3rd district towns of Cataingan, Cawayan, Dimasalang, Esperanza, Palanas, Pio V. Corpuz, Placer, and Uson. Also hit are Mandaon and Balud in Masbate
Ervin M. *Schadow1 Expeditions* - A Filipino must not be a stranger to his own motherland. http://www.s1expeditions.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > >
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