[talk-ph] Extending mapping to other areas and improving remote mappers contributions.

[maning sambale]

Dear OSM-PH mappers,

As you all know, the global response to map Yolanda/Haiyan affected
areas is tremendous. So far, many of the tasks are fairly covered by volunteers
worldwide.

For the OSMPH mappers, I would like us to focus on the following tasks:

1. Maximize the use of DigitalGlobe imagery since it will expire in 30
or less days.
I created a task for this [0].

As you can see the imagery coverage is well beyond the Typhoon
affected areas.  We can use this to improve data for example in:
  - New Bataan (Pablo 2012)
  - Zamboanga City (post-MNLF crisis)
  - Bohol (Earthquake, 2013)

2. Trace small islands along the typhoon path.  Many of these small
islands may have people
(check the imagery if there are evidence of settlements).  Let's put
them in the map so that
responders know they exist.

3. Do general quality check of edits.  Osmose by OSM-FR is a good tool to
check common errors [1].

4. One last tip if you use JOSM, in order to avoid conflict with
simultaneous editors nearby,
use JOSM's GeoChat plugin [2] to chat with editors.

Thanks!

[0] here: http://tasks2.hotosm.org/job/1003
[1] http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/?zoom=17&lat=11.21248&lon=125.00923&layers=000000BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT&level=1,2,3
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat

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cheers,
maning
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