Dr. S. Amalanathan, Secretary for Development, Ministry of Disaster Management Sri Lanka took some time from his schedule while attending the World Humanitarian Summit to find HOT's booth and stop to say thank you in person to everyone contributing to this Activation mapping.
Geoffrey Kateregga: Dr. Amalanathan Ministry of Disaster mgt -Sri Lanka visiting our booth is grateful for @hotosm Floods Activation https://twitter.com/kateregga1/status/735101040081653760 Robert has some actual numbers for buildings mapped, but I do not have them at the moment. The numbers were very impressive. A lot of people helped to get a lot of building data generated. Building data is a very important tool for response work and providing as much as you did, in as tight a time frame as you did gave the Sri Lanka DMC another important resource for a clear view on the situation. That is what they asked you to do and you really stepped up and helped. Thank you, thank you. Still more to do of course before we are though. Please check the Tasking Manager for new projects as we are expecting to do more detailed mapping with roads for more focused areas (AOIs) from the DMC. And we still need validators to keep on validating if they can. They are among the unsung heroes of high quality OSM data. Anyone new, please feel free to visit our YouTube channel to learn more about mapping, how to map, and HOTOSM. And welcome aboard! https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/playlists Regards, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot