Richard, Rotarians have been working with a team in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and one of the outputs from that work has been street data for OSM. While not a HOT project per se, I would ping Todd Huffman for details and screen shots.
John Sent from my iPad On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > some of you probably already know me. for those who don't, > i'm an active mapper in the US who is also currently serving > on the board of the OSM US chapter. > > i'm (on short notice) working on a presentation on HOT for > a Rotary Club in Albany NY, which i'm likely to give on Wednesday > of next week. in going through some of the material on wiki, > i'm seeing that some stuff probably needs to be brought up > to date, and that the presentations currently run a bit technical. > there is stuff i'd like to do in this presentation that isn't easy > to extract from the available material, so as someone who has > admired what HOT is doing from the outside, i'd like to try > and build a non-technical presentation, get it into good shape, > then come back and work on providing a introduction to HOT > for non tech types on the wiki for general use. any help from this > list would be greatly appreciated. > > things i think i need: > > 1) a taxonomy of HOT projects > Haiti (disaster response) is one thing, what Kate is doing in > Indonesia is clearly a different thing. what are the different > types of projects that HOT is doing? are there any things HOT > would like to be doing that aren't currently being done? > are there any projects that haven't been done due to > resource restrictions? (people or funding?) > > 2) a brief timeline with featured projects. Obviously Haiti is > one, what are some others that belong on the short list? > > 3) i would like to feature Haiti as an example of HOT in action. > what are the things that should specifically be brought out > in such a presentation? > > 4) what are the typical costs involved in projects HOT does? > (Rotary International is a potential source of funding, one > reason why i'm experimenting with pitching HOT to Rotary Clubs.) > > there are probably other things, but this list will do for starters. > > thanks in advance, > richard > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
