[OSM-ja] World Support for Japan Crisis Response

[Hiroo Imaki]

Daniel,

I would like to organize my thoughts and prioritize tasks I can help
on recent OSM-J work with people around Seattle. I know many people in
Japan working hard to update OSM but can some of OSM-J leaders can
sort out what kind of task they want to get done and let us know in
English? I know Furuhashi-san and Seino-san but they must have too
much work. Is there any other person I can talk to about current OSM
priorities?

I am little bit confused about which remote sensing data I can use for
OSM mapping. Can we use air photo's Chiriin took after the disaster?

Thank you so much for communicating with rest of the world!!

Hiroo

2011/3/14 Daniel Kastl <daniel ＠ georepublic.de>:
> 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 (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
>>>> Huntsville, AL, USA
>>>>
>>>> For more information:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Honshu_Quake
>>>
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