<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" class="">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Another thing to think about is the planned location of shelters, and to</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">tag places that are pre-designated as possible shelters</span></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>if a region or a country has designated evacuation sites/refuges/shelters/ for evacuees to use, mapping them with some granularity might be very useful. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The red cross might have people stay in a (designated) school gymnasium overnight if there is flooding somewhere nearby - but if the “places of refuge” are used - something very bad has happened in the region. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Refuges/shelters/sites are signed everywhere here in Japan.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Similar to public fallout shelters in the US, many public places in Japan have signs designating them as a "place of refuge” if an earthquake/tsunami forces you to leave your house. They are usually open-air places (school yards, parks, etc) to minimize the chance one could be unusable from a severe earthquake and inevitable fires afterwards in cities. They are often places with a large covered shelter (a gymnasium or other reinforced steel building that could be used as shelter from the weather), such as a middle school, in the rural areas. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Places might have different types of evacuation sites - in this example, they have “evacuation sites” and “evacuation shelters” - sites are merely “safe” high ground from tsunamis, while shelters have some kind of facilities to actually help displaced people (who probably just lost their house). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://tonyj2japan.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/80narapark1.jpg" class="">https://tonyj2japan.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/80narapark1.jpg</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The closest evacuation center to my house has different “classifications” listed - as in what kinds disasters it is good for. this means if we are tagging evacuation sites - there needs to be some kind of usage/shelter type / disaster type data. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.city.kiryu.lg.jp.e.wt.hp.transer.com/shisetsu/hinanjo/1008530/1006906.html" class="">http://www.city.kiryu.lg.jp.e.wt.hp.transer.com/shisetsu/hinanjo/1008530/1006906.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>