Re: [HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge

Yesterday I met the folks from https://denguehack.org and with ICM-Jamaica we been looking at Zika. Wouldn't it be great if we could go for a "Mosquito Borne Diseases" challenge to attract a wider audience and given it is the same breed of mosquito that we are targeting? Kind regards, Milo Op

Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

Well done Emir! I’m looking forward to reading the full thesis. On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:25 AM Mhairi O'Hara wrote: > Hey Emir, > > Thank you for sharing! The summary of results look great. Looking forward > to reading the published thesis. Keep us updated. > > Kind

Re: [HOT] Data Collection

Hi Gertrude, Some quick answers 1. I would use OMK to collect private, linked data. It’s the best tool available at present. 2. Unfortunately you’ll need to manually script connections between your private data and public data. My friend Ewan Oglethorpe did this for a project here

Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

Hey Emir, Thank you for sharing! The summary of results look great. Looking forward to reading the published thesis. Keep us updated. Kind regards, Mhairi On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Emir Hartato wrote: > Hi Paul, > > This research was looking on multiple VGI

Re: [HOT] Data Collection

Hi Gertrude, I will try to answer some of the questions. For 1, I suggest to not put the data in OSM, although we can put private data using custom tag and it won't be rendered but people can still see it when they query the feature. I suggest to put private data in another platform and then put

Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

Hi Paul, This research was looking on multiple VGI platforms (not only OpenStreetMap) which potentially can be used according to disaster management stage. Cheers On 7 March 2017 at 12:46, Paul Norman wrote: > On 3/6/2017 3:25 PM, Emir Hartato wrote: > > Hi everyone, > >

Re: [HOT] HOT in Research

On 3/6/2017 3:25 PM, Emir Hartato wrote: Hi everyone, You may wondering why I'm missing in HOT's action since couple years ago - that's because I was busy working on my research for my masters. Now I'm pleased to announce that my research titled *Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for

[HOT] HOT in Research

Hi everyone, You may wondering why I'm missing in HOT's action since couple years ago - that's because I was busy working on my research for my masters. Now I'm pleased to announce that my research titled *Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Management *is completed.

Re: [HOT] Starting a new mapping project

Hi Blake Thanks for your fast response! Enclosed you'll find a shapefile of the Okapi national park in Northeast DRC. The participating organisations would be the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and NGO focused on protecting species worldwide, and the International Peace Information Service

[HOT] weeklyOSM #345 21/02/2017-27/02/2017

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 345, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8796/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

[HOT] Malaria Mapping YouthMappers Challenge

Greetings HOT Community, Today we are launching a challenge for youthmappers chapters to help us map to eliminate malaria. If you or someone you know is part of a youthmapper chapter anywhere in the world, please feel free to forward along this link:

Re: [HOT] Data Collection

One crude method is to download the daily dump. Cut out the area you're interested in. So something like osmconvert64 G:\downloads\zambia-latest.osm.pbf -o=f:\maps\zambia.osm osmconvert64 f:\maps\nigeria.osm -b=8,0,15.6884766,9 -o=f:\maps\nigeria7.osm Your drive letters will be different.

[HOT] Data Collection

Hello all, I hope you are well, We are collecting data where by some of it is ok be made pubic and some private. In this regard I have some questions that I really need help with: 1. How can we make private data collected not to be displayed on OSM? (We are collecting both private and public

[HOT] Communications WG Mtg. Tues. 3/7 12PM EST

Hi all, Just a quick reminder that the Communications Working Group will be meeting *Tuesday, Mar. 7th at 12PM EST on mumble.* We're going to be discussing the finalizing of our Social Media guidelines, communications around Int'l. Women's Day, and materials for our April newsletter. All are

Re: [HOT] Starting a new mapping project

Hi Manuel, This is not a problem. The main criteria is that a humanitarian organization needs the data for field work. Please send me directly something that outlines the area you are interested in having mapped, shapefile, geojson or .osm file will work. As well as some details on the

[HOT] Starting a new mapping project

Hi I've organised a few Missing maps events now, and for our next one, we are thinking of a new possible task in a nature reserver in DRC Congo. Together with a local partner, we'd like to map roads and residential areas in the park, and, if possible, also (illegal) mining activities. My