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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Oops, yes a few typos there, including it should be nearly “1,000,000” edits for Hurricane Patricia; <a href="http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=huracanpatricia#2/7.5/15.8">http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-changesets?comment=huracanpatricia#2/7.5/15.8</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>=Russ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Russell Deffner [mailto:Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 30, 2015 1:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> hot (hot@openstreetmap.org)<br><b>Subject:</b> Activation Updates<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good day everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As you may have recently learned, most of our Disaster Mapping responses are much more a marathon than sprint. It often takes several days to pinpoint where the needs are greatest, but I must say that we have been very good at setting our priority areas for mapping during these recent responses. Everyone should be very proud of the improvements we’ve made to map, allowing for more data driven decisions for coordinating response efforts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As both the Hurricane Patricia and Easter Afghanistan Earthquake Activations continue, please allow me to give just a quick update here as it did not seem sufficient for a whole blog post with pictures, etc. for either incident.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The recent situation in Afghanistan is that we are solely focused on providing a really good road network for the (roughly) southern half of Project #1264; in other words our near term goal is to get this task to about 60% complete before we re-evaluate priorities. A few stats on the project: 245 contributors have created nearly 9000 road segments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The situation in Mexico is that project #1257 is nearly 100% complete and validated! Overall the Hurricane Patricia Activation has had (at the time of this email) 463 contributors making nearly 100,000 edits (roughly 988K when I looked) including creating nearly 80,000 buildings.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s such an honor and pleasure to be part of this community!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=Russ<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Russell Deffner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org">Russell.Deffner@hotosm.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://hotosm.org/">http://hotosm.org</a><u><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>