[talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Hi,

According to Al Jazeera, the death toll could be very high, sadly. And
several millions of people have been affected.

I'd like to remind that an often-mentioned weakness of OSM is the uneven
quality of the coverage, and that it is not because you have a hammer
that everything is a nail.

So, while Tacloban was indeed hit very badly, and a detailed building
map there is undoubtedly useful, it might also be useful if some of the
mappers who wish to contribute took a broader view, to map, for example,
some of the roads and villages that are visible on (sometimes recent)
high resolution Bing imagery
(http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/), but sometimes still
unmapped in OSM. (Not to mention the rivers).

GNS (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GNS) can also be a good source
for names, even if it sometimes includes old versions of duplicated
nodes with inaccurate location. High resolution imagery can be useful to
tell which is right in these cases.

Best wishes,

Jean-Guilhem