Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[john whelan]

So a Wacom,well yes essentially they are a mouse so yes they can be used
but the image would be on the screen and I'm unable to see the advantage
over a conventional mouse.

The Microsoft surface and pen you can point to the image with the pen but
you may find it more difficult to control.

Cheerio John

On 13 March 2018 at 21:23, Lists  wrote:

> That isn't the type of tablet I am talking about - not an iPad but the
> type graphic designers use.
>
>
>
> Bryan Sayer
>
>
>  Original message 
> From: john whelan 
> Date: 03/13/2018 8:48 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Lists 
> Cc: HOT 
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input
>
> My feeling is tablets are not ideal unless you use a mouse, a wireless one
> would work fine.  It's a matter of control, I have a Microsoft surface
> tablet lying around it has the computing power but until I used a wireless
> mouse with it I had difficulty with the pen.
>
> JOSM should run under ubuntu.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 13 March 2018 at 20:41, Lists  wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device,
>> ideally in ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can
>> anyone recommend a specific tablet?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Sayer
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Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Hi Bryan,

Here are a few links relevant to your question, for some reason it is
just a very rare topic so not a lot of feedback:

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/33641/graphics-pen-tablet

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2015-January/007079.html

There is a JOSM plug in to help with pen input devices:
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/112

Cheers
blake


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:41 AM, Lists  wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device, ideally
> in ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can anyone
> recommend a specific tablet?
>
>
>
> Bryan Sayer
>
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Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[Lists]

That isn't the type of tablet I am talking about - not an iPad but the type 
graphic designers use.


Bryan Sayer 

 Original message 
From: john whelan  
Date: 03/13/2018  8:48 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Lists  
Cc: HOT  
Subject: Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input 

My feeling is tablets are not ideal unless you use a mouse, a wireless one 
would work fine.  It's a matter of control, I have a Microsoft surface tablet 
lying around it has the computing power but until I used a wireless mouse with 
it I had difficulty with the pen.

JOSM should run under ubuntu.

Cheerio John

On 13 March 2018 at 20:41, Lists  wrote:


Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device, ideally in 
ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can anyone recommend a 
specific tablet?


Bryan Sayer 
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Re: [HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[john whelan]

My feeling is tablets are not ideal unless you use a mouse, a wireless one
would work fine.  It's a matter of control, I have a Microsoft surface
tablet lying around it has the computing power but until I used a wireless
mouse with it I had difficulty with the pen.

JOSM should run under ubuntu.

Cheerio John

On 13 March 2018 at 20:41, Lists  wrote:

> Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device,
> ideally in ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can
> anyone recommend a specific tablet?
>
>
>
> Bryan Sayer
>
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[HOT] Using a pen tablet for mapping input

[Lists]

Does anyone know if it is possible to use a pen tablet input device, ideally in 
ubuntu, to do the mapping for the missing maps? If so, can anyone recommend a 
specific tablet?


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[HOT] Centre for Humanitarian Data - Data Fellows

[Tyler Radford]

Hi, it would be wonderful if HOT community members apply:

https://centre.humdata.org/data-fellows/


*Tyler Radford*
Executive Director
tyler.radf...@hotosm.org
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Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Philippe Verdy]

We should really improve the wiki coverage for at least all major cities (>
100k inhabitants) and capitals. As well as at least the primary divisions
of countries: this helps building local teams and get more "flat" support
of features across all regions, not just the more developed capital with
more participants. This also allows better planning of works to do so that
each country has an appropriate minimal coverage and helps local
communities to improve the minimal datasets needed by adding some topics
progressively.

We should not see in OSM countries only mapped in details in a few capitals
within a desert everywhere else: adding subdivisions will "connect" these
areas, and will help people better sense how their territory is planned and
where there are missing infrastructures. The (open) map is an essential
feature we want to offer to the general public to help understand their
territory and militate locally for more equal treatment by their local
governement, or will help them develop their activity with new
opportunities of local development and local cooperation, instead of just
counting on national or international providers. There are resources
everywhere, but they have to be managed to preserve them, avoid wasting
them or overusing them. And most often the local/nearby solutions don't
cost lot of money, people can do lot of things themselves even if they
don't have much money. The world generally needs more local initiatives and
more local cooperations (instead of falling into the "globalization market"
trap as the "universal", but costly and wasting, solution which is not
sustainable for the long term and does not offer alternatives as this trend
is also largely anticompetitive and in fact less adapted to the real
needs). We all want diversity in the world, and no uniform single solution
based on too strict "standards" of development.

Note that the Place template on the OSM wiki allows linking most Wikipedias
and has a parameter for Wikidata (to help maintain the Wikipedia links). It
also has two new parameters (borrowed from other localized Place
templates), to add a "boundary=id" and "node=id" to reference OSM objects:
clicking on it displays the OSM map with borders, allowing precise
positioning (lat= & lon=) of the map (from the boundary relation) and more
exact coverage of the full boundary: the maps rendered in Place articles
can be then sized precisely.

These links then allow checking Wikipedia articles or Wikidata with more
precise positions. I deliberately did not favor any language for Wikipedia
links. Even the smallest wikipedias can be useful, it provides additional
descriptions and talks, and relevant local topics that may be of interest
for mapping in OSM.


2018-03-13 16:39 GMT+01:00 Melanie Eckle :

> Dear Philippe,
>
> Thank you very much for all these contributions, very appreciated!! And
> very sorry that I did not get in touch with you earlier on.
>
> I will support a workshop about Wikimedia in disaster management next week
> in Berlin for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The idea behind this
> workshop is to see how disaster management organizations and Wikimedia can
> better collaborate in disaster response and beyond. This is a first small
> get-together where mainly actors from German organizations and Wikimedia
> Germany come together to start a conversation, therefore I can also only
> share the German event site here
> ,
> but follow up events are for sure planned and I will keep you updated.
>
> It would be great to hear your opinion about points where you see
> potential in additional input from or collaboration with
> Wikimedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata.
>
> Kind regards,
> Melanie
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Philippe Verdy 
> wrote:
>
>> Some other languages I have added supports also include Amharic, all
>> languages officially recognized by states or territories in India, all(?)
>> official/national languages shared by several countries.
>> For each country there's now a "place" page with relevant links. I have
>> also included their own category, and a few common subcategories: Users,
>> Places, Tagging guidelines, Events (note that the new "Disasters" category
>> is also part of Events). The "Disasters" category will interest HOT.
>>
>> The main category for HOT is also a bit more organized. I added today a
>> subcategory for "guides" (not just OSM tagging, but guidelines for various
>> topics, including designs, methodology...)
>> HOT is fully organized by year (this helps focusing current activities
>> and what is going on.
>>
>> Generally I do very little editing in pages I collect and organize (most
>> often the categories at bottom, basic HTML corrections for correct
>> rendering, the languages bar at top for pages that have translations).
>> These tasks are highly 

Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Melanie Eckle]

Dear Philippe,

Thank you very much for all these contributions, very appreciated!! And
very sorry that I did not get in touch with you earlier on.

I will support a workshop about Wikimedia in disaster management next week
in Berlin for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The idea behind this
workshop is to see how disaster management organizations and Wikimedia can
better collaborate in disaster response and beyond. This is a first small
get-together where mainly actors from German organizations and Wikimedia
Germany come together to start a conversation, therefore I can also only
share the German event site here
,
but follow up events are for sure planned and I will keep you updated.

It would be great to hear your opinion about points where you see potential
in additional input from or collaboration with
Wikimedia/Wikipedia/Wikidata.

Kind regards,
Melanie

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Philippe Verdy  wrote:

> Some other languages I have added supports also include Amharic, all
> languages officially recognized by states or territories in India, all(?)
> official/national languages shared by several countries.
> For each country there's now a "place" page with relevant links. I have
> also included their own category, and a few common subcategories: Users,
> Places, Tagging guidelines, Events (note that the new "Disasters" category
> is also part of Events). The "Disasters" category will interest HOT.
>
> The main category for HOT is also a bit more organized. I added today a
> subcategory for "guides" (not just OSM tagging, but guidelines for various
> topics, including designs, methodology...)
> HOT is fully organized by year (this helps focusing current activities and
> what is going on.
>
> Generally I do very little editing in pages I collect and organize (most
> often the categories at bottom, basic HTML corrections for correct
> rendering, the languages bar at top for pages that have translations).
> These tasks are highly incremental and repetitive, this could be boring to
> do for many, but I'm patient and progress by small successive steps. I do
> my best to never break any existing link, and solve all double redirects
> left: linking articles together is probably easier to do now from any
> language (there's some utility templates for that such as {{{LL|article
> name in English}} or {{LLC|Category name}} used in category pages (notably
> for {{see also|...}}).
>
> The hard work being done, there's less things to do to translate things. I
> document as much as possible the templates used, and also organize the
> templates with their topic of interest. I've tuned many templates so they
> work with different writing directions, and many templates are now
> autotranslated. I have also documented all the language fallbacks used for
> missing translations (I derived rules from those used in Wikimedia Commons).
>
> I have also regularized all language codes used, to be fully BCP47
> conforming (this allows external search engines to find relevant topics and
> propose more accurate automatic translations if needed, and infer various
> things from our own organized terminology, enhanced also by the links to
> Wikipedia or Wikidata which provide additional semantics.
>
> In some cases, I need to rename pages to avoid ambiguities (place names
> have lots of homonyms): this is not always very simple to adapt. I may have
> forgotten some cases, and in that case, sorry for the disturbance, there's
> always a way to fix that clenly and centralize the maintenance as much as
> possible to avoid most duplicate works and finally reduce the long term
> maintenance as the content of the wiki is constantly growing.
>
>
>
> 2018-03-13 15:38 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy :
>
>> I'me sometimes criticized for this huge work, many don't realize the work
>> I4ve done and jusst see that the wiki is now becoming accessible to them
>> and just start using it.
>> I receive very few "thank you". But my goal is always to improve the
>> cooperation between people around the world, and let them know what's
>> happening in their areas or topics of interest, and then build and organize
>> the translations they need or want locally, and document local things they
>> do in OSM and let others working elsewhere becoming aware of what's
>> happening and which new ideas would be useful to develop elsewhre
>> (including in well developed countries).
>> I've not done much work in HOT meetings since the start of the year,
>> because I was very busy at organizing the international contents and solve
>> various problems that were pending since long on the wiki.
>>
>> The wiki is still the main place where people go to find something. I
>> think that since I started this huge task, many people have profited of the
>> improved navigation and searchability, and new local 

Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Philippe Verdy]

Some other languages I have added supports also include Amharic, all
languages officially recognized by states or territories in India, all(?)
official/national languages shared by several countries.
For each country there's now a "place" page with relevant links. I have
also included their own category, and a few common subcategories: Users,
Places, Tagging guidelines, Events (note that the new "Disasters" category
is also part of Events). The "Disasters" category will interest HOT.

The main category for HOT is also a bit more organized. I added today a
subcategory for "guides" (not just OSM tagging, but guidelines for various
topics, including designs, methodology...)
HOT is fully organized by year (this helps focusing current activities and
what is going on.

Generally I do very little editing in pages I collect and organize (most
often the categories at bottom, basic HTML corrections for correct
rendering, the languages bar at top for pages that have translations).
These tasks are highly incremental and repetitive, this could be boring to
do for many, but I'm patient and progress by small successive steps. I do
my best to never break any existing link, and solve all double redirects
left: linking articles together is probably easier to do now from any
language (there's some utility templates for that such as {{{LL|article
name in English}} or {{LLC|Category name}} used in category pages (notably
for {{see also|...}}).

The hard work being done, there's less things to do to translate things. I
document as much as possible the templates used, and also organize the
templates with their topic of interest. I've tuned many templates so they
work with different writing directions, and many templates are now
autotranslated. I have also documented all the language fallbacks used for
missing translations (I derived rules from those used in Wikimedia Commons).

I have also regularized all language codes used, to be fully BCP47
conforming (this allows external search engines to find relevant topics and
propose more accurate automatic translations if needed, and infer various
things from our own organized terminology, enhanced also by the links to
Wikipedia or Wikidata which provide additional semantics.

In some cases, I need to rename pages to avoid ambiguities (place names
have lots of homonyms): this is not always very simple to adapt. I may have
forgotten some cases, and in that case, sorry for the disturbance, there's
always a way to fix that clenly and centralize the maintenance as much as
possible to avoid most duplicate works and finally reduce the long term
maintenance as the content of the wiki is constantly growing.



2018-03-13 15:38 GMT+01:00 Philippe Verdy :

> I'me sometimes criticized for this huge work, many don't realize the work
> I4ve done and jusst see that the wiki is now becoming accessible to them
> and just start using it.
> I receive very few "thank you". But my goal is always to improve the
> cooperation between people around the world, and let them know what's
> happening in their areas or topics of interest, and then build and organize
> the translations they need or want locally, and document local things they
> do in OSM and let others working elsewhere becoming aware of what's
> happening and which new ideas would be useful to develop elsewhre
> (including in well developed countries).
> I've not done much work in HOT meetings since the start of the year,
> because I was very busy at organizing the international contents and solve
> various problems that were pending since long on the wiki.
>
> The wiki is still the main place where people go to find something. I
> think that since I started this huge task, many people have profited of the
> improved navigation and searchability, and new local projects are now
> starting more easily with more people involved worldwide. They can now find
> a lot of things, find new interests, develop better solutions, better
> organize their events, work with better cooperation, and more generally
> this helps improving the overall quality of map data and increase its usage
> worldwide. OSM has now a strong international presence, it is linked with
> lot of opensource/open data projects. Commercial companies start using it,
> and even governments and companies are better incited to open their data:
> the world is realizing that an open map is a real chance of development and
> offers significant economies of scales, and everyone does not need to
> contract and pay Google to use a map on their projects. The number of
> topics covered in OSM is now very large and it offers many new
> opportunities.
>
> Sharing geographic knowledge is better than trying to sell it with
> proprietary restrictions.
>
>
>
>
> 2018-03-13 15:19 GMT+01:00 Blake Girardot :
>
>> Hi Philippe,
>>
>> Thank you very much for all your work on the OSM wiki.
>>
>> For those that might not know, Philippe is very dedicated to improving
>> the 

Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Philippe Verdy]

I'me sometimes criticized for this huge work, many don't realize the work
I4ve done and jusst see that the wiki is now becoming accessible to them
and just start using it.
I receive very few "thank you". But my goal is always to improve the
cooperation between people around the world, and let them know what's
happening in their areas or topics of interest, and then build and organize
the translations they need or want locally, and document local things they
do in OSM and let others working elsewhere becoming aware of what's
happening and which new ideas would be useful to develop elsewhre
(including in well developed countries).
I've not done much work in HOT meetings since the start of the year,
because I was very busy at organizing the international contents and solve
various problems that were pending since long on the wiki.

The wiki is still the main place where people go to find something. I think
that since I started this huge task, many people have profited of the
improved navigation and searchability, and new local projects are now
starting more easily with more people involved worldwide. They can now find
a lot of things, find new interests, develop better solutions, better
organize their events, work with better cooperation, and more generally
this helps improving the overall quality of map data and increase its usage
worldwide. OSM has now a strong international presence, it is linked with
lot of opensource/open data projects. Commercial companies start using it,
and even governments and companies are better incited to open their data:
the world is realizing that an open map is a real chance of development and
offers significant economies of scales, and everyone does not need to
contract and pay Google to use a map on their projects. The number of
topics covered in OSM is now very large and it offers many new
opportunities.

Sharing geographic knowledge is better than trying to sell it with
proprietary restrictions.




2018-03-13 15:19 GMT+01:00 Blake Girardot :

> Hi Philippe,
>
> Thank you very much for all your work on the OSM wiki.
>
> For those that might not know, Philippe is very dedicated to improving
> the OSM wiki as a whole to support translations and
> internationalization much more effectively (in addition to better
> organization). If you have ever had questions about how you can help
> translate any OSM wiki page, Philippe is great person to ask.
>
> Thank you again for all your hard work for OSM and HOT Philippe!
>
> Respectfully,
> blake
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Philippe Verdy 
> wrote:
> > Note: I'm recreating a categorization of HOT meetings minutes/logs, by
> > working troup or by year, they are now being collected on hte wiki in
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:
> Humanitarian_OSM_Team_Training
> > (replace Training by the Working group name)
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:
> Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
> > (ordered by date)
> >   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:
> Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017
> > (ordered by date, includes also activation pages in that year, replace
> 2017
> > for each year)
> >
> > I've already collected the minutes for two working groups: Training, and
> > Activation, the others are being sorted.
> >
> > This can help have a log of HOT activities and keep track of past
> > experiences to help building and organizing new activities and
> activations.
> >
> > Most of these pages were not categorized, and in fact hard to find. Next
> > step will probably be to unify the naming scheme, but for now pages are
> not
> > renamed.
> >
> > Once I have filled the categories for each working group, I may look at
> most
> > populated categories to see if we need subcategories (there will
> probably be
> > subcategories by year in
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:
> Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
> > (ordered by date)
> > In which case we would have
> >
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017_
> meetings
> > (ordered by date)
> > (also added as a subcategory for
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017)
> > and then there would be only two parent categories instead of 3 for each
> > meeting.
> >
> > I've also organized the new "Category:Disasters" with some disaster
> types.
> > Project pages for specific disasters by country/region and dates are also
> > categorized in their respective categories for the coutry/region and in
> the
> > Disaster type category (which have also some relevant subcategories for
> > tagging or other OSM projects, not just HOT), in order to improve the
> > cooperation between local teams and other thematic OSM groups or local
> > contributors.
> > For some countries/regions I created a "place" page with geolocation,
> > wikipedia/wikidata, users/contacts, local meetings, and local projects.
> >
> > The purpose is to integrate all the efforts that 

Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Philippe,

Thank you very much for all your work on the OSM wiki.

For those that might not know, Philippe is very dedicated to improving
the OSM wiki as a whole to support translations and
internationalization much more effectively (in addition to better
organization). If you have ever had questions about how you can help
translate any OSM wiki page, Philippe is great person to ask.

Thank you again for all your hard work for OSM and HOT Philippe!

Respectfully,
blake

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Philippe Verdy  wrote:
> Note: I'm recreating a categorization of HOT meetings minutes/logs, by
> working troup or by year, they are now being collected on hte wiki in
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_Training
> (replace Training by the Working group name)
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
> (ordered by date)
>   https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017
> (ordered by date, includes also activation pages in that year, replace 2017
> for each year)
>
> I've already collected the minutes for two working groups: Training, and
> Activation, the others are being sorted.
>
> This can help have a log of HOT activities and keep track of past
> experiences to help building and organizing new activities and activations.
>
> Most of these pages were not categorized, and in fact hard to find. Next
> step will probably be to unify the naming scheme, but for now pages are not
> renamed.
>
> Once I have filled the categories for each working group, I may look at most
> populated categories to see if we need subcategories (there will probably be
> subcategories by year in
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
> (ordered by date)
> In which case we would have
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017_meetings
> (ordered by date)
> (also added as a subcategory for
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017)
> and then there would be only two parent categories instead of 3 for each
> meeting.
>
> I've also organized the new "Category:Disasters" with some disaster types.
> Project pages for specific disasters by country/region and dates are also
> categorized in their respective categories for the coutry/region and in the
> Disaster type category (which have also some relevant subcategories for
> tagging or other OSM projects, not just HOT), in order to improve the
> cooperation between local teams and other thematic OSM groups or local
> contributors.
> For some countries/regions I created a "place" page with geolocation,
> wikipedia/wikidata, users/contacts, local meetings, and local projects.
>
> The purpose is to integrate all the efforts that share common needs or
> resources (even after the HOT event tracking) to improve the maps and have
> all projects followed by larger sets of contributors and make them aware of
> ongoing or pending actions, or know that there has been some HOT action in
> their area. It can be used as well to study how we all perform together, or
> to detect duplicate non-coordinated efforts. This can be used also by HOT to
> limit their field of action, or better evaluate what is needed and find
> local contacts more easily. It can be used to make statistic analysis,
> quality auditing, and so on: the wiki has lots of information which is not
> linked to relevant topics.
>
> Note: I include the possibility of coordinating languages (this is a long
> project started since months which also helps developping local communities
> in their language). I have improved also the number of languages supported
> in the wiki (not everything needs translation, but translation of specific
> pages is possible at any time and should be linked to other languages for
> all contents still not translated). So I have added recently support for
> South Asian languages, improved the categorization and linking in India
> (soon I'll structure the Bangladesh area). I've made major improvements for
> navigating the Caribbeans, Brasil and Mexico. I integrated the recent events
> in Oceania and Indonesia. Africa needs more work (but the problem is to find
> translators in African languages outside the 3 major languages: French,
> English, Arabic, possibly also Portuguese). Some core training pages are
> needed for non-Latin written scripts (notably Amharic), but also for
> Latin-written languages (Wolof and Lingala for example). Support for South
> African languages was also added (but not actual translations: I made the
> complex part so that translators and contributors don't have to start
> immediately to do the huge work needed to build the structure and align it
> to the rest).
>
> I did not forget Europe however (and not just the European Union). In
> general I make the structures on the wiki more regularized to help find
> relevant topics more immediately. I also resolve various 

Re: [HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Philippe Verdy]

Note: I'm recreating a categorization of HOT meetings minutes/logs, by
working troup or by year, they are now being collected on hte wiki in

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_Training
(replace Training by the Working group name)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
(ordered by date)
  https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017
(ordered
by date, includes also activation pages in that year, replace 2017 for each
year)

I've already collected the minutes for two working groups: Training, and
Activation, the others are being sorted.

This can help have a log of HOT activities and keep track of past
experiences to help building and organizing new activities and activations.

Most of these pages were not categorized, and in fact hard to find. Next
step will probably be to unify the naming scheme, but for now pages are not
renamed.

Once I have filled the categories for each working group, I may look at
most populated categories to see if we need subcategories (there will
probably be subcategories by year in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_meetings
(ordered by date)
In which case we would have

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017_meetings
(ordered by date)
(also added as a subcategory for
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Humanitarian_OSM_Team_2017)
and then there would be only two parent categories instead of 3 for each
meeting.

I've also organized the new "Category:Disasters" with some disaster types.
Project pages for specific disasters by country/region and dates are also
categorized in their respective categories for the coutry/region and in the
Disaster type category (which have also some relevant subcategories for
tagging or other OSM projects, not just HOT), in order to improve the
cooperation between local teams and other thematic OSM groups or local
contributors.
For some countries/regions I created a "place" page with geolocation,
wikipedia/wikidata, users/contacts, local meetings, and local projects.

The purpose is to integrate all the efforts that share common needs or
resources (even after the HOT event tracking) to improve the maps and have
all projects followed by larger sets of contributors and make them aware of
ongoing or pending actions, or know that there has been some HOT action in
their area. It can be used as well to study how we all perform together, or
to detect duplicate non-coordinated efforts. This can be used also by HOT
to limit their field of action, or better evaluate what is needed and find
local contacts more easily. It can be used to make statistic analysis,
quality auditing, and so on: the wiki has lots of information which is not
linked to relevant topics.

Note: I include the possibility of coordinating languages (this is a long
project started since months which also helps developping local communities
in their language). I have improved also the number of languages supported
in the wiki (not everything needs translation, but translation of specific
pages is possible at any time and should be linked to other languages for
all contents still not translated). So I have added recently support for
South Asian languages, improved the categorization and linking in India
(soon I'll structure the Bangladesh area). I've made major improvements for
navigating the Caribbeans, Brasil and Mexico. I integrated the recent
events in Oceania and Indonesia. Africa needs more work (but the problem is
to find translators in African languages outside the 3 major languages:
French, English, Arabic, possibly also Portuguese). Some core training
pages are needed for non-Latin written scripts (notably Amharic), but also
for Latin-written languages (Wolof and Lingala for example). Support for
South African languages was also added (but not actual translations: I made
the complex part so that translators and contributors don't have to start
immediately to do the huge work needed to build the structure and align it
to the rest).

I did not forget Europe however (and not just the European Union). In
general I make the structures on the wiki more regularized to help find
relevant topics more immediately. I also resolve various linking problems
people experiment when they try to organize their country/regions (Russia
for example has some basic structure, which is still not uniform, but would
require significant improvement: many "red links" everywhere). But I've
made minimal changes to Russia because there are active contributors on the
wiki that are slowly making this structuration.

And more generalyl I fix various problems reported by Mediawiki itself or
by helper templates that I have solidified. Now the wiki is very solid in
English, French, German and Japanese, it starts being better organized for
Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. Lots of efforts are needed for Russian and
Chinese, but even more for Arabic, Hindi, 

[HOT] Board Meeting Minutes March

[Melanie Eckle]

Dear HOT community,

Please find the link to the minutes of our March board meeting below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rGXfVTXDaXrjKSPQbkTxXgnGysqCXh6g/view?usp=sharing

As always, feel free to contact me in case you have questions, remarks or
comments.

You can also access all previous board meeting minutes in the following
Wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Mee
tings#Meetings_of_the_Board_of_Directors

and the HOT Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1EorbpNCZ03fml2OURJ
Z21mU2I4Qm9aQlRSbHpFNHNfVkdnZGlJU3ZFcjBsZEZab2hGOWc

Kind regards and sorry for the delay,
Melanie


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*Melanie Eckle*
Board Member
melanie.ec...@hotosm.org 
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