[HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread maning sambale
Just got this info from tv. News are still sketchy but kathmandu seems to be heavily affected. cheers, Maning Sambale (mobile) ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] Fwd: 2015-04-25 06:11:24 UPDATED: (M7.9) NEPAL 28.2 84.7 (378fb)

2015-04-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
7.9 earthquake in Nepal. That's very strong. Jean-Guilhem Message transféré Sujet : 2015-04-25 06:11:24 UPDATED: (M7.9) NEPAL 28.2 84.7 (378fb) Date : Sat, 25 Apr 2015 07:08:56 + De :USGS ENS Répondre à :e...@ens.usgs.gov Pour : j...@arkemie.org Globe

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
Morning, there is a strong OSM contingent in Nepal including board member Nama. Thanks for the updates, Maning and JCG Heather On Apr 25, 2015 10:45 AM, "maning sambale" wrote: Just got this info from tv. News are still sketchy but kathmandu seems to be heavily affected. cheers, Maning Sambal

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
I’m hearing from old Red Cross friends that many places outside Kathmandu are also affected. I think we should worry about the city of Pokhara too, it’s a major city basically equidistant from the earthquake. — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Heather Leson wrote: > Morning

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
We started an international skype communication and gather infos.    Pierre De : Robert Banick À : Heather Leson Cc : "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 5h53 Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal I’m hearing from old Red Cross friend

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal - HOT Activation - OpenStreetMap response to Katmandu Earthquake

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Estimated number is rising. At this point, we should officially activate. Katmandu lab have made preparatory work in the last few years with the World Bank support. Looking at areas that needs to be completed. We should trace all buildings. Will come back with some Tasks.   Pierre De :

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Arun Ganesh
Have uploaded some high resolution osm extracts of downtown Kathmandu and Patan to wiki commons that could come in handy for immediate print use: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathmandu_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patan_Downtown_Streetmap_OSM.png

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Harry Wood
Wiki page for this earthquake:  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake Let's hope our friends a the Kathmandu Living Labs are all safe today. Because the community is strong in Nepal (and particularly Kathmandu), the map is already pretty good. Let's hope aid agencies will found

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Not succeeded yet to contact Katmandu lab folks. We plan to concentrate on roads. No priority established yet as the areas to cover. I will prepare first a task for the area north of Kathmandu in the mountains.     Pierre De : Harry Wood À : "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread maning sambale
>From Facebook, I saw one member of kathmandu labs saying they are ok. cheers, Maning Sambale (mobile) On Apr 25, 2015 8:20 PM, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > Not succeeded yet to contact Katmandu lab folks. > > We plan to concentrate on roads. No priority established yet as the areas > to cover. I w

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Maning please contact and ask him to contact me individually. We need infos to coordinate. First task is ready.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/994 I give instructions to avoid to trace every paths in the fields. This make more difficult to read maps. Other activators, please do not hesitate to ed

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
Saw the same and already asked the same Pierre. I haven't seen a response or activity from him so he may be busy or may have lost battery. Will follow up as best I can. — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > Maning please contact and ask him to contact m

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal - HOT Activation - OpenStreetMap response to Katmandu Earthquake

2015-04-25 Thread Nama Budhathoki
The damage seems to be massive. Reports are coming every minute. The quake has damaged different parts of the country, not just Kathmandu. I just got access to the internet; lots of congestion in communication. People from Kathmandu Living Labs including myself are safe. We are preparing to spend

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pete Masters
Pierre, I have added some tagging guides from the Nepal roads wiki page to the task instructions. Mostly applies to urban settings, but hopefully it helps (especially if new mappers join the task)... Pete On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > Maning please contact and ask hi

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal - HOT Activation - OpenStreetMap response to Katmandu Earthquake

2015-04-25 Thread Jaakko Helleranta
What an unfortunate piece of news. Very glad to hear that people from Kathmandu Living Labs are OK and safe. Hoping the best for other survivors. Huge thanks -- once again! -- for the swift reaction of our core activation coordination people, very good that things are already moving. As others ha

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Pete. Looking at the Ebola activation, people trace every path, sometimes a few hundred meters, going in all directions. This adds noise to the map. We could have this same problem in Nepal rural areas.  Mountains area are also particular. In many areas, only paths connect the villages.

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Robert Banick
Helicopter landing sites would be nice if we could reliably collect them. But this is NOT something I would want to get wrong (imagine showing up in the helicopter to a site and it’s unsuitable). — Sent from Mailbox On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > Thanks Pete. > Looki

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Jaakko Helleranta
"No visible damage in Pokhara." >From a friend in Pokhara. -J -- Nicaragua mobile: +505-8131-0729, alt. mob/WhatsApp +505-8845-3391 Global (Google) Voice / SMS: +1-202-730-9778 * Skype: jhelleranta Twitter/IRC/Mumble: @jaakkoh * My profile: http://about.me/jaakkoh On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 8:27 AM,

[HOT] 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Sam Larsen
Kunda Dixit on Twitter |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Kunda Dixit on TwitterPatan Nepal pic.twitter.com/k83SKyps4E | | | | View on twitter.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | |   |  Sam Larsen http://about.me/samlarsen1___ HOT mailing list HOT@openst

Re: [HOT] 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Sam Larsen
Epicentre between Kathmandu and Pokhara:Nepal earthquake: More than 100 dead, many injured - BBC News |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Nepal earthquake: More than 100 dead, many injured - B...At least 100 people are confirmed to have died as a powerful earthquake rocks Nepal, with the figur

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks, until we have more infos, we should concentrate around the epicenter closer to Kathmandu.    Pierre De : Jaakko Helleranta À : Robert Banick Cc : Pierre Béland ; HOT Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 10h37 Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal "No visible damage in P

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Nirab Pudasaini
Kathmandu has been hit and there have been many casualties. Have heard that Pokhara and Bharatpur have been effected as well. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, 3:51 PM Pierre Béland wrote: > We started an international skype communication and gather infos. > > > Pierre > > -- >

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Nirab Pudasaini
The epicenter is in Lamjung and the closest major residential area is Besisahar. I think other places Kathmandu, Pokhara and Bharatpur already have decent maps but work needs to be done for Besisahar Lamjung. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, 4:24 PM Nirab Pudasaini wrote: > Kathmandu has been hit and there

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Filipe Santana Lopes
Here we have another tool to identify the area in need. http://atlas.pdc.org/atlas/area_brief_proxy/ab_proxy.jsp?http://services.pdc.org/control/atlas/rr.php?shapetype=rect&xmin=83.2079&ymin=26.6473&xmax=86.2079&ymax=29.6473 As you can see we have 2 places in red and one in yellow. Best regards,

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Nirab I will look at this area and assure to cover.    Pierre De : Nirab Pudasaini À : Pierre Béland ; Robert Banick ; Heather Leson Cc : "HOT@OSM (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)" Envoyé le : Samedi 25 avril 2015 10h47 Objet : Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal The epic

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, In addition to the tasking manager projects, we are coordinating some very specific and important infrastructure mapping via the HOT mumble voice server. If you want to learn more about detailed mapping that goes on in the early hours after an emergency like this, joining us in

[HOT] GeoRSS feed for hotosm.org ?

2015-04-25 Thread Stefan Keller
hotosm.org home page aleady has an RSS2 feed (http://hotosm.org/feed/rss2 ) which is cool. I'd like to geolocate the news. Would'nt it be nice to extend this with GeoRSS? --S. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/li

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
HI folks, I wanted to thank you for all the hard work. I imagine that our friends in Nepal are in shock and taking care of their immediate friends and family. I am sure they will be in touch once they had have time to process. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Bl

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal - HOT Activation - OpenStreetMap response to Katmandu Earthquake

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
Nama and KLL team, my thoughts are with you and your country. Thanks for keeping us posted during such a difficult time. Hot folks - I wanted to echo Jaakko that your coordination is inspiring. Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sat, Apr

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
The road network info is very important for this response. Any volunteer to setup a Daily OSMand daily update for Nepal and add info about availibility in the wiki page of the Activation? regard   Pierre ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Pierre, I can get the initial files in place tonight and hopefully get it handed off to someone to cover it during next week. Cheers, Blake On 4/25/2015 8:44 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: The road network info is very important for this response. Any volunteer to setup a Daily OSMand daily u

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Blake. What are the required tools on the server? We need some kind of chron Task Manager script to run periocally, plus some host space. Any proposals? We still need some permanent setup for such tasks. Let's hope we can find solutions. regard Pierre De : Blake Girardot À : Pi

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OSM actually has a lot of helipads mapped in the area already. These are 'proper' heli sites marked with a circle and an H, not just open areas like we have been doing in west africa. I went through this morning and upgraded almost all of them from a

Re: [HOT] [OSM-np] Nepal Earthquake / HOT Response / Needs?

2015-04-25 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Just in case it could be useful, here is a uMap that could be used to collect collaboratively and openly information about damage location. I was thinking primarily about road blocks, which could be used as input for routing, either by entering them into OSM or by coupling them with OSM data. But

Re: [HOT] [OSM-np] Nepal Earthquake / HOT Response / Needs?

2015-04-25 Thread Nama Budhathoki
Kathmandu Living Labs is working to coordinate the mapping work. It is 6am; give us some time to get establish contact with response agencies and identify the needs. On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: > Just in case it could be useful, here is a uMap that could be used

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
It would be good to list in the wiki page the various particularities. In the mountains, agriculture is often in terrasses, and the villages and houses spread all over the place. Often, there are only foot paths between the villages. There are often foot suspension bridges like these two areas o

[HOT] KLL getting ready to be the local link for mapping work

2015-04-25 Thread Nama Budhathoki
Hi, KLL is getting ready to be the local link for mapping. Hope we can start the work soon. There are issues with internet and electricity. We are trying to establish contact with response agencies. If you can connect us with international response groups, that would be helpful. ​Nama __

[HOT] #994 Nepal Earthquake - Extend to the North

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Braun
Hello, Regarding the mapping of the roads North of Katmandou (Task #994), could you extend the area to be checked further to the North (add 1 or 2 rows)? There are trekkers waiting for rescue in Timure, which is between the selected area and the Chinese border. So it would be helpful to include t

Re: [HOT] #994 Nepal Earthquake - Extend to the North

2015-04-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Chris, I was revising the area and did identify the areas to mapped. The areas not included, I only saw glaciers. The Manaslu trek goes up to the top of the zone. In this remote area, we will trace villages and houses. see http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1002  People who have trekked in such are

Re: [HOT] #994 Nepal Earthquake - Extend to the North

2015-04-25 Thread Chris Braun
Pierre, thanks a lot for your answer. Unfortunately the area in #1002 still does not cover the area I mentioned, namely between the Chinese border and Syabru Basi on the map (North of Kathmandou). There is a high res satellite image in Google Earth dating back from 08/2014 where you clearly se

[HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

2015-04-25 Thread Nama Budhathoki
Hello All, Just to give you updates from the field. Kathmandu Living Labs team have assembled in a situation room. We are beginning to establish contact with response agencies. We are already in touch with Nepal Redcross. Here are the high priority areas for your help with mapping after discussin

[HOT] Tasking Manager down.

2015-04-25 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hello everyone, We are gathering a few people in Bangalore this afternoon to push further on the Nepal tasks. Unfortunately, the tasking manager is down. Any idea who is maintaining it and how we can help? Thank you. Sajjad. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@o

Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
Good morning Nama and KLL team, First off, it is so good to know that your team is ok. Thank you for this leadership and guidance. I can add this to the HOT blog and then hope that someone can update it once the tasks are identified. Truly, it is so good to hear from you and to know that you are

Re: [HOT] Tasking Manager down.

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
HI folks, Drazen just sent a note to advise that the HOT Tasking Manager is back up. Please test and advise. Drazen, thanks for your kind help so early in the morning. All hail SysAdmins! Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sun, Apr 26, 2

Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Leson
HI everyone, here is the activation blog post with all the current tasks, Nama's updates and how to get involved. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2015-04-26_hot_activates_for_nepal_response_report_2 Once the new tasks are available, can someone update this post? I can try to watch for your n

Re: [HOT] 7.9 earthquake in Nepal

2015-04-25 Thread Pete Masters
I've added the suspension bridges to the instructions in the TM. Pete On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Pierre Béland wrote: > It would be good to list in the wiki page the various particularities. > > In the mountains, agriculture is often in terrasses, and the villages and > houses spread all

Re: [HOT] Nepal Earthquake Mapping- REQUEST FOR HELP

2015-04-25 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi Heather and Nama, Currently projects 994 and 1001 cover several of Nama's priority areas, especially 994. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/994 http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1001 I have updated those projects to show the priority areas Nama has identified. However, those projects are f