Hi All, I have created a task: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/268 for the district of Ketol which has been the worst affected. Please help us in mapping all the roads and buildings in the area.
I also have geotagged photos and a KML from BNPB (disaster management agency). If someone can use them for mapping please let me know so I can email them to you. Unfortunately I'm going to be traveling from 0700 GMT tomorrow until 1500 on Monday to return the US. If you have questions please post them to the HOT list and I will get to them as I can and also others from our team in Indonesia read the list and can answer as well. Best, -Kate On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Earlier today there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia the > epicenter is the link below. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.6978&mlon=96.6871&zoom=16&layers=M > > Although 6.1 is reasonably powerful, Indonesia experiences many earthquakes > and so the damage from this one is somewhat moderate. Current reports are > between 20 and 100 fatalities so far with some people displaced from > collapsed buildings. The response will likely be local and not involve the > international community, but we have started mapping roads in the areas just > as a precaution, and we continue to monitor the situation. > > Earthquakes such as this can be the precursor to a later, much larger, > aftershock. So a bit of mapping now might be very useful if a later such > earthquake does occur. Right now the focus is on roads, and bridges. Some > building tracing of key buildings (large buildings, mosques, etc) is useful, > but complete building coverage is probably overkill. > > The larger town of Takengon to the east of the epicenter suffered minimal > damage, but this is the nearest larger town, so it may be worth tracing > streets there if this becomes a disaster response headquarters. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=4.6234&lon=96.8518&zoom=14&layers=M > > -AndrewBuck > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
