Hi Paul, I just saw at Twitter that Planet Labs just released imagery that is available for OSM mapping, more info about it here: https://www.planet.com/pulse/fort-mcmurray-wildfire/
Best, *Yantisa Akhadi (Iyan)* *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* Tel: +62 81 5787 03388 Email: [email protected] hot.openstreetmap.org | openstreetmap.id On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > Fort McMurray is the 5th largest city in the province of Alberta and has > been evacuated in the face of wildfires which have burned thousands of > structures. Satellites have been tasked to gather imagery, but it probably > won't be very useful imagery for OSM until the smoke has cleared. > > My guess is there won't be a HOTUS activation associated with this > disaster. The HOT work people have been doing so far is mainly improving > the state of the area in OSM with pre-disaster sources. > > If anyone gets openly licensed imagery for the area, I can host tiles from > it. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires > Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 11:45:49 -0400 > From: James <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > To: John Marshall <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > CC: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > > I've created a task on my tasking manager for buildings in Fort McMurray. > Tracing buildings can help us flag buildings affected by the fire > > http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22 > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I will check with my contacts in my day job if they will release thier >> imagery. >> >> I know DigitalGlobe are tasking thier satellites over Fort Mac. >> >> John Marshall >> On May 5, 2016 11:39, "James" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get >>> satelite imagery. >>> What I can do is create a task on tasks.osmcanada.ca for Fort McMurray >>> and we can trace buildings as they are not all there >>> >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Andrew MacKinnon < >>> <[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> As you are probably aware by now, a large portion of Fort McMurray, >>>> Alberta has been destroyed by forest fires. >>>> >>>> Is any freely licensed aerial imagery of the affected area available >>>> yet? Will the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team be creating a project >>>> for Fort McMurray? >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-ca mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 外に遊びに行こう！ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-ca mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>> >>> > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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