[HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay

[Ed Manley]

Many thanks for this Harry.  I’ve passed this message on to team deployed, and will let you know if anything specific comes back. 

Thanks again for looking into this.

Ed


On 16 Jun 2014, at 14:32, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> Looking at the Paraguay map for flood response yesterday, my overriding impression is, we have a pretty amazing community of mappers in Paraguay! As I've noticed in Chile in the past too. Great map coverage, not only with details traced from bing, but lots of details which can only have come from local mappers.
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> So that should give MapAction, and any other disaster responders a great map to work from if they need those kinds of details. Perhaps a priority should be to offer any help, or supply some more information on generating useful map outputs.
> 
> As for improving the map, there's nothing major, but there was a few pockets of missing detail. I've added a bunch of notes for the little things, and described some bigger jobs on the wiki page here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Paraguay_floods
> Thanks to Alexandrecw for diving in a fixing some of my notes already.
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> 
> Do let us know Ed, if we can direct efforts at anything more specific, or if you need any technical assistance with producing map outputs from OSM.
> 
> Harry
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk>
> To: Ed Manley <edmanley at gmail.com>; "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 18:53
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay
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> Hi Ed,
> 
> Before a Task Manager job, I've taken (what I consider to be) the first step of creating a wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_Paraguay_floods
> 
> (what I consider to be) the next step is "preliminary assessment", examining the information about where the floods are, and where likely focus of mapping needs is, and looking at our map coverage in those areas.
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> I'll do that now. It might only take 15 mins. I will try to edit the wiki with more information. Maybe soon I'll have a clear idea of where task manager job would be best placed. Maybe I'll sprinkle some "Notes" on the map. Maybe I'll *do* some obvious map improvements (TM Job is not the only route to take here)
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> Anyone want to help with preliminary assessment? Please do. Let me know what you think on IRC. Edit the wiki page as you see fit (I don't want to "own" it in any way) 
> 
> Harry
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> From: Ed Manley <edmanley at gmail.com>
> To: hot at openstreetmap.org 
> Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 11:46
> Subject: [HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay
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> 
> Hello HOT,
> 
> Could I request for a task to be setup for the flooding situation in Paraguay?  MapAction are deploying with UNDAC today and it would be great to update current resources for this work.
> 
> The AOI is around the south of the country, as indicated in this ReliefWeb alert http://reliefweb.int/map/paraguay/11-june-2014-paraguay-floods.   OSOCC have also reported states of emergency declared in Alto Paraguay and Presidente Hayes departments (http://vosocc.unocha.org/rss/vo_2842cw6o.html). Another report states that the departments of Misiones and Neembucu are particularly badly affected http://floodlist.com/america/160000-floods-paraguay-june-2014.  
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> More accurate information will follow over the coming days once people are in place.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ed Manley (MapAction OST)
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