I am PratikYadav and I work with Mapbox based in Bangalore, India. I came to know about OpenStreetMap and HOT after joining Mabox two years ago and been involved with both of them ever since. I started with taking part in the HOT projects where Mapbox team joins to help HOT in mapping and validation of various tasks over the year.From past few, month I have been working with HOT imagery coordination group to make sure the the request coming for imagrey can be quickly processed by Mapbox.

I worked with Mikel last year to understand the spatial spread of all past HOT tasks.

I am a big fan of HOT’s work specially the concept of involving remote-volenters who are willing to help and link them to the people actually using these information on ground. My sepecific intrest this year will be to facilitate imagery coodination so that the most clear and recent imagery can be provided to mapping volenteers during crisis and how can we pre-identify and improve imagery coverage at hot spots. I talked about this last year at HOT summit (slides) and very excited to work with larger HOT team around this.