Hi Fran, We've noticed as much. I'm contacting the Humanitarian Information Unit, our imagery provider, right now to sort it out. I'll ping the listserv as soon as the situation is resolved / we get answers. Sorry for the false start!
Cheers, Robert Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick -----Original Message----- From: Fran Boon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:56 PM To: Banick, Robert Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HOT] Northern Uganda Tracing Exercise / Sprint Hi Robert, The TMS server for the Imagery is timing-out currently Best Wishes, Fran. On 14 August 2012 11:26, Banick, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > The American and Ugandan Red Cross have teamed up with the State > Department’s Humanitarian Information Unit and HOT OSM to trace the > cities of Gulu and Lira in Northern Uganda using recent > high-resolution satellite imagery. We invite and encourage all HOT > members / followers / fans to join in and help us trace these rapidly > expanding cities which are rebuilding after years of conflict. > > > > We’ll be using the resulting maps to conduct on-the-ground trainings > for Ugandan Red Cross staff and volunteers, including trainings in how > to use and contribute to Open Street Map. Those trainigs will be put > to use preventing traffic accidents and responding to the frequent > house fires which plague the area. > > > > For those of you in the DC area, we’ll be hosting a Mapping Party at > the American Red Cross’s International Response Operations Center this > Sunday afternoon. Mikel Maron will be following up with details. If > time and resources permit, we’d love to webcast the party and invite > others, particularly Ugandans, to join. Stay tuned! > > > > For more details, read into the tasks at the below addresses. We’ve > included a Visual Tracing Guide to help tracers know which tags to > apply to which types of buidlings/roads/areas. > > > > Gulu task: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/48 > > > > Lira task: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/49 > > > > This is our first time using mapping and Open Street Map in a big way > for disaster preparedness and we’d love for it to be a success. Any > and all help is extremely appreciated – after all, the Red Cross runs on > volunteerism. > > > > Best, > > Robert > > > > Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American > Red Cross > > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype > robert.banick > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
