<div dir="ltr">Dear Bo,<div>For research purposes I am keenly interested in this proposal. I would also be happy to run/support a Mapathon for  Nigeria data </div><div>Please,let me if this sounds  fine for you</div><div>Victor N.Sunday</div><div>Unique Mappers Network,Nigeria</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:32 AM Bo Percival <<a href="mailto:bo.percival@hotosm.org">bo.percival@hotosm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">---</span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">tldr; hot_tech is running and <span>AI</span> assisted mapping study</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;text-align:right">read: 5m | action: 5m</span></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Call to action: <a href="https://forms.gle/wVBzSFTgWpvHpX9k8" target="_blank">please sign up to participate</a> or share with your networks</span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">best before: Feb 20</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">apologies: for the cross posting, trying to give everyone the opportunity. <br></span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">---</span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p id="gmail-m_8351369423201505966gmail-m_5653980052648995924gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2851d41-7fff-a0f8-4e73-fa27b1150568" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi all!</span></font></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past few months HOT has been working in partnership with NESTA Collective Intelligence grants and 510 at the Netherlands Red Cross to implement an experiment to explore the impact of </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><span>AI</span> <span>assistance</span> on the remote mapping of buildings.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The experiment is designed to compare the results of traditional remote mapping workflows (editing in ID Editor) with emerging <span>AI</span> assisted workflows (editing with RapID). To do this, we will be conducting mapping experiments of two locations (Uganda and US), with two different levels of mappers (beginner and advanced) using the two different remote mapping workflows (RapID and ID). A more in-depth explanation of the experiment can be found </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o8vmHMCPbu6O-1Ta4a9Yd6aOhX76xRxocxfVCyXpxPU/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here >></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To this end, we are looking to run four mapathons with > 50 people each, as follows:</span></p><ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beginner Mapathon - Uganda data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beginner Mapathon - US data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advanced Mapathon - Uganda data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advanced Mapathon - US data</span></p></li></ol><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Each mapathon will be a total of two hours, with participants being randomly assigned - prior to beginning mapping - to map building footprints with either ID or RapID. Data will be gathered on the existence of map features, completeness of mapped features and similarity of map features when compared with an OSM reference dataset.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For the beginner mapathons we will be using convenience sampling from our networks by generating a public call for participants. For the advanced mapping, we will be looking for support from some of our country offices who have advanced mapping teams and/or who are experienced with RapID.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A couple of specific asks, please email if:</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You would like to be involved in any capacity (organising, recruiting, sharing, supporting, please shoot me an email)</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You would like to support the mapathons specifically, that would be great</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You would like to participate in the mapathons please <a href="https://forms.gle/wVBzSFTgWpvHpX9k8" target="_blank">please sign up to participate</a> </span></li></ul><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks all, I hope everyone is safe and well and looking forward to exploring this with you all soon. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kindness, </span></p><font color="#888888"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bo</span></p></font><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666"><b></b></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><b>Bo Percival</b></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Director of Technology Innovation</font></div><div><a href="mailto:bo.percival@hotosm.org" target="_blank">bo.percival@hotosm.org</a></div><div><font color="#666666">@bopercival</font><br><div><font color="#666666">CET online hours<br></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><i>I'm sending this at a time that works for me, standing by for a time that works for you.</i></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team</font></b></div><div><b><font size="1" color="#666666">Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development</font></b></div><div><a href="http://hotosm.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">web</a><span style="font-size:x-small"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">twitter</a><span style="font-size:x-small"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotosm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">facebook</a><span style="font-size:x-small"> | </span><a href="https://hotosm.org/donate" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small" target="_blank">donate</a></div></div></div></div>
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