[HOT] In Person Mapathons

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Jaako,

It is surely possible to do such actions.  Between two crisis like this one, people can surely propose to the HOT list to contribute to tasks for vulnerable areas. 
 
Pierre 



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 De : Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaakko at helleranta.com>
À : Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> 
Cc : Douglas Ssebaggala <douglas at mappingday.com>; hot <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Jeudi 14 novembre 2013 9h17
Objet : Re: [HOT] In Person Mapathons
 


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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