Thanks! Will get cracking. If people were looking for it I think the relevant task is http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/375
Cheers Tim On 30 November 2013 11:34, Banick, Robert <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello HOT Community, > > Hello from Tacloban. Recovery work for Typhoon Yolanda is gathering > steam in the Philippines and with it the need for highly detailed data. I'm > here working with the REACH Initiative to conduct a rapid shelter > assessment which will be used to inform shelter reconstruction planning for > the entire recovery operation. In the course of these surveys we're testing > the accuracy of damage assessments conducted through OSM and developing > methodologies to join relevant survey data to OSM map features. > > One of the municipalities selected for assessment is Carles on the > northeasten tip of Panay. We're hoping to use OSM to better plan the > logistics and administration of our assessment surveys and in turn generate > more useful data for OSM. If possible we'll obtain post-disaster imagery > and set up a separate task to crowd source damage assessments that we can > validate in the field. > > We need your help to get this done in time. Our assessment will be > happening later this week, most likely Friday, so we need the community's > help to trace the relevant data in time. If you have the time and > inclination, please take a cell or 20 and chip in. If the data is good > enough it *will* be used by humanitarian responders. > > Many thanks to all of you for the time and effort you've given so far. > GIS folks in the field are all raving about the quality and thoroughness of > the data that OSM provides to this response. > > Best, > Robert > > *Robert Banick* | Field GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì > American > Red Cross <http://www.redcross.org/> > > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 202-805-3679 | Skype robert.banick > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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