[HOT] 2013 North India Floods : OpenStreetMap contribution

[Pierre Béland]

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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