*Hey all, This email to let you know that this week Brian Wolford, Jaakko Helleranta and Yohan Boniface got started with a team of Haitian mappers on the preliminary work of HOT next mapping project in Northern Haiti with the Haiti Recovery Initiative (USAID). Over the next 4 months, they will be joined by Frederic Moine, Pierre Beland, Severin Menard and Will Skora. I will myself work with them in Haiti setting up the program in 2 weeks time.
Through this project, together with a team of local Haitian mappers, HOT will be creating a group of 60 mappers recruited amongst the youths of Cap Haitian and together with them will improve upon the baseline data of localities in the Cap Haitian Development Corridor (CHDC). The whole team will be partnering with the University of Limonade which will be providing office space and capacities throughout and after the project. HOT will work with a team of local mappers in designing and running training and data collection plans as well as producing specific training and guidance documentation around OSM-based surveying and mapping techniques, data model, data collection, JOSM presets and libraries of symbols for use within web map services and JOSM, as well as coordinating the development of tools (improvements to the HOT export tool and web visualization services). I’d like to thank here the many talented individuals who expressed their interest for working with HOT on this project in Haiti and encourage them to continue being active within the Team and keeping up to date with other projects we may have in the future. Good day to all,* *Nicolas * -- -- Nicolas Chavent Acting Project Director Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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