Imaki-san, Thank you! I think it's difficult to oversee all current activities. I assume that all important data sources OSM can use are listed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami>Digital Globe editors are limited to 20 accounts: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami/List_of_DigitalGlobe_Editors Probably the main focus of OSM community is this page: http://sinsai.info/ I think some daily "newsletter" (or maybe even twice a day) in both Japanese/English, that summarize the latest achievements and changes, would be very valuable for everyone. There are probably too many news out there right now and too many emails sent to mailing lists to pick the important one for each of us. My Japanese skills and available time are probably not sufficient to lead this. I think it's difficult to get started, so maybe something like this exists already? Daniel 2011/3/15 Hiroo Imaki <hi...@angeli.org> > Daniel, > > I would like to organize my thoughts and prioritize tasks I can help > on recent OSM-J work with people around Seattle. I know many people in > Japan working hard to update OSM but can some of OSM-J leaders can > sort out what kind of task they want to get done and let us know in > English? I know Furuhashi-san and Seino-san but they must have too > much work. Is there any other person I can talk to about current OSM > priorities? > > I am little bit confused about which remote sensing data I can use for > OSM mapping. Can we use air photo's Chiriin took after the disaster? > > Thank you so much for communicating with rest of the world!! > > Hiroo > > 2011/3/14 Daniel Kastl <dan...@georepublic.de>: > > Hi Peter, > > (I'm sending this also to the OSM lists) > > > > I think it's impossible to avoid duplicate work. Mostly due to the > language > > barrier. > > Since Sunday I'm logging the IRC channel(s) of the OSM community. It was > > increased to three channels, because the traffic was too high. And still > the > > logs are long. Always there are about 50 people on each > > channel. http://openstreetmap.jp/irclog/ > > I think one important point for OSM and OSGeo communities is, that data > is > > really freely available to be possible to be published and processed by > the > > mass of users. I have written this post on the mailing list one year > > ago: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ja/2010-March/002549.html > > And unfortunately it just happened. The OSM community would produce > > up-to-date maps within an incredible short time, if they had the > permission > > to use the satellite photos. > > Servers to serve the data are setup in hours, but to convince the > companies > > to let us use the imagery is extremely annoying and time consuming. This > > disaster will not be the last time this happens, I fear. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > > 2011/3/15 Peter Hannah <han...@gmail.com> > >> > >> Daniel, > >> Yes, I started worrying about duplication of effort the more I saw the > >> random GIS posts on Skype. Thank you for your work! If you don't mind, > I > >> will add you to our subgroup email list to help consolidate the efforts. > I > >> will look into joining the lists you mention. > >> Best regards, > >> Peter > >> > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Daniel Kastl > >> <daniel.ka...@georepublic.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello Peter, > >>> Thank you for your email and please say hello to Jaymes! > >>> I'm actually on the CrisisCommons list since last Saturday and also > >>> foundation member of the Japanese OpenStreetMap community. > >>> We have setup this Ushahidi platform (http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/ > ) > >>> and the Japanese OSGeo and OSM community are working to publish data > >>> sources, that were not freely available until now. > >>> Other entry pages are: > >>> http://openstreetmap.jp/crisis/ > >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami > >>> I think there is a lot of duplicate work done in many groups, who don't > >>> know well about each other. But I think that's OK, because better > having it > >>> done twice than not at all. The groups I'm active in are mainly local > people > >>> and they speak Japanese and are not too familiar with English, so this > is > >>> for sure making it difficult. > >>> I recommend you to join the following Japanese mailing lists: > >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeojapan-discuss > >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja > >>> There are many readers involved in OpenSource GIS and OSM, who have > good > >>> contacts to mapping companies and data providers as well as the > >>> government. It's no problem at all to post in English. A couple of > emails > >>> from CrisisCommons have been forwarded to this list also from my side. > >>> Best regards, > >>> Daniel > >>> > >>> 2011/3/15 Peter Hannah <han...@gmail.com> > >>>> > >>>> Mr. Kastl, > >>>> I am a friend and colleague of Jaymes Cloninger. Jaymes gave me your > >>>> contact information so that I may request a favor. > >>>> I'm volunteering for a group named Crisis > >>>> Commons http://crisiscommons.org/. CrisisCommons, along with our > friends in > >>>> the greater volunteer technology community, stands ready to provide > >>>> opportunities to volunteers of all skills levels to contribute to > support > >>>> requests made by crisis response agencies such as UN OCHA, Red Cross > or > >>>> local emergency management in support of their response and recovery > efforts > >>>> to response to 2011 Sendai earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that > has > >>>> affected countries across the Pacific region. > >>>> CrisisCommons continues to monitor efforts in the region as well as > >>>> supporting an information gathering request from the United Nations > Office > >>>> of Humanitarian Coordination Agency to provide additional sources to > >>>> their Common Operational Datasets (see page 5 for categories). > Volunteers > >>>> from across the world have been collaborating via a public Skype chat > to > >>>> input data feeds and information into Country Profiles throughout the > days > >>>> and nights since this terrible disaster. > >>>> I'm forming a subgroup for the primary focus of gathering GIS data. > If > >>>> you have any resources that I might be able to use in support of this > >>>> effort, it may likely help the relief efforts in this region. Please > see > >>>> the Common Operational Datasets link above. If you have any > questions, > >>>> please feel free to contact me. > >>>> Thank you, > >>>> Peter > >>>> Peter J. Hannah, GISP > >>>> 256-534-0951 > >>>> Huntsville, AL, USA > >>>> > >>>> For more information: > >>>> > >>>> http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Honshu_Quake > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > >>> Salzmannstraße 44, > >>> 81739 München, Germany > >>> > >>> eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de > >>> Web: http://georepublic.de > >>> > >>> Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 > >>> Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 > >>> > >>> Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 > >>> CEO: Daniel Kastl > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan > > eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de > > Web: http://georepublic.de > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ja mailing list > > Talk-ja@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ja > > > > > > > > -- > Hiroo Imaki > hi...@angeli.org > http://www.geopacific.org > -- Georepublic UG & Georepublic Japan eMail: daniel.ka...@georepublic.de Web: http://georepublic.de
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