You bring up a good point... for many people that respond to far-flung
disasters, disasters are things that happen to other people. FEMA begs to
differ, of course!
I can live with interpolation to start, but your plan is definitely the target.
I'll hook your info into the CERT team to see if I can scare out some mappers.
We've trained nearly 1000 out of our 85,000 residents so far, so I've got a
pretty big, motivated pool.
Have you hooked up with your local CERT/Red Cross/VOAD type folks? They might
be a good pool from which to draw mappers. I just learned that many college
GIS courses require that each student work on a project, and something like
this might be right in their wheelhouse.
Cheers from the middle of the Juan De Fuca Plate,
David
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From: Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>
To: David Hiers <davidhiers7...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:28 PM, David Hiers <davidhiers7...@yahoo.com> wrote:
As you know, its all about location. After the quake/tsunami flattens the
pacific northwest, we'll be flooded with damage reports, support requests,
pop-up shelter locations, etc, all of which will probably be expressed in terms
of street address, intersection, or landmark. To do any sort of automated work
with that data (estimate the impact of the cloud of methyl-ethyl-badness from
the derailed train car, for instance), first thing I want to do is to geocode
everything so I can do math on it.
That should be a project that OSM can help with. We have some experience
mapping prior to and especially after disasters. Living in the PNW has made me
acutely aware of the environment we live in. Not only am I near Puget Sound, in
the middle of earthquake county, but the damn river near by floods every year!
Addresses interested me because of the opportunity for door to door routing.
Interpolation is nice if you have all day to find the address. But don't try it
at night. Being able to route right up a driveway to the front door, while
being a long way off, is do able. We just need more volunteer mappers. (I'm
always making the pitch. Don't let me scare you off.) We had a good number of
volunteers import building and address to Seattle. If you look at Seattle,
every address and building should be in OSM. Next we want to extend at least
the address mapping to all of King County.
I can use what you said to help encourage more people to help out.
BTW - We could not do this without QGIS and PostGIS. They are a life saver.
Thanks,--
Clifford
OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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