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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings HOT community,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of course there’s never a good time for disaster to strike. In the last week, HOT community members have jumped into action to assess several earthquake events – the first in Myanmar on the 13<sup>th</sup>; luckily this one turned out to be relatively minor in terms of humanitarian impact because before we really had a chance to respond, several earthquakes hit Kumamoto Japan on the 14<sup>th</sup> and 15<sup>th</sup>. Most of you are probably aware of our great friends and colleagues from Crisis Mappers Japan (<a href="http://crisismappers.jp/">http://crisismappers.jp/</a>), they immediately jumped into action creating several projects on the main HOT instance of the OSM Tasking Manager (<a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org">http://tasks.hotosm.org</a>) and continue to add projects – these are mostly ‘only buildings’ projects as there has been some great efforts in the past to map the road network in Japan – and it’s got a bit different model than ‘standard’ road networks, so probably avoid remotely changing any roads.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then of course, the most recent chatter on the list is about another earthquake – this time in Ecuador. HOT has for some time been working on the support and growth of OSM communities in South America and we have some great colleagues who have launched the initial response to this event and are adding projects to the HOT TM as they get a better understanding of the impacted area – what the best imagery to use is and all the other challenges faced during an event coordination.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>HOT is supporting all of these efforts and continue to evaluate the situation – as well as stay alert for any new events. Please do jump onto the tasking manager if you can contribute some time to help!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<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>