[HOT] Disaster waiting to happen in Pakistan

[Sam Vekemans]

I just grabbed an OSM screen-view of what i guess is the area.
http://picasaweb.google.ca/lh/photo/-7INh0x5ALy2kOQ-CCFX6g?feat=directlink

and to make relief maps is here. (for mapsource and OSM files).
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GroundTruth_For_Dummies#Generating_Maps_With_Relief_Contours

The map is very vague
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.167&lon=74.934&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF

With looking at the cyclemap, we can see areas of where water 'could' be.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.593&lon=74.686&zoom=11&layers=00B0FTF
and carries the most likely probability that it would be populated.

It appears that some rivers & lakes have been mapped in the area.

I just had a quick search, but unfortunately it's copyrighed
http://www.mapmart.com/Products/Digital-Elevation-Models/DEM/Digital-Elevation-Model-Afghanistan.htm

But it would be just looking at the output Contours*.osm files and finding
the lowest elevations / median / between / highest & adding colour.

You can download the OpenStreetMap Google Earth overlay
http://www.mgmaps.com/kml/
Or click this link for default values:     >>>
*maps.kml<http://mt.mgmaps.com/kml/maps.php>
* <<<  (with no transparency) ...i used a 50% transparency, which seems to
look good)

And you can view the SRTM4 DEM data as a Google Earth Overlay
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
download:  Download SRTM KML file click here <http://www.ambiotek.com/srtm>

I have a sample here of what it looks like ...
http://picasaweb.google.ca/lh/photo/eMwMXLkg-xqDirImWUbnXw?feat=directlink
You can find the coordinates (tile #) here
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp

Sorry i couldn't be of any further help.

Sam


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> On the reliefweb.int web site are a small scale location map:
>
> *Hunzu Landslide (as of 7 Jan 2010) - Location Map*
>
> http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LPAA-7ZPCD3?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=pak
>
> and report (about what seems to be the initial landslide - 13 Jan 2010):
>
> *Focus Humanitarian Assistance Provides Relief for Landslide Victims in
> Hunza, Pakistan*
>
> http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/DKAN-7ZNNZ9?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=pak
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
> Sam Vekemans a écrit :
>
> 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> <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 serioushttp://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 pagehttp://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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