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

Thu Sep 7 15:03:54 UTC 2017

Thank you for the responses. I have passed the word to my contacts on Curacao.

2017-09-07 16:55 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <blake.girardot at hotosm.org>:
> Hi Milo,
>
> Maarten created projects for those, or coordinated them I think.
>
> They are all 100% mapped and 100% validated
>
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3491
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3486
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3485
>
> They are currently archived.
>
> Please let us know if those do not cover all the areas you need.
>
> We will generate an export for them so you can download the data for
> them them as a whole for gis, gps, mobile usage.
>
> Respectfully
> blake
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 10:35 AM, 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> 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
>>> Clare Charity Centre, Wycombe Road, Saunderton, Buckinghamshire HP14 4BF
>>> t: +44 (0)1494 568 899 | s: macsims4780
>>> mapaction.org | masims at mapaction.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Blake Girardot HOT/OSM [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
>>>
>>> The tweet announcing it to retweet is:
>>> 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/ ) 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
>>>
>>> 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 )
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Blake
>>>
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