department officials, Fire Fighters and also by 
Communities to vacate the place before fire reaches to their place.

 

2. I have observed that for mountainous terrain the OSM data is not sufficient 
and accurate. due to which we face problem in finding a particular location in 
hilly terrain. Uttarakhand state is 70 % in hilly terrain which is resided by 
million of people. And also Uttarakhand state is most sensitive zone as per 
natural disaster is considered. So we need to map this state in phases like we 
did for Nepal after the earthquake event.This will ensure our preparedness to 
mitigate any natural calamity in this state.

 

Thanks

 

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

Hi Praveen,

Thank you for notifying us.  Some questions before we talk about
mapping Uttarakhand:

1. Who will use the data on the ground?  While mapping in general
improves the data in OSM for anyone to use, we want to make sure that
before focusing efforts of volunteer mappers, we know who will use
(and for what purpose) the data on the ground.

2.  What specific features and where should we map? OSM focuses on
basemap information (i.e. roads, settlements, natural features, etc.).
Based on news reports, the area affected by the forest fires is large,
we want to focus on what are the priority areas which are usually
where communities maybe at risk.





On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Praveen Kalura <praveenkal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is Praveen from India, resident of Uttarkhand State, Last week 3000
> acres of Hilayan Forest were burnt by forest fires.Lack of proper map in
> public domain was missing. Mapping of the area is very difficult task in
> Mountaineous terrain. Can we do something so that this forest fires can be
> mitigated soon.
>
> Suggestion invited.
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/a-burning-issue-116050401371_1.html
>
> http://www.dailyo.in/politics/forest-fires-uttarakhand-timber-mafia-wildlife-environment-unep-himalayas-natural-resources/story/1/10360.html
>

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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Praveen and all,

 

As a student of Forest Fire Science and the HOT Disaster Mapping Program, I 
would be interested in discussing and possible assisting with a mapping effort. 
 However, I personally don’t have much ‘extra’ time on my hands recently. Of 
course, many of us understand ‘what OSM can do’, but before HOT as an 
organization formally asks for a massive volunteer effort – unfortunately we 
have limited resources (people) and must prioritize.  That said – any and all 
are welcome to ‘use the model’ to organize mapping; I should be able to 
‘size-up’ the situation later today.

 

=Russ

 

From: Praveen Kalura [mailto:praveenkal...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:49 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

 

 

-- Forwarded message --
From: Praveen Kalura 
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [HOT] Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
To: maning sambale 



Hi Maning,

 

Answers for respective questions.

 

1. The OSM data can be used by Non Government organisations (NGO), Volunteers 
at field, Government forest Department officials, Fire Fighters and also by 
Communities to vacate the place before fire reaches to their place.

 

2. I have observed that for mountainous terrain the OSM data is not sufficient 
and accurate. due to which we face problem in finding a particular location in 
hilly terrain. Uttarakhand state is 70 % in hilly terrain which is resided by 
million of people. And also Uttarakhand state is most sensitive zone as per 
natural disaster is considered. So we need to map this state in phases like we 
did for Nepal after the earthquake event.This will ensure our preparedness to 
mitigate any natural calamity in this state.

 

Thanks

 

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, maning sambale  
wrote:

Hi Praveen,

Thank you for notifying us.  Some questions before we talk about
mapping Uttarakhand:

1. Who will use the data on the ground?  While mapping in general
improves the data in OSM for anyone to use, we want to make sure that
before focusing efforts of volunteer mappers, we know who will use
(and for what purpose) the data on the ground.

2.  What specific features and where should we map? OSM focuses on
basemap information (i.e. roads, settlements, natural features, etc.).
Based on news reports, the area affected by the forest fires is large,
we want to focus on what are the priority areas which are usually
where communities maybe at risk.





On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Praveen Kalura  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is Praveen from India, resident of Uttarkhand State, Last week 3000
> acres of Hilayan Forest were burnt by forest fires.Lack of proper map in
> public domain was missing. Mapping of the area is very difficult task in
> Mountaineous terrain. Can we do something so that this forest fires can be
> mitigated soon.
>
> Suggestion invited.
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/a-burning-issue-116050401371_1.html
>
> http://www.dailyo.in/politics/forest-fires-uttarakhand-timber-mafia-wildlife-environment-unep-himalayas-natural-resources/story/1/10360.html
>

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Re: [HOT] Haiyan HOT extracts?

[Russell Deffner]

Hi Dion,

 

The OpenStreetMap database (where most all of our mapping work goes) is always 
available, however the data is always changing, so depending on the activity 
level of mapping since Haiyan – it’s probably changed at lot since then.

 

On another note, myself and the HOT Executive Director helped the FEMA Corps to 
mapping for Typhoon Dolphin previously; please send me direct message if you’d 
like to discuss.

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

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From: Dion Houston [mailto:dionhous...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:34 AM
To: hot
Subject: [HOT] Haiyan HOT extracts?

 

Hi all,

 

I'm preparing a demonstration of a capability I'd like to deploy immediately 
for US military disaster relief operations in the Pacific.  Essentially I have 
geospatial analysts that are immediately deployable, and GeoSHAPE 
(geoshape.org) that provides a user friendly portal as well as GIS services.

 

For this first demonstration, I'd like to simulate a single analyst deploying 
with the initial US response, setting up a geospatial portal in an offline 
environment.  The team is able to see basic (our standard CADRG) maps as well 
as information provided by NGOs or other sources and create updates.  The GIS 
analyst is able to provide basic analysis as appropriate (e.g. flood analysis) 
using the same data.  The equipment is two laptops, one acting as a server, one 
a client.

 

For a basis of the scenario, I thought Haiyan would be very appropriate, as it 
was in our geographical region, and the U.S. had a large response, so 
presumably there is significant data on it.

 

What I'm specifically asking are:

 

- Are .osm.pbf extracts of the HOT activation for Haiyan still available?  I 
looked on the Wiki page and didn't see any obvious links to it.  Preferably an 
early extract as it most matches my scenario.

 

- Are there any other sources of data that would be good to incorporate?  What 
I'm specifically thinking is data that relief teams gathered to prioritize 
resources.

 

I found some interesting Twitter data here:

 

http://giscorps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=cf6031322a334cc3bfe3f9a74f23b384

 

That I've gone ahead and downloaded as well as the OCHA symbols.

 

Thanks in advance.  If I can show the usefulness of this capability and can get 
some limited funding, I think I can bring some good value add to the community.

 

Dion

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Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Export - Problem

[Russell Deffner]

P.S. HOT does have an export tool as well, visit http://export.hotosm.org/ - if 
you have issues with that one, then please do let us know here.

=Russ

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 3:48 PM
To: 'Adrian Paradysz'; 'hot@openstreetmap.org'
Subject: RE: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Export - Problem

 

Hi Adrian,

 

It’s most likely because there is too much data in that area, on the left-hand 
panel you’ll see the other options for downloading.

 

Also, FYI, this list is for Humanitarian Mapping discussion, for general OSM 
help, try here first: https://help.openstreetmap.org/ 

 

Happy Mapping!

=Russ

 

From: Adrian Paradysz [mailto:paradys...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 8:32 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Export - Problem

 

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to you because I have a problem with export fragment of OSM map. 
When I select some fragment of map and next I click the blue button 'Export', 
website is loading a short time and show statement: "Website is not responding" 
(screenshot below).
Has problem been fixing currently? When probably will be repair?

I look forward to hearing from you. 

Sincerely, 
Adrian Paradysz. 

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