Re: [HOT] Forest: Cleared areas (slash and burn)

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:05:28 +0100 Mathias Lück wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on task 672/sierra leone/ebola. > > Significant parts of the forest in the area I'm mapping seem to be > cleared wit fire ("Slash-and-burn"). Wikipedia shows a good picture: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/w

[HOT] Interesting approach to Emergency Response. specifically the data aquisition

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Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

Hi Gideon, Certainly it helps to have examples. There are a couple reports that might be of interest from the World Bank and the 2nd one is the World Bank and University College London. Open Data for Resilience Initiative: Field Guide: https://www.gfdrr.org/ODRIFG Crowdsourcing Geographic Informa

Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

Hi, I am not really sure what you are saying when you say: "Is there more than "The maps helped a lot!"" I think feedback like that from the groups that use the data we generate are very convincing that the mapping we do helps on the ground. Further, for me it is very informative that these

Re: [HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

Hi Gideon, Yes, it would be good to know more about this. For the Ebola Outbreak, there are a few concrete examples coming-out. There are also various software developments for mobile equipment going on and it would interesting to know how they integrate OpenStreetMap. I added to the wiki page

[HOT] Are there any detailed reports or research on the utilization of HOT maps on the ground?

Hey mappers, whenever I tell friends about the HOT projects, I get a lot of sceptic responses. Most people don't see the importance of our maps and there are even voices saying it is much more something to keep mappers occupied than actual help. If I go deeper into online research on the impac

[HOT] Forest: Cleared areas (slash and burn)

Hi, I'm currently working on task 672/sierra leone/ebola. Significant parts of the forest in the area I'm mapping seem to be cleared wit fire ("Slash-and-burn"). Wikipedia shows a good picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Jhum.jpg See sattelite images here: 9,11525 -12,6

[HOT] OpenAerialMap, UAVs and HOT mapping

Hi all, In case anyone is interested the OpenAerialMap project has a Google Group for discussion of things related to the project. My main interest is in using small UAVs to generate aerial imagery and there has been some amazing pilot project work already done with small UAV imagery in Hait

Re: [HOT] [HOT Ebola response] unknown structures

We had discussions wednesday night on the #hot irc about tagging of construction buildings for Kayes, Mali task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/711 We have agreed to not make distinction for building=construction taking into account that the imagery of the area is more then a year old and that w