On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Rod Bera <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cristiano, > > I totally agree and didn't suggest we should stop mapping in good > intelligence until we implement a catalogue tool. > > We all know where priorities are.
Hi Rod, Maybe not everyone doing humanitarian mapping response to hurricane Matthew actually knows. And to ensure that, to me it's important that each team communicates about their ongoing efforts based on priorities as identified by responding organizations. We can also set preemptive mapping priorities by analyzing areas with older data and that appear heavily damaged in post-event imagery. Unfortunately that is not an easy job, given the multitude of ongoing tasks and previous mapping using different image or ground sources. That is why I would suggest we clearly and openly (here, Skype, slack, etc) discuss priorities so that we are all aware and coordinate, rather than compete. The catalog tool/index, as you suggested, should be an easy first step to improve coordination. Would you mind drafting your proposal in Github, so that we can keep track and discuss the idea? https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/issues Later we could also think of a complementary tool where we aggregate requests for mapping and priority AOIs, so that it will be easier for other teams to know where each is focusing and based on what requesting organization. Thank you, Cristiano -- Cristiano Giovando Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [email protected] http://www.hotosm.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
