Hi David, HOT did participate in Hurricane Sandy, though not using OpenStreetMap. It was using MapMill to help sort images for a disaster assessment. This was for FEMA and the Civil Air Patrol.
Major questions HOT would ask before an activation would be "can we do something and be effective?" and "Will be responding use the data we create?" I don't foresee us doing preparedness work in North America though. There are growing communities in Canada and the US and they are better equipped for this sort of thing. As for response I would think we would be supporting those communities rather than going it a lone if once again we could be useful. I know that the OSM US community was doing mapping just this week after a tornado went through Illinois. We have allowed communities to use the Tasking Manager to do their own response though, for example there is at task set-up for flooding in Italy right now. So I suppose that is not a clear answer other than "maybe". Thanks, -Kate On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:32 AM, David Hiers <[email protected]> wrote: > Got it :) > > Cheers, > > David > > > ________________________________ > From: Danijel Schorlemmer <[email protected]> > To: David Hiers <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:10 AM > > Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT response to Cascadia Earthquake > > Hi David, > >> You see, I am unclear on whether HOT would engage in a North American >> disaster, because perhaps the relevant response agencies already have all >> their GIS requirements fulfilled, and they would not call upon HOT to >> respond. > > I did not say that HOT would not engage in North America. I'm not > participating in the coordination of HOT and thus cannot judge the > priorities > the HOT may have. My argument was simply that preparatory work for the event > you referred to would be equally important in many regions of the world. > And, > in fact, the US may be better prepared than other countries. Still, I would > consider after-event mapping very valuable as a HOT action. > > I guess, somebody from the HOT coordination can better clarify the > situation. > > > Cheers > > -danijel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
