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

[Rally de Leon]

Can we put a daily-countdown announcement on FB (until expiration date)
about that 30-day opportunity to trace...? :-)


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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