[HOT] Call For Participation: Remote damage assessment formal research experiment kick off

2017-06-28 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Dear Friends! As HOT Community members Robert Soden and Cristiano Giovando have written about previously, HOT is part of 2 formal research projects on remote damage assessment. This is a critical area of research with several important questions that need to be addressed. Things like timeliness,

[HOT] Call for Participation in Earthquake Damage Assessment Research

2017-06-28 Thread Melanie Eckle
Dear HOT community, In recent disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti 2010 and Nepal 2015, disaster response organizations have been crowdsourcing the assessment of satellite imagery to locate building damage triggered by the event. HOT is often asked to support these efforts by helping to

Re: [HOT] Query Regarding Mapathon

2017-06-28 Thread john whelan
I think its take your pick. Generally speaking I'd choose something that your mappers can relate to and provide feedback to them. If it helps I am validating on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2656# and http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2657# two fairly small projects that you stand a chance of