[OSGeo Africa] Fwd: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Helping Nepal with mapping action

[Gavin Fleming]

Forwarding Suchith's call for action:

Colleagues,

On behalf of Geo for All  http://www.geoforall.org/  ,i request you all
to inform your colleagues and students to contribute in the crisis
mapping action launched by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. This
will also help teach the students also the real essence of education and
humanity and "sharing knowledge and expertise" to help each other in
times of need.

We thank our colleagues (esp. Maria Brovelli, Marco Minghini and
Giovanna Venuti) and students at GEO Lab in Como (which is one of the
GeoForAll Labs) for also organising a mapping  initiative to support the
relief efforts.

Details at
http://www.polo-como.polimi.it/news/dettaglio-della-news/article/165/helping-nepal-with-a-mapping-action-at-como-campus-967/

The scale of the efforts needed is huge, so more volunteers esp. with
FOSS experience in automatic image classification and feature extraction
and wish to contribute to the mapping response for the Nepal earthquake
are needed . Details at
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/

There are many tasks that need to be accomplished at
http://tasks.hotosm.org/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake

Thanks again for all of you for your support and help with this.

Best wishes,

Suchith