Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 114, Issue 2

2019-08-08 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Dear Tyler Great that you will be at Wikimedia Foundation's annual conference (Wikimania) - There have been keynotes to highlight inter-linkages

[HOT] Apply for the Renewable Energy Challenge Fund (RECF): Solar Window

2017-12-05 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Dear HOT Community, Sorry for cross-posting, but feel free to share this funding opportunity within your networks that could find this suitable: *The RECF: Solar Window aims to accelerate the deployment of decentralised

[HOT] Map Ofua and Stand with refugees

2017-10-13 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Dear all, In the world of refugee crises across the globe, it is no secret that Uganda has one of the most progressive and impressive refugee models . There have been quite a number of remote tasks

Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap data, good and bad

2016-11-16 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Thanks, great feedback, The untagged ways and duplicated nodes are a common scenario, it's great that there's such discoveries that can be made. Perhaps there could be a documentation on these recent common mistakes on the wiki, so that the local and new mappers can avoid and correct these.

[HOT] OpenStreetMap data, good and bad

2016-11-14 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Dear community members, While at the spatial data workshop a few days back in Tanzania, there was unique feedback from some of the people and organisations who have used OSM data: they greatly appreciated the quality of the data in OSM: buildings, roads, and

[HOT] Reinventing the Community Working Group

2016-09-16 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Wonderful initiative, Will look forward to the proceedings from this, and possible involvement. All the best!! -- *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team *Mapping Supervisor "Financial Services", Uganda Email: douglas.ssebagg...@hotosm.org Skype: douglo.m Twitter: @douglaseru

Re: [HOT] Hot on the Ground

2016-04-28 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
d later in the week! >> >> heather >> >> Heather Leson >> heatherle...@gmail.com >> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson >> Blog: textontechs.com >> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Douglas Ssebaggala < >> douglas.ssebagg...@hotosm

[HOT] Hot on the Ground

2016-04-27 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Dear Hotties.. Following the previous updates on mapping financial services in Uganda, and execution of the major phases of the

[HOT] Mapping Financial Access in Uganda

2015-12-30 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi HOT community, Great to talk to the list after a (long) while: wishing everyone a successful new year in advance, and sending tribute to all efforts done by different people to make the OSM community what it is, including those who have passed on. We will surely send updates from the above

[HOT] Mapping Africa's National Parks, Game Reserves Nature Reserves

2014-10-03 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi, Thanks for sharing, this sounds like a worthy project [1] to get involved with, will forward the message to some of the lists back here [2] [1] http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_African_National_Parks_and_Reserves -- Yours Truly Project Coordinator (Mapping day Uganda) |

[HOT] ICCM - NBO Mapping Party

2013-11-22 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
The OpenStreetMap database is currently in read-only mode while essential database maintenance work is carried out. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/49.92/12.08 Wiki; Platform Status: Database is in read-only mode http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page Wondering for how

Re: [HOT] In Person Mapathons

2013-11-15 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi HOT, I'll post updates on the Typhoon Mapathon wiki events page, incase there are some tasks done before the 23rd, at least with a couple of OSM lovers. And also for other future events, as suggested, consider other places like Vietnam, and jobs on the tasking manager. Thanks for all

[HOT] In Person Mapathons

2013-11-14 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Would there be more tasks to work on for Typhoon Haiyan by 23rd Nov on the tasking manager? We hope to contribute on that date, or work on any other task. -- Yours Truly Coordinator (Mapping day Uganda) | Tel:+256-312-283937 / Mob: 0772-422524 Twitter: @mapuganda |

[HOT] OSM in the Energy Sector

2013-09-25 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi HOT, If there are some people who have come across examples and experiences of mapping energy facilities in relation to OSM, can you please share? We mapped some poles and lines from field level/surveys some time back (2011) on our mapping events, and ITO can make visualisations of

[HOT] M 5.2 Earth quake in Lake Albert Region, Uganda.

2013-07-05 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi. Earth quakes have been a rare occurence in Uganda, but of recent some were noted; http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=324535#.UdT2p68d1M4.twitter Around the Lake Albert Region in Uganda near the border with Congo-Kinshasa.

[HOT] Video, Eurosha training in Plaisians - September 2012

2013-01-29 Thread Douglas Ssebaggala
Hi everyone, Compliments for all the work by H.O.T and all members on this list, and the Eurosha Volunteers in Africa. Looking through the mail archives (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2013-January/subject.html) and an extract from the message by Marine Louvigny ...