[OSM-ja] World Support for Japan Crisis Response

[Daniel Kastl]

Hi Peter,

(I'm sending this also to the OSM lists)

I think it's impossible to avoid duplicate work. Mostly due to the language
barrier.
Since Sunday I'm logging the IRC channel(s) of the OSM community. It was
increased to three channels, because the traffic was too high. And still the
logs are long. Always there are about 50 people on each channel.
http://openstreetmap.jp/irclog/

I think one important point for OSM and OSGeo communities is, that data is
really freely available to be possible to be published and processed by the
mass of users. I have written this post on the mailing list one year ago:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ja/2010-March/002549.html

And unfortunately it just happened. The OSM community would produce
up-to-date maps within an incredible short time, if they had the permission
to use the satellite photos.
Servers to serve the data are setup in hours, but to convince the companies
to let us use the imagery is extremely annoying and time consuming. This
disaster will not be the last time this happens, I fear.

Regards,
Daniel





2011/3/15 Peter Hannah <hannpj ＠ gmail.com>

> Daniel,
>
> Yes, I started worrying about duplication of effort the more I saw the
> random GIS posts on Skype.  Thank you for your work!  If you don't mind, I
> will add you to our subgroup email list to help consolidate the efforts.  I
> will look into joining the lists you mention.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Daniel Kastl <
> daniel.kastl ＠ georepublic.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> Thank you for your email and please say hello to Jaymes!
>>
>> I'm actually on the CrisisCommons list since last Saturday and also
>> foundation member of the Japanese OpenStreetMap community.
>> We have setup this Ushahidi platform (http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/)
>> and the Japanese OSGeo and OSM community are working to publish data
>> sources, that were not freely available until now.
>> Other entry pages are:
>> http://openstreetmap.jp/crisis/
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami
>>
>> I think there is a lot of duplicate work done in many groups, who don't
>> know well about each other. But I think that's OK, because better having it
>> done twice than not at all. The groups I'm active in are mainly local people
>> and they speak Japanese and are not too familiar with English, so this is
>> for sure making it difficult.
>>
>> I recommend you to join the following Japanese mailing lists:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeojapan-discuss
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja
>>
>> There are many readers involved in OpenSource GIS and OSM, who have good
>> contacts to mapping companies and data providers as well as the
>> government. It's no problem at all to post in English. A couple of emails
>> from CrisisCommons have been forwarded to this list also from my side.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/15 Peter Hannah <hannpj ＠ gmail.com>
>>
>>> Mr. Kastl,
>>>
>>> I am a friend and colleague of Jaymes Cloninger.  Jaymes gave me your
>>> contact information so that I may request a favor.
>>>
>>> I'm volunteering for a group named Crisis Commons
>>> http://crisiscommons.org/.  CrisisCommons, along with our friends in the
>>> greater volunteer technology community, stands ready to provide
>>> opportunities to volunteers of all skills levels to contribute to support
>>> requests made by crisis response agencies such as UN OCHA, Red Cross or
>>> local emergency management in support of their response and recovery efforts
>>> to response to 2011 Sendai earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that has
>>> affected countries across the Pacific region.
>>>
>>> CrisisCommons continues to monitor efforts in the region as well as
>>> supporting an information gathering request from the United Nations Office
>>> of Humanitarian Coordination Agency to provide additional sources to their Common
>>> Operational Datasets<http://oneresponse.info/resources/imtoolbox/publicdocuments/IASC%20Guidelines%20on%20Common%20Operational%20Datasets%20in%20Disaster%20Preparedness%20and%20Response%201%20Nov.%202010.pdf> (see
>>> page 5 for categories). Volunteers from across the world have been
>>> collaborating via a public Skype chat to input data feeds and information
>>> into Country Profiles throughout the days and nights since this terrible
>>> disaster.
>>>
>>> I'm forming a subgroup for the primary focus of gathering GIS data.  If
>>> you have any resources that I might be able to use in support of this
>>> effort, it may likely help the relief efforts in this region.  Please see
>>> the Common Operational Datasets link above.  If you have any questions,
>>> please feel free to contact me.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> Peter J. Hannah, GISP
>>>  <256-534-0951> <256-534-0951> <256-534-0951> <256-534-0951>256-534-0951
>>> Huntsville, AL, USA
>>>
>>>
>>> For more information:
>>> http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Honshu_Quake
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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