Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-18 Thread Pierre Béland
Google Cyclone Pam Crisis map shows the track of the cyclone. We see that north of Vanuatu, it does not pass close to islands. But there were report of some vulnerability of islands in Kiribati.https://mapsengine.google.com/06831253009698256830-04330043000251498305-4/mapview/?authuser=0

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-17 Thread Heather Leson
HI folks, our colleagues at UN Spider recognized HOT's contribution: http://www.un-spider.org/news-and-events/news/crowdsource-mapping-assistance-cyclone-struck-vanuatu Thank you, Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-17 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Heather Great recognition  yes. Cheers   Pierre De : Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Cc : HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 17 mars 2015 8h07 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone HI folks, our

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Pierre Béland
Update from https://fr.news.yahoo.com/inqui%C3%A9tude-pour-les-%C3%AEles-recul%C3%A9es-du-vanuatu-apr%C3%A8s-062357404.html Reports that the islands south of Port-Vila are severely affectec, since the cyclone passed over them and stay longer. There are still communications cut and incomplete

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Yantisa Akhadi
*Envoyé le :* Lundi 16 mars 2015 5h46 *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone Hello all, Great job for everyone involved! I just got question from my colleague in UN OCHA. His colleague in Vanuatu would like to download and use the data. Is there any other alternative(s) from the Geofabrik ones

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Pierre Béland
: Lundi 16 mars 2015 5h46 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone Hello all,Great job for everyone involved! I just got question from my colleague in UN OCHA. His colleague in Vanuatu would like to download and use the data. Is there any other alternative(s) from the Geofabrik ones? Since

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Yantisa Akhadi
Hello all, Great job for everyone involved! I just got question from my colleague in UN OCHA. His colleague in Vanuatu would like to download and use the data. Is there any other alternative(s) from the Geofabrik ones? Since the file size for the whole continents is 600MB. This might be a bit of

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Pierre Béland
 : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr Cc : HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 16 mars 2015 11h52 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone Important aspect of remote islands is indigenous tribes with non-Western housing.  Likely not visible on satellite. High

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Rob James
Important aspect of remote islands is indigenous tribes with non-Western housing. Likely not visible on satellite. High vulnerability. Needs local knowledge to identify locations. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Some follow-up Remote response support

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-16 Thread Heather Leson
HI folks, I wrote this about your amazing efforts. Blake kindly reviewed it for us. Edits welcome. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2015-03-16_mapping_vanuatu_islands Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:41 AM,

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: - For each village, assure that a common space has been added (leisure=common) and trace major buildings In some cases where the hamlet is at the beach, and the beach has a good width (does 15m suffice?) I have seen

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Béland
Yes Ralph, I think that this would be a good option.    Pierre De : Ralf Stephan gtrw...@gmail.com À : hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Dimanche 15 mars 2015 10h12 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM Pierre Béland

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Béland
Great Crowdsourcing effort from the community again. Thanks to all for this quick response. Be assure that the International community is quite happy about this. We repeated what we did for the first day of the Ebola response. In 20 hours, we covered all the priority islands to map (both jobs

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? Drazen points out that Geofabrik provides this 12 hours old export of the area: http://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania.html Regards, Blake

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Severin Menard
: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone This is a category 5 Cyclone, the highest category and many deaths reported. ReliefWeb map, March 13, shows that the Islands south of Port Vila should have been the more affected. http://www.static.reliefweb.int/map/vanuatu/vanuatu-tropical-cyclone

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? Vanatu is not currently covered by the Export server supported areas so I can't generate this file that way. ___

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? I will do this part now. ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The tag natural=beach is the recommended tag for actual beaches. The common areas are different. Generally they are rectangular area that is covered in grass like a small park. I don't see so many of these in Vanautu like we do in west Africa

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Béland
The extent of the disaster zone to cover from the north to the south is 650 km long. The post-assessment evaluation will be difficult and the pre-disaster informations should be very usefull for the response. In this context, we want to trace all the buildings. This will be difficult with the

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
...@yahoo.fr mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr *À :* Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr; HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Samedi 14 mars 2015 13h40 *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone This is a category 5 Cyclone

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Béland
Great Blake, I will contact you privately to document the wiki page. cheers   Pierre De : Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr; hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Dimanche 15 mars 2015 13h42 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
*Data Exports * The HOT Exports will let us offer map export updates. Could somebody prepare an export in obf format for OSMAnd? I created an .obf file for Vanatu taken from the most recent 2015-03-14-21:22:02 GMT Geofabrik Oceania extract.

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Blake Girardot
Hi everyone, I want to let you know I just got done updating the Vanuatu specific data exports from OSM we provide to the humanitarian organizations responding to Vanuatu. You have more than doubled the amount of map data in OSM about this nation in a little less than 24 hours!

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-15 Thread Heather Leson
Fantastic. I know everyone is super busy. Would someone like to help on a blog post to highlight this work? Heather On Monday, March 16, 2015, Blake Girardot bgirar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I want to let you know I just got done updating the Vanuatu specific data exports from OSM we

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
Jean-Guilhem informs me about a UNICEF Update reporting deaths in islands around Penata. The Tropical Cyclone PAM Track Map - 12 March 2015 from OCHA shows in red color the areas correspond the islands affected, including Penata.

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Harry Wood
way which also carries a place=island and name tag. That needs converting to a multipolygon. Harry From: Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr To: hot@openstreetmap.org hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2015, 23:19 Subject: Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
*Objet :* Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone This is a category 5 Cyclone, the highest category and many deaths reported. ReliefWeb map, March 13, shows that the Islands south of Port Vila should have been the more affected. http://www.static.reliefweb.int/map/vanuatu/vanuatu-tropical

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
 : Rafael Avila Coya ravilac...@gmail.com À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Samedi 14 mars 2015 16h13 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Pierre: Sad news. I travelled in several of those islands for a month in 2010, and have quite

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
And before giving the relay to others Thanks all for this fantastic response In less then 8 hours, 80% of TM job 943 is completed and 25% of TM job 944.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/943http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/944 We still have fragmented infos from Vanuata.  For this Class 5 cyclone

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
Envoyé le : Samedi 14 mars 2015 22h03 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone We have a wiki page for Vanuatu so I've added details to that and links to the TM projects on there http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vanuatu For your second TM project, Pierre, I've tweaked the description

[HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
Vanuatu Archipel (800 km long) was severely hit by the Pam Cyclone.  I started discussion with Dale about this. Not yet sure at this point if Red Cross will deploy. We start to document for the islands hit and the imagery available.  I first look at the situation this morning, I saw dispersed

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
30 km x 30 km and smaller islands. A mix of Bing and MapBox imagery can be used since cloudy imagery in various areas.   Pierre De : Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr À : HOT Openstreetmap hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Samedi 14 mars 2015 13h20 Objet : [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam

Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone

2015-03-14 Thread Pierre Béland
: Samedi 14 mars 2015 13h40 Objet : Re: [HOT] Vanuata Islands, Pam Cyclone This is a category 5 Cyclone, the highest category and many deaths reported. ReliefWeb map, March 13, shows that the Islands south of Port Vila should have been the more affected. http://www.static.reliefweb.int/map