I am thinking about it ... but will have to confirm. If you decide to go I might go from the Australian MAPS group
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> wrote: > UN SPIDER's hosting a "Crowdsource Mapping for Preparedness and Emergency > Response" meeting on 5-6 Jul 2011 in Vienna, about a week before SotM EU. > > "In recent years, advancements in technologies have made it possible for > virtual communities such as OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, Sahana, CrisisMappers, > Virtual Disaster Viewer, Google MapMaker and INSTEDD to provide increasing > support to disaster preparedness and emergency response efforts. Important > cornerstones of this virtual effort are the possibility to access and take > advantage of post-disaster satellite imagery as well as the use of other > space-based technologies such as telecommunications satellites and global > navigation satellite systems. Taking note of the need to connect these > pioneering communities with the space industry as well as the disaster > management community, the UN-SPIDER Programme is carrying out a one-year > project (“Space-based information for Crowdsource Mapping”) aiming at > identifying specific actions that could ensure a closer cooperation among the > three communities. The first activity of this project will be an Expert > Meeting to be held in Vienna to discuss strategies that will contribute to > supporting civil protection and emergency management agencies to make use of > products generated by such groups in areas of preparedness and emergency > response and provide a better understanding to these groups on the specific > needs of the disaster management community. " > > http://www.un-spider.org/crowdsource-mapping > > Is anyone from HOT planning to go? I am toying with the idea. > > SDE > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Co-founder & CEO at SpacialDB http://spacialdb.com http://twitter.com/sabman _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
