[HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

Jaakko Helleranta jaakko at helleranta.com
Sat Apr 25 14:37:56 UTC 2015


"No visible damage in Pokhara."
>From a friend in Pokhara.
-J

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Robert Banick <rbanick at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
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> 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 <https://www.dropbox.com/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 JCG
>> Heather
>> On 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)
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