Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

2017-12-11 Thread john whelan
I accept what you say Ralph but the motorcycle project is being run by an conventional European or North American NGO. It's organised mapping. >The result will be a dedicated group in each country that will continue the work, train more local people and expand the mapping community. So is there

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

2017-12-11 Thread ralph.aytoun
John, I am not sure what you are trying to say, but to help you understand “Microgrants” I can explain some of them to you. I am helping the WAMM (West African Motorbike Mappers) who are in Sierra Leone. The lead for this was Ivan Gayton from Medicins sans Frontieres and Rupert Alan (A regular

[HOT] Thank you to all our GeoWeek mappers and organizers!

2017-12-11 Thread Rachel Levine
(Please see below for French, German, and Spanish) Hello Mappers, Thank you for your incredible efforts organizing this year's OSM GeoWeek! In total, we had 230 public events in 48 countries. We had almost 100 extra events this year and increased our country footprint by 6 countries.

Re: [HOT] Buildings and HOT's reputation in OSM

2017-12-11 Thread john whelan
Are we talking about Task Manger projects initiated and run by local project managers or something else? If we are talking about Task Manger projects then I suggest asking the project manager(s) to do a write up on their experiences and see if this can be brought to the attention of OSMWEEKLY.

Re: [HOT] Fwd: National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership accepting applications

2017-12-11 Thread john whelan
This is exactly what I think would earn us some brownie points with OSM provided we can point to some of the work that is independent of the main NGOs. Cheerio John On 11 Dec 2017 1:33 pm, "Tyler Radford" wrote: > > *Tyler Radford* > Executive Director >