Re: [HOT] Welcome New Members!

2015-02-22 Thread FOFANA BAZO BAGNOUMANA
Heather, thank you for this item. I think that hot is level now where it is important that all members despite their personal activities must contribute to the work. Excuser mon Anglais qui n'est pas parfait. Mais j'espère que vous me comprenez. (Excuse me, my English is not perfect) 2015-02-22

Re: [HOT] Welcome New Members!

2015-02-22 Thread Heather Leson
Merci, ton Anglais c'est bien. I like to think that communities are stronger when we collaborate. We just need to make it easier to help out with 'task' items in each of the working groups. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sun, Feb 22,

Re: [HOT] What happens to all this mapping?

2015-02-22 Thread Andy Anderson
Hi, John, See this thread from October and November, many resources were mentioned: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-October/006530.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-November/006533.html — Andy On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:36 PM, john whelan

[HOT] H2OpenMap

2015-02-22 Thread Francesco Giunta
Hi everyone, I'm Francesco, a volunteer of a small NGO based in Italy that work in west Africa (www.rasmataonlus.org). In 2015 our goal is to make an OSM based map of water wells in the region of our project and after that, drill one water well. I would like to do: - search Open Data useful

Re: [HOT] What happens to all this mapping?

2015-02-22 Thread Sander Deryckere
IMO, it works most motivating when the agencies themselves post articles about how they use OSM data. Those messages can be spread via HOT to have a broader view within OSM. For the ebola mission, I was very motivated when I read some articles about it on the Red Cross website. Regards, Sander

Re: [HOT] H2OpenMap

2015-02-22 Thread john whelan
This is personal view, from the existing mapping I've been doing the first question I would ask is what is the data quality like for the data you wish to import. A lot of what I've seen is poor quality. Does the area you're interested in have decent satellite imagery? See if you can find it on

Re: [HOT] H2OpenMap

2015-02-22 Thread Francesco Giunta
Hi John, thank you very much for your message, I hope to have understood what you had writing, unfortunately my English skill is poor. Is my opinion that mapping water well by satellite imagery is a poor quality work and definitive I do not want to do that. But thanks to those who do, someone can

[HOT] Hewlett Foundation GitHub Repository

2015-02-22 Thread Mhairi O'Hara
Hello Hotties, Please let me bring your attention to the new GitHub repository [1], that has been created to manage the projects and associated tasks of the Hewlett Foundation Grant. It was decided that the Hewlett grant be divided into activities that focus on HOT related software improvements