[talk-au] SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon - Sunday 9th Feb

[Andrew Harvey]

I was corrected by someone off list, looks like they are planning on
mapping within OSM https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/7893. Now I have to
scrabble to validate Planet Labs has provided the necessary permission for
their imagery to be traced into OSM.

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 12:12, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I sent an email to the contact email to ask for more information, but by
> the looks of it they aren't uploading anything to OpenStreetMap, they are
> creating their own datasets (which may or may not be released as open data,
> they haven't stated yet). It's unclear how they are planning on consuming
> OpenStreetMap though. I'm still keen to see what they've identified as
> important or useful to map.
>
> What they've stated is they'll be using Planet Labs imagery
> https://www.planet.com/disaster/fires-in-australia-2019-11-06/.
>
> 1) As far as I'm aware we don't have an imagery tracing waiver from Planet
> Labs, it's worth reaching out to Planet Labs to ask for this waiver for use
> in OpenStreetMap.
>
> 2) Since access to the imagery is restricted "We provide limited access to
> Explorer for up to 30 days to qualified disaster volunteer organizations,
> humanitarian organizations, and other coordinating bodies." it's unclear
> how we'd go about asking for access, and who gets access. But for now at
> least, without (1) my view is we can't trace Planet Labs imagery for use in
> OpenStreetMap.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 11:50, Stephen Backway <stev391 at email.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I just came across this Map-A-Thon by chance, apologies if it has been
>> shared already and I missed it:
>> https://sssi.org.au/fire-map-a-thon/about-map-a-thon
>>
>> Extract from the above page:
>>
>> *The SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon is being held on Sunday,
>> 9th February, 2020 and registrations are now open!  To register visit: SSSI
>> National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon
>> <https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sssi-national-bushfire-recovery-map-a-thon-nat057-tickets-90744133145> *
>>
>> *SSSI is thankful to the surveying and geospatial community for reaching
>> out to assist with the bushfire recovery effort and for the continued
>> offers of assistance from individuals and businesses from within Australia
>> and globally.*
>>
>>
>>
>> From reading through the pages, they are going to be using OpenStreetMap
>> in conjunction with government data and imagery, so not sure if they have
>> any new datasets/imagery layers that we haven't already mentioned on the
>> list...
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen.
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