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
Licensing 2 BSD 2-Caluse
Language N/A 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 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 14/16 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.
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