[HOT] Flood Mapping in Djibouti - Your Help Needed!

2019-12-09 Thread Russell Deffner
Dear HOT Community, Currently the city of Djibouti is facing severe floods. Our partners, MapAction, have deployed and are now in the field helping coordinate the response with maps. Unfortunately, as with many places, there is no existing basemaps. OpenStreetMap has good coverage for roads, but w

[HOT] Practical Action in Bolivia is fundraising!

2019-12-09 Thread Leon Lizon
Hello HOT community: My name is Leon, I'm from Bolivia, I'm an environmental engineer currently working as a GIS specialist in NGO Practical Action in Bolivia. This year, the Amazon was hit by raging forest fires, which caused the highest rates of deforestation in a decade. In Bolivia alone, th