Hi all, Actual updates from Robert will be forthcoming, but from my perspective:
OSM data is being used in real time by the Disaster Management Center of Sri Lanka, the government response agency. Many parts of the Sri Lankan government and their humanitarian partners already know OSM data, its quality and how to work with it. NASA offered 2 days ago to let us contribute needs for targetting the EO-1 satellite while it passed over Sri Lanka today, but after 24 hours of HOT trying hard to get the too large AOI narrowed down, it was just not possible. This is a large scale disaster and the DMC is working on multiple scales, but the part they have asked us to work on is the large scale, high detail and quality. That means we need to get a lot of buildings mapped. We set a goal of getting http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1914 done today, 34% now. If you could please push this to your social networks, friends family. If you could get 1 new person to map you would be doubling your impact today and every crisis going forward. https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/734012947962417152 #SriLankaFloods very large AOI to cover, building footprints needed. Please map and share, we need crowds http://tasks.hotosm.org/ https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733340666638389249 #SriLankaFloods still needs @openstreetmap data. If possible, please map some buildings from our Tasking Manager http://tasks.hotosm.org https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236 HOT is activating to support relief in Sri Lanka, if you have a few moments, please visit http://tasks.hotosm.org http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods Floods are well known to be difficult to generate interest in, please help spread the word and impotence and tools that people can help in Sri Lanka from home. Lets get 1914 done! Regards, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
