Hi Doris, Thanks for writing but please don't write twice. The community already received your email yesterday.
Best Dan 2015-06-10 13:10 GMT+01:00 Doris Hernandez <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > My name is Doris Hernandez and I am writing to inquire about possible map > sources for a current project in Bangladesh. My company, DHInfrastructure, > is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that advises on financial, economic > and regulatory aspects of energy tariffs and regulation. We are currently > working on evaluating the potential for solar PVs on rooftops in the city of > Dhaka, Bangladesh. One of the initial steps in this research is finding a > mapping source that allows us to distinguish what building rooftops are > suitable for solar panels (so, excluding slums, buildings that are > experience shade during the day, etc.). > > Is there any source on OpenStreetMap that you might point me to to find a > map that may be in line with this solar PV on rooftops project? For example, > are there any maps that distinguish by levels of surface? or by building > heights? > > I truly appreciate your help, and I look forward to hearing from you. > > Kind regards, > Doris > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Pete Masters <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, I have some stuff to share and a request for some feedback. >> >> Missing Maps has taken on the mapping of the province of South Kivu in >> DRCongo. This will be our first attempt at such a large AOI. >> >> As part of many things we need to do to achieve this, we have been working >> on some intelligent tasking processes, which are being documented on the >> wiki [1]. >> >> Leading on all this are the DisasterMappers from Heidelberg University and >> they have developed the microtasking process we used to analyse satellite >> coverage of the area and have made a similar crowdsourcing task for >> identifying where roads and settlements are (to save mappers spending hours >> scrolling through jungle). >> >> The imagery analysis was very successful, but the second task is trickier >> and it is important we get it as effective as possible before promoting it >> widely. I wondered whether some of you would have time to test the tool and >> feed back, so we can optimise it. >> >> It's all linked from the wiki page anyway, but the tool is here [2] and >> the feedback document is here [3]. >> >> If you have any questions or comments about any of this, including the >> wider Map South Kivu project, I'd love to hear them. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Pete >> >> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_South_Kivu_tasking >> [2] http://crowdmap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/app/missing_maps_follow_up/ >> [3] >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rDCCm-kYksWclg8A9jhVlIn2xcTV6Yz5rndrpYjo0dg/edit?usp=sharing >> -- >> Pete Masters >> Missing Maps Project Coordinator >> +44 7921 781 518 >> >> missingmaps.org >> >> @pedrito1414 >> @theMissingMaps >> facebook.com/MissingMapsProject >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
