<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Graeme, I understand this new Asia Pacific hub is inclusive of Oceania. OSM Fiji is currently undertaking a community building project with HOT's support and the AP hub is one of the contact points.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I'm super supportive, I think a thriving open geospatial community will be made up of many communities with overlaps, and many players contributing in their own ways. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I often think about the Philippines open mapping community and how multiple loosely-connected orgs contribute to a real buzz, in a way that a single top-down/catch-all org may not be able to.</div><div><br></div><div>It will be interesting to see how the HOT project progresses in this region over the next few years...<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 09:18, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>You may already be across this, so apologies if this is the case.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I was just reading the weekly Digest & noticed this article: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nama/diary/397062" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nama/diary/397062</a>, <br></div><div>with a bit of background:</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RebeccaF/diary/396167" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RebeccaF/diary/396167</a> &</div><div><a href="https://www.hotosm.org/updates/reflecting-on-hot-and-the-humanitarian-mapping-community-hot-executive-director-tyler-radfords-closing-remarks-from-the-2020-humanitarian-openstreetmap-summit/" target="_blank">https://www.hotosm.org/updates/reflecting-on-hot-and-the-humanitarian-mapping-community-hot-executive-director-tyler-radfords-closing-remarks-from-the-2020-humanitarian-openstreetmap-summit/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Wondering how "Open Mapping Hub- Asia Pacific" may be going to match up with OSGeo Oceania & OSM Oceania?</div><div><br></div><div>It would appear that they may be going to stop at Philippines / Indonesia so potentially no overlap, although "Asia Pacific" possibly does suggest otherwise?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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