Recent Updates

Retour sur l'écriture du manuel sur OpenStreetMap en kreyol ayitien

Posted by anne on Jan, 23 2013

Début décembre, j'annonçais le début d'un libérathon qui visait à traduit le manuel OpenStreetMap en kreyol haïtien. Cette traduction en créole devrait permettre à une plus grande partie de la population haitienne de s'approprier le logiciel de cartographie collaborative si utilisé depuis le tremblement de terre de janvier 2010, et de participer à la mise à jour de la carte la plus détaillée du pays. [inline:Capture du 2012-12-23 01:01:33.png] Voici donc un petit retour sur le déroulement du sprint.

Faces of HOT: Two New Board Members, Pierre Beland and Joseph Reeves

Posted by Katrina E. on Jan, 21 2013

Pierre Béland and Joseph Reeves were voted onto the HOT board last week. Their nominations put the board to a total of seven for this year (with continuing five other members being Nicolas Chavent, Schuyler Erle, Mikel Maron, John Crowley and Harry Wood). They join the board after multiple years of active volunteering and coordinating of HOT projects. [inline:pierre-beland.png] Pierre Beland comes from Monteal, Canada. An economist/programmer in his previous life, He has set up many remote projects, most currently in the DRC with Claire Halleux. You can read about that active project here. [inline:jose.jpg]

OpenStreetMap Usage in Jakarta Flood Response

Posted by kate on Jan, 18 2013

Situation Days of rain in Jakarta and surrounding areas have caused massive flooding in the region. Today (Friday) the flooding has eased somewhat but thousands of people remain displaced and 11 people have died. A state of emergency has been called until January 27th for Indonesia's capital city.

Completion of Intermediate Workshops

Posted by Katrina E. on Jan, 18 2013

The six pilot workshops to the BNPB on intermediate OSM skills were completed earlier this week. Our team of eight HOT trainers finished their last workshop to members of the Kupang government with an interesting ending. The day we ended our workshop we flew home to a flooded Jakarta. The BNPB had sent us the maps, which used the OSM data we gathered last year as a base map, that showed the affected areas. (Though we knew what to expect when heading home, it still was a shock to see so many roads flooded and people surrendering their beds and belongings to higher ground. Read more about the Jakarta Floods here.)

Animating the OSM Senegal Community

Posted by Augustin Doury on Jan, 15 2013

In Dakar, back from Saint-Louis where I have been mostly working animating the OSM SN community in this town harnessing on our partnerships with BantaLabs and University Gaston Berger and reaching out to new partners from NGOs and Governements. Prior getting into details about those intense and rich days for the OSM Project Senegal and its community, I'd like to take a look back at the past weeks since the end of the HOT set up mission of this program by Mid December. At BarCamp Thies I spent a week in Dakar preparing with some active mappers of the OSM SN community the attendance of the Thies BarCamp organized by the Senegalese OpenSource movement.

Back to Senegal, Further Creating a Mapping Community

Posted by nicolas on Jan, 9 2013

Augustin and I conducted HOT’s third deployment HOT to Senegal 24 November to 15 December, 2012. The main objective: set-up Augustin Doury for five months of volunteering to grow the OSM SN community and to improve the maps of the area. This initiative has been possible with the funding of Fondation de France (FDF) and our partnership with OpenStreetMap France.

Mapping Selayar Island with Help from MapBox and GeoEye

Posted by kate on Jan, 4 2013

We first meet the ACCESS partners from Selayar Island at a workshop in Bali in December 2011. After this workshop ACCESS organized their own that took place actually on Selayar Island. One of the biggest issues however is there was only one GPS unit available on the island and no imagery suitable for digitizing information into OpenStreetMap. I began the process of looking for possible sources of imagery then and fortunately GeoEye was able to answer the call.

Public/Private Partnership to Map West Nusa Tenggara

Posted by kate on Jan, 3 2013

In December an exciting partnership agreement was signed in Indonesia which will continue the creation of freely available OpenStreetMap data in the West Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia (see post from NTB government here). The participants in the E-Mapping Agreement are the Provincial Planning Agency (BAPPEDA) of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), Australian Community Development and Civil Society Strengthening Scheme (ACCESS) Phase II, PT Bali Seafood, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the University of Mataram (UNRAM).

2012 Was HOT...Can't Wait for 2013

Posted by kate on Jan, 2 2013

Closing out 2012 HOT has been officially in existence for over two and a half years. We continue to be able to do more to work to ensure geodata is freely available in times of crisis and natural disasters. I'm proud of the progress we've made and I'm excited to continue it into 2013. We have continued to respond remotely with the network for OpenStreetMap volunteers to respond to crisis and with donor partners to work on disaster preparedness project in seven countries. Additionally we have begun to be able to do strategic organizational work that will allow the continued growth of the organization.

Faces of HOT: Mikel Maron, HOT President and Co-Founder

Posted by Katrina E. on Dec, 17 2012

As one of the co-founders of HOT, Mikel has years of experience working on mapping projects all around the world. After studying computer science at the University of California: Santa Cruz, he got his start with Yahoo and wrote some of the first code for OSM in 2005. His programming and geography skills have enabled him to contribute to the general OpenStreetMap project and various aspects of the Humanitarian OpenstreetMap Team. [inline:Selection_294.png]