[HOT] Surveying Helicopter Landing Zones (HLZs)

[Denis Carriere]

During the Nepal earthquake relief effort, mapping HLZs (Helicopter Landing
Zones) did not seem very coordinated, many factors need to be taken into
consideration to properly define a HLZ. I can confirm that very little of
the OpenStreetMap HLZ data was not used for any mission planning by any
NGO, Government or UN aid during my time in Nepal.

However, it would be great to open this type of discussion with
organizations that actively fly helicopters & planes within these affected
areas. Most of these organizations already have a their own HLZ data with
tons of precise attributes associated with the particular HLZ & terrain
data.

Before any mapping happens, we should properly define a HLZ OSM Wiki page
to clearly define how to map an HLZ.

https://gist.github.com/aaronpdennis/b4ce2012749bb025b886 (Humanitarian
purposed tags)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Helicopter_landing_zone (Not defined)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency:helipad (Not defined)

*@MAF & @MountainChild @KLL: *It would be great to have your input on this
topic.

Cheers,


*~~~~~~*
*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

*Twitter: @DenisCarriere <https://twitter.com/DenisCarriere/>*
*OSM: DenisCarriere <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DenisCarriere>*
GitHub: DenisCarriere <https://github.com/DenisCarriere>
Email: Carriere.Denis at gmail.com

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <
blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:

> Hi Keith,
>
> I worked a lot on this issue during the Nepal 2015 response.
>
> What you propose sounds great. We had a lot of difficulty trying to do
> this via the tasking manager for several reasons.
>
> I would love to speak with you more about it, maybe we could chat via
> skype.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> President, HOT Board of Directors
> skype: jblakegirardot
> HOT Core Team Contact: info at hotosm.org
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Keith Darby <keithdar at usc.edu> wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > I am a retired Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot, and a current Masters
> Candidate in GIS Technologies at USC.
> >
> > I am working on my thesis, which is based on the premise that
> crowd-sourced geospatial information, if properly structured, could aid
> aircrews in surveying potential HLZs for disaster response.
> >
> > The work flow would be as follows:
> >
> > (1) Helicopter planners and aircrews would select potential HLZs in a
> disaster-affected region, using whatever mission planning GISystem at their
> disposal (normally baed on remote sensing data)
> >
> > (2) Those proposed HLZs would be uploaded to OSM.
> >
> > (3) Volunteers could select one of those HLZs and conduct a ground-truth
> survey, following a script (that I would develop).
> >
> > (4) Those surveys would be uploaded to OSM and validated.
> >
> > (5) the Helicopter mission planners and aircrews could use those surveys
> to select the best zones for disaster relief operations.
> >
> > I am looking at using the towns of Honokaa and Waimea on the northern
> end of the Big Island of Hawaii as my study area, as I live close by, and I
> have the local Community Emergency Response Team (volunteers) willing to
> support.
> >
> > Who do I need to talk to about getting HOT permission to conduct a
> limited objective study in this area?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Keith Darby
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