<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv0347752167"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">This week was just awesome. More then 800 OpenStreetMap contributors have updated the map for Phillippines and more then 2,000,000 objects were edited! Thanks to all for this tremendous effort. Be assure that this reactivity of our community saved lifes.<br><br>We are also starting to receive aerial imagery through the International Humanitarian Chapter, a network of spatial agencies that provide imagery free for this Activation.<br><br>We coordinate for this crisis with the Red Cross, with the Digital Humanitarian Network (HOT is is part of DHN) and some other NGO's.<br><br>And this overwhelpming effort is recognised by
major humanitarian
organizations we are working with plus various medias. The Typhoon
wiki page already list 20 articles published this week about the
OpenStreetMap community. Please update this page for any other article
you find and in various languages.<br>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan<br><br>Article about Red Cross and HOT<br>http://m.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2013/11/how-online-mapmakers-are-helping-red-cross-save-lives-philippines/73637/<br><br>The OCHA UN Agency Humanitarian Response COD FOD references OpenStreetMap for Phillippines and the Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda : "OpenStreetMap provides good mapping data for this country (free!) Hourly updates of Geofabrik data is available"<br>https://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/search/field_country_region/164<br clear="none"><br>Again, thanks to all the contributors and other groups that coordinate with us for this humanitarian action.<br clear="none"><div id="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_6_1384268896216_10"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_6_1384268896216_12"> </div><div class="yiv0347752167y_msg_container"><span
id="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_6_1384268896216_14" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre</span><br>Coordination of this Activation : Andrew Buck with the support of Maning Sambale and Pierre Béland. Kate Chapman acts as one of the coordinators of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN).<br><br><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_6_1384268896216_18" id="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_6_1384268896216_19" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div class="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_1_1384268896216_2690" id="yiv0347752167yui_3_13_0_1_1384268896216_2739" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>