Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

https://www.hotosm.org/what-we-do

by kitebive • 3 years ago

128 19 3 years ago

pastage• 3 years ago

There seems to be some tasks up regarding the earthquake https://www.hotosm.org/disaster-services/turkiye-earthquakes...

thriftwy• 3 years ago

OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.

nicbou• 3 years ago

It has markedly better coverage in Nepal, Morocco, Central Asia, and quite frankly anywhere I have checked. It has been very useful when I travelled by motorcycle, and I've contributed a few hundred hotels and petrol stations in those places to return the favour.

lkbm• 3 years ago

I noticed yesterday that it's missing all the houses in my neighborhood (South Bend IN). A few blocks over it's complete, but I have some work to do on my block.

It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old. It's just never been mapped by the hard-working volunteers of OSM.

toomuchtodo• 3 years ago

You too are one of those hard working volunteers. Thank you for your contributions to the dataset and platform.

JEDI-HACKER• 3 years ago

Wow, what a great project. Back to basics how map's use to be made. I wish them, the greatest of success.

ygra2• 3 years ago

Well, the Haiti earthquake in 2010 marked the start of what HOTOSM do and since then they seem to steadily improve maps where disasters are likely to strike or where needed for current humanitarian efforts (e.g. there was a project on improving road coverage prior to distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in South Sudan a year ago or so). So I'd argue success is already there, just rather invisible for many people not directly involved.

pmayrgundter2• 3 years ago

I was looking to start an instance of Person Finder. It's been customized to Turkish before as well.

Any python hackers out there? It's a little crufty

https://github.com/google/personfinder/issues/814

randomluck040• 3 years ago

Im not a Python pro by any means but I’ll look into it tonight.

pmayrgundter2• 3 years ago

Thanks!

nix23• 3 years ago

Ohoh! OpenStreetMap is in danger...again and again...

mtmail2• 3 years ago

Is this regarding "OpenStreetMap is in trouble – a critical take on Bing Map Builder" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34680958) discussion yesterday?

Microsoft is known to water down open source, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... was a phrase by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is more like a sister project to OpenStreetMap. Very open, shared technology, many volunteers work on both, same conferences. The focus is different, some of the funding comes from different sources.

Doctor_Fegg• 3 years ago

Heaven knows what'll happen if we ever start succeeding!

college_physics• 3 years ago

Do you guys have a dedicated project for the Turkey/Syria earthquake disaster? People are eager to help/donate and what better way than help build along this infrastructure

mtmail2• 3 years ago

Help mapping (all in a browser) https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=T%C3%BCrkiye%20Ear...

The tech for the task manager is at https://github.com/hotosm/tasking-manager/issues

catskul22• 3 years ago

I don't quite understand what this project does, for example, in the case of the earthquake in Turkey.

Does it designate fallen buildings, and unusable roads? If so how does one access this info. I spent about 10 minutes on hotosm and osm trying to find & interpret Turkey related data and did not succeed. Found the Turkey tasks, but couldn't make heads or tails of what those tasks were, how to view the output of people doing those tasks, or how to contribute.

sometinsome• 3 years ago

HOT's Tasking Manager is a platform for coordinating the work of mappers. Only authorized organizations can create projects, but anybody can contribute.

In this case, Yer Cizenler (yercizenler.org) is coordinating with representatives of local organizations and consultants from IFRC (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) for the collection of road and building datasets.

The goal of this tasks is to complete missing data on the map, for example adding building and roads like in this case. Data is then available on OpenStreetMap for different uses. Some examples are:

* View the map on openstreetmap.org * View the map on OsmAnd or other similar software * Download spatial data using Overpass or HOT's Export Tool (https://export.hotosm.org) * etc, etc

The output of people doing those tasks can be seen querying the changes on the map. There's a tool that is currently unmaintained but you can use it to get some additional stats about the contributions:

https://galaxy.hotosm.org/mapathon-report/summary

If you put a date range like "6 February, 2023 12:00 AM" to "6 February, 2023 11:45 PM" and a Tasking Manager project's id (example: 14218) you'll see something like:

Total Unique Contributors: 507

Features Created:

- building: 48962 - source: 34317 - highway: 7770 - highway_km: 924 - surface: 508 - name: 474

catskul22• 3 years ago

Would the state of those buildings or roads be expected to be there? Or is this simply completing the data so people can more easily refer to it in OSM if they want to?

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