Humanitarian OSM Team/Working groups/Training
Much of what HOT does involves training others how to contribute to and use OpenStreetMap. The Training group organizes and consolidates training materials and helps direct development of them to satisfy the identified audiences.
Chair is Michael Heißmeier.
Get Involved
- Training working group meetings take place every 2 weeks, on Monday at 1830 UTC on BigBlueButton. See the Working Groups calendar for upcoming meetings.
- To join the Training WG email list, please go to https://groups.google.com/a/hotosm.org/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!forum/training
Goals of the Training Group
(revised by the working group participants and approved by the Board on Sept 16, 2014)
- Consolidate existing documentation sources
- Identify audiences and potential needs
- Prioritize OSM's training needs for specific audiences
- Revise existing documentation (where needed)
- Develop translation protocol and process
- Create new documentation and training materails where gaps exist (In collaboration with Activation WG, create documentation/training matrials for new activators/activation coordinators)
- Decide on the primarily vehicles for sharing these modules (wiki? Google Docs? LearnOSM.org?)
- Promote new training materials and modules for all users
- Support informal learning opportunities in addition to planned learning routes
- Organize certificate program (for local mappers, specially for trainers)
Definitions:
"local mappers" are mappers living in the area to be mapped;
"remote mappers" are mappers elsewhere, who often contribute purely by editing from aerial imagery;
A "module" is a training package, including discrete training goal description, course outline and materials to use in training.
Active and Potential Projects
The Training Working Group manages its active projects, and potential projects under consideration, with a Trello board.
Audiences for Types of Training
The OSM Design group has generated personas to identify potential audiences to serve in an upcoming OSM website design. From that page: "Personas at their best evoke empathy in a process that's easily hijacked by technical imperatives and self-serving, company-focused needs. A design team must work with personas that seem like real people, people that can be conversed with, ideas bounced off of, joked with, related to. Pruitt puts it this way: Personas invoke this powerful human capability and bring it to the design process. Well-designed personas are generative: Once fully engaged with them, you can almost effortlessly project them into new situations. In contrast, [designing for] a scenario covers just what it covers." (source)
Below is a list of those personas (audiences) for different sets of training needs and to meet the goals for these people as noted above. These are stereotypes and so some users will have a combination of interests.
| Audience | Description | What they'll need | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| New mappers | They heard about this map that's like Google Maps but they can edit it. Awesome. |
|
High |
| Existing mappers | Casual Contributors that have a handle on the basics. |
|
Low |
| New/Existing Mappers (remote/low bandwidth) | Individuals and organizations new(ish) to OSM, specifically working in low bandwidth or remote environments (possibly introduced or related to HOT initiatives). |
|
Medium |
| Advanced mappers (HOT material) | Seasoned editors of OSM. Solid, consistent contributors who may be deployable for long- or short-term projects with HOT. |
|
High |
| Map Designers | I can haz TileMill. I needz data. |
|
Low |
| Developers (F/LOSS) | They want to write and share code that does cool things with OSM's Hot, Fresh Data. |
|
Medium |
Current sources and materials
OSM wiki pages
- Beginner's Guide - Table of Contents for the Documentation section
- JOSM Guide, a guide taking you through getting started.
- Videos from around the web
- Video tutorials specifically for beginners and about specific projects
Websites
- LearnOSM contains these guides (as of August 2017)
- Beginners' guide: getting started with the OSM website, introduction to the iD editor
- JOSM: an in-depth guide to using JOSM as editor including plugins, how to select and use aerial imagery, conflict resolution
- Mobile mapping using smartphones, GPS units, Field Papers
- OSM data: an explanation of the file formats associated with OSM, how to obtain them and how to use them
- Coordination: mapping in a humanitarian context, using the Tasking Manager, things to note while mapping remotely, running a Mapathon
- Tips on various subjects
- FlossManuals OpenStreetMap
- Introduction Discovering collaborative mapping / Welcome to OpenStreetMap / About this book
- Getting Started My first edit / Collecting data / Sharing your maps
- Contributing to OpenStreetMap Introduction to editing in OpenStreetMap / Editing with the online editor Potlatch 2 / Editing with the offline editor JOSM / Editing with mobile editors
- Making the Map Yours Taking OpenStreetMap data with you / Customising Potlatch 2 / Understanding the OpenStreetMap data model / Providing maps for your web site
- Exploring Further Exploring the OpenStreetMap community / Useful websites and references / Credits
- Switch2OSM Why Switch?, Case Studies, The Basics, Using Tiles, Serving Tiles, Other Uses, Providers, Find out more
- Introducing to GIS (11 QGIS worksheets + Videos + sample data)
- Spatialthoughts : QGIS tutorials 17 worksheets)
Google Docs
The following Google Docs were created by User:Rrbaker in March 2011 to setup online versions of internal HOT documents to facilitate group edits, versioning, and to leverage ability to export into multiple formats. These docs are in various states of completion and polish.
- QGIS & PostGIS Humanitarian Field Guide
- QGIS Workflows
- JOSM Field Guide
- QGIS Workflows for feature extraction, surveying work and camp mapping_working
- Introduction to JOSM
- Disecting the Openstreetmap (Introduction to OSM and the Potlatch Editor)
These Google Docs were created by Nicolas Chavent and Severin Menard in January 2012 (see here for more details) from field missions in Haiti. These docs are designed as appendixes of the LearnOSM manual and describe a complete mapping process involving various teams. They are both in English and French
- Learn OSM Appendix - Haiti OSM Checklists (EN,FR) lists the necessary steps during a complete mapping process. It is completed by the following documents focusing on a specific matter
- Survey maps (EN, FR)
- Checklist quality assurance (EN, FR)
- Use Filters for data quality (EN, FR)
Training Modules and Documentation Collections
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) with the support from Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) provides a series of OpenStreetMap guidelines
- Unit 1: Collecting Spatial Data using OpenStreetMap - Beginner
- Unit 2: Data Analysis using QGIS and InaSAFE - Beginner
- Unit 3: Collecting Spatial Data using OpenStreetMap - Intermediate
- Unit 4: Data Analysis using QGIS and InaSAFE - Intermediate
Meeting Minutes
See the general Working Groups calendar for upcoming meetings.
A standing meeting agenda and a list of active projects is available on the Training Working Group's Trello board.
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