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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-05 Thread Russell Deffner

Thanks for the info Paul, sorry to hear (when the ‘probability of ignition’ is 
high near me, I live on constant edge of when will that evacuation call come).

 

Another aspect of why and when HOT responds, isn’t necessarily geographic based 
– it’s based on ‘how well is OSM already mapped’ and ‘what kind of local OSM 
community exists’.  In both Canada and India, there is a great local OSM 
community; and I looked at the area around Fort McMurray – it’s pretty much 
mapped. The Uttarakhand state/province in India seems to lack buildings, but 
the road network and populated places is pretty good.

 

Of course there are many in HOT and on this list that can help set-up exports 
and connect response and aid organizations.  If there is any direct need for 
anything, we also have Members who are leaders in these local OSM communities 
and can also help connect folks.

 

Sincerely,

=Russ

 

From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 5:27 PM
To: hot
Cc: talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

 

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.


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Subject: 

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires


Date: 

Thu, 05 May 2016 11:45:49 -0400


From: 

James   


To: 

John Marshall   


CC: 

Talk-CA OpenStreetMap   


 

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  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"  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  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?

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[HOT] Fwd: Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-05 Thread Paul Norman

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.


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Subject:Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires
Date:   Thu, 05 May 2016 11:45:49 -0400
From:   James 
To: John Marshall 
CC: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap 



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 > 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" mailto:james2...@gmail.com>> 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
   mailto:andrew...@gmail.com>> 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?

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Re: [HOT] HOT Annual Meeting and Elections

2016-05-05 Thread Msilikale Msilanga

Congratulations to Mikel and all board members.

Best,

Msilikale

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> On 5 May 2016, at 5:05 pm, Mikel Maron  wrote:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_2016#HOT_Elections_2016_Results.
>  
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[HOT] HOT Annual Meeting and Elections

2016-05-05 Thread Mikel Maron

HOT Voting Members held their Annual General Meeting today [1], where we heard 
annual reports from HOT’s Executive Director, Board President, and Members 
Chair, and ratified the results of the election for Board and Members Chair.
The 2016 Board is Dale Kunce, Blake Girardot, Katja Ulbert, Jorieke Vyncke, and 
Heather Leson. The 2016 Members Chair is Mikel Maron. Congratulations all :)
Full results are posted here [2].
Thank you for everyone who participated in the election and AGM, and thank you 
to the outgoing Board and Chair for their service! [1] 
https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-23_hot_2016_annual_meeting_and_elections_0[2]
 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_2016#HOT_Elections_2016_Results.
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

2016-05-05 Thread Russell Deffner

This may be useful to determine where: 
http://nrsc.gov.in/Forest_Fire_Uttarakhand - note I found some chatter about 
‘false alarms’ as the MODIS satellite detects heat, so often ‘controlled’ fires 
(i.e. cooking, trash burning, etc.) also shows up. (more info on MODIS 
http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/ )

=RUss

From: arungra...@gmail.com [mailto:arungra...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Arun 
Ganesh
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 6:53 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: Praveen Kalura; HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)
Subject: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

Praveen, have you found any good sources of information on the exact location 
and damage of the fires. The media reports vary widely and its unclear what the 
ground situation is.

Are you in touch with anyone on the ground who is part of the relief efforts 
who can provide more clarity?

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Russell Deffner  
wrote:

Hi Praveen and all,

As a student of Forest Fire Science and the HOT Disaster Mapping Program, I 
would be interested in discussing and possible assisting with a mapping effort. 
 However, I personally don’t have much ‘extra’ time on my hands recently. Of 
course, many of us understand ‘what OSM can do’, but before HOT as an 
organization formally asks for a massive volunteer effort – unfortunately we 
have limited resources (people) and must prioritize.  That said – any and all 
are welcome to ‘use the model’ to organize mapping; I should be able to 
‘size-up’ the situation later today.

=Russ

From: Praveen Kalura [mailto:praveenkal...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:49 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

-- Forwarded message --
From: Praveen Kalura 
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [HOT] Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
To: maning sambale 

Hi Maning,

Answers for respective questions.

1. The OSM data can be used by Non Government organisations (NGO), Volunteers 
at field, Government forest Department officials, Fire Fighters and also by 
Communities to vacate the place before fire reaches to their place.

2. I have observed that for mountainous terrain the OSM data is not sufficient 
and accurate. due to which we face problem in finding a particular location in 
hilly terrain. Uttarakhand state is 70 % in hilly terrain which is resided by 
million of people. And also Uttarakhand state is most sensitive zone as per 
natural disaster is considered. So we need to map this state in phases like we 
did for Nepal after the earthquake event.This will ensure our preparedness to 
mitigate any natural calamity in this state.

Thanks

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, maning sambale  
wrote:

Hi Praveen,

Thank you for notifying us.  Some questions before we talk about
mapping Uttarakhand:

1. Who will use the data on the ground?  While mapping in general
improves the data in OSM for anyone to use, we want to make sure that
before focusing efforts of volunteer mappers, we know who will use
(and for what purpose) the data on the ground.

2.  What specific features and where should we map? OSM focuses on
basemap information (i.e. roads, settlements, natural features, etc.).
Based on news reports, the area affected by the forest fires is large,
we want to focus on what are the priority areas which are usually
where communities maybe at risk.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Praveen Kalura  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is Praveen from India, resident of Uttarkhand State, Last week 3000
> acres of Hilayan Forest were burnt by forest fires.Lack of proper map in
> public domain was missing. Mapping of the area is very difficult task in
> Mountaineous terrain. Can we do something so that this forest fires can be
> mitigated soon.
>
> Suggestion invited.
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/a-burning-issue-116050401371_1.html
>
> http://www.dailyo.in/politics/forest-fires-uttarakhand-timber-mafia-wildlife-environment-unep-himalayas-natural-resources/story/1/10360.html
>

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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

2016-05-05 Thread Arun Ganesh

Praveen, have you found any good sources of information on the exact
location and damage of the fires. The media reports vary widely and its
unclear what the ground situation is.

Are you in touch with anyone on the ground who is part of the relief
efforts who can provide more clarity?

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Russell Deffner 
wrote:

> Hi Praveen and all,
>
>
>
> As a student of Forest Fire Science and the HOT Disaster Mapping Program,
> I would be interested in discussing and possible assisting with a mapping
> effort.  However, I personally don’t have much ‘extra’ time on my hands
> recently. Of course, many of us understand ‘what OSM *can* do’, but
> before HOT as an organization formally asks for a massive volunteer effort
> – unfortunately we have limited resources (people) and must prioritize.
> That said – any and all are welcome to ‘use the model’ to organize mapping;
> I should be able to ‘size-up’ the situation later today.
>
>
>
> =Russ
>
>
>
> *From:* Praveen Kalura [mailto:praveenkal...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:49 AM
> *To:* hot@openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
>
>
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: *Praveen Kalura* 
> Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
> To: maning sambale 
>
> Hi Maning,
>
>
>
> Answers for respective questions.
>
>
>
> 1. The OSM data can be used by Non Government organisations (NGO),
> Volunteers at field, Government forest Department officials, Fire Fighters
> and also by Communities to vacate the place before fire reaches to their
> place.
>
>
>
> 2. I have observed that for mountainous terrain the OSM data is not
> sufficient and accurate. due to which we face problem in finding a
> particular location in hilly terrain. Uttarakhand state is 70 % in hilly
> terrain which is resided by million of people. And also Uttarakhand state
> is most sensitive zone as per natural disaster is considered. So we need to
> map this state in phases like we did for Nepal after the earthquake
> event.This will ensure our preparedness to mitigate any natural calamity in
> this state.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, maning sambale <
> emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Praveen,
>
> Thank you for notifying us.  Some questions before we talk about
> mapping Uttarakhand:
>
> 1. Who will use the data on the ground?  While mapping in general
> improves the data in OSM for anyone to use, we want to make sure that
> before focusing efforts of volunteer mappers, we know who will use
> (and for what purpose) the data on the ground.
>
> 2.  What specific features and where should we map? OSM focuses on
> basemap information (i.e. roads, settlements, natural features, etc.).
> Based on news reports, the area affected by the forest fires is large,
> we want to focus on what are the priority areas which are usually
> where communities maybe at risk.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Praveen Kalura 
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is Praveen from India, resident of Uttarkhand State, Last week 3000
> > acres of Hilayan Forest were burnt by forest fires.Lack of proper map in
> > public domain was missing. Mapping of the area is very difficult task in
> > Mountaineous terrain. Can we do something so that this forest fires can
> be
> > mitigated soon.
> >
> > Suggestion invited.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/a-burning-issue-116050401371_1.html
> >
> >
> http://www.dailyo.in/politics/forest-fires-uttarakhand-timber-mafia-wildlife-environment-unep-himalayas-natural-resources/story/1/10360.html
> >
>
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Re: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

2016-05-05 Thread Russell Deffner

Hi Praveen and all,

As a student of Forest Fire Science and the HOT Disaster Mapping Program, I 
would be interested in discussing and possible assisting with a mapping effort. 
 However, I personally don’t have much ‘extra’ time on my hands recently. Of 
course, many of us understand ‘what OSM can do’, but before HOT as an 
organization formally asks for a massive volunteer effort – unfortunately we 
have limited resources (people) and must prioritize.  That said – any and all 
are welcome to ‘use the model’ to organize mapping; I should be able to 
‘size-up’ the situation later today.

=Russ

From: Praveen Kalura [mailto:praveenkal...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:49 AM
To: hot@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [HOT] Fwd: Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India

-- Forwarded message --
From: Praveen Kalura 
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [HOT] Forest Fires in Uttarakhand,India
To: maning sambale 

Hi Maning,

Answers for respective questions.

1. The OSM data can be used by Non Government organisations (NGO), Volunteers 
at field, Government forest Department officials, Fire Fighters and also by 
Communities to vacate the place before fire reaches to their place.

2. I have observed that for mountainous terrain the OSM data is not sufficient 
and accurate. due to which we face problem in finding a particular location in 
hilly terrain. Uttarakhand state is 70 % in hilly terrain which is resided by 
million of people. And also Uttarakhand state is most sensitive zone as per 
natural disaster is considered. So we need to map this state in phases like we 
did for Nepal after the earthquake event.This will ensure our preparedness to 
mitigate any natural calamity in this state.

Thanks

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:52 AM, maning sambale  
wrote:

Hi Praveen,

Thank you for notifying us.  Some questions before we talk about
mapping Uttarakhand:

1. Who will use the data on the ground?  While mapping in general
improves the data in OSM for anyone to use, we want to make sure that
before focusing efforts of volunteer mappers, we know who will use
(and for what purpose) the data on the ground.

2.  What specific features and where should we map? OSM focuses on
basemap information (i.e. roads, settlements, natural features, etc.).
Based on news reports, the area affected by the forest fires is large,
we want to focus on what are the priority areas which are usually
where communities maybe at risk.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Praveen Kalura  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is Praveen from India, resident of Uttarkhand State, Last week 3000
> acres of Hilayan Forest were burnt by forest fires.Lack of proper map in
> public domain was missing. Mapping of the area is very difficult task in
> Mountaineous terrain. Can we do something so that this forest fires can be
> mitigated soon.
>
> Suggestion invited.
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/a-burning-issue-116050401371_1.html
>
> http://www.dailyo.in/politics/forest-fires-uttarakhand-timber-mafia-wildlife-environment-unep-himalayas-natural-resources/story/1/10360.html
>

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