Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada
Bonjour/ Hi Sorry for my delayed response due to the upcoming move. Pierre, your leadership in HOT for activations and for community work is so key. Merci. I've long felt that the work we do internationally as CrisisMappers could be used at home. Richard Weait once mentioned at an OSM Toronto meetup that it would be a great to have OSM translated into local languages in the North. Stewart, Charles, Pierre: I think that a proposal to map Canada to support our northern friends with community mapping parties and youth engagement would be an amazing project. It is long overdue and I think you are the ones who could make this possible. The Canadian government is supporting the large Open Data conference in Ottawa. Surely, this might be an amazing place to get more allies and funding support (if needed). http://opendatacon.org/ *** About HOT I received a few notes offlist for the Missing Maps connections. Thanks so much. See some of you hopefully tonight at Maptime in Toronto. Thanks again, Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com 2015-01-16 22:45 GMT-05:00 Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr: Il y a effectivement HOT et ce que nous pouvons faire comme communauté. Comme vous savez, je suis beaucoup impliqué dans les activations de HOT comme coordonnateur des Réponses OSM telles que Haiyan et Ebola. Mais je m'intéresse aussi à couvrir nos propres territoires. Et effectivement, le nord du Canada est peu cartographié et nous pouvons nous donner comme communauté le défi de couvrir ces zones, d'établir des priorités pour couvrir l'essentiel. Après cela, il sera toujours possible de compléter plus systématiquement à l'aide des données Canvec. Au cours des deux dernières semaines, j'ai commencé à faire cela en partie pour le nord du Québec. Je me suis concentré sur les réseaux de chemin de fer et d'électricité. J'ai d'abord ajouté une ligne de chemin de fer au nord de Sept-Iles. J'ai aussi systématiquement révisé le réseau des barrages électriques et lignes électriques 735 000 volts. Il y a aussi à ajouter les villages, le réseau routier et des activités économiques telles les mines. Partout où l'imagerie Bing est disponible, on peut évidemment avoir pour objectif de colorier davantage la carte du nord du Canada. Pour les communautés isolées telles au nord du Québec, ce peut être une bonne approche d'obtenir des traces GPS. Et qui sais, éventuellement des images obtenues à l'aide de drones étant donné la petite taille des villages. Pierre -- *De :* Charles Basenga Kiyanda perso...@charleskiyanda.com *À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 16 janvier 2015 22h27 *Objet :* Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada On 01/16/2015 10:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: Hi Heather, … They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada Is this remote mapping, or would it be considered ‘in country’? The state of some of the northern communities in Canada is a disaster, and it makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Stewart Slightly off topic, but a new member of the Montreal community should be in Kuujjuaq right now. We discussed how he could acquire gps data before he left, so we might get some good ground data in a couple weeks. I agree though that we could do more, now, by mapping imagery for the northern communities. Cheers, Charles ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] HOT in Canada
Hello I'm relatively new to this list but not OSM, so an introduction. For the past 5 years or so, I've been active in the Humanitarian OpenstreetMap Team (HOT)[1] and CrisisMappers Network[2]. As an organizer and supporter, my role also includes being a member and on the board of HOT. We have our own HOT mailing list. There are a few of you who may be collaborating on global OSM projects. (Thank you). Some of you may even be on the HOT list or contributed to some of the humanitarian activations. I know this is a talk list for Canada, so I will explain why I posting. HOT is involved in is the Missing Maps Project with Medicine sans Frontières and the American Red Cross [3]. This project has regular event in the UK and is starting to do so in DC. My colleague at MSF asked if I knew of other Canadians in HOT. He posted to the HOT list and did not reach many. So, I offer to connect with you. They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada (city is really about who can help and community capacity). Richard Weait is already doing two popular, regular mapping events in Toronto. While based in Toronto, I am moving countries in a few weeks (so I can't help organize). If you are interested, please do get in touch off list. I want to respect the list topic and your times. Thanks and happy mapping, Heather [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team [2] http://crisismappers.net/ [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada
Hi Heather, … They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada Is this remote mapping, or would it be considered ‘in country’? The state of some of the northern communities in Canada is a disaster, and it makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Stewart ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada
On 01/16/2015 10:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: Hi Heather, … They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada Is this remote mapping, or would it be considered ‘in country’? The state of some of the northern communities in Canada is a disaster, and it makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Stewart Slightly off topic, but a new member of the Montreal community should be in Kuujjuaq right now. We discussed how he could acquire gps data before he left, so we might get some good ground data in a couple weeks. I agree though that we could do more, now, by mapping imagery for the northern communities. Cheers, Charles ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada
Il y a effectivement HOT et ce que nous pouvons faire comme communauté. Comme vous savez, je suis beaucoup impliqué dans les activations de HOT comme coordonnateur des Réponses OSM telles que Haiyan et Ebola. Mais je m'intéresse aussi à couvrir nos propres territoires. Et effectivement, le nord du Canada est peu cartographié et nous pouvons nous donner comme communauté le défi de couvrir ces zones, d'établir des priorités pour couvrir l'essentiel. Après cela, il sera toujours possible de compléter plus systématiquement à l'aide des données Canvec. Au cours des deux dernières semaines, j'ai commencé à faire cela en partie pour le nord du Québec. Je me suis concentré sur les réseaux de chemin de fer et d'électricité. J'ai d'abord ajouté une ligne de chemin de fer au nord de Sept-Iles. J'ai aussi systématiquement révisé le réseau des barrages électriques et lignes électriques 735 000 volts. Il y a aussi à ajouter les villages, le réseau routier et des activités économiques telles les mines. Partout où l'imagerie Bing est disponible, on peut évidemment avoir pour objectif de colorier davantage la carte du nord du Canada. Pour les communautés isolées telles au nord du Québec, ce peut être une bonne approche d'obtenir des traces GPS. Et qui sais, éventuellement des images obtenues à l'aide de drones étant donné la petite taille des villages. Pierre De : Charles Basenga Kiyanda perso...@charleskiyanda.com À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 16 janvier 2015 22h27 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada On 01/16/2015 10:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: Hi Heather, … They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada Is this remote mapping, or would it be considered ‘in country’? The state of some of the northern communities in Canada is a disaster, and it makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Stewart Slightly off topic, but a new member of the Montreal community should be in Kuujjuaq right now. We discussed how he could acquire gps data before he left, so we might get some good ground data in a couple weeks. I agree though that we could do more, now, by mapping imagery for the northern communities. Cheers, Charles ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
