Humanitarian Open Street Map Project
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The Project
According to their site: "The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) applies the principles of open source and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic development."
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Factor | Level (0-2) |
Evaluation Data |
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Licensing | 2 | BSD 2-Caluse |
Language | ??? | The project page indicates they use JavaScript, CSS, Python, Ruby, and Shell. The tasking manager relies on JavaScript(29.3%), Python(28%), CSS(27.5%), and Mako(14.3%) |
Level of Activity | 2 | The HOSM Project has commits at least every quarter of the last year, missing about 3-4 months total here |
Number of Contributors | 2 | Humanitarian OSM has more thna 10 contributors |
Product Size | 2 | The tracker has hundreds of lines of code, the total project probably has thousands |
Issue Tracker | 1-2 | The issue tracker for the tasking manager has 281 open issues and 271 closed. The last issue was about a month ago. Other sections of the project have been updated more recently |
New Contributor | 1 | There are scattered instructions for new contributors, but no seminal document or clarity. See [1] and |
Community Norms | 2 | HOSM has a membership code that includes a code of conduct. The bug tracker and other communications appear professional. |
User Base | 2 | The HOSM task manager has thousands of mapping projects |
Total Score | 14-17 | Different parts of the HOSM project are in different states of activity and "doneness". There are also job postings for those interested in being a more active contributor. |