[HOT] 2013 North India Floods : Follow-up and mapping coordination

Sun Jun 23 18:36:32 UTC 2013

To facilitate the follow-up on this activity, I have renamed the object of the email from [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed;    24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India

A Task manager job have been created for Haridwar urban area. See http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/260
Hot Contributor are invited to contribute by mapping these areas.

For people with knowledge of the present situation in north of India, please report other areas that you think they should be mapped in priority. Please report to this list and describe the situation.

The people with local knowledge can also contribute greatly to the map by geolocating and adding description to the public services buildings, hospital, schools, shelter places, etc.

Wiki page where more informations and instructions are provided about this emergency. 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods

Pierre 

>________________________________
> De : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
>À : Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com> 
>Cc : OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in at openstreetmap.org>; "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>Envoyé le : Dimanche 23 juin 2013 11h41
>Objet : Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India
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>Ishan,
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>To reassure you and the India community, we are many at HOT to follow the situation. Has you saw, Harry and Andrew have started to document a wiki page were mapping priorities are expressed. It is suggested to start mapping the major roads and rivers. 
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>The next step is to establish other mapping priorities. For urban areas, we can create rapidly Tasking Manager jobs to facilitate Remote mapping by the larger OSM community and add the corresponding information in the Wiki Page.  Could the India
 community identify these zones to cover?
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>When such a crisis emerge, we start from the Hot Discussion list to monitor, create a wiki page and decide collectively the priorities. This first step is to monitor the sitution and facilitate remote mapping by the larger community.  We proceeded this way in Mali in 2012. For a year, we were able to trace large zones before we passed to the Activation status in 2013 and coordinated with OCHA and Humanitarian NGO's.
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>Activation is an other step of priority where more coordination is necessary with humanitarian partners or UN Agencies that request our participation.
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>Pierre 
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>>________________________________
>> De : Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhyaya at gmail.com>
>>À : Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> 
>>Cc : OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in at openstreetmap.org>; "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>>Envoyé le : Dimanche 23 juin 2013 7h27
>>Objet : Re: [HOT] [Talk-in] Fw: [CrisisMappers] 25 killed; 24,000 stranded as rain wreaks havoc in Uttarakhand, India
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>>Wow, this is great. Can we create a hot job on the tasks.hotosm.org and link it to the wiki?
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>>On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Guys, I already announced a wiki page coordinating a response to this disaster a day and half ago:
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>Looking ahead, maybe we' should ramping this up into more of an 'activation'.
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>>>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
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>>>To start, we can identify the affected areas, and check on sources of data to improve the map.
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>>>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?
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>>>If we can identify a bounding box for the region, then can set up a job on the tasking server http://tasks.hotosm.org/
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>>>* 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.
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>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Buddha
>>>>>>
>>>>>>@HalderBuddha
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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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