Hi Dale, The links are not working !!!! Would you plz check ?. Thanks Ahasan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Dale Kunce <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear HOT, > > We need volunteers to work on an exciting new Red Cross community mapping > and mobilization project in Canaan, Haiti. > > The American Red Cross is supporting the Haitian Red Cross to expand their > community based disaster response and health efforts into new communities > in the northern metropolitan Port au Prince area. The communities outlined > are at significant exposure to seasonal and acute flooding risks and they > lack access to basic health services, disaster preparedness plans and > disaster response plans. Haitian Red Cross plans to expand their local > volunteer network into these communities in 2015; they will train community > members in first aid, emergency response and evacuation, as well as link > them to healthcare services. Updated maps will support Haitian Red Cross to > identify safe emergency shelter sites as well as to prepare emergency > evacuations routes that reflect population centers and road network > capacity. Furthermore, updated maps will help Haitian Red Cross to identify > particularly vulnerable families and plan ways to improve access to them. > > Our plan is simple, remotely map the community and then supplement work > done by remote volunteers with local knowledge and field surveys using > OpenMapKit. We have set up two task that cover the Canaan and St. Christop > areas of interest to start the work. > > http://tasks.hotosm.org/870 > http://tasks.hotosm.org/879 > > There are existing efforts through OSM to assist the people of Canaan > through great work using UAVs to provide aerial imagery and assess flood > risk. In addition, the Red Cross recently started using Mapillary > <http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/bbox/18.62802725546566/18.6841385903599/-72.32025146484375/-72.1966552734375> > to > improve our understanding of the area. After the remote work is completed > we will use the soon to be released OpenMapKit to conduct a full field > survey and household census of the area. > > I personally encourage you to donate your skills by helping these > vulnerable communities get mapped. We are recruiting both remote and > local volunteers to help map the community. If you are able to assist us > please contact me directly at [email protected]. > > Thank you, > > Dale Kunce > Senior Geospatial Engineer > American Red Cross > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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