[HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress - suggestions for wider areas

[Jonas Shorn]

Hi all,

is there a skype coordination chat for the mapping? It might be helpful to
help mappers with questions re attributation of geo-objects and so on...

warm regards,

svendJ


2013/11/9 Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> Andrew called for a few suggestions for other useful areas to map, beyond
> just Tacloban; which is likely to become increasingly well mapped in the
> next few days.
>
>
> Reading articles like
> http://www.rappler.com/nation/43285-initial-reports-damage-tacloban-city suggest
> Guiuan might be worth a further look.
>
> "Guiuan, a fishing town of about 40,000 people on Samar, was the first to
> be hit after Haiyan swept in from the Pacific Ocean. Pang said contact had
> not yet been made with Guiuan."
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=11.0308&mlon=125.7240&node=198523987#map=13/11.0308/125.7240&layers=N
>
> You can see:
> - It's at the start of the storm's path
> - It has a nearby airport, which if still servicable, seems a reasonable
> place to land supplies, relief workers, etc
>
> If the aim was to simply improve roads/access, radiating out along the
> path of the storm; (one task starting in Tacoloban/Basey/at the nearest
> land pushing east, another starting from Guiuan pushing west, that'd cover
> a reasonable amount of affected folks.
>
> Wikimedia suggests a population of between 50-200 people/km^2 in those
> areas.
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Philippines_Population_Density_Map.svg
>
> Mapping large structures in the towns in between, as opposed to every
> single building is likely fairly quick, and highlights key infrastructure
> (if it survived).
>
> The coverage by bing seems alright: there are areas not covered like
> Balangia to Lawa-an; but the majority is.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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