You are welcome Harry, this is the reason I subscribe to this workgroup. Do you
have some feedback from groups interested on this data for field incursion?
Alexandrecw
On Monday, June 16, 2014 3:32 PM, Harry Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
Looking at the Paraguay map for flood response yesterday, my overriding
impression is, we have a pretty amazing community of mappers in Paraguay! As
I've noticed in Chile in the past too. Great map coverage, not only with
details traced from bing, but lots of details which can only have come from
local mappers.
So that should give MapAction, and any other disaster responders a great map to
work from if they need those kinds of details. Perhaps a priority should be to
offer any help, or supply some more information on generating useful map
outputs.
As for improving the map, there's nothing major, but there was a few pockets of
missing detail. I've added a bunch of notes for the little things, and
described some bigger jobs on the wiki page here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Paraguay_floods
Thanks to Alexandrecw for diving in a fixing some of my notes already.
Do let us know Ed, if we can direct efforts at anything more specific, or if
you need any technical assistance with producing map outputs from OSM.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Wood <[email protected]>
To: Ed Manley <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Cc:
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 18:53
Subject: Re: [HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay
Hi Ed,
Before a Task Manager job, I've taken (what I consider to be) the first step of
creating a wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Paraguay_floods
(what I consider to be) the next step is "preliminary assessment", examining
the information about where the floods are, and where likely focus of mapping
needs is, and looking at our map coverage in those areas.
I'll do that now. It might only take 15 mins. I will try to edit the wiki with
more information. Maybe soon I'll have a clear idea of where task manager job
would be best placed. Maybe I'll sprinkle some "Notes" on the map. Maybe I'll
*do* some obvious map improvements (TM Job is not the only route to take here)
Anyone want to help with preliminary assessment? Please do. Let me know what
you think on IRC. Edit the wiki page as you see fit (I don't want to "own" it
in any way)
Harry
________________________________
From: Ed Manley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 11:46
Subject: [HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay
Hello HOT,
Could I request for a task to be setup for the flooding situation in Paraguay?
MapAction are deploying with UNDAC today and it would be great to update
current resources for this work.
The AOI is around the south of the country, as indicated in this ReliefWeb
alert http://reliefweb.int/map/paraguay/11-june-2014-paraguay-floods. OSOCC
have also reported states of emergency declared in Alto Paraguay and Presidente
Hayes departments (http://vosocc.unocha.org/rss/vo_2842cw6o.html). Another
report states that the departments of Misiones and Neembucu are particularly
badly affected http://floodlist.com/america/160000-floods-paraguay-june-2014.
More accurate information will follow over the coming days once people are in
place.
Many thanks,
Ed Manley (MapAction OST)
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