[HOT] Showcases - What has been done with HOT's effort
Felix Delattre
felix.delattre at hotosm.org
Thu Oct 27 19:48:18 UTC 2016
Exactly, this is what this is about! The two examples on the website so
far are from Mexico and Nicaragua. And I hope we can have more showcases
on how individuals, local communities and organizations from all over
the world are using OpenStreetMap data for concrete ideas, activities
and products.
On 27/10/16 21:38, john whelan wrote:
> Perhaps there is a perception thing that needs addressing. We don't
> all live in the US for a start.
>
> To me there are two parts to HOT mapping, the first is to drop some
> basic mapping in from imagery. The second is to develop capacity in
> the local community for OpenStreetMap mapping. Perhaps we should be
> highlighting more local community involvement which means giving a
> slot or two in the high priority to local mapping groups rather than
> dumping a thousand area=yes squiggles in the map and running off.
>
> Yes I'm grumpy today and my fingers are tired from adding lots of tags.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 27 October 2016 at 15:24, Tyler Radford <tyler.radford at hotosm.org
> <mailto:tyler.radford at hotosm.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi Milo, we're looking to showcase good work that has had a
> demonstrated positive impact from across our community (whether
> HOT staff, voting member, community member/local OSM community
> leader, etc.). We took the same approach for our annual report --
> some of the projects featured were volunteer-run and not funded by
> HOT (see for example Zambia https://hotosm.org/annual_report
> <https://hotosm.org/annual_report> )
>
> So feel free to add ideas! As Felix mentioned, the key is
> humanitarian or socio-economic development impact using map data
> in line with our mission.
>
> Best
> Tyler
>
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Milo van der Linden
> <milo at dogodigi.net <mailto:milo at dogodigi.net>> wrote:
>
> It makes sense although I am a bit hesitant about HOT Inc.
> deciding when and how to 'allow' the use of the name HOT,
> wouldn't that be a community matter? Or should those that
> believe an organizational structure is an unnecessary addition
> to HOT leave or 'fork'?
>
> And if so, are any forks in place today? Groups of
> (unorganized) people that act like a hottie but do not
> necessarily support the idea of a HOT Inc?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Milo
>
> 2016-10-27 20:47 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre
> <felix.delattre at hotosm.org <mailto:felix.delattre at hotosm.org>>:
>
> Generally, everything counts!! But as this is for the
> website of HOT Inc., I would say the case
> studies/showcases should at least somehow be connected to
> any initiatives or activations from HOT Inc. The text can
> then explain briefly the connection.
>
> Let's take the example of Managua. The public transport
> map there has been done by the local community without any
> help from HOT Inc. nor any activation. However HOT Inc.
> helped then by giving it's name and organizational
> structure in the crowd-funding campaign and that is why
> there has been a connection, which is explained in the
> text:
> https://hotosm.org/showcase/2016/first_central_american_transit_map
> <https://hotosm.org/showcase/2016/first_central_american_transit_map>
>
> Does this makes sense?
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
>
> On 27/10/16 20:39, Milo van der Linden wrote:
>> I assume the things one did without the support of HOT
>> Inc. do not count?
>>
>> 2016-10-27 17:11 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre
>> <felix.delattre at hotosm.org
>> <mailto:felix.delattre at hotosm.org>>:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> great, that you are going to write a case study!
>>
>> Yes, in the communications working group I've
>> mentioned this some months ago, and I've heard a
>> couple of times that people wanted to outreach to the
>> partners to write such a case study. Until now there
>> hasn't been any input, yet. And that's the reason why
>> I'm asking on this list for more help to get good
>> stories on results made using OSM data improved
>> through HOT's initiatives.
>>
>> Please help out if you have been doing or you are in
>> contact with anybody who has created a cool
>> product/result!
>>
>> BTW, if it would be because of me, I'd make it a (not
>> too tight) condition, that people who use the data
>> for the good, share their success story with us :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Felix
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26/10/16 18:28, Paul Uithol wrote:
>>> Hi Felix,
>>>
>>> Great initiative! It's a question I often get, and
>>> thus information I have been looking for at times.
>>> Will try to write up a convincing case study for
>>> MapUganda and Ramani Huria shortly. You probably had
>>> a look at the Press/Recognition folder on the drive
>>> already (there's an article from the Canadian Armed
>>> Forces on Nepal there, Guardian one on MM)?And we
>>> could request some of our partners to write up a
>>> case study? I know some of them have amazing case
>>> studies of OSM data interacting with their field ops
>>> (you may already have set this in motion as well ;)
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On 26-10-2016 17:33, Felix Delattre wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear HOT-community,
>>>>
>>>> It is important to show the *outcomes* HOT has
>>>> leveraged. This helps us for the inspiration of
>>>> people and organizations about the possibilities of
>>>> Open Data for humanitarian activities and also for
>>>> our fund-raising efforts.
>>>>
>>>> We usually communicate results as news on the
>>>> website, such as statistics of activations (how
>>>> many mappers participated, how much data was
>>>> collected, what extend was mapped, how many people
>>>> effected, ...) and this is good!
>>>>
>>>> But we also want to show *tangible outcomes*, to
>>>> answer the questions, what this data has been used
>>>> for. Especially our partners, or communities that
>>>> used the collected open data to produce impacts and
>>>> products based on the data. Therefore I've created
>>>> a showcases section on the website:
>>>> https://hotosm.org/showcases
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there aren't a lot of good examples,
>>>> yet, and I'd like to invite everybody who has a
>>>> story to share to contribute to this effort. Once
>>>> we have good content there I'll link the showcases
>>>> to be visible on the website's general pages.
>>>>
>>>> If you have an account on the website (which you
>>>> should have as a HOT member) you can add a new
>>>> showcase by visiting this link:
>>>> https://hotosm.org/node/add/showcase
>>>> <https://hotosm.org/node/add/showcase>
>>>> In case you don't have the permissions to do so, or
>>>> you don't have an account but want to contribute
>>>> with a showcase, please write me in private.
>>>>
>>>> Please try to make it short, visual (pictures!) and
>>>> convincing.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Best,
>>>> Felix
>>>>
>>>>
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