<div dir="ltr">Excellent Report, particularly in relation to the availability and targeting decisions for Satellite Imagery. It is very difficult to map something on a HOT activation if there is no imagery or it is covered by Cloud.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Banick, Robert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Robert.Banick@redcross.org" target="_blank">Robert.Banick@redcross.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">The American Red Cross and the REACH Initiative are pleased to present an
<a href="http://americanredcross.github.io/OSM-Assessment" target="_blank">interim assessment report</a> on the validity of the building damages assessed through OpenStreetMap in the weeks following Typhoon Haiyan. You can find a print copy attached and a more interactive website
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<p class="MsoNormal">The results were unfortunately negative and underline real limitations in OpenStreetMap’s ability to capture these results in the present. Neverthless, this report identifies strong promise in the OSM model of crowdsourcing and highlights
the investments needed to make that potential possible. <span>
</span>It’s our sincere hope that funders, NGO partners and most especially the OpenStreetMap community will rally around these investments so that OSM can play an even stronger and more operationally useful role in future disaster responses. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are indebted to the US Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) for funding this assessment and look forward to future partnerships to improve the utility of open data and OpenStreetMap in particular
for disaster response.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With all the best,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Robert Banick, Dale Kunce and Clay Westrope <u></u><u></u></p>
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