Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK
Hi, I'm running an unofficial party on Wednesday 27th in Weymouth as I've managed to generate a bit of interest in Weymouth. I'm hoping to explain a bit about what OSM is as well as HOT and then if people are still interested I'd be looking to organise an official mapping party where we might do some semi-formal training. Thank you to everyone for your responses. I thought I'd message the group incase anyone with experience wants to come along to the official one as a 'guest speaker' (if it happens). Cheers, Paul This e-mail is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain information about individuals or other sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this email in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and notify the sender immediately. Please be aware that all email may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK
Hi Paul, The closest to a formal organisation is the Missing Maps http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project project which has regular evening sessions in London. Several regular OSM contributors are formal members http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Members of HOT (Harry Wood, Nick Allen (tallguy) and Tim Waters (chippy) come to mind), and others often help out at Missing Maps sessions. I would suggest perhaps getting directly in contact with Nick http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Tallguyas he has put considerable efforts into training and co-ordination. In practice there is much which can be done from any computer. The way HOT organises tasks these days uses the HOT Tasking Manager http://tasks.hotosm.org/. I noticed with the current activity in Nepal that activity on the usual OSM IRC channels was tiny compared with previous disasters of this scale. This suggests that the typical activities have become more-or-less regularised. My own experience looking at Nepal mapping is that the large volume of data created will require a considerable effort to clean it up to what I would regard as reasonable OSM standards. However, it is presumably good enough for the tasks immediately at hand. There is an existing community of mappers in Nepal, including regular visitors from Europe, but the disaster struck at a point where tagging standards were developing. A more challenging approach which might be more than you are prepared to commit would be to possibly persuade your employer to host something like a Missing Maps event. One last thing there are now fairly regular Maptime http://maptime.io/events in Southampton https://twitter.com/MaptimeSOTON which might be a good way to make some local contacts as well. HTH, Jerry Clough On 15 May 2015 at 10:02, Wittle, Paul p.wit...@dorsetcc.gov.uk wrote: Hello, I've subscribed to this message list because I'm looking around to see if there is any organised UK group which deals with HOT projects. I believe this is a US based NGO setup to coordinate the use of OSM for disaster relief efforts after major events such as the recent earthquakes in Nepal. Whilst I'd love to be doing OSM edits in my spare time I've been struggling to find time to get involved with job changes and children over the past 5 years or so. I would very much like to get involved with mapping for disaster recovery and my current employer permits us to take time off work for voluntary causes. I suspect they would approve of my doing a day to help the disaster recovery processes and it seems that HOT is the international group which organises that effort on OSM. In order to do this I need be able to explain to my employer what I would be doing and who I would be doing it for. I wondered if there is a formal group for HOT in the UK and if anyone runs UK based training following the http://learnosm.org material setup by HOT? Best Regards, Paul Wittle This e-mail is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain information about individuals or other sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this email in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and notify the sender immediately. Please be aware that all email may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
[Talk-GB] HOT in the UK
Hello, I've subscribed to this message list because I'm looking around to see if there is any organised UK group which deals with HOT projects. I believe this is a US based NGO setup to coordinate the use of OSM for disaster relief efforts after major events such as the recent earthquakes in Nepal. Whilst I'd love to be doing OSM edits in my spare time I've been struggling to find time to get involved with job changes and children over the past 5 years or so. I would very much like to get involved with mapping for disaster recovery and my current employer permits us to take time off work for voluntary causes. I suspect they would approve of my doing a day to help the disaster recovery processes and it seems that HOT is the international group which organises that effort on OSM. In order to do this I need be able to explain to my employer what I would be doing and who I would be doing it for. I wondered if there is a formal group for HOT in the UK and if anyone runs UK based training following the http://learnosm.org material setup by HOT? Best Regards, Paul Wittle This e-mail is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain information about individuals or other sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this email in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and notify the sender immediately. Please be aware that all email may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK
We've also been holding regular Missing Maps mapathons in Edinburgh and Glasgow, thanks to Margaux Mesle and Duncan Bain. - Jo On May 15, 2015 10:45:55 AM GMT+01:00, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, The closest to a formal organisation is the Missing Maps http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Project project which has regular evening sessions in London. Several regular OSM contributors are formal members http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Members of HOT (Harry Wood, Nick Allen (tallguy) and Tim Waters (chippy) come to mind), and others often help out at Missing Maps sessions. I would suggest perhaps getting directly in contact with Nick http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Tallguyas he has put considerable efforts into training and co-ordination. In practice there is much which can be done from any computer. The way HOT organises tasks these days uses the HOT Tasking Manager http://tasks.hotosm.org/. I noticed with the current activity in Nepal that activity on the usual OSM IRC channels was tiny compared with previous disasters of this scale. This suggests that the typical activities have become more-or-less regularised. My own experience looking at Nepal mapping is that the large volume of data created will require a considerable effort to clean it up to what I would regard as reasonable OSM standards. However, it is presumably good enough for the tasks immediately at hand. There is an existing community of mappers in Nepal, including regular visitors from Europe, but the disaster struck at a point where tagging standards were developing. A more challenging approach which might be more than you are prepared to commit would be to possibly persuade your employer to host something like a Missing Maps event. One last thing there are now fairly regular Maptime http://maptime.io/events in Southampton https://twitter.com/MaptimeSOTON which might be a good way to make some local contacts as well. HTH, Jerry Clough On 15 May 2015 at 10:02, Wittle, Paul p.wit...@dorsetcc.gov.uk wrote: Hello, I've subscribed to this message list because I'm looking around to see if there is any organised UK group which deals with HOT projects. I believe this is a US based NGO setup to coordinate the use of OSM for disaster relief efforts after major events such as the recent earthquakes in Nepal. Whilst I'd love to be doing OSM edits in my spare time I've been struggling to find time to get involved with job changes and children over the past 5 years or so. I would very much like to get involved with mapping for disaster recovery and my current employer permits us to take time off work for voluntary causes. I suspect they would approve of my doing a day to help the disaster recovery processes and it seems that HOT is the international group which organises that effort on OSM. In order to do this I need be able to explain to my employer what I would be doing and who I would be doing it for. I wondered if there is a formal group for HOT in the UK and if anyone runs UK based training following the http://learnosm.org material setup by HOT? Best Regards, Paul Wittle This e-mail is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain information about individuals or other sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this email in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and notify the sender immediately. Please be aware that all email may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] HOT in the UK
Hi Paul, Although it's registered in the US, we're scattered all over the world. The mailing list for HOT is at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Mapathons are starting to take place all over the UK, and the best place to check what is coming up soon is at http://www.missingmaps.org/ or on the Event Calendar here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page. The most frequent sessions seem to be in London but there have been many in other places including Exeter and Portsmouth. It's actually me who's been recently involved in updating LearnOSM, specifically the http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/ sections, so I hope I don't put too much of an accent on it! At least one other member of the HOT training working group is in the UK, and there are many others who contribute to HOT from the UK, but it's quite often difficult to work out where someone actually is. I've set up a very small group that I've trained, and we try to meet twice a week in Swanley, Kent (http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/51.3953/0.1723) and if you're ever in this neck of the woods, you would be most welcome. If I can help with anything else, please get in touch. Regards Nick (Tallguy) On 15/05/15 10:02, Wittle, Paul wrote: Hello, I've subscribed to this message list because I'm looking around to see if there is any organised UK group which deals with HOT projects. I believe this is a US based NGO setup to coordinate the use of OSM for disaster relief efforts after major events such as the recent earthquakes in Nepal. Whilst I'd love to be doing OSM edits in my spare time I've been struggling to find time to get involved with job changes and children over the past 5 years or so. I would very much like to get involved with mapping for disaster recovery and my current employer permits us to take time off work for voluntary causes. I suspect they would approve of my doing a day to help the disaster recovery processes and it seems that HOT is the international group which organises that effort on OSM. In order to do this I need be able to explain to my employer what I would be doing and who I would be doing it for. I wondered if there is a formal group for HOT in the UK and if anyone runs UK based training following the http://learnosm.org material setup by HOT? Best Regards, Paul Wittle This e-mail is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain information about individuals or other sensitive information and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this email in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and notify the sender immediately. Please be aware that all email may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb -- Nick Volunteer 'Tallguy' for https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tallguy ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
