Hotties
Anyone taking a look at the Chinese earthquake today? Thoughts? Some discussion
happening on CrisisMappers.
-Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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>From: Mikel Maron <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and hundreds
>hurt in Sichuan
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>Hi
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>HOT members are looking at the situation right now.
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>First step is for us to appraise the rough geographic spread and scale of
>impact of areas affected from official and media sources. We then look at the
>quality of data in OSM, and available resources, like Bing imagery, other
>existing data sets, new satellite imagery. And, crucially presence of local
>community, and requests for up to date base map data.
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>Looking at the approximate area:
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.355&lon=102.544&zoom=9&layers=M. OSM has
>ok general coverage. Bing aerial imagery looks fairly good in the region. Not
>sure about local mappers.
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>My sense right now is that we're going to start by informal discussion on the
>HOT mailing list (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot), and probably
>some folks will start in with tracing. If you have any specific needs or
>requests for base map tiles or data for any project or initiative, please get
>in touch, directly with me or on list.
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>-Mikel
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>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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>>________________________________
>> From: Nicole Xu <[email protected]>
>>To: [email protected]
>>Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:27 AM
>>Subject: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and hundreds hurt
>>in Sichuan
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>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22228225
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>>Dear CrsisMappers:
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>>The earthquake happened last night around 8pm EST, with millions of people in
>>short of food, water and shelter now. Ushahidi, HOT, Google Person Finder,
>>ICT, etc. things we talk about everyday and work on, have saved thousands of
>>peoples lives in mega-disasters in places/countries where possibly easier to
>>work in some situations. However, at this moment any humanitarian mapping
>>group that can help with anything are very much appreciated. And all the
>>suggestions I will repost on Chinese twitter - Weibo (http://www.weibo.com/)
>>- to authorities and Departments concerned. For those who have Weobo account
>>please add me GIS地信前沿 or at this link: http://www.weibo.com/geomaps. Thank
>>you very much for everything.
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>>All the best,
>>Qiyang
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