[HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

Sat Apr 25 14:27:31 UTC 2015

Helicopter landing sites would be nice if we could reliably collect them. But this is NOT something I would want to get wrong (imagine showing up in the helicopter to a site and it’s unsuitable).

—
Sent from Mailbox

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Thanks Pete.
> Looking at the Ebola activation, people trace every path, sometimes a few hundred meters, going in all directions. This adds noise to the map. We could have this same problem in Nepal rural areas.  Mountains area are also particular. 
> In many areas, only paths connect the villages. But these are the main ways to circulate. 
> All airfields are also important to report. They are probably already there. But it his important to revise.
> regard 
>  
> Pierre 
>       De : Pete Masters <pedrito1414 at googlemail.com>
>  À : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> 
> Cc : maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>; HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>  Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 9h46
>  Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal
>    
> Pierre, I have added some tagging guides from the Nepal roads wiki page to the task instructions. Mostly applies to urban settings, but hopefully it helps (especially if new mappers join the task)...
> Pete
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Maning please contact and ask him to contact me individually. We need infos to coordinate.
> First task is ready.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/994
> I give instructions to avoid to trace every paths in the fields. This make more difficult to read maps. Other activators, please do not hesitate to edit and complete the job instructions.
> regard
>  
> Pierre 
>       De : maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>  À : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> 
> Cc : HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org>; Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> 
>  Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 8h59
>  Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal
>    
> From Facebook, I saw one member of kathmandu labs saying they are ok. cheers,Maning Sambale (mobile)On Apr 25, 2015 8:20 PM, "Pierre Béland" <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Not succeeded yet to contact Katmandu lab folks.
> We plan to concentrate on roads. No priority established yet as the areas to cover. I will prepare first a task for the area north of Kathmandu in the mountains. 
>  
>  
> Pierre 
>       De : Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk>
>  À : "HOT at OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>  Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 8h00
>  Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal
>    
> Wiki page for this earthquake: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake Let's hope our friends a the Kathmandu Living Labs are all safe today.
> Because the community is strong in Nepal (and particularly Kathmandu), the map is already pretty good. Let's hope aid agencies will found out about our maps and find them useful.
> We should be wary of unleashing task manager jobs on the area. We must particularly try to avoid the mess created by people getting carried away with landuse but in silly square shapes (don't do this!)
> But there's some work to do. I see a few settlements and their connecting roads in the river valleys to the northwest of Kathmandu, where we could improve the map remotely a bit.
> See the above wiki page where we can post more coordination info
> Harry
>    
>    From: Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
>  To: Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> 
> Cc: "HOT at OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>  Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2015, 12:09
>  Subject: Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal
>    
> Have uploaded some high resolution osm extracts of downtown Kathmandu and Patan to wiki commons that could come in handy for immediate print use:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathmandu_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patan_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> We started an international skype communication and gather infos.
>   
> Pierre 
>       De : Robert Banick <rbanick at gmail.com>
>  À : Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> 
> Cc : "HOT at OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>  Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 5h53
>  Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal
>    
> I’m hearing from old Red Cross friends that many places outside Kathmandu are also affected. I think we should worry about the city of Pokhara too, it’s a major city basically equidistant from the earthquake.
> —
> Sent from Mailbox
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning, there is a strong OSM contingent in Nepal including board member Nama. Thanks for the updates, Maning and JCGHeatherOn Apr 25, 2015 10:45 AM, "maning sambale" <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just got this info from tv. News are still sketchy but kathmandu seems to be heavily affected.cheers,Maning Sambale (mobile)
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
>    
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
> -- 
> Arun Ganesh (planemad)
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
>    
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
>    
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
>    
> _______________________________________________
> HOT mailing list
> HOT at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
> -- 
> Pete Masters
> Missing Maps Project Coordinator
> +44 7921 781 518
> missingmaps.org
> @pedrito1414
> @theMissingMaps
> facebook.com/MissingMapsProject
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/attachments/20150425/016795b0/attachment-0001.html>