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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>And thanks Graeme for sharing this. I would also be cautious
about this hub. The intention is obviously good, building a space
where anyone interesting in OSM would join the hub. But my concern
is what is the role of HOT into this.<br>
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<p>HOT has been criticized a lot when making money on a community
when it started to be an organization. It was not clear if
projects were made by HOT as a community (originally HOT was a
part of OSM community) or by HOT as the NGO (with paid staff, paid
projects, projects responding to UN/global needs ..). Now they
reshaped their website and it's much more clear. Hope they are not
repeating it here. Having an OSM / Open Mapping hub is great, but
I would be careful about the governance. Who takes the decision?
What is the space for openmapping communities at decision levels?
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<p>Hope this initiative is built in an inclusive way on all levels,<br>
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<p>Best,</p>
<p>Violaine<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 25/07/2021 à 15:43, John Bryant a
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<div>Hi Graeme, I understand this new Asia Pacific hub is
inclusive of Oceania. OSM Fiji is currently undertaking a
community building project with HOT's support and the AP hub
is one of the contact points.</div>
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<div>Personally, I'm super supportive, I think a thriving open
geospatial community will be made up of many communities with
overlaps, and many players contributing in their own ways. <br>
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<div>I often think about the Philippines open mapping community
and how multiple loosely-connected orgs contribute to a real
buzz, in a way that a single top-down/catch-all org may not be
able to.</div>
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<div>It will be interesting to see how the HOT project
progresses in this region over the next few years...<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 09:18,
Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>You may already be across this, so apologies if this is
the case.<br>
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<div>I was just reading the weekly Digest & noticed this
article: <a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nama/diary/397062"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nama/diary/397062</a>,
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<div>with a bit of background:</div>
<div><a
href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RebeccaF/diary/396167"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RebeccaF/diary/396167</a>
&</div>
<div><a
href="https://www.hotosm.org/updates/reflecting-on-hot-and-the-humanitarian-mapping-community-hot-executive-director-tyler-radfords-closing-remarks-from-the-2020-humanitarian-openstreetmap-summit/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.hotosm.org/updates/reflecting-on-hot-and-the-humanitarian-mapping-community-hot-executive-director-tyler-radfords-closing-remarks-from-the-2020-humanitarian-openstreetmap-summit/</a></div>
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<div>Wondering how "Open Mapping Hub- Asia Pacific" may be
going to match up with OSGeo Oceania & OSM Oceania?</div>
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<div>It would appear that they may be going to stop at
Philippines / Indonesia so potentially no overlap,
although "Asia Pacific" possibly does suggest otherwise?</div>
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<div>Graeme</div>
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