[HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

[Kate Chapman]

Hi All,

There are organizations interested in the work. Is there someone
leading the activation? To be honest right now I am not sure who to
point them at. There are going to be some groups interested in the
value of OSM and others that are not going to change in the middle of
a crisis (fair enough really).

Thanks,

-Kate

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Following requests to collaborate to map various towns in the Uttarakhand
> state, in the Himalaya, north of India, the HOT contributors have responded
> rapidly. Thanks to all who contributed to this.
>
> You can see the result of this effort from the following uMap, where you can
> locate rapidly the areas mapped.
>
> http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/uttarakhand-june-2013-flood-openstreetmap-contribu_724#8/30.373/78.832
>
> Even if HOT contributors responded very rapidly to this emergency, NGO's who
> proposed to collaborate with us showed no flexibility in adapting their
> tools to show OpenStreetMap layer in their Crisis Map. Crowdmap or similar
> tools would have given them more flexibility. But they made other choices.
>
> Collaboration between various NGO's in such emergency operations is
> essential to the success of such operations. We should look forward an find
> better ways to collaborate between various NGO's.
>
>
> Pierre
>
>
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