Re: [HOT] Mapping Northern Nigeria ?

Hi all, The situation there will likely evolve. More destructions, more informal settlements from refugees, and (hopefully) ultimately rebuilding when things settle. 1. There might be an interest in keeping track of all these changes, and this can be done by looking at feature history or dif

Re: [HOT] HOT Summit Volunteers Needed

Kate I would be willing to help out with scholarship outreach. Do you have documents created already? Tom Mueller On Monday, January 19, 2015, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > Previously we announced that there is going to be the first "HOT Summit" > in Washington DC on the 30th of April unti

Re: [HOT] Mapping in Dhaka, Bangladesh!

Hello all, Thanks for your efforts on the Missing Maps Bangladesh tasks - we already have a pile of field data to go back in to OSM! The tracing is really helping the volunteers here and so I just wanted to update you. TASK 838 is the priority. We will be mapping it from TOMORROW! So, if you hav

[HOT] OSM for mitigation project

Dear all, Terre des Hommes has conducted a DRR (disaster risk reduction) mission in Haiti with OSM Haiti (they have seen the Drone + mapping party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujTiYoi33_g&feature=youtu.be and https://www.youtube

Re: [HOT] [Talk-bd] OSM for mitigation project

Hi Fred, Thanks for your email. I think deploying drones will be a great idea for mapping those places for better hydrological modeling. I believe the marked areas are mostly rural in nature, and I don't expect tall buildings there. However, we sure can check that accurately. I also believe that t

[HOT] Missing Maps Field Roster

Hi All, Today we are launching the Missing Maps Field Roster(1). With the growth of the Missing Maps Project there is a need to have an existing roster of people able to teach OSM and mapping as part of the Missing Maps Project(2). The idea is to have a roster of pre-screen individuals that can be