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 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot