Imagery Pre-disaster Let’s Do Better
This week is the first expert meeting regarding Space Based Technology and Crowd-Sourcing being hosted by UN-SPIDER. I am not attending, but from the Twitter stream (#spidercrowd) it appears there has been a lively discussion on using satellite information and crowd-sourcing for disaster response. What I believe is often missing from these types of conversations is preparedness. Maybe it is presumptuous of me to discuss preparedness when imagery isn’t available freely every time for every disaster.
July 6, 2011
Tags: imagery, indonesia, licensing, padang Posted in: hot, license 
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Off to Join the Circus!
Well not really off to join the circus, most of you probably already know about my employment change. I’m not working for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. I always referred to working on OpenStreetMap projects full-time as “running off to join the OpenStreetMap.” That isn’t to say people haven’t done it previous, I think it is just is something many would love to do and few have figured out how to. Much like joining the circus, though you trade in your clown nose for a GPS. Or at least it can take a bit of a leap of faith in someways.
June 27, 2011
Tags: employment, geoiq, hot, indonesia Posted in: hot, OSM, Uncategorized 5 Comments