[HOT] Could HOT partner with a handheld GPS maker?

Hi all, I've recently been trying to think through some of my HOT daydreaming - much of this relates to how HOT might grow in the future and what we may be doing when that future arrives. Not a business proposal, but some thinking out loud, could HOT be doing more with the traditional map compani

Re: [HOT] What does IDT mean?

Hi Charlotte, IDT or IDP? An IDP is an "Internally Displaced Person". See, for example: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c146.html Cheers, Joseph On 29 April 2015 at 15:47, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > Folks, > > You keep talking about them as if the whole world knows what they > are.

Re: [HOT] meetbot in #hot irc channel

Don't forget that Fran Boon has provided: http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/ Cheers, Joseph On 9 June 2015 at 23:08, Russell Deffner wrote: > Hi everyone, yes thank you Milo for setting up this first bot at least to > try out. I’ve cc’d our TechWG, unfortunately they just had their me

Re: [HOT] Problem with Tasking Manager again

Hi Suzan, This sounds like you're problems within the iD editor rather than the Tasking Manager. If I'm reading correctly, Tasking Manager is opening iD for you once you've picked a square, but iD is not dealing with your login credentials properly and you aren't able to save. As Dan has already

Re: [HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Important Maintenance shortly

Hi, it's read / write again now, as per normal (time frame from original announcement: "midday to 1pm (UTC/GMT)"). Cheers, Joseph On 27 July 2015 at 14:34, wrote: > Thanks for this update. > > Any idea of how long this will take? > > Cheers > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. > *From

Re: [HOT] highways from Africover import with tag AUTO_ID removal

hi Rafael, I asked something similar in 2010 and was told that the IDs can be removed: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-March/049175.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-March/049207.html I don't think I've touched any Africover data for a while, but when I

Re: [HOT] How to incorporate WASH data into OSM

hi Jose, Dale, On the topic of a standard tagging schema, there's the start of something on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:pump The pump key has already got some use: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=pump#overview It would be great if this could be extended to suit

Re: [HOT] How to incorporate WASH data into OSM

at 11:50, Dale Kunce wrote: > Joseph, > Right now we use a combination of pump=* and amenity=drinking_water both > of which don't really cover the full needs of wash data. > > Dale > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Joseph Reeves > wrote: > >> hi Jose, Dal

[HOT] I'm running for the OSMF Board

Dear all, Apologies to those on the Members' list, I'm spamming you with this for the second time. I sent this note to Members yesterday and it was suggested I send to the wider HOT community as well. Feedback would be great, and I'd also add that OSMF membership is something that should really b

Re: [HOT] Lake Malawi missing in standard layer

Hi Martin, I've just had the briefest of looks, but, here's the object in OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2631184 Latest change was "Repair Lake Malawi multipolygon." ten days ago. It looks like you can zoom in and it appears: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/-11.0657/34.2487 S

Re: [HOT] Lake Malawi missing in standard layer

Further to that, this tile at zoom 11 was all land: http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/11/1218/1087.png I marked as dirty and it's re-rendered as it should be. Cheers, Joseph On 18 January 2016 at 17:22, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I've just had the briefest of

Re: [HOT] Cloud over Lusaka

Hi Gertrude, I've just had a quick look at this and can see what you mean.Have you tried the MapBox imagery? It seems to have much less (maybe even no) clouds, but you can't zoom in as far with it. Are there any specific areas of Lusaka that are covered by clouds? Thanks, Joseph On 31 January

Re: [HOT] Hot tasking manager Togo Maps disapeared

Hi Daniel, The search pulls it up: http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority&direction=asc&search=meningitis Looks they've been archived - I can't tell you why, but they're still there. One is complete, but the other has squares available: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1588 Cheers, Joseph

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Early Bird Registration ends June 18

Hi all, There's less than 3 hours left to buy an early bird ticket! I got mine today, really looking forward to the event. Cheers, Joseph On 16 June 2016 at 02:57, Cheryl Shaw wrote: > Just a reminder that the HOT Summit Early Bird registration ends June 18. > Please be sure to register and

Re: [HOT] osm.org : permanent link

Hi Amadou, The "share" tab on the right hand side includes the link option (the same as the old permalink). It also allows you to add a marker, if that's what you want to do. You can also get a permalink more quickly by right clicking on the "view" option at the top of the map and doing "copy lin

Re: [HOT] HOT house hack - Mon-Fri next week near Worksop

Hi all, It seems that Internet connectivity is an issue for a number of people - I'm expecting to have a number of MiFis with Data SIMs delivered for us to use in the bunk house. They're being donated, so I've promised that we're not going to be pushing gigabytes around, but there should be plenty

[HOT] HOT September Board Meeting

Dear all, Today we had our September Board meeting - it was a big one with many important issues discussed and acted upon. Please see the summary below and the links to the archived version and minutes. I still owe you the minutes for our July meeting; these will be available soon. Best, Joseph

[HOT] Humanitarian layer on osm.org

Hi all, I just wanted to mention this, although I'm sure many have already seen it, and I don't know anything about how it got to the main page, but... It's really good to see the HDM-CartoCSS layer as an option on osm.org: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/38.89758/-77.04268&layers=H https://

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian layer on osm.org

key or further explanation, I would like to show this off at > our scottish conference. > > Cheers > > Bob > > ---------- > *From:* Joseph Reeves > *To:* hot > *Sent:* Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 10:50 > *Subject:* [HOT] Humanitarian layer on o

Re: [HOT] Humanitarian layer on osm.org

Hi Jonathan, I've not worked on this rendering, so will talk rather vaguely, but on the example page there's the key for "Water & Sanitation", for example: http://hotosm.github.io/HDM-CartoCSS/#13/19.6718/-72.1304 The difference between potable and non potable water sources is, of course, hugely

Re: [HOT] HOT stick (Portable Apps) for Training/Workshops

Hi all, It doesn't contain everything on the list, but Portable GIS includes QGIS: http://www.archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html Back to portable-apps, I've looked at it briefly and see that it includes java - so running the josm-latest.jar would presumably be no problem. Cheers, Joseph On

Re: [HOT] Help Validating

Hi Alex, Click the workflow button on the Tasking Manager site - you then get the imagery agreement to accept - click workflow again and it gives you the URL and some JOSM instructions. Cheers, Joseph On 9 October 2013 12:19, Alex Rollin wrote: > Where is that? > > I am in iD, looking at B

Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise

It may be worth contacting the task creator before starting mass editing, however, just our of politeness if nothing else. There's a large Indonesia project, for example, that could be good, but also could be intended for local training. I'd be happy to create a large Syria task if there's nothing

Re: [HOT] Engineering for You Video Contest

Hi Hotties, Are there still HOT video cameras in the field? I was recorded on one in Indonesia (Thanks Katrina!) and seem to remember that the others were in.. Sengal, perhaps? Cheers, Joseph On 7 March 2014 16:00, Russell Deffner wrote: > Oh, sorry - that other link directs you through ano

Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order for SotM-US

Hi all, If UK folks one, let me know - I'm SoTM-US'ing and I'm sure I could pick you up a tshirt and sort out something for delivery when I'm back in Blighty a couple of weeks later. Cheers, Joseph On 12 March 2014 09:46, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > If you do in fact want a polo. Plea

Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order for SotM-US

Of course, no worries - I'll bring it along to a OSM London event. Joseph On 12 March 2014 10:08, Harry Wood wrote: > I won't make it to SOTM US. Would be great if you could fly back with one > for me! > > > ________ > From: Joseph Reev

Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order for SotM-US

Hi Simone, Add yourself to the list and I'll pick one up for you. I'll bring it to the as yet unplanned and unannounced end of April HOT London meeting. Cheers, Joseph On 12 March 2014 10:25, Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Harry Wood wrote: > > I won't make it t

Re: [HOT] HOT Polo Order for SotM-US

Hi Simone, Hopefully we'll see each other at a future HOT event, otherwise we can work something out with postage and paypal. Cheers, Joseph On 13 March 2014 08:37, Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Joseph Reeves > wrote: > > Add yourself to the l

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

Hi all, The custom is more the people leading the Activation post on the blog, with > a bit more context and past/current/coming activities. > I don't care who does the blogging, but could someone do it as soon as possible? ;-) I have wanted to link to *something* about our work here, but a few m

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

> > It seems to me a bit early in the process to send a Blog update The idea of a blog post would be to ask people to help. It will reach people that perhaps don't read the mailing lists or Twitter. I don't see how this can be done too early. In addition, it gives users of other services somethi

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

Hi Robert, Agree with your email. I think on this point, however, I don't think that anything should go out without the full endorsement of > the activation leads, since they have to "own" it > At the moment, things such as activation leads, or even the activation status, are fluid. My point is

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Guinea Ebola Outbreak, Mapping to support MSF

Following a brief conversation on IRC I copy / pasted the Gdoc into the blog: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-03-26_mapping_guinea_help_wanted Heather, thanks for getting us started, I hope getting this posted earlier wasn't bad form! Cheers, Joseph On 26 March 2014 14:24, J

Re: [HOT] Monitoring changesets that occurs only within a specific bounding box

Hi Edouard, I use WhoDidIt to generate RSS feeds of changes in areas I'm interested in. I find it works very well: http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/ Cheers, Joseph On 3 April 2014 12:54, Edouard LEGOUPIL wrote: > Dear list, > > In Jordan, Refugee camps base map are maintaine

Re: [HOT] Syria Activation

Dear all, I've not looked at Syria mapping in any coordinated manner for a while now, but there is some areas that we could start on; I've been thinking about starting some Task Manager jobs for a while now as Bing imagery has improved (I've not looked at the result of the recent MapBox / DigitalG

Re: [HOT] SDS Preparation/Project-Setup

Hi Alex, Kate says I need to associate with a "feature" and I am still working on understanding what a feature is. Is that a multipoint geojson object? Is a doorway a feature if it is a way? Should I be associating with buildings instead? I am thinking that nodes are not features, then? I'm

Re: [HOT] Launching the hot mailing list in French

Dear Michael, all, Typing this quickly as the day is going badly for me... It's my opinion that the creation of HOT mailing lists require more community input than was shown in this instance; whilst I know that we need to be doing more to work in more languages than English, I am not convinced th

Re: [HOT] Launching the hot mailing list in French

to see the HOT board being supportive rather than > > trying to be controlling. > > I know we all read emails a bit differently from each other, but to me > Heather's message was not "controlling" - she wasn't asking for > control, she was asking for disc

Re: [HOT] Launching the hot mailing list in French

Hi all, *"HOT leverages the OSM brand, which is an Open Community* *So HOT is logically the Open Community to do with Humanitarian"* Of course, however, OpenStreetMap doesn't just say "do what you like with it", even if they have been very generous with the use of their name. This popped up o

Re: [HOT] 2014 Gaza Strip Follow up

hi Fred, Will there be a blog post about the Gaza activation? I know some GIS people new to OSM that want to be involved in HOT and would appreciate a post to read. The Ebola posts, for example, are great to show them (thanks Pierre). I could help with the bogging if there's a problem of time and

Re: [HOT] Duplicate ways in Monrovia

Hi Tom, Save often and you should be OK. If I'm working on a task with ways that extend beyond it I'll trace them otherwise the map is going to have arbitrary breaks in ways caused by our methods of organising ourselves. Cheers, Joseph On 30 Sep 2014 08:10, "Tom Taylor" wrote: > But the other

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

Hi all, Blake, thanks for nominating Heather; I was just thinking about this nomination process. All, last year one of the problems we went through with the Board election process was that a last minute proposal was made to radically change the organisation and members didn't, it could well be ar

[HOT] Election Manisfesto

Dear all, Aiming to eat my own dog food, please find online my manifesto for the upcoming HOT Board election: https://ello.co/iknowjoseph/post/8Ne4RgB7nqa9O9W3nGwGuQ Take care of each other, Joseph ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://li

Re: [HOT] Election Manisfesto

asking for. Cheers, Joseph On 4 March 2015 at 20:24, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Dear all, > > Aiming to eat my own dog food, please find online my manifesto for the > upcoming HOT Board election: > > https://ello.co/iknowjoseph/post/8Ne4RgB7nqa9O9W3nGwGuQ > > T

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

ctly with a number of the members. I've also had the privilege >>> of seeing the HOT's work first hand being used to alleviate suffering after >>> Typhoon Haiyan and heard stories and reports from many humanitarians that >>> depend on HOT to do their work for

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

both locations? Also, I think it would > work to use the one table for people seeking nomination for either the > Board or Chair, just make sure it’s obvious which one your seeking > nomination for. > > =Russ > > > > *From:* Joseph Reeves [mailto:iknowjos...@gmail.com]

Re: [HOT] HOT Board and Chair Elections

ut it. This will come in time as is > evident from the changing nature of some of the workshops of late. But, > there is a gap. > > Just like HOT needs a balanced Board of diverse skills and locations, we > also need women. See some of the research. > > > > http://www.forbes.com/si

[HOT] Let's make the most of this

*tl;dr *People are always asking for more of a say in HOT. Let's do that now! Dear all, The proposed (accepted?) extension to the nomination process has taken most of us by surprise. Let's use it as an opportunity. The original nomination deadline is due to close in less than an hour. With this

Re: [HOT] Let's make the most of this

t; us to strengthen our texts. Publishing early is your own decision and is > not a rule and I do not see the benefit to stigmatize other candidates. > Please keep in mind you had the chance to write your views in your native > language, what is not the case for any of us. > > Since

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

OT, I know, but I would love to see the same thing available as Kindle friendly pdf (or native ebook format) download. I recently drove around France for a weekend wishing that my atlas was Open, offline and on my ebook reader. Cheers, Joseph On 7 June 2011 07:51, Samuel Mandell wrote: > Essen

Re: [HOT] Advised computer requirements

At Nicolas' Brittany mapping party we followed the Windows installation instructions / work flow under Ubuntu and got everything working without too much trouble. I did say I'd start on a Ubuntu guide, but got distracted. If it's something people want, however, I could give it a go one weekend. (A

Re: [HOT] First "Hot Chat"

Hi all, I seem to be on my own in the chatroom - is 2300 GMT here, unless I'm making a massive clock mistake (could happen). Cheers, Joseph On 27 July 2011 17:17, Kate Chapman wrote: > Oops, I mean in a little under 7 hours. On that note I should really > get to bed. > > -Kate > > On Wed, J

Re: [HOT] First "Hot Chat"

Ah, Summer Time, silly me; I'm only about 60 miles from Greenwich... Thanks all, Joseph On 27 July 2011 23:12, Steve Coast wrote: > looks like you're early > > http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ > > > On 7/27/2011 3:06 PM, Joseph Reeves wrote: > > Hi all,

Re: [HOT] H.O.T OSM manual and learning OSM in Uganda

"A gate is a section in a wallor fence which can be opened to allow or restrict access. They are usually made of wood or metal." Looks fine to me. Perhaps the gate could be tagged as a

Re: [HOT] Bing high resolution coverage extended over Syria

Geofabrik are also providing hourly data extracts and Garmin files: https://twitter.com/#!/geofabrik/status/167888233416499200 I don't know how much of a ground concern mapping is, but this is a really good thing to see. Presumably Homs looks very different now compared to when those aerial ima

Re: [HOT] Computer Lab Tech Ideas. Haiti.

Hi Brian, I see you've got a number of replies already, but I thought I'd chime in briefly. My original thought would be to use a Ubuntu desktop on every machine you're running (and to provide virtual machines to any guests or visitors you might have) and run the standard HOT tools from that. For

Re: [HOT] Computer Lab Tech Ideas. Haiti.

board - comments appreciated. Cheers, Joseph On 5 March 2012 14:29, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Hi Brian, > > I see you've got a number of replies already, but I thought I'd chime > in briefly. My original thought would be to use a Ubuntu desktop on > every machine you'

Re: [HOT] Computer Lab Tech Ideas. Haiti.

: > One thing I've wondered about the RasberryPi in informal situations is > their longevity. That is, how will they be protected from dust and > being dropped if they don't have an enclosure? > > On 11 March 2012 02:33, Joseph Reeves wrote: >> Hi all, >> >>

Re: [HOT] HOT Chats? Useful

Hi Kate, Hotties, I always found the regular HOT chats useful, although my attendance hasn't been too regular of late. I'd be keen to keep joining in. Cheers, Joseph On 16 April 2012 00:27, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > Are the HOT chats useful? > > Do we want them to continue? > > It w

Re: [HOT] HOT Scholarship to SotM? Opinions? Ideas? Thoughts?

Hi Kate, When I first saw that SotM was going to be in Japan I wondered if scholarships would be available, but then I started to think that there was likely to be people living in areas of HOT deployments (and working on ongoing projects) that may benefit more from the experience, or the required

Re: [HOT] HOT Scholarship to SotM? Opinions? Ideas? Thoughts?

o be possible if at all. > > I wonder if any countries have ever done a fundraiser for one person > to go.  It would be an interesting approach to things. Similar to the > "mapping lottery" that happens a couple SotM's ago. > > -Kate > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6

[HOT] Separate Data Store installation script

Dear all, I've written a rough and ready bash script that will install the HOT Separate Data Store [0] on a Ubuntu 12.04 machine. The idea is that the software can be easily trialled or deployed with minimal user interaction; I'm not expecting anyone to be using this script to create production se

Re: [HOT] HOT tutorship program for supporting OSM communities in the developing countries

Hi Séverin, This sounds like a great idea - perhaps it'd make a good topic for a HOT IRC chat? There's not been one for a while, shall we try again next Wednesday? Cheers, Joseph On 22 August 2012 22:16, Séverin MENARD wrote: > Hi, > > > Nicolas and I would like to find ways to facilitate c

[HOT] HOT Chat, later today / tonight / this morning?

Hi all, Were people interested in a HOT chat this evening (or whatever time it is where you are) ? http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=HOT+Chat&iso=20120829T23 https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Chats Cheers, Joseph __

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat, later today / tonight / this morning?

; I was meaning to reply saying I'm up for it, and hopefully a few others >> will join in? >> >> See you on #hot IRC in 9 hours time. We have "Tutorships" as a chat >> topic. Anything else? : >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/

Re: [HOT] HOT Chat, later today / tonight / this morning?

at 5am or 6am depending to attend. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Joseph Reeves wrote: >> I don't think there's anyone that finds the timing of the chats too >> convenient - it's either really early or really late for just about >> everyone. >> >&

Re: [HOT] ideas for beginners

Hi Mike, I don't know what you're planning on getting these beginners to do, but if it's tracing Nico recently emailed about the ongoing response to flooding in Senegal: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2012-August/002171.html This could provide a good introduction to HOT as there's

Re: [HOT] Pre activation in Eastern DRC - Goma

Hi all, Looking quickly at the Bing Image Analyser, Goma and some surrounding areas are covered in high detail: http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=-1.689891955079034&lon=29.226718902587876&zoom=11 I've not been able to find any coverage areas as shapefiles or equivalent, how

Re: [HOT] Pakistan Anti-Mapping Legislation: Implications for HOT/OSM

Hi Alex, all, I've gone through your proposed blog post a few times now, it's raised a few questions / thoughts. Some are about the issue at hand whilst others relate more to HOT's decision making process. Many of these overlap and I'm not expecting a detailed reply to the whole thing, but just of

Re: [HOT] HOT Version of Walking Papers

apman wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> So as many people know Walking Papers has been broken for a while. It > >> would be great if HOT had our own version of this. > >> > >> Would anyone have time to set it up? Joseph Reeves got a s

Re: [HOT] HOT Version of Walking Papers

een getting the 10% finished for fieldpapers... would be > great to get that up and running again. > > Cheers, > > Katrina E. > > Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team > Jakarta, Indonesia > @MappingKat > www.MappinKat.WordPress.com > On Nov 30, 2012 6:19 PM, "Joseph

[HOT] Upcoming nominations & HOT's online presence?

Hi all, I guess that with nominations closing shortly this might be too late to suggest, but is it worth highlighting the membership nominations on the HOT website, Twitter, Facebook? I wonder if we may have people engaging with HOT through those means that haven't signed up for the mailing list

Re: [HOT] HOT Version of Walking Papers

? I might find some time to look into > this during the upcoming holidays... > > Cheers, > Seb. > > > On 30 November 2012 12:17, Joseph Reeves wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Let me know if anyone wants to take a look at the version I got running. >> Current

Re: [HOT] 500 internal server error in Tasking Manager

Is it still worth? > > Pierre > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:48 PM, maning sambale < > emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Joseph, >> >> Its working now using a different ISP. >> >> Maning Sambale (mobile) >> On Dec 14, 2012 4:29

[HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Aleppo Data for OSM

This may be of interest to any Hotties not on the CrisisMappers list. Best, Joseph -- Forwarded message -- From: Matt McNabb Date: 10 January 2013 20:03 Subject: [CrisisMappers] Aleppo Data for OSM To: crisismapp...@googlegroups.com Hi All We are in the process of looking a

Re: [HOT] HOT Board of Directors election 2012/13

Jaakko, I have stayed clear of recent Board discussions as I have been nominated for a position myself. Reading your email, and Katrina's from earlier, I was encouraged to write something about my perception of the Board and how I would like to see things progress. This has been rushed, which I a

[HOT] HOT activation Syria

Dear all, I'm pleased to report that HOT have been contacted by partners working within the ongoing Syrian crises and have been asked to provide relevant mapping resources. As such we have begun a formal HOT Syria activation. I've put further details into a blog post: http://hot.openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] HOT activation Syria

Hi Heather, That would be fantastic - many thanks! Joseph On 28 January 2013 15:48, Heather Leson wrote: > HI Joseph, there are a few Crowdmap/Ushahidi deployers in Syria. May I do > introductions? > > Heather > On Jan 28, 2013 3:42 PM, "Joseph Reeves" wrote:

Re: [HOT] HOT activation Syria

rmann > K0DMA > GPG Key: https://ellermann.net/trevor-gpg-public-key.asc > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Joseph Reeves > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm pleased to report that HOT have been contacted by partners working > > within the ongoing Syrian

[HOT] First Syria tasks on the Tasking Manager

Dear all, Thanks to everyone who responded to yesterday's news that we've begun our Syria Activation - it was all very positive, which was great. In order to keep up with the momentum that's around at the moment I've created the first three jobs on the Tasking Manager: Damascus: http://tasks.hot

Re: [HOT] so many jobs and so less mappers

Hi Norman, I was thinking about featured jobs today myself, mainly because we've been getting great feedback from our partners on the Syria activation and I wanted to promote the jobs I'd created :) I think I'll mark them as featured, unless anyone objects, but I think there's more we could be as

Re: [HOT] so many jobs and so less mappers

Hi Floris, Please feel free to finish off any almost complete jobs and mark them as done! That would be great for any tasks in the list. Cheers, Joseph On 31 January 2013 08:20, Floris Looijesteijn wrote: > The OSM Tasking Manager list at: > http://tasks.hotosm.org/#featured > > BTW I spent s

Re: [HOT] Mali and Syria

Hi all, I'll publish a blog update on Monday that might encourage more people to participate; in short, mapping products including osm data are being provided to aid agencies working on the ground in and around Syria. They look great and people are really thankful that they can get osm data. A def

Re: [HOT] Mali and Syria

>One problem, especially with complex emergencies, is that Google Hangouts are public unless you are using >Google Apps. That means that it would be impossible to protect activists from surveillance. Hi Tim, At the moment I don't think this is going to be too much of an issue for the Syria activa

[HOT] Syria Activation update

Dear all, I'm very happy to let you know that the first three Syria tasks have been completed and I've added the next three (slightly smaller) jobs to the tasking manager. A massive thanks to everyone's that's been tracing and validating these tasks - you're all heroes. The products of our tracin

[HOT] HOT activation update: Call for assistance with georeferencing place names

Hi all, I'll write a blog post about this early next week, but I wanted to give you all a heads up in advance. It's great to see that people have been putting time in to the jobs on the Tasking Manager. It's amazing how quickly people are completing the areas that have been put up. Thanks again t

Re: [HOT] Syria Lattakia (SY06)

Hi Floris, I don't think this is anything to worry about (or at lease to contact Bing about). The layers up to 13 are dated March 2001 to July 2004, whereas 14 and above dated January 2005 to February 2011: http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=35.523329112018146&lon=35.79035

[HOT] February 2013 Board meeting minutes

Dear all, We had our second Board meeting of 2013 this week, please find included the minutes and a brief summary. As the new Board Secretary (read about it in the minutes), I'll be typing these things up and delivering them to you after every meeting. tl;dr The meeting followed on the themes int

[HOT] John Crowley resigning from the board

Dear all, It’s with considerable sadness that we have to announce the resignation of John Crowley from his position on the Board. John was initially voted onto the Board in 2011 and retained his position in the 2012 elections; he now leaves us to undertake a position with the World Bank. John’s co

Re: [HOT] Board nomination to replace John Crowley on the 2013 HOT Board

Hi all, Just a reminder that's there's a couple of days left for nominations to the vacant board position. I'll give you the wiki page again because the link in the previous email doesn't go to the page that it initially appears to; nominations are here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanit

[HOT] Announcing Heather Lesson's appointment to the Board

Dear all, On behalf of the HOT Board I'm pleased to announce that Heather Lesson has been appointed to the position vacated by John Crowley. Heather was the only nomination, so she can take the position without the need for a vote. Of course we're all looking forward to working together for yours

Re: [HOT] Trouble with HOT Exports?

Hi all, Harry has an ongoing ticket open about the disk space issue, recently reopened: https://github.com/hotosm/hot-exports/issues/5 Cheers, Joseph On 28 March 2013 18:48, Andrew Buck wrote: > There was some problems with the server hard drive filling up. Harry > cleaned out a few file

Re: [HOT] Error with HOT exports

Hi Claire, I imagine the HOT-export server has a full disk again, this has been causing problems for a while now; Harry has been clearing space, but it's just filling up again. As for other sources of DRC data, there is regular dumps provided elsewhere by Geofabrik: http://download.geofabrik.de/

Re: [HOT] Error with HOT exports

ent disk. > Has anyone looked for this? > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > ------ > *From:* Joseph Reeves > *To:* Claire Halleux > *Cc:* HOT Openstreetmap > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:26 AM > *Subject:* Re: [HOT

[HOT] April 2013 Board Meeting Minutes

Dear all, tl;dr Our March Baord Meeting was delayed until the beggining of April. We welcomed Heather Leson as our latest member and discussed a number of ongoing issues. Most importantly for the organisation we defined the rules by which paid HOT employees can serve as Board members. As always, t

Re: [HOT] Access to ArcGIS and Testing the HOT Export Tool

hi Kate, >The other reported bug I should have mentioned and neglected to is some polygons showing that they have empty areas. >The suspected issue is that the polygon directions are going the wrong way. Just to clarify, polygons should go in a clockwise direction? I wonder if any of the KeepRigh

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)

hi all, Hopefully you've seen the SotM Call for Presentations. Hotties may also be interested in taking advantage of the Poster Exhibition that's being organised - it could be really good for people that are unable to physically attend the conference. There's a few of us here in the UK (and I'm cu

[HOT] Hotties take note! SotM registration open

Hi all, I'm sure many of you will have seen through the usual OSM communication channels, but the State of the Map registration is now open. May is the early bird month, so if you know you're coming it'd be best to get signed up before June comes along. Early bird pricing is as follows: Regular:

[HOT] May Board Meeting Minutes

Hi All, Please find attached the minutes from our Board Meeting last week. Apologies for the delay in getting them to you - Mikel and myself got these ready for dissemination at the end of last week, but I've been unable to actually pull the pieces together until now. tl;dr A busy board meeting w

[HOT] June 2013 Board Meeting Minutes

Dear all, tl;dr June's board meeting took place via conference call at the end of the month. A number of items, both ongoing and new were discussed, including Working Groups (List readers, please get involved if you'd like to!), sys admin hiring and the potentials (positive and negative) of UAV us

Re: [HOT] OSMTraker problem

Hi Idriss, I've not used OSMTracker, but if it's waiting for a GPS fix you'll need to make sure that: 1: GPS is enabled in the phone's Location settings 2: You've got a clear view of the sky 3: You've got some network connectivity (mobile data or wifi) so the phone can download some Assisted GPS

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