<div dir="ltr">Hey Sarah, <div><br></div><div>It is definitely worth checking out the blog updates from Kathmandu Living Labs:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-openstreetmaps-situation-room-day-4-april-29/">http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/nepal-earthquake-report-from-openstreetmaps-situation-room-day-4-april-29/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The link above is for day 4 (most recent). Please take a look at days 1-3 for a complete account of the great work they and the rest of the OSM community are doing.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mhairi</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Mhairi O'Hara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org" target="_blank">mhairi.ohara@hotosm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Sarah,<div><br></div><div>Not sure if you have seen these already, but here are some links you can check out:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates</a><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Exporting_OpenStreetMap_data" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake#Exporting_OpenStreetMap_data</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the most recent update from Maning Sambale, one of the Activation Coordinators:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">“~2222 mappers have made 28689 edits to highways and 138191 edits to</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">buildings in 26582 changesets since April 25, 2015.” [0]</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Again, an increase from yesterday! Note that this is a conservative</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">measure, many experienced mappers do not necessarily follow the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">suggested changesets comment which is perfectly OK.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">= Retired tasks and new ones =</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">We are now slowly moving into the second phase of mapping. In the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">first days, we focused on just road network. But now, coming from the</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">demand on the ground (through KLL), we are starting the detailed</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">mapping within Kathmandu and other districts heavily affected.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Major task is #1018 [1]. We tried as much as we can to provide</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">detailed instructions especially for beginners. Please review and</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">advise the activators if it needs improvement.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">= Validators needed for IDP camp mapping =</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The two IDP camps tasks [2 & 3] are now complete, we need more</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">validators to check the quality. As soon as new imagery becomes</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">available we will move on to other areas for IDP mapping. For now, we</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">request experienced mappers to review and validate.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">= Maximising the utilisation of Post-EQ imagery =</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Currently we are using mostly pre-EQ imagery for the basemapping</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">efforts. IDP mapping uses post-EQ imagery from Pleiades/AirBus. More</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">post-disaster imagery are trickling in from the ever reliable</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">DigitalGlobe, Pleiades/AirBus, MapGive and Mapbox. New ones are also</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">coming from SkyBox [4], Cartosat [5] and PlanetLabs (pre-EQ archive)</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">[6]. The activators are reviewing this for later creation of new</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">tasks.</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">= Damaged assessment request =</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Again, there is a request from KLL to do damage assessment. This what</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">most of the ground responders they talk to are asking. There is an</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">on-going discussion on how to best approach this request. The</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">concerns are generally on: quality of pre and post-EQ imagery, tagging</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">standards, tools and, mapper expertise.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hope this helps! Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Mhairi O'Hara</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Sarah Johns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SJohns@bond.org.uk" target="_blank">SJohns@bond.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello I work with Bond, which is the UK network of NGOs. I've posted some info and links about what you are doing on the Nepal earthquake, and wondered if you have an additional blog post or something for NGOs to encourage them to use the maps, or additionally to encourage volunteers to get involved? I know that here in the UK British Red Cross are working with Missing Maps to contribute, and that MapAction is also providing information, but it would be useful to have some general guidance for NGOs as we have many members who are responding.<br>
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