The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is on another deployment to Haiti. They have been making periodic trips to Haiti since the earthquake there last year. The goal has been to coach Haitians in mapping so that they may continue to improve the map of Haiti in OSM. OSM Haiti contributors include members of the Haitian GIS community, as well as community advocates and the usual, broad spectrum of interested parties that we see in OSM.
Recently they have been learning about mapping from aerial imagery. Today it is reported that the OSM community in Haiti is helping to map from aerial imagery for the emergency responses in Japan and Libya. Photos and the original report from Mikel. http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/2011/03/haiti-osm-mapping-for-japan-and-libya/ About two weeks ago, we were in the midst of crisis mapping in Christchurch, NZ after the Earthquake there. I did a summary of the contributions in a substantial portion of Christchurch and found that OSM user ikiya was far and away the most active contributor to tracing buildings and other infrastructure. Ikiya is in Japan, and tweeting regularly. If you get a chance to do some crisis mapping for Sendai, I'm sure our friends in the Japanese OSM community will appreciate it. Keep on top of the Sendai resources via the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca