Can we put a daily-countdown announcement on FB (until expiration date) about that 30-day opportunity to trace...? :-)
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, maning sambale <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear OSM-PH mappers, > > As you all know, the global response to map Yolanda/Haiyan affected > areas is tremendous. So far, many of the tasks are fairly covered by > volunteers > worldwide. > > For the OSMPH mappers, I would like us to focus on the following tasks: > > 1. Maximize the use of DigitalGlobe imagery since it will expire in 30 > or less days. > I created a task for this [0]. > > As you can see the imagery coverage is well beyond the Typhoon > affected areas. We can use this to improve data for example in: > - New Bataan (Pablo 2012) > - Zamboanga City (post-MNLF crisis) > - Bohol (Earthquake, 2013) > > 2. Trace small islands along the typhoon path. Many of these small > islands may have people > (check the imagery if there are evidence of settlements). Let's put > them in the map so that > responders know they exist. > > 3. Do general quality check of edits. Osmose by OSM-FR is a good tool to > check common errors [1]. > > 4. One last tip if you use JOSM, in order to avoid conflict with > simultaneous editors nearby, > use JOSM's GeoChat plugin [2] to chat with editors. > > Thanks! > > [0] here: http://tasks2.hotosm.org/job/1003 > [1] > http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/?zoom=17&lat=11.21248&lon=125.00923&layers=000000BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT&level=1,2,3 > [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat > > -- > 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] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >
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