[HOT] In Person Mapathons

[maning sambale]

There was also a request to map parts of Vietnam also along the path
of Haiyan. Any updates on this request?

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 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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