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##How to get started contributing to a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team task

###Overview

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-source map of the world that anyone can edit. But like any map, it's incomplete.

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) helps organize people to improve the OSM map for crisis areas, mostly so aid workers can find their way around and make decisions about undermapped places. The data in these crisis areas is often very poor, or completely non-existent. Therefore any contribution you make at all will be a vast improvement, and could materially help people who are on the ground right now, looking at this data as you edit it, and deciding where to go and who to help.

There are many HOT tasks active at once. As of August 2014, the highest-priority tasks are Gaza and areas affected by the West African Ebola outbreak.

Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources

This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other.

Acquiring Landsat & MODIS

Web Interface

USGS Earth Explorer - Browser and data access (create a login)
http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Landsat archive

This gist provides a minimal setup and example of the git collaborate exercise for SWC (e.g., here). Use setup.sh to get a minimal working repository example. A repos represent the master upstream version, B and C repos represent forks. *-remote directories represent Github repos (and forks), while ~*-local` directories correspond to local copies. exercise.sh goes through what students will see for both the PR execise and "experiencing a conflict".

FarmShots Imagery API

API

How to add an image to a gist

Create or find a gist that you own.

Clone your gist (replace <hash> with your gist's hash):

# with ssh
git clone [email protected]:<hash>.git mygist

# with https

git clone https://gist.github.com/.git mygist

	Python 2.6.9 \|Continuum Analytics, Inc.\| (unknown, Jan 10 2014, 13:33:57)
	[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin
	Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
	>>> import timeit
	>>> from math import sqrt
	>>>
	>>> n = 100
	>>> sqrt_n = int(sqrt(n))
	>>>
	>>> def with_set():

	Write a program that does what it’s supposed to do
	Write idiomatic code
	Debug a program that you wrote
	Debug a program someone else wrote
	Debug the interaction between a system you wrote and one you didn’t
	File a good bug report
	Modify a program you didn’t write
	Test a program you wrote
	Test a program you didn’t write
	Learn a new programming language

	-- When SQLite is compiled with the JSON1 extensions it provides builtin tools
	-- for manipulating JSON data stored in the database.
	-- This is a gist showing SQLite return query data as a JSON object.
	-- https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html

	-- An example table with some data
	CREATE TABLE users (
	id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
	full_name TEXT NOT NULL,
	email TEXT NOT NULL,