Hello everyone, Here are several additional HOT tasks:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/342 - Bantayan Island http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/343 - Camotes Islands http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/344 - Roxas City and surroundings http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/345 - northern Negros Occidental http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/346 - Roxas City - Kalibo - northernmost tip of Iloilo http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/347 - northern Cebu If you know of any other areas that are affected by the typhoon and has Bing satellite imagery, please do reply. For instance, I have suggested that a task be created for Coron, Palawan. On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you to everyone who has helped in mapping the affected areas. > > Here are some statistics taken from OSMstats: > http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/index.php?item=countries&country=Philippines > > There have been about 120,000 nodes that have been added in the > Philippines in the past 2 days. Though I don't have the exact numbers, that > probably translates to around 20,000 buildings. The rest would be new > roads, rivers, landuses, and improved coastlines. > > There have been at least 60 mappers editing in the Philippines in the last > 2 days. The previous spike in the number of editors was in mid-October > after the 7.2 earthquake that hit Bohol (http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/326). > > > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>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 <andrew.r.b...@gmail.com>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 >>> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >>> >> >> >
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