Hi all, is there a skype coordination chat for the mapping? It might be helpful to help mappers with questions re attributation of geo-objects and so on...
warm regards, svendJ 2013/11/9 Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]> > Hi, > Andrew called for a few suggestions for other useful areas to map, beyond > just Tacloban; which is likely to become increasingly well mapped in the > next few days. > > > Reading articles like > http://www.rappler.com/nation/43285-initial-reports-damage-tacloban-city > suggest > Guiuan might be worth a further look. > > "Guiuan, a fishing town of about 40,000 people on Samar, was the first to > be hit after Haiyan swept in from the Pacific Ocean. Pang said contact had > not yet been made with Guiuan." > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=11.0308&mlon=125.7240&node=198523987#map=13/11.0308/125.7240&layers=N > > You can see: > - It's at the start of the storm's path > - It has a nearby airport, which if still servicable, seems a reasonable > place to land supplies, relief workers, etc > > If the aim was to simply improve roads/access, radiating out along the > path of the storm; (one task starting in Tacoloban/Basey/at the nearest > land pushing east, another starting from Guiuan pushing west, that'd cover > a reasonable amount of affected folks. > > Wikimedia suggests a population of between 50-200 people/km^2 in those > areas. > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Philippines_Population_Density_Map.svg > > Mapping large structures in the towns in between, as opposed to every > single building is likely fairly quick, and highlights key infrastructure > (if it survived). > > The coverage by bing seems alright: there are areas not covered like > Balangia to Lawa-an; but the majority is. > > Thoughts? > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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