[talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Activation Wrap-up

2014-05-06 Thread maning sambale
Dear everyone, It's been almost half a year since we activated for the Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. Since then, I'm sure you are aware of the tremendous response we received both from remote mappers and responders on the ground. Over 4 million map changes from ~1,500 contributors. We supported local

[talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan HOT presentation

2014-01-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Harry Wood of HOT (and also OSMF Communication Working Group) gave a talk about HOT and Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in particular. You can see his slides and presentation notes on his blog: http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2014/01/14/typhoon-openstreetmap-odi/ Harry also pointed to this nice animation o

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-06 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Thanks Eugene. Updated http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines/High-resolution_imagery#Imagery_coverage_map with the new URL. Le 06/11/2013 11:43, Eugene Alvin Villar a écrit : > Hi Jean-Guilhem, > > The map here is outdated: > http://tools.openstreetmap.org.ph/imagery_coverage/ > > The a

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jean-Guilhem, The map here is outdated: http://tools.openstreetmap.org.ph/imagery_coverage/ The almost up-to-date map is here: http://osmph.github.io/Imagery_Coverage_Map/ Anyway, there's plenty of Bing satellite imagery that are not yet fully traced. Samar and Leyte are good candidates for t

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-06 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, I browsed looking for "new" Bing high resolution images using http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer-ve/ , and found some that do not already appear on http://tools.openstreetmap.org.ph/imagery_coverage/ . (Maybe they were already mentioned on this list, I don't know) For example,

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-06 Thread Carlo Antonio Romero
This typhoon will definitely do some damage. Japan Meteorological Agency's bulletin [a] describes the typhoon's going to hit between "Very Strong" to "Violent". Unfortunately, the typhoons path is vast as Eugene pointed out. >From a mapping perspective... 1) There are some unfinished jobs in the

Re: [talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Jean-Guilhem, Currently, the typhoon is still too far off. The typhoon still has not yet entered our country's meteorological area of responsibility so our weather bureau (PAGASA) is not yet issuing any weather bulletins. In addition, we still have no idea where the typhoon will make landfall—t

[talk-ph] Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan

2013-11-05 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, Seeing alerts about typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan, apparently forecast to have reached category 4 when hitting the Philippines on Friday, with winds that could reach 240 km/h and very heavy rains: http://www.gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=41058&episodeid=9&eventtype=TC Is there anything related to