Hi, Great works.
Regarding imagery, just in case you hadn't checked recently, Bing high resolution coverage of Nepal is now much broader than it was: http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=28.321126060676896&lon=84.06212805408025&zoom=8 There are also Orbview-3 (and lower resolution EO-1) images available on http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ that could extend the coverage. Let me know if it could be useful to have them online for mapping, in complement of Bing. Best wishes, Jean-Guilhem Le 19/01/2013 04:12, Nama Budhathoki a écrit : > 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 are difficult to find, expensive to buy, and often outdated here in 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 > > > > -- gpg 0x5939EAE2 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
