[HOT] In Person Mapathons

[Heather Leson]

HI Harry, I'll be there tonight in LDN

heather

Heather Leson
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <
jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:

> 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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