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

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Thanks for sharing.

Best,

- Enock
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Gavin Fleming <gavin at kartoza.com> wrote:

> 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
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