[HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and hundreds hurt in Sichuan

Severin MENARD severin.menard at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 16:12:32 UTC 2013


Hi,

As anyone was interested I created the job
<http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/236> and
updated the wiki<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Lushan_earthquake#Help_improve_the_maps>.
Any contribution is welcome to create the baseline data on the
most affected areas.

Sincerely,

Severin



> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:45:31 -0300
> From: Severin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>
> To: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die
>         and hundreds hurt in Sichuan
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> Hi,
>
> Qiyang Xu, Geospatial Specialist from The World
> Bank<http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-world-bank?trk=ppro_cprof>,
> who notified this alert to the Crisismappers list, wrote back to my email
> regarding most populated affected area after Lichuan Earthquake. So we can
> create a TM jobs now based on this area (see the uMap link) with the Spot5
> Imagery. Someone interested?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Qiyang Xu <xuqy86 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and hundreds
> hurt in Sichuan
> To: severin.menard at gmail.com
>
>
> Hi Severin:
>
> Thank you for the links I think it covers the most populated areas. It
> would be great if the following Provinces could be mapped as well as 1.
> they are vulnerable to disasters and 2. there were several earthquakes that
> happened in recent years.
> Gansu Province
> Sichuan Province
> Yunnan Province
>
> Best,
> Qiyang
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Severin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear Qiyang,
> >
> > I created this map <http://umap.fluv.io/m/582/> that shows in blue
> > the coverage of Spot5 2009 imagery and the epicenter (red dot). Based on
> > the ArcGIS map<
> http://www.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=03f3ef23b42f4d51802bd85759250f61>
> made
> > by Derek Chen, I propose the red area as the one the OSM community could
> > map with our Tasking Manager that would split this area into individual
> > task. Roads and residential areas could be traced as well as sometimes
> main
> > buildings (we cannot go down to every individual building due to the 2.5m
> > resolution). What do you think?
> >
> > Are Ya'an (Spot5) and Chengdu (high res Bing imagery) also interesting to
> > be mapped or completed?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Severin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Qiyang Xu <xuqy86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all:
> >> Thank you very much for the replies.
> >>
> >> Hi Pete and Mikel:
> >> The first batch of satellite imagery covering Lushan Area has been
> >> compiled and released by Chinese Academy of Science. And there are
> several
> >> mapping platforms established with updating information on
> transportation
> >> and aftershocks:
> >>
> >> http://www.scgis.net/LSXEarthquake/#
> >> http://www.radi.cas.cn/dtxw/jryw/201304/t20130420_3823904.html
> >>
> >>
> http://www.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=03f3ef23b42f4d51802bd85759250f61
> >>
> >> I am cc.ing Xin Chen from ESRI China as well. He developed the third
> >> mapping platform.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Qiyang
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel.maron at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Hi
> >>>
> >>> HOT members are looking at the situation right now.
> >>>
> >>> First step is for us to appraise the rough geographic spread and scale
> >>> of impact of areas affected from official and media sources. We then
> look
> >>> at the quality of data in OSM, and available resources, like Bing
> imagery,
> >>> other existing data sets, new satellite imagery. And, crucially
> presence of
> >>> local community, and requests for up to date base map data.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the approximate area:
> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.355&lon=102.544&zoom=9&layers=M.
> >>> OSM has ok general coverage. Bing aerial imagery looks fairly good in
> the
> >>> region. Not sure about local mappers.
> >>>
> >>> My sense right now is that we're going to start by informal discussion
> >>> on the HOT mailing list (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot),
> >>> and probably some folks will start in with tracing. If you have any
> >>> specific needs or requests for base map tiles or data for any project
> or
> >>> initiative, please get in touch, directly with me or on list.
> >>>
> >>> -Mikel
> >>>
> >>> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
> >>>
> >>>   ------------------------------
> >>>  *From:* Nicole Xu <xuqy86 at gmail.com>
> >>> *To:* crisismappers at googlegroups.com
> >>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 20, 2013 9:27 AM
> >>> *Subject:* [CrisisMappers] [Urgent] China quake: Scores die and
> >>> hundreds hurt in Sichuan
> >>>
> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22228225
> >>>
> >>> Dear CrsisMappers:
> >>>
> >>> The earthquake happened last night around 8pm EST, with millions of
> >>> people in short of food, water and shelter now. Ushahidi, HOT, Google
> >>> Person Finder, ICT, etc. things we talk about everyday and work on,
> have
> >>> saved thousands of peoples lives in mega-disasters in places/countries
> >>> where possibly easier to work in some situations. However, at this
> moment
> >>> any humanitarian mapping group that can help with anything are very
> much
> >>> appreciated. And all the suggestions I will repost on Chinese twitter
>  -
> >>> Weibo (http://www.weibo.com/) - to authorities and Departments
> >>> concerned. For those who have Weobo account please add me GIS???? or at
> >>> this link: http://www.weibo.com/geomaps. Thank you very much for
> >>> everything.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> All the best,
> >>> Qiyang
> >>>
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