[HOT] Saturday Mapternoon - June 11th Edition

Hi all, As you might know HOT hosts some informal get togethers via HOT's voice and IRC servers on Saturday afternoons once in a while, and one is happening today. Exact times are a little flexible, but someone should be in the channels for the next 2 or 4 hours at least. We use the HOT "Mumble"

Re: [HOT] Impact of OSM/HOT in Humanitarian Aid / Economic Development

Hi Stefan, Have a look at the Open DRI Field Guide by HOT member John Crowley: https://www.gfdrr.org/open-data-resilience-initiative-field-guide-0 Best, Mark > On 11 Jun 2016, at 11:44, Stefan Eikenbusch

Re: [HOT] Impact of OSM/HOT in Humanitarian Aid / Economic Development

Thank you so much for all the papers and information both of you send me! I think there is still a knowledge gap on using OSM/Open Data for that purpose (DRR and/or Humanitarian Aid) and especially for smaller organization it would be very usefull to have like a guide book on utilizing GIS for

Re: [HOT] Introductions

I’m not really a new „new" member here but I think I never introduced myself to the Group, so here we go ;) Actually I’m a political scientist, working mostly on land rights issues and during an Internship in India, I came across using GIS for mapping forest land in order to apply for forest