Humanitarian OSM: Mapping Nepal
To support the disaster relief work in progress in Nepal, the Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT) is busy mapping roads, settlements, and buildings in Nepal. Creating a detailed map of the area in OpenStreetMap will give the relief workers much valuable open data that can be used for planning their efforts. Contribute to the efforts of the Humanitarian OSM to map features in Nepal to support relief work.
Please join the efforts wherever you are.
The pending tasks are listed here: http://tasks.hotosm.org/.
Documentation to help you through the tasks is here: https://datameet.hackpad.com/Nepal-Earthquake-Mapping-YDjLauUK0Ek.
If you are in Bangalore, head to MapBox office: https://goo.gl/maps/bkqKF.
The DataMeet Delhi chapter will start organising mapping sessions in different offices in Delhi from today 14:00. Follow the DataMeet list for information about that: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/datameet.
Or, you can stay where you are and work on this remotely.
If you need support, please feel free to write to Sajjad [[email protected]], Shashank [[email protected]], or Sumandro [[email protected]].
A big thanks to Sajjad for putting it all together and leading the efforts.
Image credit: MapBox.
Author
Sumandro Chattapadhyay
As a Director at CIS, I co-lead the researchers@work programme, and engage with academic and policy research on data governance and digital economy. I can be reached at sumandro[at]cis-india[dot]org.
