-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ethan,
HOT doesn't really have any formal monitoring that we do per-se, although there is a lot of informal monitoring simply because we are many people who all follow the news and current events to some degree. So generally anything we might be interested in tends to get noticed by someone fairly quickly. I myself have an RSS feed that is the combined output of the USGS earthquake feed, plus the BBC news feed filtered to only show things with keywords like 'flood', 'hurricane', 'militants', etc. I had meant to make the feed more complete but I kind of ran out of ideas for what else to add. Generally for most things the news (at least early reports) is quick enough for us to get started; more monitoring might be nice, but we are pretty quick anyway so it is hard to improve much. - -AndrewBuck On 04/21/2015 01:21 PM, Ethan Nelson wrote: > Hi HOT list, > > I've talked to a few people about this but I am interested in > getting responses from a broader audience. Many of the HOT > activations in the past have been the result of weather events: > typhoons and hurricanes, flooding, and droughts. > > Thus, I am reaching out to get a feel for how information is > gathered about current and future weather by activation managers > and the other powers-that-be. Is it generally through news > agencies, like when a potential threat reaches the critical mass to > have coverage devoted to it? Are their briefings or notifications > occurring from partner agencies? Does someone perform surveillance > of regions on a daily/weekly basis from personal online searches or > from weather agencies? > > I've been on the activating-to-map side of HOT for a while in my > spare time. But, professionally, I work with weather data and > models daily...it's what I research and study. I recently started > thinking about a "HOT weather briefing site" that compiles > information and images for the short and long term about the > atmospheric state. This would be a one stop shop reference site > that activation managers, or anyone really, could consult to become > aware of the weather situation globally. > > Is this worth pursuing or does it duplicate efforts already > present? I would appreciate your thoughts regarding both sets of > questions, either on or off list. > > Best, > > Ethan aka FTA > > > > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVNtEDAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbVW0P/R4WxA0nLtAG35tARtJ9/N3x 6t7YTwfTMOa7gxIUqNuWjhTfbNuWmnatbMp7cBEWSQKE/2SfD4g9ch+mWb7ACWm4 AhD1/Uuo2gYTtGM6ISuPQ4OcCb5r3cRShBn/Py6dLnGyb3jt1HL0a/Z2GJpoYtF9 RrntSwjebzDmbSs/BBG9WxBVR/Hi4Zza9Th0kbTcUDtsE4x/gBSKXzHxPOAHz/HN hV92w+F5x2X0+hKGn3Diaj6GkVmPkElktbpx4nMeLK64EssLiueWaOB2qQon86oY QvvGY9wH1AfYvL+zizlmT6tlsY3XI8IHWtnHm5oQKJALYydK/NCWzJMkBIUXzHys fDizDwEPQ8M07JaPWWAaMvZhYzRcdyMbuB8GCSgc5uVPIA+alHnEgEbdwK9CEvNG Hw+qjhfvSdbVqc+j38o1jYzO8KP7iTLwKzdpGX7Z/kR7Mhm7DLi8XmGExLMlHBsH h+wkqSOR7RlCoXFKnJHXwk/IWKE+J+CQEbVZe7LDpGCfiHLXxcoZDllFVscHeb68 UyzsAatY8cARoCh3Aet63VmxU8aRPoyl5Ea7n4EsKopRMWWONXNNXpOG9n+WGqPZ kK+6LqZS8nggBoOFWI0knH4uMGeVhVJtilUvAT9ySIY2YUyibvtWCcd3ZleIXGUY MUQqELu03SyVsSSugBA2 =PaD/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
