After the big earthquakes in Nepal in April 25th and May 12th (7.8 and 7.3 magnitude respectively), a lot of infrastructures were damaged. One of the biggest challenges that remained behind the curtain was the availability of a good quality mapping data.
Nepal, as any other developing country, was behind in mapping infrastructures,roads and rural villages. Right after the first earthquake, HOTOSM (Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team)got activated and started dividing prioritizing the tasks via Task Manager. Since then, over 2700 volunteers have...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Google Earth Pro Free now
Google Earth Pro is free now. The news broke out earlier last week and the web has been all over it. For those who have used the GE Pro, you already know what to expect, but if you have not used it before, there are the five key things I found to be very helpful through my experience of using the pro version in the past:
1. High resolution imagery if you need to print something out
2. Easy data import (points, lines or polygons)from ESRI formats (the evergreen (so far?) shape file)
3. Movie making options with the audio and visual options to...
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