Hi Mike,
Ideally, and typically we map in response to support organizations on the ground who request the map data from us for emergency relief and they provide us their priority areas. No one contacted us in this case and asked us for map data or provided priority areas so we did not officially activate.
One of the community members (JGC) has been reviewing news and social media to determine impacted areas and I am working on a tasking manager project to support his suggested first priority area now (Koro Island).
In this case the mapping we do will probably be used during the remainder of the relief phase and just as importantly for the recovery efforts, knowing what used to be where and planning during reconstruction (and used in insurance claims to cover reconstructions believe it or not).
But without direct contacts on the ground we will be "mapping in to the blue" and will publish our resulting data sets on HDX (https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/group/fji?sort=metadata_modified+desc) as well as using the HOT Export Server to generate gps device maps with building foot prints for relief workers.
I expect the first Fiji project to come out shortly for Koro Island, which is small and only about 500-1000 buildings.
The follow on Fiji projects will probably cover the north shore of Viti Levu as well as the small islands between Koro and Viti Levu.
Since it is not an official HOT activation, it moves a little more slowly as we find people with the time to handle the process of reviewing damage reports, existing data sets, existing mapping, imagery and making TM projects.
So I think the answer is we are supporting, but without any ground contacts it takes us a bit longer to get ramped up.
Regards, Blake On 2/23/2016 10:44 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
What is the reason we are not supporting Fiji in the wake of Winston? is it because their are somewhat well off and do not need our help? I ask not just out of curiosity, but because I am likely to be asked at one of the upcoming mapathons. Mike On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com <mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I am not sure what mapping HOT can do to support Fiji after the typhoon, but this message to OSM-Talk is informative. If anyone is reviewing mapping or starts mapping there the below linked to wiki page seems important to review. Thanks to Richard <ricoz....@gmail.com <mailto:ricoz....@gmail.com>> for pointing it out. Regards, Blake -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [OSM-talk] HOT Fiji & 180th Meridian Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 21:10:26 +0100 From: Richard <ricoz....@gmail.com <mailto:ricoz....@gmail.com>> To: t...@openstreetmap.org <mailto:t...@openstreetmap.org> Hi, not sure what the situation on Fiji is but if there is any HOT effort keep an eye on the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/180th_meridian Luckily most tools were improved over the past few months but keep in mind that there may be remaining problems and fairly new or experimental versions of some tools are required. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org <mailto:t...@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org <mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
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