[HOT] Restarting the HMP on India Floods in Uttarakhand

[Tom Taylor]

Speaking of that, I took a look at a task in the Harsil area yesterday, 
but found that most of the Bing image for the block was a uniform dark 
grey. Looking at one of the finished blocks just to the north, which 
contained the northern bank of the Ganga, I got the suspicion that what 
I was seeing was more of the Ganga, presumably in a flooded state. This 
makes me think that, at least at the point I was working, it is 
necessary to grab a much wider stretch of territory in the north-south 
direction than provided by the task blocks to understand the image properly.

I also looked at another block in the hills north of the river which had 
no trace of roads or buildings, but had a lot of dark patches with 
ripples on them. I wasn't sure whether these were bodies of water or 
lava patches, since the imagery didn't have much colour. Any guidance?

TomT5454

On 05/07/2013 10:24 AM, Andrew Buck wrote:
> A few weeks ago we began a HMP (humanitarian mapping project) in the
> Uttarakhand state  of northern India, along the border with Nepal.  There
> was a good response from our HOT volunteers and we were able to rapidly map
> several towns as well as a lot of connecting roads to smaller villages in
> the mountains.
>
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