[HOT] In Person Mapathons

[Jaakko Helleranta.com]

Hi all,

To the worry of mapping areas: Could it make sense to make use of these
kinds of situations to map some vulnerable areas that aren't currently
necessarily suffering an active crisis?

Nicaragua's Caribbean coast regularly suffers from rainy season damages
(including this year) and lot of the area is quite undermapped if not
virgin territory.
There are obviously a lot of similar places in the world.
Perhaps we could build a sort of catalogue of areas (with hires Bing) that
could be mapped when someone has resources for that?
Create a stack of tasking manager jobs catalogued in a wiki page that
people could simply grab when "excess" mapping capacity become available?

Just a thought,
-Jaakko

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