Hello again HOT list, We are continuing to map the Indian state of Uttarakhand in response to the early mosoon flooding that occurred there and which has so far claimed an estimated 5,000 lives. We have had some meetings with several groups who are responding to or coordinating this effort in various ways. I wanted to start this email thread to allow them to list their needs and priorities as well as inform the HOT community that we do still need help on this Humanitarian Mapping Project (HMP) and will probably be involved with this one for a while going forward.
The current priority from a HOT point of view is to complete locating the villages in the affected areas. Currently we are just trying to draw landuse=residential areas around all the villages we can identify in the Bing imagery. There is a task manager job for this here: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/274 That job covers 4 districts in the state of Uttarakhand. The highest priority district of the 4 is the Chamoli district which is the easternmost of the 4, so the best approach would be to work starting from the east and working towards the west on that task manager job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamoli_district Thank you for your cooperation already, and we hope that people will continue to work on this response. Due to continued rains and damaged roads the aid organizations responding are still getting situated and are only just now beginning to make inroads towards addressing some of the population's needs, so we expect they will continue to need our assistance for a while going forward. -AndrewBuck
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