[HOT] HOT response to Cascadia Earthquake

[Kate Chapman]

Hi David,

HOT did participate in Hurricane Sandy, though not using
OpenStreetMap. It was using MapMill to help sort images for a disaster
assessment.  This was for FEMA and the Civil Air Patrol.

Major questions HOT would ask before an activation would be "can we do
something and be effective?" and "Will be responding use the data we
create?"

I don't foresee us doing preparedness work in North America though.
There are growing communities in Canada and the US and they are better
equipped for this sort of thing. As for response I would think we
would be supporting those communities rather than going it a lone if
once again we could be useful. I know that the OSM US community was
doing mapping just this week after a tornado went through Illinois. We
have allowed communities to use the Tasking Manager to do their own
response though, for example there is at task set-up for flooding in
Italy right now.

So I suppose that is not a clear answer other than "maybe".

Thanks,

-Kate



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:32 AM, David Hiers <davidhiers7836 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Got it :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Danijel Schorlemmer <osm at schorlemmer.net>
> To: David Hiers <davidhiers7836 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:10 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [HOT] HOT response to Cascadia Earthquake
>
> Hi David,
>
>> You see, I am unclear on whether HOT would engage in a North American
>> disaster, because perhaps the relevant response agencies already have all
>> their GIS requirements fulfilled, and they would not call upon HOT to
>> respond.
>
> I did not say that HOT would not engage in North America. I'm not
> participating in the coordination of HOT and thus cannot judge the
> priorities
> the HOT may have. My argument was simply that preparatory work for the event
> you referred to would be equally important in many regions of the world.
> And,
> in fact, the US may be better prepared than other countries. Still, I would
> consider after-event mapping very valuable as a HOT action.
>
> I guess, somebody from the HOT coordination can better clarify the
> situation.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> -danijel
>
>
>
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