[Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

Heather Leson heatherleson at gmail.com
Fri May 6 04:39:31 UTC 2016


Hello

Let me know if you want me to connect you to the emergency managers in the
area. I will give them a heads up that you are talking about it

Two of them are big fans of osm so they might help. But i leave this
decision with you.

Heather
On 6 May 2016 04:59, "Simon Wood" <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 5, 2016 9:28 am, Andrew MacKinnon 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?
>
> You might get some help from UrtheCast, as a Canadian company they might
> be willing to donate access to footage.
> https://www.urthecast.com
>
> Not sure that they can provide geo-referenced shots, but any info might be
> of use. Their cameras are fixed on ISS, so any orbital software/website
> will tell you if/when they have near passes.
>
> They also have a live feed:
> https://www.urthecast.com/live
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.
>
>
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