[HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

Russell Deffner russdeffner at gmail.com
Mon Jul 1 04:09:59 UTC 2013


Kate,

One suggestion that came from the latest Activation working group meeting
was the formation of 'liaison(s)' or similar position/role (volunteer I
would assume).  We didn't get as far as what the responsibilities, etc. may
end up being but maybe someone could volunteer to be a/the interim liaison
for now until a final proposal is adopted.

=Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Chapman [mailto:kate at maploser.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:00 PM
To: Pierre Béland
Cc: OpenStreetMap in India; hot at openstreetmap.org; Ishan Chattopadhyaya
Subject: Re: [HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

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-openstreetma
p-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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