Dear everyone, It's been almost half a year since we activated for the Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. Since then, I'm sure you are aware of the tremendous response we received both from remote mappers and responders on the ground.
Over 4 million map changes from ~1,500 contributors. We supported local and international humanitarian groups. Locally, I can say that OSM became the de-facto resource for updated geographic data. Various government agencies (including the national mapping agency) are now taking a second look at the wealth of data we created. Along the way, we were able to refine our coordination protocols which I hope became useful in the successive response we are currently supporting worldwide. Let me thank everyone who supported this response, from the remote mappers, humanitarian agencies who used our data, image providers, organizers of numerous mapathons, the people who shared the appeal to social and mainstream media and, the core HOT volunteers (especially Andrew, Pierre, JGC and many others) who provided both technical guidance and moral support during the height of the activation. If you view the history tab in osm.org right now, you will notice that local volunteers (who were victims themselves) are working on updating the map. This will be a big task for us in the OSM-PH community, but slowly, we are taking on the challenge to keep the map up to date. Remote mapping has dwindled the past few months and I would like to formally declare (through this email, since I don't know the "protocol") that we are wrapping-up this activation. Thank you again for all your help. There will be a little bit of clean-up such as removing non-essential data (i.e. tasking manager relations used in creating tasks). If anyone has a need for this kind of data to remain in the DB, let us know. Thanks again, please update the wiki [0] if there are things we missed during the activation. Also, if there are reports/assessment on the way we responded please add them to the wiki as well. [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan -- 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
