[HOT] Pakistan Floods, HOT and OSM mappers

[Brad Neuhauser]

I think it'd be good to be clearer about the most affected
areas--whether it's specific towns, or specific river valleys--and
marking those on a map on the Pakistan Floods page.  The flooding is
over such a huge area that I kind of lose perspective on where things
are, so anything that focuses mapping efforts on the best areas really
helps.  Also, I put the links to the US Defense Mapping Agency maps up
on the Data Sources page and have started adding some town names from
those.  Those also have rivers and canals marked and often named.
Hopefully this might help with orientation.

Cheers, Brad

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Would it be helpful to make mapping in the flood area a project of the
>> week at this point?  Should we wait for more / better / newer imagery
>> before calling for wider participation?
>>
>
> Probably wait.
>
> For now, we could use some help with mapping Osh and Bazar-Korgan in
> Kyrgyzstan.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Kyrgyzstan
>
> I have done some mapping for Bazar-Korgan... most of the roads are there,
> but we can map landuse, buildings, etc.   As much detail from imagery would
> help people who later map on-the-ground there.
>
> Also (not all flood-affected areas), but some areas of Pakistan do have good
> Yahoo imagery (e.g. Karachi) and need work.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=353295
>
>> What should be added to these pages before calling for wider
>> participation?
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_07_Pakistan_Floods
>
> Key thing obviously is obtaining imagery and data that we can use.  The wiki
> page indicates some effort is underway to obtain imagery.
>
> Not sure what to add to the pages now.
>
> -Katie
>
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