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<div>ODM Devs and Users,</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.elrha.org/hif/home/">The Humanitarian Innovation Fund</a> has funded some development on OpenDroneMap.</div>
<div>There are a few things targeted as part of this project, so I'll start at a high level, and then work my way down to some anticipated details:</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The objectives of this project (generally) are to:</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Improve the quality of 3D model output from ODM</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create ODM GUI (web)</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Integrate with existing Humanitarian digital tools -- things like
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/">OSM</a>, <a href="https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm">
POSM</a>, <a href="https://openaerialmap.org/">OpenAerialMap</a>, etc..</span><br>
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<div>Partners involved in writing the grant are:</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.shadowview.org/">ShadowView</a></span><br>
</li><li><a href="https://clevelandmetroparks.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cleveland Metroparks</span><br>
</a></li><li><a href="http://smart.uow.edu.au/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The SMART Infrastructure facility at University of Wollongong</span><br>
</a></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vela Aerial (Australia / Indonesia)</span><br>
</li><li><a href="http://www.msf.org.uk/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Médecins Sans Frontières UK</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As part of our deliverables for the grant, we'll be </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">hosting monthly ODM community chats on <a href="https://gitter.im/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap">
Gitter</a> (join us there!)</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">engaging the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team and some local OSM communities</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Engaging on social media</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">etc.</span><br>
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<div>These changes will be coming down the pipeline alongside community contributions and other development in the next 6-8 months. As usual, feel free to ask questions here or on the
<a href="https://gitter.im/OpenDroneMap/OpenDroneMap">Gitter</a>.</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Dakota</div>
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