[HOT] Looking for tagging experts or Humanitarian Workers - Help needed

2014-05-04 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, A farily long explanation below, to just see how you can help, just jump ahead to the end of the email. I am working on an ontology for OSM concepts and tags. An ontology is basically a set of true statements about some domain.

Re: [HOT] Looking for tagging experts or Humanitarian Workers - Help needed

2014-05-04 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Andrew, This is great. I've been thinking lately that the Humanitarian Data Model needs a bit of a rework(1). Just meaning there is more information in the wiki then ends up used in most cases through projects. Building an ontology could potentially make it easier to digest. It can be hard

[HOT] Tharparkar Drought in Sindh Province, Pakistan - Mapping to support Aid Deliveries

2014-05-04 Thread Mark Cupitt
Dear All In support of the Drought Relief Efforts in The Tharparker Desert, the HOT Community has a Humanitarian Mapping Project (HMP) underway to map population areas, access roads and airfields as well as water sources and other critical information. The Tharparker region in Pakistan is the