Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Colleen Curran
Hi Thomas, You might want to check out the DigitalGlobe Maps API - this offers (free) global high resolution coverage. You add it as a plugin to QGIS and do the mapping from there. Check out this link if you are interested, https://developer.digitalglobe.com/using-maps-api-with-qgis/ Best,

Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Thomas, Try speaking to Mikel Maron at Mapbox (and HOT) (mikel.ma...@hotosm.org). Sometimes Mapbox can help out by procuring high resolution imagery for specific areas and adding it to the Mapbox Satellite layer accessible through JOSM. If that doesn’t work I suggest you reach out to the U.S.

Re: [HOT] Dealing with future growth: three recommendations to organisers (my SotM16 talk)

2016-11-24 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Dear Martin, Thank you very much, this is invaluable! I have some questions in line below, I also added these three items in the TM2 http://github.com/hotosm/ issues list so discussion is welcome there too. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Martin Dittus wrote: > In brief,

Re: [HOT] Videos online

2016-11-24 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 1:27 PM, hyan...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello HOT Community, > > some of you has asked about the slum mapping project methodology that we > present in the HOT Summit 2. In the mean while the totally of the videos > get finally processed and published by

Re: [HOT] Videos online

2016-11-24 Thread hyan...@gmail.com
Hello HOT Community, some of you has asked about the slum mapping project methodology that we present in the HOT Summit 2. In the mean while the totally of the videos get finally processed and published by the summit team, you can see a new presentation (in spanish) of the project here:

Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Le 22/11/2016 à 11:46, Thomas Kandler a écrit : > Hi folks, > > sorry for the OT, but I have a question with seems suitable for the > audience: > > is it possible to aquire high-res imagery (meaning <=10m + maybe > multispectral) for non-profit use in Sierra Leone in a cost-saving way? > > The

Re: [HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Andy Jeffrey
Hi Thomas, This isn’t an official HOT response, so others may be able to offer more specific advice, but my understanding is that any imagery obtained for HOT mapping activities is licensed solely for that purpose, especially the hi-res imagery as that is usually provided on request to assist

[HOT] Sierra Leone Imagery for non-profit?

2016-11-24 Thread Thomas Kandler
Hi folks, sorry for the OT, but I have a question with seems suitable for the audience: is it possible to aquire high-res imagery (meaning <=10m + maybe multispectral) for non-profit use in Sierra Leone in a cost-saving way? The non-profit is aiming to map out the mining activity in the