<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Keith,<br><br></div>During the Nepal earthquake, the 'armchair mappers' where asked to draw circles on the aerial images in openstreetmap with a given diameter, visually selecting flat areas that where clear of buildings, trees and rocks. I think this would be a combination of your 1 and 2. <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1023">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1023</a><br><br></div>3 would then not be uploading, but tagging the landing-zones with a certain quality based upon ground truth (making 4 unecessary). This could be done by people on site with a variety of (mobile/tablet) openstreetmap editors.<br><br></div>5 has been done in the Nepal situation already as far as I know. <a href="https://opensource.com/life/15/5/nepal-earthquake-hfoss">https://opensource.com/life/15/5/nepal-earthquake-hfoss</a><br><br></div>In my opinion, HOT is an open community. You are free to conduct your study and I hope you will be thrilled by the unlimited possibilities of the openstreetmap data-model.<br><br></div>Good luck and have fun!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-04 17:55 GMT+01:00 Keith Darby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithdar@usc.edu" target="_blank">keithdar@usc.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All:<br>
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I am a retired Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot, and a current Masters Candidate in GIS Technologies at USC.<br>
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I am working on my thesis, which is based on the premise that crowd-sourced geospatial information, if properly structured, could aid aircrews in surveying potential HLZs for disaster response.<br>
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The work flow would be as follows:<br>
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(1) Helicopter planners and aircrews would select potential HLZs in a disaster-affected region, using whatever mission planning GISystem at their disposal (normally baed on remote sensing data)<br>
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(2) Those proposed HLZs would be uploaded to OSM.<br>
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(3) Volunteers could select one of those HLZs and conduct a ground-truth survey, following a script (that I would develop).<br>
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(4) Those surveys would be uploaded to OSM and validated.<br>
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(5) the Helicopter mission planners and aircrews could use those surveys to select the best zones for disaster relief operations.<br>
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I am looking at using the towns of Honokaa and Waimea on the northern end of the Big Island of Hawaii as my study area, as I live close by, and I have the local Community Emergency Response Team (volunteers) willing to support.<br>
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Who do I need to talk to about getting HOT permission to conduct a limited objective study in this area?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Keith Darby<br>
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