Re: [HOT] Hurricane Newton- Hitting today in Mexico (Baja California Sur and Sonora)

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Mappers,

Miriam has updated the Activation Working Group with two villages that
are a main concern for the local officials.

Luckily damage and deaths, were not as bad as they could have been,
but a number of people still lost their lives and many have had their
lives impacted by this hurricane.

We have put up a focused mapping project on the HOTOSM Tasking
Manager, it has several villages and cities covered, but with Miriam's
updated information, we have highlighted just the two heavily affected
villages and our goal is to get them mapped ASAP.

http://tasks.hotosm.org/

There is an update in the Description tab of the project that explains
a little bit more.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far to helping in Mexico
with updated map data!

Help spread the word with a retweet:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/773691379994230784

Regards,
Blake



On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Miriam Mapanauta  wrote:
> Hi Hot team
>
> Hurricane Newton is hitting  Baja California Sur and the state of Sonora.
> Besides the harm that a hurricane can cause there are big risks of flooding
> in different areas.
>
> A colleague in the OpenStreetMap community in Mexico, Alberto Chung (cc)
> reacted in advance and prepared the following Task to start mapping the
> area. Please find the task below.
>
> Thanks in advance for your support!
>
> Miriam
> @mapanauta
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Miriam Mapanauta 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi HOT team
>>
>> This is a heads up,  Hurricane Newton is hitting south of Baja California
>> Sur (around Los Cabos) and the cost of the State of Sonora.
>>
>> Other volunteers from Mexico and myself are preparing the Wiki and we are
>> trying to determine the areas that will need support.
>>
>> Stay tuned!
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your support,
>>
>> Miriam
>> @mapanauta
>
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Re: [HOT] Voting for Ramani Huria on OpenStreetMap Awards.

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Innocent,

I already voted for Ramani Huria of course, but I just wanted to say:

Considering all the great people, projects and work done around OSM, it is
a pretty big honor just to be in the list of 5 finalists for the categories.

I had a really hard time voting, because while the HOT community is well
represented in each of the categories, everyone in the categories is worth
voting for.

Heck in one category two HOT community members are listed, how can we
possibly choose?

My sincere thanks to everyone who is listed on the ballot for the OSM
Awards, everyone who was nominated and everyone who contributes in some way
to OSM. It is a very special project with a very special community, I count
myself quite lucky to be a part of it along with everyone on this list.

Good luck Ramani Huria!

Cheers,
Blake

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Innocent Maholi 
wrote:

> Hi everyone, hope you're doing great!
>
> OpenStreetMap launched the OpenStreetMap Awards
> 
> ,
> which will be presented this September at the State of the Map
> 2016 conference in Brussels.
> Luckily enough, HOT's project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
> known as "Ramani Huria " has been nominated
> under the category
> "Greatness in Mapping Award".
> Therefore, we are kindly asking the global HOT community to vote
> for Ramani Huria so that we win, as the project has been very
> successful and has done a great job.
> Hoping to get everyone's vote, Please, place your vote here
> .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best Regards,
> Innocent Maholi
> Lead Mapping Supervisor | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Dar es
> Salaam, Tanzania
> Mob: + <%2B255652250562>25571415 
> Skype: innocent.maholi
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[HOT] Voting for Ramani Huria on OpenStreetMap Awards.

[Innocent Maholi]

Hi everyone, hope you're doing great!

OpenStreetMap launched the OpenStreetMap Awards
,
which will be presented this September at the State of the Map
2016 conference in Brussels.
Luckily enough, HOT's project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
known as "Ramani Huria " has been nominated under
the category
"Greatness in Mapping Award".
Therefore, we are kindly asking the global HOT community to vote
for Ramani Huria so that we win, as the project has been very
successful and has done a great job.
Hoping to get everyone's vote, Please, place your vote here
.

Thanks,

Best Regards,
Innocent Maholi
Lead Mapping Supervisor | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team | Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
Mob: + <%2B255652250562>25571415 
Skype: innocent.maholi
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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

  russell.deff...@hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

  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] Addresses in Africa

[Rory McCann]

On 31/08/16 13:37, john whelan wrote:
> ​There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas
> that do not have street names etc.  Three words etc.

Y'know you don't have to go as far as Africa to find countries with
address "systems" like that. I give you: Ireland. In rural areas (many)
streets have no names, and many houses have no numbers, using house
names instead. Lowest level administrative areas (townlands) are often
used (but not always accurately) to construct an address.

About 30% of rural addresses are non-unique. i.e. The postman has to
know things from the surname on the letter.

A new postcode system has been released recently, which gives every
letter box a unique & random code. But it'll be years before that's used
a lot.

Alas, Ireland's drink monoculture means Ivan's beer address system
probably wouldn't work. :)

Read more:

 * https://www.autoaddress.ie/products/irish-addressing
 *
http://www.dataireland.ie/News/Pages/Tricky-Irish-Addresses-Why-do-Irish-addresses-pose-so-many-problems




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