Hey Sarah, It is definitely worth checking out the blog updates from Kathmandu Living Labs:
http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-openstreetmaps-situation-room-day-4-april-29/ The link above is for day 4 (most recent). Please take a look at days 1-3 for a complete account of the great work they and the rest of the OSM community are doing. Kind regards, Mhairi On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Mhairi O'Hara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Sarah, > > Not sure if you have seen these already, but here are some links you can > check out: > > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Exporting_OpenStreetMap_data > > Here is the most recent update from Maning Sambale, one of the Activation > Coordinators: > > “~2222 mappers have made 28689 edits to highways and 138191 edits to > buildings in 26582 changesets since April 25, 2015.” [0] > > Again, an increase from yesterday! Note that this is a conservative > measure, many experienced mappers do not necessarily follow the > suggested changesets comment which is perfectly OK. > > = Retired tasks and new ones = > We are now slowly moving into the second phase of mapping. In the > first days, we focused on just road network. But now, coming from the > demand on the ground (through KLL), we are starting the detailed > mapping within Kathmandu and other districts heavily affected. > > Major task is #1018 [1]. We tried as much as we can to provide > detailed instructions especially for beginners. Please review and > advise the activators if it needs improvement. > > = Validators needed for IDP camp mapping = > > The two IDP camps tasks [2 & 3] are now complete, we need more > validators to check the quality. As soon as new imagery becomes > available we will move on to other areas for IDP mapping. For now, we > request experienced mappers to review and validate. > > = Maximising the utilisation of Post-EQ imagery = > > Currently we are using mostly pre-EQ imagery for the basemapping > efforts. IDP mapping uses post-EQ imagery from Pleiades/AirBus. More > post-disaster imagery are trickling in from the ever reliable > DigitalGlobe, Pleiades/AirBus, MapGive and Mapbox. New ones are also > coming from SkyBox [4], Cartosat [5] and PlanetLabs (pre-EQ archive) > [6]. The activators are reviewing this for later creation of new > tasks. > > = Damaged assessment request = > > Again, there is a request from KLL to do damage assessment. This what > most of the ground responders they talk to are asking. There is an > on-going discussion on how to best approach this request. The > concerns are generally on: quality of pre and post-EQ imagery, tagging > standards, tools and, mapper expertise. > > Hope this helps! Cheers, > > Mhairi O'Hara > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Sarah Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello I work with Bond, which is the UK network of NGOs. I've posted some >> info and links about what you are doing on the Nepal earthquake, and >> wondered if you have an additional blog post or something for NGOs to >> encourage them to use the maps, or additionally to encourage volunteers to >> get involved? I know that here in the UK British Red Cross are working with >> Missing Maps to contribute, and that MapAction is also providing >> information, but it would be useful to have some general guidance for NGOs >> as we have many members who are responding. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Sarah >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > Mhairi O'Hara > Technical Project Manager > Email: [email protected] > Indonesian Mobile: +62 822 4701 1475 > > *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * > *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* > -- Mhairi O'Hara Technical Project Manager Email: [email protected] Indonesian Mobile: +62 822 4701 1475 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team * *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
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