The task to identify the remote villages in the Uttarakhand province covers a
large zone in the himalyas. Those of you that have a trekker soul should look
at the glacier zone and the high valleys nearby. On the map, this correspond
to the large red zone in the northern section that we already analyzed.
To pursue the work for this task and identify more remote villages, select, in
the grid, the zones below this red zone.
see http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/274
Pierre
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De : Andrew Buck <[email protected]>
À : HOT Openstreetmap <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Mercredi 10 juillet 2013 15h28
Objet : [HOT] Update on the India flooding priorities
We had a skype chat with the ground representative working with MapAction and
SEEDS in India on the Uttarakhand flood response. The discussions are still
informal yet, and we don't have firm commitments that the data will be used by
people on the ground, however progress toward this front is being made and we
hope that we will continue to firm up this relationship and get a two way flow
of information going where we are able to get back data from them as well.
We discussed what their current priorities for data were and how we could help
them achieve their goals in the field. At the moment they are trying to divide
up the villages in the region amongst the many aid agencies that are responding
so that each village is covered by one specific aid agency with as little
overlap and duplication as possible. In order to aid in this effort they have
asked us to begin by simply locating all of the villages in the affected region
and trying to add names for as many as possible. Pierre and I have merged in
the GNS names for all the villages available in that database, but there are
still a lot more left to mark.
The idea was to create a task manager job to simply draw landuse=residential
polygons around the remaining villages so that even if they don't have a name
in the database, they can at least use this information to decide what agency
will help what village. We will probably do more detailed tracing later on
after the agencies get more settled in, but for now, just identifying all the
villages in the area is the key focus.
Here is the URL for the task manager job, just trace the village outlines and
don't worry about roads or buildings yet:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/274
Thanks to the community for their continued involvement in this task. It is
still not to the level of being an activation yet, still just an informal
mapping project, but it seems like these aid agencies are going to be in this
area for a while now, so we may move to formal activation if we get more
communication with them in the future.
-AndrewBuck
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