Up to date, 1,641 voluntary contributors from 82 countries have made
more than 4,550,900 OSM Map changes for the Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan
Activation ! And this activation is still going. While some teams start to
deploy for more analysis on the ground, we should also look how to better
contribute for these actions.
Following the devastating Yolanda / Haiyan Typhoon, lost of communications with
remote islands and dispersed populations in a large area is
quite a challenge for the rescue teams. There were still reports this week of
areas where
people did not receive any help yet. For the OSM community, to respond to this
complex Activation the imagery, both pre and post disaster, is a key factor of
the success of this Activation. The HOT / Philippines coordination Team and
the various humanitarian
partners whith which we collaborate are
still looking to identify the remote islands, to obtain the necessary imagery
and map. Thanks to the HIU unit of the US State Dept. who facilitates our
access to these imageries and negociate with the imagery providers to assure
that we will have a constant access to the imagery. They look presently at the
possibility to extend the imagery license for an other 30 days. They have also
made a tremendous effort to identify the available imagery, pre and
post-disaster for the various zones were we need imagery.
The OSM community has showed his capacity in this Activation to react quickly,
to coordinate remote mappers from 82 countries and provide maps, including both
pre and post-disaster elements. Ten days after the Typhoon, printed maps were
delivered to the field teams arriving in Tacloban. This, while coordinating
with the US Red Cross, OCHA, GFDRR Labs at World Bank,and various other
partners. There are surely some improvements we can look at when this
Activation is ended, but globally, the OSM community and the various groups we
collaborated with should be proud of what has been accomplished.
While various teams start to deploy for field studies, there will be a two hour
workshop sunday at the SotM-PH in Manilla where Maning Sambale and Kate Chapman
will be present. The objective of the workshop is to discuss the next steps
regarding response and recovery for the Yolanda / Haiyan Typhoon. It would be
great for the local and the international community to be able to connect. The
workshop is from 10am-noon Manila time which is 2am-4am GMT. If some people
from America and Europe can join this workshop,that will be great. We will
come back to you later to indicate how to participate to the workshop and we
should try to have a log of these discussions.
See the time schedule at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131215T10&p1=145&ah=2
Thanks for your contribution.
Pierre
Activation Team
Andrew Buck
Maning Sambale
Pierre Béland
Discussions, Support on irc://irc.oftc.net #hot
To contribute you can look at the two servers where jobs are available :
http://tasks.hotosm.org/#featured/haiyan
http://tasks2.hotosm.org/#featured/haiyan
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