No worries Heather. The data looks good, we're pulling together a mini-map pack 
to guide our work now.

Jonas, I've had to adapt the tagging scheme slightly to a 4-damage scale which 
better reflects how shelter assessments are being conducted here. So it's 
damage=partial/major/destroyed now (damage=no being the fourth). Otherwise 
all's OK.

Robert Banick | Field GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red 
Cross<http://www.redcross.org/>
2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006
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From: Heather Leson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Sunday, December 1, 2013 6:37 PM
To: Sazal Sthapit <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Robert Banick 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Tracing -- Please Assist


Thanks so much Robert for the requests. Thanks to all who will map. 
Jean-Guilhem  and Tim, thanks for the references.

Kathleen, I think it is important to blog and share widely. I've added it to 
the HOT blog.

Robert, your note was included in full as it is so clear. I hope that this was 
ok to share widely.

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-12-01_mapping_request_for_carles_area_typhoon_haiyan


Heather

On Dec 1, 2013 4:20 AM, "Sazal Sthapit" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear,

Thank you for the update on the new task. We have been working on it since the 
morning and spreading the word to get in more mappers involved.

Very inspiring to see OSM data being used for such noble cause.

Best,
Kathmandu Living Labs


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Banick, Robert 
<[email protected]<mailto:[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<tel:202-303-5017> | Cell 202-805-3679<tel:202-805-3679> | 
Skype robert.banick

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