In response to the active map ups on Yolanda crisis areas, I will be updating the Garmin Routable maps based on OSM "daily" until needed.
This is in case an up-to-date GPS offline map may be needed by our field relief volunteers. http://www.s1expeditions.com/p/openstreetmaps.html Ervin Malicdem for Schadow1 Expeditions - A Filipino must not be a stranger to his own motherland. http://www.s1expeditions.com On Nov 10, 2013 12:08 PM, "Eugene Alvin Villar" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > There are 2 additional HOT Tasks that have been created: > > 1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/339 - Mapping villages in Samar and Leyte > (just the residential areas and roads, no need for buildings) > > 2. http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/340 - Mapping in detail selected areas > that are known to have been highly affected by the typhoon > > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]>wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I agree that wider coverage will be needed and I had hoped that by now >> we would have a better indication of where to map as well. My reason >> for staying with Tacloban for so long was largely due to lack of >> knowing where else to shift focus to (although I did allude to this a >> bit by suggesting the other villages on the coast northeast of >> Tacloban), more importantly due to a second fact... >> >> When we map an area, it is only really useful for us to map areas that >> the aid organizations we work with will be responding to. For the aid >> organizations that don't know about, or don't know how to use, our >> map; then no matter how good the coverage is, it doesn't help them. >> This is the main reason I chose to focus on Tacloban. It is badly hit >> (as were many other places as you rightly point out) but it is also a >> provincial capital, and it is the largest town in the immediate area. >> Because of this I figured that most of the international response >> would likely be directed there, and since it is mostly the >> international orgs that we tend to work with I figured the map data >> would be most useful there. >> >> Now, that being said I want to make it clear that the explanation >> above is not necessarily an argument for continuing to focus entirely >> on Tacloban, just merely an explanation of why I hadn't directed >> people elsewhere yet. I agree that we will need to spread out our >> efforts at some point, and that point may be approaching, the question >> is where to focus next. As I mentioned previously, I think the >> villages along the coast to the northeast will be hard hit (and due to >> their proximity to Tacloban will likely receive international aid). >> There are also villages along the coast to the south of Tacloban that >> will have been hit hard as well since the eye passed directly over >> them. The eye track will likely have done the most damage, or the >> area to the north of the eye track since the storm rotates >> counterclockwise as it moves westward. >> >> If anyone has better suggestions of where to spread out to I am >> certainly open to them. Like I said I am not saying we need to stay >> at Tacloban (and the surrounding area) just explaining why I was >> continuing focus there. I know the storm affected a lot to the west >> as well but I figured this would be trickier to map for two reasons. >> 1) it is a larger area with not such and obvious target for >> international aid, and 2) the wind speeds were lower to the west due >> to the storm being disrupted by the islands. As for the idea of >> mapping the area affected by the earthquake to the south, my >> understanding (and this could be wrong) was that most of what we could >> do remotely has already been done when the earthquake hit. >> >> So that is all of my reasoning at the current time for our current >> focus. I hope to begin hearing more concrete info from aid orgs today >> so I might redirect people when I hear from them, but for now my >> advice would be to try to continue with Tacloban (especially the low >> lying areas) and simultaneously spread out into the surrounding >> villages until/unless we get something concrete from an aid org. >> >> - -AndrewBuck >> >> >> >> >> On 11/09/2013 05:25 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > According to Al Jazeera, the death toll could be very high, sadly. >> > And several millions of people have been affected. >> > >> > I'd like to remind that an often-mentioned weakness of OSM is the >> > uneven quality of the coverage, and that it is not because you have >> > a hammer that everything is a nail. >> > >> > So, while Tacloban was indeed hit very badly, and a detailed >> > building map there is undoubtedly useful, it might also be useful >> > if some of the mappers who wish to contribute took a broader view, >> > to map, for example, some of the roads and villages that are >> > visible on (sometimes recent) high resolution Bing imagery >> > (http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/), but sometimes >> > still unmapped in OSM. (Not to mention the rivers). >> > >> > GNS (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GNS) can also be a good >> > source for names, even if it sometimes includes old versions of >> > duplicated nodes with inaccurate location. High resolution imagery >> > can be useful to tell which is right in these cases. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > >> > Jean-Guilhem >> > >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ >> >> iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSfjttAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbuyAQAJ7RN1Tqh04GWL0Gb03Tb+nQ >> Z4sIRt4Z3wBdOte8MjB3B+W8zGYtUw3kwfbb3DV8tcdKpEiHzjc2+GrjLgoLzZCe >> TvxHqFN5Q6srENG180WbZtA8gMESLV5xbeOSt5NU9xnqo24yggWSlAc7FoH2SOSp >> 3aMNyrALeW03y406TUH4DwCIBmkwLMWZufdkzOnbwou0Ebd2CcYERepm3f+4ifQM >> XI9o8jJt5fspYksaiePmRpMrS8Gn7UznYhzhOsPBbjGlP4wFbazNOsuwE2phBBss >> wTX9awNSDqjv6EzebEzDN36I8hSeQEYxnsNrLWmaj/+xydxOfchxZlDKXhJm42Qe >> zP0c+HakmZPORnmYCms1FHwjGzH5SKgApK3Vpaa+A/T8z+wqEaWmimhV/mX48aQx >> I/pFTnwto+Df35htKYwU1U9xQ7BB+W1FizYqdkc84HaTyvcQkdfPM5YXzokmxLQz >> QbP1quYE+M1sESfiZGqIrV2K1AL+NrrBbr1C6r6J9ICtj8swQZpoyvWcg3LR+UqF >> 5prd7disNuZ6CPHQkLn+ChdPtC6A4gfXqAFEm2g54Pg5Q5t43Qg0DAVPl4bME5Y5 >> I6KCE1zR/bA9ed+uwD7ALcorBGrWla1aylAx1P5RYO5XM0F3zeWzex29oyco2dQT >> MyPsP+Btr9e23PyxVpsR >> =Mv9K >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > >
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