[HOT] Tropical Storm Emily about to hit Haiti in the next hours

nicolas chavent nicolas.chavent at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 18:16:53 BST 2011


Hey-

The Tropical Storm
Emily<http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/084825.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents>is
about to hit Haiti in the next hours, it's unclear how big its impact
will be at this stage. The local OSM group (COSMHA) and  HOT (on site and
remote) made sure to see the OSM capacities considered in the plan for the
response to the storm being involved in coordination meetings and offering
post disaster surveying capacities deployable on affected areas.  Warnings
were sent to HOT partners on imagery (unosat, spot, nga) in case post
imagery is being tasked & released

Asides of these measures, some assistance in importing datasets would be
helpful to make the OSM data better and more relevant on the following
layers
* administrative boundaries - Données Opérationnelles
Communes<http://haiti.humanitarianresponse.info/Default.aspx?tabid=94>(Frontiere
Internationale, Departements, Commune, Section Communale)  this
tasks had been pushed back so far.
* populated places - clairification on license ongoing
* last layer of camps of displaced persons
<http://www.cccmhaiti.info/z_dtm_v2_report_may_2011.php>by IOM
Great if anyone interested to help on this can liase with us

More in the next hours

Nicolas

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Nicolas Chavent
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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