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<b>Disaster OpenRouteService now active in the Caribbean, North
America (incl. Mexico) and Bangladesh</b><br>
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is currently
coordinating OSM mapping activities as response to Hurricane
“Irma” which is affecting the islands of the Caribbean and
Florida, as well as to the severe floods in Bangladesh. Besides
these two heavily affected regions, in the early morning hours a
severe earthquake with magnitude of<span> </span><a
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href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000ahv0#executive"
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color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">8.1</a><span> </span>hit Mexico.</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">In order to support the mapping and rescue activities
GIScience Heidelberg / <a href="http://www.heigit.org/">HeiGIT</a>
updated their OpenStreetMap based <b> </b><b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://disaster.openrouteservice.org/"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">Disaster OpenRouteService</a></b><span> </span>
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verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">( a<span> </span></span><a
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href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/06/19/new-disaster-openrouteservice-for-africa-south-america-and-indonesia-released/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
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tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
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255, 255);">special version</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
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text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
float: none;"><span> </span>of OpenRouteService.org)<span> </span></span>to
the following routing regions:</p>
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arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">- North America (incl. Mexico)<br style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;">
- Caribbean<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
- Bangladesh</p>
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">The data in our service is currently updated every 24h
(around 21:00 CET - thanks to Geofabrik!).</p>
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">If you have some time on your hands, please also see
the current projects for<span> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/bit.ly/IrmaMapProjects"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">Hurricane Irma</a><span class="js-display-url"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></span> and the<span> </span><a
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href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority&direction=asc&search=flood"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">Bangladesh floods</a><span> </span>where you can
support the mapping efforts remotely.</p>
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supported through core funding from the Klaus Tschira
Foundation Heidelberg.</span></p>
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><a href="http://disaster.openrouteservice.org"><span
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://disaster.openrouteservice.org</span></a></p>
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href="http://openrouteservice.org">http://openrouteservice.org</a><br>
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