Re: [HOT] #MapLesotho task completed on Qacha's Nek

2016-12-19 Thread john whelan
I had a quick look. I must say that reading through the instructions I personally wouldn't feel confident I could mark any tile done. They are quite comprehensive and I'm not sure I personally have the experience to map all the different things requested. I did validate a couple of tiles then

[HOT] #MapLesotho task completed on Qacha's Nek

2016-12-19 Thread CiarĂ¡n Staunton
A big thanks to the people who help out mapping and validating on task #1941 which was going for about 6 months and got chalked off to a very high standard today (read the task instructions to see what I mean). Now that we all know what we are doing much better I am glad to say that 97% of the

Re: [HOT] Exciting news: $10,000 contribution from Mapbox

2016-12-19 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Mapbox is a great supporter of humanitarian mapping in a lot of ways, not just financially, and they have been for a long time. We really need to meet the challenge they set for us of 150 contributors to our crowdfunding campaign! I think it is a really interesting challenge, as it is not about

[HOT] Exciting news: $10,000 contribution from Mapbox

2016-12-19 Thread Tyler Radford
Dear all, Mapbox (www.mapbox.com), a HOT corporate partner, just committed $10,000 USD to help fund critical community mapping projects via our campaign http://donate.hotosm.org ! *But we need your help: in order to release the second half of the funding, HOT must reach 150 individual donors by