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 <james2...@gmail.com>
To:     John Marshall <rps...@gmail.com>
CC:     Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>



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 <rps...@gmail.com <mailto:rps...@gmail.com>> 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" <james2...@gmail.com
   <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
       <http://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
       <andrew...@gmail.com <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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