[HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay

Mon Jun 16 16:54:16 UTC 2014

This involvment of the local OSM communities is essential to respond adequately and support the humanitarians operating in the flooding zone.  As Harry is saying, there is already a local community that has the capacity to map and relay with the humanitarian organizations. It is also important that you add the information about the essential infrastructures. Contacts with the government agencies can also help to add boundary limits of cities and place names. Otherwise, we can support you with providing a converted OSM Place names file from GNIS.

The ReliefWeb map shows a very large zone to cover. You should establish with the humanitarians or government authorities some priority zones to cover.  If no high-res imagery is available for these zones, there are some possibilities to obtain free imagery. But we have to justify this, The humanitarian organizations on the field would have to indicate where they operate and express how this will help them in their intervention.

We will do our best to support you. But at this point, I dont think that there is justification to sollicit the international OSM community to participate remotely to the mapping. Plus, we are actually monitoring the situation in many countries and have a few activations that could restart at any time depending how the situation evolve.

From my experience over the last years answering to these requests, I can say that if there is no local community or humanitarian organization in the field to assess the needs or use the maps, it becomes harder to mobilize the international community to participate to such activities. If we need eventually that this community respond rapidly, we will need to justify our action, to convince them to participate.

Pierre 

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 De : Ed Manley <edmanley at gmail.com>
À : Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> 
Cc : "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Lundi 16 juin 2014 10h11
Objet : Re: [HOT] Tasking Request - Paraguay

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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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>
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> 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.
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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.  
> 
> More accurate information will follow over the coming days once people are in place.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ed Manley (MapAction OST)
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