Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Russell Deffner wrote: > Mike, Claudia and all; > > > > As usual, you can help us ‘time’ things by adding a link, etc. to the > incident wiki-page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#Mapathon_events > > Done

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Russell Deffner
Mike, Claudia and all; As usual, you can help us ‘time’ things by adding a link, etc. to the incident wiki-page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods#Mapathon_events =Russ P.S. So sorry, have another business meeting at the same time, so won’t be at the Denver

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
Robert, Thanks! Mike On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Robert Banick wrote: > Hi Mike, > > We have tasks 1914 and 195 already lined up, so worry not, you’ll have > plenty to do :-) Our requested area of interest is massive so we broke it > into three parts to make it more

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Mike, We have tasks 1914 and 195 already lined up, so worry not, you’ll have plenty to do :-) Our requested area of interest is massive so we broke it into three parts to make it more “digestible”. If task 1913 nears completion one of the tasking manager admins will “release” task 1914. If

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Mike Thompson
Blake, We are having a mapathon this evening in Denver Colorado US. We would like to help out with Sri Lanka. It looks like the #1913 is rapidly progressing. Will there be another similar Sri Lanka project posted, or is #1913 cover the entire impacted area? Mike On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:23

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-19 Thread Robert Banick
Fantastic, many thanks to you all Ahasanul! On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:38 AM Ahasanul Hoque wrote: > Hi, just to inform you that OSM Bangladesh community started mapping on > the task. > > thanks > Ahasan > > >

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Ahasanul Hoque
Hi, just to inform you that OSM Bangladesh community started mapping on the task. thanks Ahasan . Ahasanul Hoque *GIS & Data Mgt Specialist*MSc in RS and GIS | *AIT, Thailand.* MSc. in Env. Science| *KU,

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Robert Banick
Thank you Blake for managing the original updates while I got some badly needed sleep. Everyone, I’ve worked in Sri Lanka on and off for the past year and can testify that a lot of my friends and co-workers are suffering from the flooding. My Facebook is full of pictures of cars and houses

Re: [HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
I should have mentioned, please share this via your social media channels. Here is a tweet from HOT to re-tweet: https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236 Regards, Blake Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President,

[HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

2016-05-18 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Sri Lanka has been hit in the past few days by flooding: https://www.bing.com/search?q=sri+lanka+flooding HOT has been asked to activate and immediately start tracing buildings by the Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka, who work closely with World Bank GFDRR. They are in urgent need of