[HOT] HOT is activating to map for support of the relief efforts in Sri Lanka

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

I should have mentioned, please share this via your social media channels.

Here is a tweet from HOT to re-tweet:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/733050014931423236

Regards,
Blake
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Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: info at hotosm.org


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:
> Sri Lanka has been hit in the past few days by flooding:
> https://www.bing.com/search?q=sri+lanka+flooding
>
> HOT has been asked to activate and immediately start tracing buildings
> by the Disaster Management Center (DMC) of Sri Lanka, who work closely
> with World Bank GFDRR. They are in urgent need of detailed housing
> unit information.
>
> There are links on the HOT Tasking Manager:
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/
>
> This is the earliest phase of response so we are actively working to
> find other actors on the ground that the HOT Community can collect and
> provide geo data for. This means that you should check the front page
> of the tasking manager often, different jobs to support different
> ground activities might be coming up.
>
> HOT members Robert Banick and Mikel Maron will be leading HOT's
> response to this crisis. They can be contacted at:
>
> mikel.maron at hotosm.org
> rbanick at gmail.com
>
> For more information visit the 2016 Sri Lanka Floods wiki-page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Sri_Lanka_Floods
>
> If you’d like to help with coordination, speak up, and we’ll bring you
> into the Slack channel and Trello.
>
> Regretfully,
> Blake
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> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> President, HOT Board of Directors
> skype: jblakegirardot
> HOT Core Team Contact: info at hotosm.org