Sev & Mike were asking about the china quake. I took a quick look and have set
up a wiki page. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Lushan_earthquake (same
name wikipedia's given it)
But it's not a drop-everything activation I don't think. <200 deaths. This is
not another Haiti.
My guess is, this is similar to the Yushu earthquake of 2010. A few small towns
/ villages in this mountainous area would be the worst effected, where people
have died and aid will be delivered by the chinese authorities, but the death
toll is low, and we don't have hi-res imagery of those areas.
As I've said on the wiki page, there's some potential to improve the mapping on
Chengdu city. But this was only mildly shaken by the quake. Can someone
confirm why there appear to be deleted patches of the road network there?
(needs analysis of an old planet file I think) I guess it was the redaction
bot.
Harry
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From: Mikel Maron <[email protected]>
To: hot <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 21 April 2013, 15:27
Subject: [HOT] Fw: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and
hundreds hurt in Sichuan
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
>
>
>HOT members are looking at the situation right now.
>
>
>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.
>
>
>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.
>
>
>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.
>
>
>-Mikel
>
>* 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
>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22228225
>>
>>
>>Dear CrsisMappers:
>>
>>
>>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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