Up to date, 1,641 voluntary contributors from 82 countries have made
more than 4,550,900 OSM Map changes for the Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan
Activation ! And this activation is still going on as the humanitarians
are starting to deploy on the ground, that some remote islands did not
yet receive help.
This is a complex Activation with the extent of the damages and the numerous
remote islands. Imagery, both pre and post disaster, is a key factor of the
success of this Activation. Lost of communications with remote
islands dispersed in a large area is quite a challenge. There were still
reports this week of areas where people did not receive any help yet.
The HOT / Philippines coordination Team and the various humanitarian
partners whith which we collaborate are
still looking at identifying the remote islands and assure that imagery
is available and that these areas
have been mapped. Thanks to the HIU unit of the US State Dept. who
facilitates our access to these imageries and negociate with the imagery
providers to assure that we will have a constant access to the
imagery. They are looking presently at the possibility to extend the
imagery license for an other 30 days. They have also made a tremendous
effort to identify the available imagery, pre and post-disaster for the
various zones were we need imagery.
The OSM community has showed
his capacity in this Activation to react quickly, to coordinate remote
mappers from 82 countries and provide maps, including both pre and
post-disaster elements. Ten days after the Typhoon, printed maps were
delivered to the field teams arriving in Tacloban. This while
coordinating with the US Red Cross, OCHA, GFDRR Labs at World Bank,and various
other partners. After this activation is completed, we
should look for the future of such Activations, where we support various
humanitarian
reliefs actions. We should find ways to facilitate access to the
imagery (both pre and post disaster) and lookd at the eventual Images
licensing problems. Others aspects will surely be examined to. But
globally, the OSM community and the various groups we coordinated with
should be proud of what has been accomplished.
While
various teams start to deploy for field studies, there will be a two
hour workshop sunday at the SotM-PH in Manilla where Maning Sambale and
Kate Chapman will be present. The objective of the workshop is to
discuss the next steps regarding response and recovery for the Yolanda /
Haiyan Typhoon. It would be great for the local and the international
community to be able to connect. The workshop is from 10am-noon Manila
time which is 2am-4am GMT unfortunately there isn't a good time for
North American/Asia and Europe which is daytime for Asia,
but if people can join us that will be great. We will come back to you
later to indicate how to participate to the workshop and we should try
to have a log of these discussions.
See the time schedule at
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131215T10&p1=145&ah=2
There
is already more then 25 Task Manager jobs that have been prepared for
this activation. Others tasks will be added as requests are adressed to
us.
To contribute you can look at the two servers where jobs are available :
http://tasks.hotosm.org/#featured/haiyan
http://tasks2.hotosm.org/#featured/haiyan
Thanks for your contribution.
Pierre
Activation Team
Andrew Buck
Maning Sambale
Pierre Béland
Discussions, Support on irc://irc.oftc.net #hot
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