Hi Nama, great project The NepalMonitor team might be a great team to connect. They have been very active in the Ushahidi community for over a year. While they don't use OSM as a base layer yet, they do have civil society connections.
https://www.nepalmonitor.org/ Heather On Jan 19, 2013 6:13 AM, "Nama Budhathoki" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing this from Nepal. First of all, I would like to congratulate > the newly elected HOT team members and the HOT community as a whole. > Second, I am taking this opportunity to introduce some humanitarian OSM > works we have started here in Nepal. > > As many of you are aware, Nepal is at high risk from earthquakes. Please > have a look at this report: > http://nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=16720#.UPn-fOh8OpI. Unfortunately, we > do not have online maps for preparedness or rescue works in case we are hit > by an earthquake. > > With The World Bank's support under its Open Data for Resilience > Initiative (OpenDRI), we are aggressively expanding OSM Nepal community to > collect major POIs and urban structural data including building footprints. > We have started this from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. We reach > out to schools, colleges, and community groups to talk about and train them > in OSM. Since other sources of GIS data are difficult to find, expensive to > buy, and often outdated here in Nepal, people get excited when we talk > about OSM. > > One major hindrance has been existing images, which makes it too difficult > to digitize building footprints. We are working to get better resolution > images and hoping to have those soon for Kathmandu Valley. Once we have > that, we will seek your help with tasks that can be done remotely including > digitizing building footprints. If you are interested to come to the ground > or are coming to Nepal for any other purpose, lets know so that we can > organize a mapping meetup and exchange our learning. For those who are > thinking to go for vacation, Nepal has great hiking/trekking sites. Here, > you can take mapping and hiking together! > > Congratulations once again. We look forward to work together and help each > other. > > Nama > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nama R. Budhathoki > > > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> The HOT board election voting period has ended and I'm pleased to present >> the results: >> >> 35 Schuyler Erle >> 30 Mikel Maron >> 28 Harry Wood >> 27 Nicolas Chavent >> 25 John Crowley >> 24 Pierre Béland >> 21 Joseph Reeves >> 18 Heather Leson >> 18 Severin Menard >> 9 Jean-Guilhem Cailton >> 9 Todd Huffman >> >> I would like to welcome newly elected members Pierre Béland and Joseph >> Reeves to the board. >> >> So the board now consists of: >> >> Schuyler Erle >> Mikel Maron >> Harry Wood >> Nicolas Chavent >> John Crowley >> Pierre Béland >> Joseph Reeves >> >> Thanks to everyone that voted and ran for election! >> >> I regret that I could not continue serving, but I'm heartened to see a >> great crew of leaders here. >> >> Dane >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Nama Raj Budhathoki > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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