Hello Marcos and Severin,
It has always been my working theory that a detailed OSM map, especially as Marcos explained – containing the tracks, paths, etc. that are not commonly included in other maps – directly benefits the first responders/firefighters the most. It has been my personal experience that what was looking like a river crossing to a very steep climb was alleviated only when a local resident stopped to tell us that there was a track through private property that would get us much closer to the fire from the top of the hill; just had to drive a very roundabout way to get up there. This was also after we spent a good fifteen to twenty minutes staring up the hill watching the fire burn and contemplating our plan of action using the standard paper maps provided by the county; if only at the time had I known about OSM (this was about 7-8 years ago) and the area been well mapped we could have saved quite a lot of time. Therefor I am very happy to hear about your effort to map ahead of an actual fire Marcos. I did organize mapping efforts last summer when we had a really active (and destructive) season, you can view the documentation here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Colorado_Wildfire_Season; I reached out to the Incident Command team on the Black Forest fire, but was given a bit of runaround and never was able to discover if they utilized the data or not. It’s also been a general struggle in the US to get the word out and convince authorities to look at OSM as a source since there is so much ‘authoritative’ data in the public domain; but this is changing. It was my intent to create some ‘advocacy’ documentation, but alas – life got in the way and that project was dropped from the to-do list. I hope your initiative is a success and would gladly talk more about fires and OSM if you would like. Happy Mapping, =Russ Russell Deffner <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/> http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ From: Severin Menard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 10:00 AM To: Marcos Oliveira Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HOT] Requesting a Task for mapping forest tracks in Portugal Hi Marcos, Please keep updating us about your project and its outcomes and ask if you need any technical help. I just read the thread in which you presented your project in talk-pt and seems some contributors are afraid the area is maybe too large. Did you identify who will be the beneficiaries of a detailed OSM map? I cced Russell who has a large experience regarding OSM and fires in Colorado. Russ, do you have an advice or a document regarding what to map, for who, for which medium and how to advocate for it to be used? Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Marcos Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you for all the help, Andrew and Rafael! Rafael, that's exactly what I'm planning to do. I'll keep in contact with you personally to discuss the various minutiae of the project as not to spam the main mailing list. 2014-07-07 18:29 GMT+01:00 Andrew Buck <[email protected]>: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I added Marcos as an admin on the tasking manager so he should be able to just create the jobs himself once he knows the areas. - -AndrewBuck -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTutj2AAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbsk4P/36X4hwg/0PBnW6krgxQ5zga 4KfoQXTgeT2CO8ERjfpGVHRWL6UneJK68ydCvACyk8vJqNyr+8X5S0HVQia1VNjM Tq5zHUhVlulqNVIP7mpzPrPEJ09KmB0H44AMslicfqgV/4z9MIjT9MsXSQfXvXqO 3ZTjIUM2KuxjRAJpYErxH/5gAg564hPXk8xFJpElDtqN4QltDk5pMvFkxr+gcsx5 MA6hYY9wTYOULaBAvPMx7QAt2vUjEj6/5YmYHzVBSsXVUAE56Q8qox1u86iTl+Vh xfUrC23h7fbTwhfmSG8XUIO3yJv5LnIGMOK6WCgz+jiMS2POJA+ukSvSwaVgDU9P OEIfoA3fFfytE72Vn7J3tKi9EPdOl26b0ZvqgcV/Uquq8+nNIsV0+8+HEasj+VDG Ywhk8yBzyme12MnD3oA6gnwuDjROjGKK9UvcayLEz+yALT0fXHuS2QDPWVGmYCfL QjXR/8l2D3tF82TYaYmBNa/yVFn1/pd68zJekBjBXI6kXNM00Z3Y439vfVYViWjy DasVIV6uNPGljfNoV97EsIbmaj/WvO/zwIMn98PIX3obpLFoof39ysmqvZZMtnI6 MI9jPWmwWgOwTIiF1/FDqPl1xBhSq+UtKGys5H/T3+FSgRCSLONw7+P7qWnbZ71C HkfJ76l69eTk7mogYMPH =ZS1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- Um Abraço, Marcos Oliveira _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
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