<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>is there a skype coordination chat for the mapping? It might be helpful to help mappers with questions re attributation of geo-objects and so on...<br><br>warm regards,<br><br>svendJ<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/9 Daniel O'Connor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.oconnor@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniel.oconnor@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>Andrew called for a few suggestions for other useful areas to map, beyond just Tacloban; which is likely to become increasingly well mapped in the next few days.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>
Reading articles like <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/43285-initial-reports-damage-tacloban-city" target="_blank">http://www.rappler.com/nation/43285-initial-reports-damage-tacloban-city</a> suggest Guiuan might be worth a further look.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Guiuan, a fishing town of about 40,000 people on Samar, was the first to be hit after Haiyan swept in from the Pacific Ocean. Pang said contact had not yet been made with Guiuan."</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=11.0308&mlon=125.7240&node=198523987#map=13/11.0308/125.7240&layers=N" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=11.0308&mlon=125.7240&node=198523987#map=13/11.0308/125.7240&layers=N</a></span></font><br>
</div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px">You can see:</span></font></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">- It's at the start of the storm's path</span><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px">- It has a nearby airport, which if still servicable, seems a reasonable place to land supplies, relief workers, etc</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">If the aim was to simply improve roads/access, radiating out along the path of the storm; (one task starting in Tacoloban/Basey/at the nearest land pushing east, another starting from Guiuan pushing west, that'd cover a reasonable amount of affected folks.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Wikimedia suggests a population of between 50-200 people/km^2 in those areas.</span></div>
<div><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Philippines_Population_Density_Map.svg" target="_blank">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Philippines_Population_Density_Map.svg</a><br></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Mapping large structures in the towns in between, as opposed to every single building is likely fairly quick, and highlights key infrastructure (if it survived).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The coverage by bing seems alright: there are areas not covered like Balangia to Lawa-an; but the majority is.</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px">Thoughts?</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br>
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