Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-09 Thread Ervin Malicdem
In response to the active map ups on Yolanda crisis areas, I will be updating the Garmin Routable maps based on OSM "daily" until needed. This is in case an up-to-date GPS offline map may be needed by our field relief volunteers. http://www.s1expeditions.com/p/openstreetmaps.html Ervin Malicdem

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello everyone, There are 2 additional HOT Tasks that have been created: 1. http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/339 - Mapping villages in Samar and Leyte (just the residential areas and roads, no need for buildings) 2. http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/340 - Mapping in detail selected areas that are known to

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-09 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree that wider coverage will be needed and I had hoped that by now we would have a better indication of where to map as well. My reason for staying with Tacloban for so long was largely due to lack of knowing where else to shift focus to (although

Re: [talk-ph] [HOT] Typhoon Haiyan Mapping Progress

2013-11-09 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, According to Al Jazeera, the death toll could be very high, sadly. And several millions of people have been affected. I'd like to remind that an often-mentioned weakness of OSM is the uneven quality of the coverage, and that it is not because you have a hammer that everything is a nail. So,