[HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

[Harry Wood]

Guys, I already announced a wiki page coordinating a response to this disaster a day and half ago:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods
Thanks to Reneman and AndrewBuck who responded quite rapidly by investigating mapping possibilities and adding more info to that page.


You guys seem to have missed my mailing post and yellow lable on the 'India' wiki page.  I feel like something went wrong in that process.


Looking ahead, maybe we' should ramping this up into more of an 'activation'.

Next steps?
* tasking manager job? I think the city of Dehradun http://osm.org/go/zm8r~jUM- presents the best opportunity for obvious beginner-friendly mapping tasks.
* other mapping coordination? things like mapping in lots more rivers in the mountains could be worthwhile, but may be less suited to a task manager grid. We could use 'notes' just as I did in the Philippines once, coordinating river mapping with OpenStreetBugs
* Supply more info to potential data *users* on the wiki page. We should have templates for this really. How can we get our data into the hands of aid people?
* I will tweet a link to the wiki page from @hotosm.
* reply to crisis mappers with a link to our wiki page?* Call it an "activation"?

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From: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
To: Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com>; OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in at openstreetmap.org> 
Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Sunday, 23 June 2013, 5:24
Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India



To start, we can identify the affected areas, and check on sources of data to improve the map.


This is the region? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.09&lon=79.3&zoom=8&layers=M Looks very mountainous. 
Quick spot checks on Bing imagery, it's high resolution. Other sources?


If we can identify a bounding box for the region, then can set up a job on the tasking server http://tasks.hotosm.org/

* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com>
>To: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>; OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in at openstreetmap.org> 
>Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:24 AM
>Subject: Re: [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India
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>Let us do something! Anyone has any pointers how can we start (in an organized fashion)?
>Can someone please take a lead to start a mapping sprint towards helping map the affected regions? Mikel?
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>On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Some response to the floods in Uttarakhand. Is there anything for OSM to improve in the base map of the region, to aid response?
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>>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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>>----- Forwarded Message -----
>>>From: Buddhadeb Halder <bhalder134 at gmail.com>
>>>To: crisismappers at googlegroups.com 
>>>Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:17 PM
>>>Subject: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India
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>>>Hi CrisisMappers,
>>>Thousands are reported stranded in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in India due to heavy rains and landslides.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
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>>>Buddha
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>>>@HalderBuddha
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>>>Some updates: 
>>>1. Uttarakhand worst affected as rain wreaks havoc in north India; thousands stranded
>>>2. Watch: in torrential rain, house collapses in Uttarakhand 
>>>3. Rain triggers landslides in Uttarakhand; Char Dham Yatra suspended 
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