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

[maning sambale]

According to our contact:  "DG released the imagery on 16 Nov. 30 days
from that date is 16 Dec"

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Rally de Leon <ralleon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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cheers,
maning
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