[HOT] Current Disaster Response Projects

2018-02-25 Thread russell . deffner
Greetings HOT community, We're waiting to get more information on the situation in Papua New Guinea as they were struck with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake Sunday, followed by many major aftershocks/secondary quakes (which continue, the last being less than an hour before writing this). For now we

[HOT] Recent perceptions on the Aid charities

2018-02-25 Thread john whelan
Do we care? Are we seeing a drop off in the numbers mapping? Could someone put some numbers in so we can see a % figure on how bad the problem is? My expectation is considering the numbers involved the fraction of aid workers involved would be very low. The expense of vetting local volenteers o

Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Somali translation

2018-02-25 Thread Philippe Verdy
You should know that I'm increasing the basic support of languages on the wiki, with all navigation tools, most important templates, autocategorization, and the initial structure of categories. Somali is in my list (along with others). "Minor" languages have been neglected since long and I have ins

Re: [HOT] OpenStreetMap Somali translation

2018-02-25 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi Nick, Sadly my language skills don't allow me to help with this effort, but really love the idea and looks like a great project! Rebecca On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Nicholas Doiron wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Last year, I started working with translators to support more languages in > Op

Re: [HOT] Welcome Nature Club at Karatina University, Kenya - our 100th YouthMappers chapter!e 17

2018-02-25 Thread Solis, Patricia
Thank you Jorieke! Yes, anyone can certainly use that infographic, and thanks to all that help us retweet, post, and share on social media to celebrate all of the YouthMappers students. We are grateful to the USAID communications team and the GeoCenter staff for creating this image and distributing