[Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

[James]

They may have a city GIS team, but is that data publically available? Nope.
Heck their "server" might even be toast as most of the city is going up in
flames. Better to have data available, then none at all.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:36 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not so sure of how much value this is.  HOT doesn't activate until it
> gets a request from the ground for that reason.  If it does then we get two
> tile systems over the same area.
>
> Fort McMurray almost certainly has a City GIS system that has details of
> every building, Ottawa certainly does.  The roads and highways are also
> available in CANVEC for firefighters etc.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 5 May 2016 at 11:45, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've created a task on my tasking manager for buildings in Fort McMurray.
>> Tracing buildings can help us flag buildings affected by the fire
>>
>> http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John Marshall <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I will check with my contacts in my day job if they will release thier
>>> imagery.
>>>
>>> I know DigitalGlobe are tasking thier satellites over Fort Mac.
>>>
>>> John Marshall
>>> On May 5, 2016 11:39, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get
>>>> satelite imagery.
>>>> What I can do is create a task on tasks.osmcanada.ca for Fort McMurray
>>>> and we can trace buildings as they are not all there
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As you are probably aware by now, a large portion of Fort McMurray,
>>>>> Alberta has been destroyed by forest fires.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is any freely licensed aerial imagery of the affected area available
>>>>> yet? Will the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team be creating a project
>>>>> for Fort McMurray?
>>>>>
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