[HOT] Disaster waiting to happen in Pakistan

[Sam Vekemans]

Whats the bbox area? (water area to city)
Its easy to make a Groundtruth 10m contour / OSM Garman MapSource map from it.

Sam

On 3/23/10, Shoaib Burq <shoaib at nomad-labs.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kashif (cc'd) just made me aware that Aljazeera has reported a dam
> threat in the Hunza valley, Pakistan
> (http://blogs.aljazeera.net/asia/2010/03/18/threat-dam-keeps-pakistanis-edge)
> that has the potential to burst and cause loss of life and property
> down stream. They also have a video report (It seems very serious
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-SXKIXPkI). There is hardly any data
> available for this part of Pakistan on osm.
>
> I have setup a wiki page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hunza,_Pakistan_Dam_Threat_March_2010
> to start listing datasets.
> If you know of any map sources please list them there. we can then
> look at georeferencing them somehow.
>
> If someone know about the applicability of  SRTM data set for doing
> network flow analysis to predict what might be likely flow effects
> please let me know.
>
> Shoaib Burq
> --
> Canberra, Australia
> Coordinator, MAPS
>
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