Dear everyone, Mappy new year!
Thanks to everyone who helped in improving data in CDO and Iligan. We have made great progress in the last few days [0]. In the case of Iligan, a local mapper is now taking over and is now adding road names and other important map features. I am also happy to report that the UN-OCHA Philippines is now aware and is using our data for the situation maps they are producing [1], I earnestly hope this is the start of future collaborations with the local UN-OCHA office. The situation is getting better down south, however, health reports indicated that there are possibilities of a leptospirosis outbreak in some evacuation centers. [0] http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main?view=129&lat=8.318719428427448&lon=124.5563099614701&zoom=11 [1] http://ph.one.un.org/response/maps/index.php On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:23 PM, maning sambale <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear everyone, > > As you are probably aware, Northern Mindanao (specifically Cagayan de > Oro and Iligan) was ravaged by flash floods a few days ago. As of > last update by the > NDRRMC, 900 people have been killed, over 1,500 have been injured and > almost 285,000 are served inside and outside 62 evacuation centers [0 > and 1]. > > There are several crowdsource mapping initiatives already happening on > various fronts by a government agency [2], academe [3] and local > bloggers in > Iligan city [4]. Moreover, updated hires imagery for CDO and Iligan > should be available soon [5]. > > Unfortunately, I've seen very little demand for now to provide updated > OSM dataset because the primary focus is on relief and donation (and > rightly so). > However, on the long term basis, I feel that OSM can provide better > data as disaster (of this magnitude) in our county is happening on an > annual basis. > > UN-OCHA is the primary UN Agency "leading actors to ensure a coherent > response to emergencies" has a set of operational datasets [6] that > are used > to support the work of humanitarian actors across multiple sectors. > Maybe OSM can provide better data to UN-OCHA? > > As we try to get in contact with humanitarian orgs to use OSM data I > encourage you to continue mapping the affected areas using Bing > imagery and > provide further information in the existing crowd source mapping > initiatives I mentioned. > > The immediate area affected are the following: > * Cagayan de Oro - http://osm.org/go/4sXdRch-- > * Iligan - http://osm.org/go/4sVnseK > > We can start by adding roads and rivers. > > Other existing data that can be used for humanitarian efforts are: > > * Rectified topomaps in my mapwarper ph instance - > http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com > ** CDO Geohazard map - > http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/maps/317 > ** CDO 1:50k topo - http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/maps/311 > * CDO watershed and other GIS data - > http://www.philgis.org/Miscellaneous/CagayanDeOroRiverWatershed/CDO_River_Basin.htm > * Garmin road (OSm derived) and contour (SRTM derived) maps - > http://esambale.wikispaces.com/osmphil_garmin > > === > [0] http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/188 > [1] http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/9748 > [2] http://ereport.dswd.gov.ph/ > [3] https://philippinedisasterwatch.crowdmap.com/ > [4] http://www.oneforiligan.com/ > [5] > http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-382 > [6] http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/philippines > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
