[HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

Severin Menard severin.menard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 16:20:16 UTC 2015


Hi,

I would suggest to put at least a fixme on the place tag to identify the
missing residential areas to map them during next steps. And add also a
place tag if there is none, of course.

Sincerely,

Severin

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Stéphane Henriod <s at henriod.info> wrote:

> Hi Pierre
>
> the tasks mention we should focus on roads, which seems fair. But what
> about at least delineating the "residential" areas? I assume that knowing
> where people live, even roughly, will be a great help for the response too.
> Or have you received explicit information that this is not needed (because
> already well known somewhere else or whatever).
>
> Thanks a lot on advance
>
> Stephane
>
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> 2015-04-26 18:00 GMT+02:00 Stéphane Henriod <stephanebek at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Pierre
>>
>> the tasks mention we should focus on roads, which seems fair. But what
>> about at least delineating the "residential" areas? I assume that knowing
>> where people live, even roughly, will be a great help for the response too.
>> Or have you received explicit information that this is not needed (because
>> already well known somewhere else or whatever).
>>
>> Thanks a lot on advance
>>
>> Stephane
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Le mot progrès n'aura aucun sens tant qu'il y aura des enfants
>> malheureux" -- Albert Einstein
>>
>> "Si les contacts avec les étrangers lui étaient permis, [le citoyen
>> ordinaire] découvrirait que ce sont des créatures semblables à lui-même et
>> que la plus grande partie de ce qu'on lui a raconté d'eux est fausse. Le
>> monde fermé, scellé, dans lequel il vit, serait brisé, et la crainte, la
>> haine, la certitude de son bon droit, desquelles dépend sa morale,
>> pourraient disparaître" -- George Orwell ("1984")
>>
>> “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make
>> you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." --
>> Clifton Fadiman
>>
>> Photos de voyages, photos de montagne: http://www.henriod.info
>>
>> 2015-04-25 15:09 GMT+02:00 Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>:
>>
>>> 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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