[HOT] Nepal Earthquake - Experienced JOSM users needed : Pilot task to trace helicopter landing in remote areas

john o'l ol.john.el at gmail.com
Sat May 2 19:18:02 UTC 2015


This seemed like a useful helicopter LZ resource.
http://www.careflite.org/wFirstResponders/landingzone.aspx

So, with the best of intentions I'm sure I've been breaking some rules...
I've been using Google Earth with vertical exaggeration cranked up as my 1st
tool... looking for relatively level sites. Then I flip around through
their historical imagery option... then create a placemark I can use to
identify lat and long.

I'm still a newb re OSM and just got JOSM up and running yesterday, but my
attempt to fix the limited memory issue was unsuccessful and it crashed
again. I guess I consider these urgent enough to brashly offer a few more
prospective sites to anyone with the OSM chops to quickly see if they are
helpful and suitable. If this works, I'll happily do more... if unhelpful I
will cease and desist – please advise.

5 prospective locations east of Indrawati River and West of Bhotemanlang

#1026 probably tasks 45 and 46 any that withstand closer scrutiny would be
tagged "leisure = common"

27.834  85.620

27.846  85.619

27.882  85.642

27.902  85.653

27.915  85.635

cheers,

John O'Leary



On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> We did not have clear instructions on this. I then prefered to be
> conservative. Looking at the official helipads (aeroway=helipad) gives us
> some clue about what looks to be reasonnable.
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De :* "hyances at gmail.com" <hyances at gmail.com>
> *À :* Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>
> *Cc :* HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Envoyé le :* Samedi 2 mai 2015 13h58
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake - Experienced JOSM users needed :
> Pilot task to trace helicopter landing in remote areas
>
> Very versatile some of this helicopters!  Based on the information gived
> from this pictures, maybe "aeroway=helipad" poligons radio could be less
> than 30 mts (task#1026); so increase probability for more aerial rescue
> areas?
>
> 2015-05-02 10:25 GMT-05:00 Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc at arkemie.com>:
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> In case it could be useful to imagine landing situations, you can find
> photos, and a CNN video, of helicopters landing in my recent Twitter
> timeline, like :
>
> https://twitter.com/bhushan_gyan/status/594434101391810560
> https://twitter.com/unheard_in/status/594435742706741248
> https://twitter.com/jgVisov/status/594134163550240768
> https://twitter.com/AnupamkPandey/status/594397182788173824
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
> https://twitter.com/jgVisov
>
>
> Le 02/05/2015 14:57, Michael a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 02.05.2015 um 02:36 schrieb Pierre Béland:
> >> we are requested to help to locate official and potential helicopters
> >> landing to help for the relief of remote areas in the mountains. This
> >> is not an easy job and we ask again for experienced contributors that
> >> can play with the various Image layers and evaluate helicopters
> >> landing. See the pilote task http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1023
> >
> > I agree that this is not easy. After finishing two small tasks I had
> > not found any marked helipad but added some "leisure=common".
> >
> > So I was to not sure if I was looking for an example and with the help
> > of overpass finally found one. In case anyone else had the same
> > question and for reference here the coodinates:
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/28.29210/84.37631
> > In the imagery you can see the "H" in a circle of about 10 meters size.
> >
> > Michael (user Ohr)
> >
> >
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