[HOT] HOT Sandy response in US News OpEd

[Alex Barth]

Wow, great exposure.

I guess this is a real thought space win. The question isn't 'does this make sense?' but 'how can we learn more here?'.

In regards to showing HOT/Haiti's impact better, maybe [1] could use an update?

[1] http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/haiti-2
 
On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Tim Waters <chippy2005 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is an interesting article, it gives two main examples, the
> MapMill deployment for Sandy, and Haiti earthquake OSM tracing and
> it's use in Ushahdi.
> 
> In both examples, the author asks the questions "but does it help?"
> "was it used?" etc. Which are valid questions, but it didn't appear
> that much effort was taken to ask organisations if it helped and if it
> was used.
> 
>> 27 November 2012 01:13, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/11/23/how-to-make-crowdsourcing-disaster-relief-work-better
>> 
>> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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