<div dir="ltr">In late July 2018, severe flooding affected the Indian state of Kerala due to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season. <br>It was the worst flooding in Kerala in nearly a century.Over 373 people died within a fortnight, while at least 280,679 people were evacuated. It is estimated that 1,247,496 people have found shelter in various relief camps.<br><br>Disaster response websites using OpenStreetMap are the following:<br>    * Microid.in/keralaflood is used to identify flooded roads - <a href="https://www.microid.in/keralaflood/">https://www.microid.in/keralaflood/</a><br>    * Keralarescue.in/map used to visualise rescue requests - <a href="https://keralarescue.in/map/">https://keralarescue.in/map/</a> , <a href="https://process.keralarescue.in/rescue">https://process.keralarescue.in/rescue</a><br><br>Facebook released road data generated with machine learning in Kerala  and they offered help to mobilize their team to the data in OSM. <br>Please see the discussion here:  <a href="https://github.com/osm-in/mapping/issues/1">https://github.com/osm-in/mapping/issues/1</a><br><br>Our proposed plan is to allow FB mapping team to do the initial import using their internal tools that takes care of conflation, connectivity fixes, etc.<br>OSM-India community will then validate the imported data focusing on the highway tagging following the India road tagging scheme: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Tags/Highway">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/India:Tags/Highway</a><br><br>Looking forward to your comments and suggestions.<br><br>Kelvin</div>