Hi HOT list,
Hello Ethan, I've talked to a few people about this but I am interested in getting responses from a broader audience. Many of the HOT activations in the past have been the result of weather events: typhoons and hurricanes, flooding, and droughts. Thus, I am reaching out to get a feel for how information is gathered about current and future weather by activation managers and the other powers-that-be. Is it generally through news agencies, like when a potential threat reaches the critical mass to have coverage devoted to it? Are their briefings or notifications occurring from partner agencies? Does someone perform surveillance of regions on a daily/weekly basis from personal online searches or from weather agencies? As with the nature of our 'crowdsourced' organization, it is mostly individual HOT community members who alert the list of an ongoing or potential upcoming weather emergency. Our Activation Working Group has discussed doing something more formal, and we'd appreciate anyone who is interested to join us: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Acti vation I've been on the activating-to-map side of HOT for a while in my spare time. But, professionally, I work with weather data and models daily...it's what I research and study. I recently started thinking about a "HOT weather briefing site" that compiles information and images for the short and long term about the atmospheric state. This would be a one stop shop reference site that activation managers, or anyone really, could consult to become aware of the weather situation globally. Is this worth pursuing or does it duplicate efforts already present? I would appreciate your thoughts regarding both sets of questions, either on or off list. I'm not sure myself if there is already something like this available/happening, I think there are probably more 'accurate/up-to-date' sites regionally, but it's worth chatting about. Kind regards, =Russ
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