<div dir="ltr"><div><div>According to the latest forecast, Hagupit/Ruby's expected landfall will be this evening around the area of Dolores.<br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/12.0376/125.4837">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/12.0376/125.4837</a><br><br></div>Lots of settlements here still need detailed mapping. It is now marked as priority in task 801: <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/801">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/801</a><br></div><div>Since the HIU tiles is panchromatic, it maybe difficult to do buildings. But, experienced mappers can easily do this. <br></div><div>Please focus of settlements near the coast (usually along the major road).<br><br> Thanks! <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Mark Cupitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markcupitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">markcupitt@gmail.com</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"><font size="6">THIS TASK REPLACES TASK #800 due to potential mapping conflicts with the number of people mapping</font><div><br></div><div><b>THIS TASK IS FOR EXPERIENCED MAPPERS</b><div><br></div><div>Typhoon Ruby has slowed slightly and the track has moved to the north of earlier predictions, giving us a longer window to complete pre-disaster mapping tasks.<br><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In support of The Philippine Government, Red Cross/Red Crescent, DHN and other Agencies, we have created our <b>third</b> task for this Activation. </font><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#1155cc"><u><a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/801" target="_blank">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/801</a></u></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We NOW HAVE have new Satellite Imagery for Samar courtesy of MapGive. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Through the MapGive project, the Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) of the U.S. Department of State is providing the OpenStreetMap community access to updated satellite imagery services to help assist with humanitarian mapping.</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This task covers an area with HiRes Black and White Imagery</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We will be looking to add or improve the following features</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><li style="margin-left:15px">roads; schools, hospitals, churches, buildings, residential and commercial areas and waterfronts, malls, sports complexes.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">open areas (not fields, just smooth open ground next to towns) as leisure=common as these are potential helicopter landing sites.</li></ul></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">This is a larger area, if you need to split the tiles you can do so up to two times.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><b>We ask all Hotties to help in the response and to map this task as quickly as possible. We expect to make additional tasks available as the landfall track predictions improve.</b></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Mark Cupitt</div><div><br></div><div>"If we change the world, let it bear the mark of our intelligence"</div><div><br></div><div><a>Hire Me on Freelance</a>r </div><div><a></a><span></span><span></span><div><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Mark_Cupitt" target="_blank">See me on Open StreetMap</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ph.linkedin.com/in/markcupitt" target="_blank">See me on LinkedIn</a></div><div><img src="http://s.c.lnkd.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.png"><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'arial black',sans-serif"><b><br><a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/17846/mark-c" target="_blank">See me on StackExchange</a></b></span></div><div><img src="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/flair/17846.png"><br></div><div>===============================================================================================</div><div>The contents of this email are intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain</div><div>confidential or privileged information. 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