[HOT] Situational awareness regarding weather events
Hi HOT list, 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? 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. Best, Ethan aka FTA ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Slum mapping project need help to imagery stitching
Awesome work everyone, the imagery looks great on JOSM! Well done to everyone that was involved in making this happen. @Humberto: For your next mapping party, you should consider including an appropriate *source *tagging schema. building=yes source=techo.org date=2015-03-16 If imagery was collected by techo, they should at least be included in the source for some recognition. Great work again! - Denis *~~* *LinkedIn: **DenisCarriere http://ca.linkedin.com/in/deniscarriere* *Twitter: @DenisCarriere https://twitter.com/DenisCarriere/* *GitHub: DenisCarriere https://github.com/DenisCarriere* On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:48 PM, hyan...@gmail.com hyan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi hotties! An ongoing mapping pilot project need help to create stitch image from drone pictures taken last sunday, over a small (10Ha.) slum called Isla de León: http://hotosm.org/updates/2015-03-06_taller_de_mapeo_humanitario_%E2%80%93_isla_de_le%C3%B3n_colombia Photo frames extracted from video (as sample) can be found here (original images are about 6 GB): https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxEjR2waDdxSfnBMVFk5QWhJbms0WE00RDhhS3JQaUlGRWR1SmNNalB0aUJXTmVsVFYyY3cusp=sharing This activity is in company with TECHO (translated as Roof), a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. *TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums*TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums.*TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. We are looking for volunteers that help us with imagery stitching and publishing in a TMS server, for a next mapping party. Thanks for any help or advise! Humberto Yances HOT Member ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Situational awareness regarding weather events
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ethan, HOT doesn't really have any formal monitoring that we do per-se, although there is a lot of informal monitoring simply because we are many people who all follow the news and current events to some degree. So generally anything we might be interested in tends to get noticed by someone fairly quickly. I myself have an RSS feed that is the combined output of the USGS earthquake feed, plus the BBC news feed filtered to only show things with keywords like 'flood', 'hurricane', 'militants', etc. I had meant to make the feed more complete but I kind of ran out of ideas for what else to add. Generally for most things the news (at least early reports) is quick enough for us to get started; more monitoring might be nice, but we are pretty quick anyway so it is hard to improve much. - -AndrewBuck On 04/21/2015 01:21 PM, Ethan Nelson wrote: Hi HOT list, 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? 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. Best, Ethan aka FTA ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVNtEDAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbVW0P/R4WxA0nLtAG35tARtJ9/N3x 6t7YTwfTMOa7gxIUqNuWjhTfbNuWmnatbMp7cBEWSQKE/2SfD4g9ch+mWb7ACWm4 AhD1/Uuo2gYTtGM6ISuPQ4OcCb5r3cRShBn/Py6dLnGyb3jt1HL0a/Z2GJpoYtF9 RrntSwjebzDmbSs/BBG9WxBVR/Hi4Zza9Th0kbTcUDtsE4x/gBSKXzHxPOAHz/HN hV92w+F5x2X0+hKGn3Diaj6GkVmPkElktbpx4nMeLK64EssLiueWaOB2qQon86oY QvvGY9wH1AfYvL+zizlmT6tlsY3XI8IHWtnHm5oQKJALYydK/NCWzJMkBIUXzHys fDizDwEPQ8M07JaPWWAaMvZhYzRcdyMbuB8GCSgc5uVPIA+alHnEgEbdwK9CEvNG Hw+qjhfvSdbVqc+j38o1jYzO8KP7iTLwKzdpGX7Z/kR7Mhm7DLi8XmGExLMlHBsH h+wkqSOR7RlCoXFKnJHXwk/IWKE+J+CQEbVZe7LDpGCfiHLXxcoZDllFVscHeb68 UyzsAatY8cARoCh3Aet63VmxU8aRPoyl5Ea7n4EsKopRMWWONXNNXpOG9n+WGqPZ kK+6LqZS8nggBoOFWI0knH4uMGeVhVJtilUvAT9ySIY2YUyibvtWCcd3ZleIXGUY MUQqELu03SyVsSSugBA2 =PaD/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Image not loading !!!! Household level OSM in Bangladesh
Many thanks Kate. Its a sad thing then. Dont know for how many areas I have to face this issue !!! Thanks Kevin for your suggestion. i already have requested Mapbox to update the image for my region of interest. Lets see. Best wishes Ahasan On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Kevin Bullock kbull...@digitalglobe.com wrote: Suggest you make a request via Mapbox and DigitalGlobe. https://www.mapbox.com/labs/request/ Unlike Bing, you can actually correspond with people at Mapbox and DG, who can provide imagery status, and have assurance imagery will not unexplainably disappear. Kevin (from DG) *From:* Harry Wood [mailto:m...@harrywood.co.uk] *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2015 7:45 AM *To:* Ahasanul Hoque *Cc:* hot@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Image not loading Household level OSM in Bangladesh Looking at the area in this funny old bing analyzer tool would suggest the same. The area used to be hi-res and is not now hi-res, hence you can zoom in on some patches of green here, and they turn red. http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=23.773877390904328lon=90.25749206542969zoom=13l=bing It's only a narrow strip missing about 5 km wide. http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/bingosm.html?zoom=14lat=23.7852lon=90.2291 so that's annoying for you. Not much can be done about it, although I think we've seen this before with bing, and a degrading in coverage has occurred just before they do an update with much improved imagery. So fingers crossed that's what is happening. Harry -- *From:* Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org *To:* Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com *Cc:* hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org *Sent:* Monday, 20 April 2015, 14:19 *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Image not loading Household level OSM in Bangladesh Hi Ahasan, When did you last see imagery in that area? It is my understanding from reading some of the other OSM community mailing lists that the recent Bing maps update has made high resolution imagery for certain areas no longer available. -Kate On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi HOT mappers, Are you facing any problem in loading image in iD/JOSM/Fieldpaper Or its only for my place ?? ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?gpx=1915878#map=16/23.7888/90.2280). I went for a recoinnesasance survey yesterday for piloting the household level mapping for Bangladesh Statistical Bureau. Aftr coming back I wanted to make field paper of that pace but showing total bank. Surprisingly, in iD, and JOSM showing the same.There is no tile in that zoom level Can anyone please suggest how I can make the field paper of this place ? It's urgent for me guyz :( Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Ahasan . *Ahasanul Hoque* *GIS Data Mgt Consultant WSP, The World Bank.* *Contact: *hoque.aha...@gmail.com; ahasan...@yahoo.com ahasan...@gmail.com *| * *Web: **ahasanulhoque.com* http://ahasanulhoque.com/ *Skype: *ahasan4u | *Linkedin: **http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp * Please, Consider the Environment before Printing this Mail !!! On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks Kate. Tomorrow we will have a meeting regarding the piloting, very soon we gonna do that and will update you so. Best regards Ahasan On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org wrote: Hi Ralph, It depends on the local usage of the data. For example in programs that us InaSAFE to measure the impact of a disaster the buildings are actually turned into points prior to the analysis. People should map as accurately as they can, but if mapping buildings as points is the best you can do and works for how the data will be used then no problem. If someone else needs outlines they can always upgrade the mapping later. Thanks, Kate Kate Chapman Executive Director Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team email: kate.chap...@hotosm.org U.S. mobile: +1 703 673 8834 On Mar 8, 2015 7:06 AM, AYTOUN RALPH ralph.ayt...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hi Kate, *[Mapping the buildings as points is not problem. Often I think we are [mapping the building outlines because it looks more visually appealing on a [map than anything else.* The mapping of the shape and size of buildings for HOT is not for visual purposes. Ivan Gayton of Medicin Sans Frontiers has reported back to us that this is important for their work in certain areas. They use the size of the building to assess the number of occupants (as in the case of round huts for example) or to assess it's use (small round huts are usually grain stores) and also the size and shape gives them reference points for establishing their exact position and orientation on the ground
Re: [HOT] Slum mapping project need help to imagery stitching
Hi Stephen, Images can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B19WcoSjCmvnfmFXaGQ1TDVndlk3S3FmUDBxek9iUzFSM1FRWDQwblhLR1BiSnJBQmFxbTQauthuser=0 you must add: --force-focal x after run.pl From OpenDroneMap mailing list a suggestion is tu use x value between 9 and 11 mm Please let us know if is possible to create a point cloud model. Cheers, Humberto PS: Camera is a GoPro HERO4 Black 2015-04-20 19:58 GMT-05:00 Stephen Mather step...@smathermather.com: Hi Humberto, Any way to get the original raw images? I'd love to try processing these in OpenDroneMap... . Cheers, Best, Steve On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:48 PM, hyan...@gmail.com hyan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi hotties! An ongoing mapping pilot project need help to create stitch image from drone pictures taken last sunday, over a small (10Ha.) slum called Isla de León: http://hotosm.org/updates/2015-03-06_taller_de_mapeo_humanitario_%E2%80%93_isla_de_le%C3%B3n_colombia Photo frames extracted from video (as sample) can be found here (original images are about 6 GB): https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxEjR2waDdxSfnBMVFk5QWhJbms0WE00RDhhS3JQaUlGRWR1SmNNalB0aUJXTmVsVFYyY3cusp=sharing This activity is in company with TECHO (translated as Roof), a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. *TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums*TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums.*TECHO* is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America the Caribbean. Through the *joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, *TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. We are looking for volunteers that help us with imagery stitching and publishing in a TMS server, for a next mapping party. Thanks for any help or advise! Humberto Yances HOT Member ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
