Hello all,
This is an informational message that I am monitoring/beginning size-up for the Cold Springs Fire near Nederland, Colorado. Although relatively small at the moment, it is hot and dry in Colorado, so the fire has the potential to become a major incident. Also proximity to population, the local office of emergency management has initiated mandatory evacuations (following them at http://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/ and https://twitter.com/BoulderOEM). It is anticipated that as usual with US response, OSM probably won't be used for firefighter response, but I'm actually part of the GIS Activity for the local Red Cross chapter, so if I'm called to make maps for Disaster Assessment planning, etc. I may leverage OSM and the community. Therefore, stay tuned as I might go ahead and create a mapping project for buildings and roads in the area (there are probably lots of 'untouched' TIGER roads, so cleaning up geometry, etc.) - Nederland is pretty well mapped, but not the area this fire is moving towards. Thank you, =Russ Russell Deffner russell.deff...@hotosm.org Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/> russdeff...@gmail.com OSM-Colorado and Wyoming http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/ http://www.meetup.com/OSM-Wyoming/
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