It’s been a fairly good weekend; my side of the divide has received some actual soaking rains (of course scattered/typical CO afternoon ‘monsoons’ also with hail and lightning) for several days now. Although it’s not quite the same story on the western slope and the call for mapping continues; see osm.wiki/wiki/2013_Colorado_Wildfire_Season

I also hit 1000 edits today, or what I think should more accurately be called/is changesets; I think a better milestone is having edited 500K nodes (which I’m around 350). Anyway, I digress…

Just wanted to chart a few things:

• I still have on the agenda, a quick recap of SOTM-US (and the follow-up in Denver); maybe just another diary entry.

• Now that I’ve pretty much done all I can to help HOT create the Guide and Code, I starting helping the Activation working group, first by attending the meeting the other day; and of course I volunteered to help do something; so I’ll be working with Andrew Buck on humanitarian mapping project (HMP) ‘templates’ (as HMP’s basically have to come first), hopefully we’ll have something in a few weeks; ready to deploy by basically anyone (more to come).

• And because I finally think I can relax a bit on the CO fire mapping situation, I can start working on documenting it. I’m not quite sure what medium I want to use, but expect it to be pretty directly pro OSM/HOT; but professional (maybe a bit salesman-ish) and most importantly, hopefully it will help gain interest in OSM for emergency use (obv. with a wildfire lean).