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

Sun Jun 23 23:21:23 UTC 2013

Thanks Pierre,
Recently, I saw media reports that Badrinath and Harsil (near Uttarkashi)
make up the current focus of rescue and relief.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/All-pilgrims-rescued-from-Kedarnath-focus-shifts-to-Badrinath-and-Harsil/articleshow/20734070.cms
Regards,
Ishan
(user:chatman)

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
> Ishan,
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Activation is an other step of priority where more coordination is
> necessary with humanitarian partners or UN Agencies that request our
> participation.
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *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
>
> Wow, this is great. Can we create a hot job on the tasks.hotosm.org and
> link it to the wiki?
>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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"?
>
> ________________________________
> 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
>
>
> >________________________________
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >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?
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >Some response to the floods in Uttarakhand. Is there anything for OSM to
> improve in the base map of the region, to aid response?
> >>
> >>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
> >>
> >>----- 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hi CrisisMappers,
> >>>Thousands are reported stranded in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh in
> India due to heavy rains and landslides.
> >>>
> >>>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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