[talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Activation Wrap-up

Tue May 6 11:11:35 UTC 2014

Thanks for this Maning and yes let's declare this Great activation over.  A tremendous effort was made remotely from people around the world.

From one activation to the other, we are developping new ways to collaborate with the humanitarian organizations and local communities. The coordination with international organizations such as UN-OCHA, Red Cross, GFDRR, HIU  was awesome. We also had a fantastic support from various imagery providers who let us cover such a large area for this emergency. And a great thanks to Jean-Guilhem Cailton, Fred Moine and OSM-fr who supported us for the imagery. Thanks also to the developpers who contributed to deliver these poster size OSM maps to the Tacloban airport 10 days after the Typhoon, and offer various services such as GPS and OSMAnd / Android downloads.  These various services offer a great support to the humanitarians while deploying on the ground in the context of such emergencies.

The Philippines is different from other activations with the local OSM communities contributing to complete the map with their local knowledge. Thanks to Maning and all the OSM-ph contributors for your contribution in such a difficult context. This is an essential part of the map and I am pleased to see that this has some recognition from the various governmental agencies.

Pierre 

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 De : maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
À : HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org>; osm-ph <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Mardi 6 mai 2014 11h52
Objet : [HOT] Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Activation Wrap-up

Dear everyone,

It's been almost half a year since we activated for the Typhoon
Yolanda/Haiyan.  Since then,
I'm sure you are aware of the tremendous response we received both
from remote mappers and responders on the ground.

Over 4 million map changes from ~1,500 contributors.  We supported
local and international humanitarian groups.  Locally, I can say that
OSM became the de-facto resource for updated geographic data.  Various
government agencies (including the national mapping agency) are now
taking a second look at the wealth of data we created.  Along the way,
we were able to refine our coordination protocols which I hope became
useful in the successive response we are currently supporting
worldwide.

Let me thank everyone who supported this response, from the remote
mappers, humanitarian agencies who used our data, image providers,
organizers of numerous mapathons, the people who shared the appeal to
social and mainstream media and, the core HOT volunteers (especially
Andrew, Pierre, JGC and many others) who provided both technical
guidance and moral support during the height of the activation.

If you view the history tab in osm.org right now, you will notice that
local volunteers (who were victims themselves) are working on updating
the map.  This will be a big task for us in the OSM-PH community, but
slowly, we are taking on the challenge to keep the map up to date.

Remote mapping has dwindled the past few months and I would like to
formally declare (through this email, since I don't know the
"protocol") that we are wrapping-up this activation. Thank you again
for all your help.

There will be a little bit of clean-up such as removing non-essential
data (i.e. tasking manager relations used in creating tasks).  If
anyone has a need for this kind of data to remain in the DB, let us
know.

Thanks again, please update the wiki [0] if there are things we missed
during the activation.  Also, if there are reports/assessment on the
way we responded please add them to the wiki as well.

[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan

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cheers,
maning
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