[HOT] Volunteers needed: Ebola response task

2015-03-20 Thread Robert Banick
sted and I can explain more. Best, Robert Robert Banick GIS Expert Ebola Needs Assessment Project (ENAP) Freetown, Sierra Leone Phone: +232-7925-6781 Email: r...@acaps.org<mailto:r...@acaps.org> Skype: robert.banick www.acaps.org<http://www.acaps.org/> Download ACAPS Mobile App.

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
I’m hearing from old Red Cross friends that many places outside Kathmandu are also affected. I think we should worry about the city of Pokhara too, it’s a major city basically equidistant from the earthquake. — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Heather Leson wrote: > Morning

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
s that could come in handy for immediate print use: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathmandu_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patan_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > We started an internatio

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal > > Have uploaded some high resolution osm extracts of downtown Kathmandu and > Patan to wiki commons that could come in handy for immediate print use: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathmandu_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png > https://commons.wikimedia.or

Re: [HOT] Road classification system in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Robert Banick
Hi All, Kathmandu Living Labs took the time to compile a really useful tagging guide specific to Nepal. There’s one specific tagging guide for roads here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nepal/Roads There’s a more general Nepal tagging guide here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsh

Re: [HOT] NEPAL/Taginfo ( http://178.62.129.19/ temporary instance )

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Banick
Fantastic resource Imre. Any chance we can get a more human friendly URL? I suspect a lot of people will have trouble remembering that IP address or passing it along to others. — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Imre Samu wrote: > I have created a _temporary_ NEPAL Taginfo

Re: [HOT] Kathmandu IDP Camps TM1008 - Validation process

2015-04-28 Thread Robert Banick
Chad, we are asking for all IDP camps to be represented as ways / areas. We can reduce to points via the overpass api at a later date. Even if the areas are tiny that lets us know that it’s just a single tent, so it’s still useful information. — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:25

Re: [HOT] Nepal rural areas - tagging forests and farmland?

2015-04-30 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Falkmar, If you look at the tasks up on the tasking manager they usually tell you what to prioritize. In general, woodlands and farmlands are very much "nice to have" at this moment. We're prioritizing roads, residential areas, buildings and any critical infrastructure we can see (bridges, sch

[HOT] BBC License Violation?

2015-05-01 Thread Robert Banick
Hi All, I was reading the below linked article on the BBC today and came across the map. It looks like they’re using OSM-derived internally displaced person (IDP) camp data without attribution. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20039682 Based on what I’m reading in the relevant coordination channe

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Klaus, First of all, thanks for providing such a measured response to a not very measured message. I’m sorry you got such a rude message in the first place and want to assure you that it doesn’t reflect HOT’s attitude, both stated by the organization and unstated within the community, to

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Banick
thogonal building shape. > References: > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building > [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools > Am 04.05.2015 um 14:11 schrieb Robert Banick : >> Hi Klaus, >> >> First of all, thanks for providing suc

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Training Video Suggestions

2015-05-07 Thread Robert Banick
Hi All, Excellent points and criticisms all around. The amount of feedback from new contributors during this response has been extremely welcome but also a bit humbling at times. We’ve got so much to do. A few quick responses to key points. 1. OSM is 10 years old but for much of that

Re: [HOT] HOT: Glacial & landslide dammed lakes

2015-05-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Sam, I think honestly you’re better placed to tell us how you can help than the other way around. Most of us aren’t glacial lake experts :-) My first thought is that you can trace lakes in the affected areas into OSM. The second would be to help us understand what, if any, risks can resu

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: Problems saving in ID

2015-05-22 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Charlotte, The intention of putting issue reporting there is to create information that’s *actionable* for the (primarily Mapbox) folks who maintain and develop iD. That way problems are automatically linked to solutions. As you can tell, I gently disagree with your assessment of github’s

Re: [HOT] Greetings HOT !

2015-05-29 Thread Robert Banick
Welcome Arushi! Looking forward to all the great posts. — Sent from Mailbox On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Milo van der Linden wrote: > Welcome Arushi Vashist! > On May 29, 2015 4:18 AM, "Arushi Vashist" wrote: >> My name is Arushi Vashist and I joined the HOT community as an intern >> thro

Re: [HOT] URGENT: recent OBF needed tomorrow

2015-06-10 Thread Robert Banick
I’m on it Jorieke. Do you have a Dropbox or other means of sharing large files? And internet strong enough to receive them? — Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: > Hello, > Is there somebody who can help me out quite fast? > Tomorrow we are doing a small m

Re: [HOT] URGENT: recent OBF needed tomorrow

2015-06-10 Thread Robert Banick
Sent. It turned out only 500K. Reply to me personally if there are problems. — Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: > Hello, > Is there somebody who can help me out quite fast? > Tomorrow we are doing a small mapping exercise with some people of the > minist

Re: [HOT] paths, tracks and unclassified in West Africa

2015-07-16 Thread Robert Banick
Hey all, Speaking as a humanitarian GISer who's used HOT road layers quite a bit in a few crises, the road classifications really help. Primary / secondary / tertiary are useful, albeit vey incomplete, measures of the importance of roads that we can use to eyeball transit times etc. I would be str

Re: [HOT] paths, tracks and unclassified in West Africa

2015-07-16 Thread Robert Banick
r hours training in how to > classify a road, there would be no time left for mapping. > > For these sort of highways then map something and let someone else upgrade > the tag to Primary / secondary / tertiary is my suggestion. > > Cheerio John > > On 16 July 2015 at 08:55, Rober

Re: [HOT] OSM Feature Classification Chart

2015-07-19 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Justin, That's a big task! A good place to start is the OSM Map Features wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features For Africa in particular, HOT has developed a Road Classification Tagging Scheme. Suggestions welcome: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa For more

Re: [HOT] Fwd: Resultado Convocatoria de Proyectos Día Mundial Humanitario

2015-08-11 Thread Robert Banick
Fantastic news! Congratulations Humberto and everyone else! — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:43 AM, blake_girardot wrote: > Congratulations Humberto! > This is really cool! > Cheers, > Blake > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Fwd-Resultado-Convo

Re: [HOT] Locations of Artisinal Mining Sites in the DRC?

2015-08-23 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Ray, I don’t work on conflict sites or mining certification, so take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt. I do however work in international aid so I have some perspective on how these projects work in general. The 140 number is probably compiled by specialized reporting staff w

Re: [HOT] Probing interest in HA/DR Intelligence Exercise

2015-08-25 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Dion, I believe Denis Carriere would be the best point of contact for you in the Canadian Forces (copied here). He's been very active in the past with HOT, including voluntarily helping me in a pinch with Ebola response assistance (thanks again Denis!). I believe he was deployed with the

Re: [HOT] Validation

2015-08-28 Thread Robert Banick
I really like both proposed wording changes - they send the right message to new contributors. My only concern is that "submit for review" implies that there *will* be review, which we can't always guarantee.  The number of regular validators has gone way up in the last few years and that's be

Re: [HOT] Cat-5 Hurricane Patricia heading to Mexican Pacific Coast

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Rodolfo, Importing said critcial infrastructure data could be a useful preparatory step. That way any subsequent HOT activations would build off of existing data instead of wasting time recreating it.  In particular, securing clear permission to import missing critical infrastructure

Re: [HOT] Cat-5 Hurricane Patricia heading to Mexican Pacific Coast

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
s > somewhat compatible with ODBL - an attribution-only kind of license. This > works right? > In the meantime I'm collecting COD/FODs datasets for HDX and datos.gob.mx, > Do you think COD/FOD is a good framework to start? > Thanks again > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:23 AM

[HOT] Hurricane Patricia Activation and Initial Task

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
English Greetings All, Category-5 Hurricane Patricia is scheduled to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico in the next few hours. In anticipation of considerable damages and response necessities HOT has activated. Myself, Humberto Yances and Rafael Avila Correa will be leading the act

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Activation and Initial Task

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
Mierdia. Como debo decirlo? — Sent from Mailbox On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:29 PM, hyan...@gmail.com wrote: > Abajo donde dice horas y necesidades hay q corregir > El oct. 23, 2015 12:38 PM, "Robert Banick" escribió: >> *English* >> >> Greetings All, >

Re: [HOT] DigitalGlobe imagery for Hurricane Patricia

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Kevin, Thanks for this, it’s fantastic. The existing Bing and Mapbox imagery in the area is pretty high-quality but it’s never bad to have additional options. I’ll add this to the tasks we’ve opened so far. Quick question: do you have a bounding box for the overall extent of the image

Re: [HOT] DigitalGlobe imagery for Hurricane Patricia

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Banick
ico. >> >> Kevin >> >> Sent from my mobile >> >> On Oct 23, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Robert Banick wrote: >> >> Hi Kevin, >> >> Thanks for this, it’s fantastic. The existing Bing and Mapbox imagery in >> the area is pretty high-qua

Re: [HOT] Tools in iD offsetting

2015-10-24 Thread Robert Banick
Hi  — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Suzan Reed wrote: > The tools in iD are not making lines under the tool tip. When mapping, the > tool tip is about 50 feet from where the actual line or area is being drawn > (tool tip is to the right, line is to the left). Could have

Re: [HOT] Tools in iD offsetting

2015-10-24 Thread Robert Banick
HI Suzan, I just tried out the task you specified and iD worked fine. Perhaps it’s a browser issue on your end? Have you tried resetting your browser? Best, Robert — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Suzan Reed wrote: > The tools in iD are not making lines under the

[HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

2015-10-25 Thread Robert Banick
Versión en Español viniendo pronto Hi all, Hurricane Patricia has been downgraded to a tropical depression. In practical terms this marks its end as a notable weather event. Thanks to a lucky storm path that avoided population centers and good preparedness work by the Mexican authorities not

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

2015-10-25 Thread Robert Banick
gt;> in Japan. >> Could you add editable permission to me? >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MAPconcierge >> >> >> Regards, >> >> from Taichi >> >> >> >> 2015-10-25 22:03 GMT+09:00 Robert Banick : >>> >>> Versión en Español v

Re: [HOT] Need a help on OSM workshop

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Danishka, I’d be happy to help out, especially as I’m already working with some OSMers in Sri Lanka. Are you based in Sri Lanka? Could you contact me on skype at robert.banick or viber? Whichever is easiest for you. Best, Robert Banick — Sent from Mailbox On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at

Re: [HOT] Hurricane Patricia Update: October 25

2015-10-27 Thread Robert Banick
eginners >> in Japan. >> Could you add editable permission to me? >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MAPconcierge >> >> >> Regards, >> >> from Taichi >> >> >> >> 2015-10-25 22:03 GMT+09:00 Robert Banick : >>> >&

[HOT] Closing Hurricane Patricia Activation

2015-11-13 Thread Robert Banick
ys great to reach 100%. We’ll try schedule an after action review some time next week to talk through what went well and what could be improved in future activations. I hope you all can join us. Finally, thank you all for letting us lead this activation. It was a real honor. Your leads, Humberto

Re: [HOT] Congratulations to the Ramani Huria Team

2015-12-01 Thread Robert Banick
I meant to say when this was posted that it’s super cool :). Great work! — Sent from Mailbox On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Yantisa Akhadi wrote: > Cool! Great job Ramani Huria Team! > *Yantisa Akhadi (Iyan)* > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* > Tel: +62 81 5787 03388 Email: yantisa.akh...@h

Re: [HOT] Projects on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - lots of them

2015-12-06 Thread Robert Banick
I think Daniel’s suggestion is a good idea; we don’t make nearly enough use of the front page. I would also like the ability to use custom filters, perhaps based off the task hashtags? — Sent from Mailbox On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I raised https://github.com/ho

Re: [HOT] Projects on the HOT OSM Tasking Manager - lots of them

2015-12-07 Thread Robert Banick
ata and we are good OSM citizens). Instead of >> going through each task we review all of the edits of the user in a >> given project using overpass, JOSM's todo list and validator tools. >> See example here: >> https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/135#issuecomment

[HOT] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan / UNHCR / REACH

2015-12-20 Thread Robert Banick
FYI all. My contacts at REACH have moved on from it, does anyone here have contacts with the current REACH Jordan team? In a larger sense these questions of sustainability and long-term accuracy will be a recurring issue for humanitarian mapping of camps so it would be good to explore this topic m

Re: [HOT] building, construction, ruins, livestock pen or?

2016-02-02 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Mike. I don’t know Swaziland very well but it doesn’t look like a building to me. A livestock pen perhaps but it’s a bit far from anything else and very small besides. Perhaps chicken houses? Or a waste pit? On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:32 AM Mike Thompson wrote: > https://www.openstreetmap.or

Re: [HOT] PetaJakarta

2016-02-02 Thread Robert Banick
Wonderful work all, this is just great On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:31 PM Heather Leson wrote: > Congratulations everyone! > > Heather > On 3 Feb 2016 01:54, "Tyler Radford" wrote: > >> If you haven't seen it, check out PetaJakarta, a great example of OSM "in >> action": >> >> >> http://www.theguar

Re: [HOT] New mapper needs some feedback :-)

2016-02-03 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Martin, I didn’t have time to review your work, but just wanted to add: don’t despair if you complete some tiles and they aren’t promptly validated! HOT has grown a lot in the past year or so and we have a lot more mappers than validators as a result. So sometimes it can take a little time to g

Re: [HOT] Hot on the Ground

2016-04-28 Thread Robert Banick
Best of luck Douglas and team! It’s nice to hear that mapping continues in Gulu. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:43 AM Heather Leson wrote: > Hi Douglas and Uganda teams. > > Have a great event today and later in the week! > > heather > > Heather Leson > heatherle...@gmail.com > Twitter/skype: Heathe

Re: [HOT] OSM Fiji linked with U-Report for TC Winston response

2016-05-11 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Kate, If you can get explicit permissions to import the data under OSM’s ODBL license — explicit being a signed statement from the data’s owners saying that — then an import is 100% possible. The licensing requirement is very strictly enforced so that’s fundamental. License aside, imports can t

Re: [HOT] India ban on "unofficial maps"

2016-05-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hey Sajjad — Thanks for the update. Let us know if there’s anything the global HOT community can do to realistically support your campaign. Robert On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:13 AM Sajjad Anwar wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Ralph - thanks for bringing this here. A few of us have started a > campaig

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Robert Banick
ou should check the front page > > of the tasking manager often, different jobs to support different > > ground activities might be coming up. > > > > HOT members Robert Banick and Mikel Maron will be leading HOT's > > response to this crisis. They can be c

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Robert Banick
iled housing >> unit information. >> >> There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager: >> http://tasks.hotosm.org/ >> >> This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to >> find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Banick
;> > There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager: >>> > http://tasks.hotosm.org/ >>> > >>> > This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to >>> > find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and >&

[HOT] Sri Lanka Floods Activation: Sitrep Day 1

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, ~24 hours ago HOT activated in support of the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka. We were requested to generate building information for the Kelani River Basin so household level damages could be accurately assessed. The area of interest provided was huge so we broke it into three ta

Re: [HOT] Sri Lanka Floods Activation: Sitrep Day 1

2016-05-20 Thread Robert Banick
y 20, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Danishka Navin > wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > Thanks for the update. > > I would like to host an virtual event. > > I would like to thanks all the contributors those who put their valuable > > time and energy. > > > > Best Regar

[HOT] Sri Lanka Floods Update

2016-05-22 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, The rains continue in Sri Lanka and with them the flood waters. Several hundred thousand people are affected and homeless, including several Sri Lankan OSM contributors. The Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka continues to organize aid delivery to those affected and continues to need o

[HOT] Sri Lanka Floods: Landslide Area Tracing Task

2016-05-22 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, We’ve received a request from the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka to map the Aranayake area, which was affected by a huge landslide after days of heavy rains. Our data would help with estimating damages and number of persons affected so that the appropriate amount of aid can be del

Re: [HOT] A big thank you to HOT and OSM mappers from the Ministry of Disaster Management Sri Lanka

2016-05-25 Thread Robert Banick
Thanks so much for passing this along Blake! I didn’t know about it myself, that’s so very cool. In tasks 1913, 1914 and 1915 you all mapped over *65,000* buildings across a huge area in a really short timeframe. All thanks and appreciation has to go to the mappers and validators who made this pos

[HOT] Sri Lanka Floods Activation: Final Task (1934)

2016-05-27 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, The Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka has provided us with a final area of interest for mapping. It's the outline of the flooding area around the Kelani River as of today, May 27, as collected by Sri Lankan Survey Department assessment teams. About 85% of the flooding area was cover

[HOT] Sri Lanka Floods Activation Close

2016-06-07 Thread Robert Banick
Hello everyone, Greetings from Sri Lanka. We are closing the HOT Sri Lanka Activation today. We are no longer receiving requests for support from the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka (DMC) and the actual floodwaters have receded, meaning there is no more immediate crisis to respond to. Th

Re: [HOT] Introductions

2016-06-09 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Laura and Elizabeth — welcome to the HOT list! It’s fantastic to have more HOT volunteers who are as grounded in their local community as they are in our global one. You’ll probably find that it’s hard to connect with other HOT members over this listserv as it’s so big and diverse: I encourage

Re: [HOT] HOT Tasking Manager not responding !!!

2016-06-16 Thread Robert Banick
I’m having the same error now. I was able to use the tasking manager successfully about 3 hours ago however. On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:55 PM Ahasanul Hoque wrote: > Dear hot mappers, > Is there any maintenance work ongoing for HOT task manager ? Its not > responding since last few hours and giv

[HOT] Fwd: [Talk-cl] Tarea en HOTOSM (Valparaiso 2)

2014-04-15 Thread Robert Banick
Cross-posting the new Valparaiso hills task created by Alvaro Monares of OSM Chile. HOT continues to assist the Chilean OSM community with the response to the fires afflicting Valparaiso. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Álvaro Monares G." Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM Subjec

Re: [HOT] What I want from HOT (was: Re: Let's make the most of this)

2015-03-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, In addition to the comments from Althio, Maning and others (which are excellent), I have a few things I’d like to see from HOT at this moment of transition: 1. Greater clarity on what support to local groups look like. I think everyone agrees that fostering local (HOT) OSM chapt

Re: [HOT] What I want from HOT (was: Re: Let's make the most of this)

2015-03-12 Thread Robert Banick
other organizations  — Sent from Mailbox On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Robert Banick wrote: > Hi all, > In addition to the comments from Althio, Maning and others (which are > excellent), I have a few things I’d like to see from HOT at this moment of > transition: > 1. Gre

[HOT] Fwd: FW: Fwd: [acknowl-ej] Call for collaborative political ecology cartography (EJATLAS) (English/Espanol)

2016-07-08 Thread Robert Banick
*Hi all, this may be of interest to some on this list* > *From:* Janis Alcorn > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 05, 2016 8:21 AM > *To:* Staff > *Subject:* FW: Fwd: [acknowl-ej] Call for collaborative political ecology > cartography (EJATLAS) (English/Espanol) > > > > Please see call below and share with

Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian mapping and its learning curve

2016-10-12 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, HOT is clearly one of, if not the, most successful crowdsourcing projects for humanitarian response in the world. Success means not just contributors but also use of the data by actual humanitarians. It’s unsurprising we’re encountering some limits to the approach and need to evolve it. I

Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian mapping and its learning curve

2016-10-13 Thread Robert Banick
wrote: > Unfortunately there will constantly be new crises. So we'll always be 'in > the middle of a crisis'. > > Polyglot > > 2016-10-13 8:29 GMT+02:00 Robert Banick : > > Hi all, > > HOT is clearly one of, if not the, most successful crowdsourcing proj

Re: [HOT] OSM humanitarian mapping and its learning curve

2016-10-13 Thread Robert Banick
For me there is a > significant risk here of losing the trust of the people who use the data. > > Having said that, I'd like to punt this back to Phil and Sev as I speak to > people in the field, who use the data, on a regular basis. Data quality, so > far, has almost never com

[HOT] Release of Open Data for Resilience Initiative Principles and Policy

2016-10-20 Thread Robert Banick
Hi everyone, We wanted to let you know that our team at the GFDRR Open Data for Resilience Initiative has just released the OpenDRI Policy Note & Principles document. Unlike the Open Cities guide, which seeks to provide practical guidance, this document takes a step back and

Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Thomas, Try speaking to Mikel Maron at Mapbox (and HOT) (mikel.ma...@hotosm.org). Sometimes Mapbox can help out by procuring high resolution imagery for specific areas and adding it to the Mapbox Satellite layer accessible through JOSM. If that doesn’t work I suggest you reach out to the U.S.

Re: [HOT] Building Detection using Machine Learning

2016-12-23 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Phillip, I think Andrew, John, etc. have well covered the practical relevance to OSM. On a technical note you may consider looking into what the Facebook data team is doing: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1676452492623525/connecting-the-world-with-better-maps/ I believe a lot of it is based o

[HOT] Field Data Collection Tools Expression of Interest

2017-02-10 Thread Robert Banick
Hi everyone, For those of you who are developers focused on OSM, database administrators managing OSM data or frequent users of mobile data collection tools, please note that my team at the GFDRR Innovation Lab has just published an E

Re: [HOT] Bad Gateway

2017-02-10 Thread Robert Banick
Hey Katelyn, I’m not sure what’s happening either but there appears to be a Tasking Manager server problem. Nate Smith said he was looking into it on the HOT sysadmin channel on the HOT slack so hopefully it gets resolved soon. I hope your mapathon can do OK without it! Cheers, Robert On Fri, Fe

Re: [HOT] LearnOSM updates - Mapathon guide for organisers, Quick Access links and HOT-tips for new mappers

2017-02-12 Thread Robert Banick
Amazing stuff, congratulations and thanks to all the contributors! On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:45 PM Nick Allen wrote: > Hi all, > > http://learnosm.org/en/ has had a few updates! > > My thanks to the whole team who have done such a great job on improving > the site recently. It's a team effort w

Re: [HOT] Data Collection

2017-03-06 Thread Robert Banick
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

2017-03-06 Thread Robert Banick
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 regards, > > Mhairi > > On Tu

[HOT] Open Data for Resilience Initiative Hiring

2017-06-05 Thread Robert Banick
Hi all, My Innovation Labs team at the Global Fund for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is hiring for a full-time consultant to work with the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI). The consultant will work out of our Washington D.C. office helping us grow OpenDRI’s impact within t

Re: [HOT] Introducing Amelia

2017-11-27 Thread Robert Banick
Welcome Amelia! On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:15 AM Rebecca Firth wrote: > Hi, > > Introducing Amelia, who after some time as a volunteer, joined HOT staff > team last week to work on two projects. She'll be supporting community > development through the Nethope Grant, and Communications in Tanzani