[HOT] [MissingMaps] HOT is activating for Hurricane Irma

Thu Sep 7 14:54:46 UTC 2017

Hi Milo,

There have been tasks for Sint Maarten/St. Martin. They are already finished. (http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3491 <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3491> and http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3486 <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3486>) 

Best,

Leon

> On 7 Sep 2017, at 16:35, Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net> wrote:
> 
> Can we please have a project for Sint Maarten/St. Martin too?
> 
> On Sep 7, 2017 11:52, "Matt Sims" <masims at mapaction.org <mailto:masims at mapaction.org>> wrote:
> Hi Blake, all,
> 
> Just to let you know MapAction deployed a two person team yesterday to
> support the UNDAC team in Barbados and we are send a team out to Haiti this
> evening.
> 
> Where we can we'll feedback anything useful to you all.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> 
> Matt Sims
> Deployments Coordinator
> 
> Mapping for people in crisis
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM [mailto:blake.girardot at hotosm.org <mailto:blake.girardot at hotosm.org>]
> Sent: 07 September 2017 08:08
> To: HOT
> Subject: [MissingMaps] HOT is activating for Hurricane Irma
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> HOT has activated to support the Hurricane Irma response. We have good
> contacts with local responding organizations and international responding
> orgs.
> 
> I am working on announcing it more widely, it was just done in the last few
> hours and trying to get people to help with the activation.
> 
> We are working through the assessment of the activation protocol, but
> considering all of the current situation, it is affecting a wide scale area,
> a storm of great magnitude and we have good contacts with responding
> organizations. We do not have any specific requests yet. We reviewed
> Copernicus covered delineation maps and Copernicus rated as no damage and
> they were well mapped.
> 
> We are working off of the various hurricane forecasting products, like the
> National Hurricane Center to focus and prioritize the mapping while we
> monitor the international local response channels for help with
> prioritization.
> 
> Expect projects to change fast and often the priory area in a project will
> change, please review instructions often as they may keep you updated on the
> project.
> 
> We have focused so far on the Leeward Islands, which were already very well
> mapped, but we have filled in, fixed minor issues and validated 3 island
> groups so far which will be pushed to HDX
> 
> OpenStreetMap US has also started reviewing road data in the most likely
> affect counties.
> 
> Please spread the word.
> 
> The URL for Irma projects is: http://bit.ly/IrmaMapProjects <http://bit.ly/IrmaMapProjects>
> 
> The tweet announcing it to retweet is:
> https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/905612899867119616 <https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/905612899867119616>
> 
> Dale, Nate, Mhairi and myself are working the activation primarily.
> 
> The coordination channel is on our slack, but we are happy to keep IRC
> updated as well.
> 
> Join the team ( https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ <https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/> ) and then /join
> #disaster-mapping if you want to help with or watch the activation
> coordination.
> 
> Mhairi created the OSM wiki page for this activation:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2017_Hurricane_Irma <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2017_Hurricane_Irma>
> 
> I believe that the Haiti-Talk list has some traffic related to prep for how
> this might affect Haiti and it would be really helpful if speakers of French
> would join that list to help keep the two communities well connected. (
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ht> )
> 
> Respectfully,
> Blake
> 
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> Blake Girardot
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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