[HN Gopher] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Author : kitebive
Score : 124 points
Date : 2023-02-07 08:37 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hotosm.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hotosm.org)
| JEDI-HACKER wrote:
| Wow, what a great project. Back to basics how map's use to be
| made. I wish them, the greatest of success.
| ygra wrote:
| 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.
| catskul2 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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
| college_physics wrote:
| 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
| mtmail wrote:
| 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
| nix23 wrote:
| Ohoh! OpenStreetMap is in danger...again and again...
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| Heaven knows what'll happen if we ever start succeeding!
| mtmail wrote:
| 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.
| pastage wrote:
| There seems to be some tasks up regarding the earthquake
| https://www.hotosm.org/disaster-services/turkiye-earthquakes...
| thriftwy wrote:
| OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places
| in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.
| nicbou wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| pmayrgundter wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Im not a Python pro by any means but I'll look into it tonight.
| pmayrgundter wrote:
| Thanks!
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