[OSM-ja] [osmfj] Re: World Support for Japan Crisis Response

[Hiroo Imaki]

Daniel-san,

That sounds great idea. I think I can organize
Japanese-English-Japanese translation team around Seattle area. We
need to find resource to summarize current OSM-J, OSM, OSGeo-J, and
other organization activities. It would be nice to have daily summary
in English.

Seino-san, do you think you can ask somebody to find such a person?
like retired or student IT journalist or something...

I will definitely help translation part.

Hiroo

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Daniel Kastl <daniel ＠ georepublic.de> wrote:
>
>
> 2011/3/15 Yoichi Seino <say.no00 ＠ gmail.com>
>>
>> 清野です。
>>
>> Newsletterについては、
>>
>> http://openstreetmap.jp/crisis/
>
> Thank you!
> I forgot the link to this page.
> I think it's a bit difficult for Peter and other foreigners to navigate
> there, because it's all in Japanese.
> But it might be a good idea to create a called "Book" (Drupal terms) or
> "Category" to publish such a newsletter there.
> It's important IMO to compress the amount of new information to have quick
> access to the latest news from several sources.
> because I'm more an IT person than a writer, there are probably people who
> have some experience or advice.
> Daniel
>
>
>
>>
>> を活用してください。
>> だれでもアカウントを作れるようになっていますし、
>> 権限が必要であれば付与することが可能です。
>>
>> よろしくお願いします。
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/15 Daniel Kastl <daniel ＠ georepublic.de>:
>> > Imaki-san,
>> > Thank you! I think it's difficult to oversee all current activities.
>> > I assume that all important data sources OSM can use are listed here:
>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami
>> > Digital Globe editors are limited to 20
>> >
>> > accounts: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/List_of_DigitalGlobe_Editors
>> >
>> > Probably the main focus of OSM community is this
>> > page: http://sinsai.info/
>> > I think some daily "newsletter" (or maybe even twice a day) in both
>> > Japanese/English, that summarize the latest achievements and changes,
>> > would
>> > be very valuable for everyone. There are probably too many news out
>> > there
>> > right now and too many emails sent to mailing lists to pick the
>> > important
>> > one for each of us.
>> > My Japanese skills and available time are probably not sufficient to
>> > lead
>> > this. I think it's difficult to get started, so maybe something like
>> > this
>> > exists already?
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> > 2011/3/15 Hiroo Imaki <hiroo ＠ angeli.org>
>> >>
>> >> 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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