Dear everyone, As you are probably aware, Northern Mindanao (specifically Cagayan de Oro and Iligan) was ravaged by flash floods a few days ago. As of last update by the NDRRMC, 900 people have been killed, over 1,500 have been injured and almost 285,000 are served inside and outside 62 evacuation centers [0 and 1].
There are several crowdsource mapping initiatives already happening on various fronts by a government agency [2], academe [3] and local bloggers in Iligan city [4]. Moreover, updated hires imagery for CDO and Iligan should be available soon [5]. Unfortunately, I've seen very little demand for now to provide updated OSM dataset because the primary focus is on relief and donation (and rightly so). However, on the long term basis, I feel that OSM can provide better data as disaster (of this magnitude) in our county is happening on an annual basis. UN-OCHA is the primary UN Agency "leading actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies" has a set of operational datasets [6] that are used to support the work of humanitarian actors across multiple sectors. Maybe OSM can provide better data to UN-OCHA? As we try to get in contact with humanitarian orgs to use OSM data I encourage you to continue mapping the affected areas using Bing imagery and provide further information in the existing crowd source mapping initiatives I mentioned. The immediate area affected are the following: * Cagayan de Oro - http://osm.org/go/4sXdRch-- * Iligan - http://osm.org/go/4sVnseK We can start by adding roads and rivers. Other existing data that can be used for humanitarian efforts are: * Rectified topomaps in my mapwarper ph instance - http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com ** CDO Geohazard map - http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/maps/317 ** CDO 1:50k topo - http://ec2-50-17-155-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com/maps/311 * CDO watershed and other GIS data - http://www.philgis.org/Miscellaneous/CagayanDeOroRiverWatershed/CDO_River_Basin.htm * Garmin road (OSm derived) and contour (SRTM derived) maps - http://esambale.wikispaces.com/osmphil_garmin === [0] http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/188 [1] http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/9748 [2] http://ereport.dswd.gov.ph/ [3] https://philippinedisasterwatch.crowdmap.com/ [4] http://www.oneforiligan.com/ [5] http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-382 [6] http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/philippines -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph