Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by kitebive » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 8:37 AM UTC

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
hotosm.org

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by pastage » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 9:54 AM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by thriftwy » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 9:56 AM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by JEDI-HACKER » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 10:09 AM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by pmayrgundter » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 11:22 AM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by nix23 » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 12:11 PM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by college_physics » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by mtmail » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 12:46 PM UTC

nix23 wrote: post #6

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

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.

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by mtmail » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 12:57 PM UTC

college_physics wrote: post #7

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

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

Re: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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Post by randomluck040 » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

pmayrgundter wrote: post #5

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

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