[HOT] HOT Supporting Several Disaster Responses

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings HOT community,

 

Of course there's never a good time for disaster to strike.  In the last
week, HOT community members have jumped into action to assess several
earthquake events - the first in Myanmar on the 13th; luckily this one
turned out to be relatively minor in terms of humanitarian impact because
before we really had a chance to respond, several earthquakes hit Kumamoto
Japan on the 14th and 15th.  Most of you are probably aware of our great
friends and colleagues from Crisis Mappers Japan (http://crisismappers.jp/),
they immediately jumped into action creating several projects on the main
HOT instance of the OSM Tasking Manager (http://tasks.hotosm.org) and
continue to add projects - these are mostly 'only buildings' projects as
there has been some great efforts in the past to map the road network in
Japan - and it's got a bit different model than 'standard' road networks, so
probably avoid remotely changing any roads.

 

Then of course, the most recent chatter on the list is about another
earthquake - this time in Ecuador. HOT has for some time been working on the
support and growth of OSM communities in South America and we have some
great colleagues who have launched the initial response to this event and
are adding projects to the HOT TM as they get a better understanding of the
impacted area - what the best imagery to use is and all the other challenges
faced during an event coordination.

 

HOT is supporting all of these efforts and continue to evaluate the
situation - as well as stay alert for any new events.  Please do jump onto
the tasking manager if you can contribute some time to help!

 

Thank you,

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Russell.Deffner at hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/> 

 

 

 

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