Guys, I already announced a wiki page coordinating a response to this disaster 
a day and half ago:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods
Thanks to Reneman and AndrewBuck who responded quite rapidly by investigating 
mapping possibilities and adding more info to that page.


You guys seem to have missed my mailing post and yellow lable on the 'India' 
wiki page.  I feel like something went wrong in that process.


Looking ahead, maybe we' should ramping this up into more of an 'activation'.

Next steps?
* tasking manager job? I think the city of Dehradun http://osm.org/go/zm8r~jUM- 
presents the best opportunity for obvious beginner-friendly mapping tasks.
* other mapping coordination? things like mapping in lots more rivers in the 
mountains could be worthwhile, but may be less suited to a task manager grid. 
We could use 'notes' just as I did in the Philippines once, coordinating river 
mapping with OpenStreetBugs
* Supply more info to potential data *users* on the wiki page. We should have 
templates for this really. How can we get our data into the hands of aid people?
* I will tweet a link to the wiki page from @hotosm.
* reply to crisis mappers with a link to our wiki page?* Call it an 
"activation"?

________________________________
From: Mikel Maron <[email protected]>
To: Ishan Chattopadhyaya <[email protected]>; OpenStreetMap in India 
<[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, 23 June 2013, 5:24
Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as 
rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India



To start, we can identify the affected areas, and check on sources of data to 
improve the map.


This is the region? 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.09&lon=79.3&zoom=8&layers=M Looks very 
mountainous. 
Quick spot checks on Bing imagery, it's high resolution. Other sources?


If we can identify a bounding box for the region, then can set up a job on the 
tasking server http://tasks.hotosm.org/

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


>________________________________
> From: Ishan Chattopadhyaya <[email protected]>
>To: Mikel Maron <[email protected]>; OpenStreetMap in India 
><[email protected]> 
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:24 AM
>Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain 
>wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India
> 
>
>
>Let us do something! Anyone has any pointers how can we start (in an organized 
>fashion)?
>Can someone please take a lead to start a mapping sprint towards helping map 
>the affected regions? Mikel?
>
>
>On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Some response to the floods in Uttarakhand. Is there anything for OSM to 
>improve in the base map of the region, to aid response?
>> 
>>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>>
>>----- Forwarded Message -----
>>>From: Buddhadeb Halder <[email protected]>
>>>To: [email protected] 
>>>Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:17 PM
>>>Subject: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in 
>>>Uttarakhand, India
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi CrisisMappers,
>>>Thousands are reported stranded in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India 
>>>due to heavy rains and landslides.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Buddha
>>>
>>>@HalderBuddha
>>>
>>>Some updates: 
>>>1. Uttarakhand worst affected as rain wreaks havoc in north India; thousands 
>>>stranded
>>>2. Watch: in torrential rain, house collapses in Uttarakhand 
>>>3. Rain triggers landslides in Uttarakhand; Char Dham Yatra suspended 
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