On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jg_cail...@volunteers.cartong.org> wrote: > Here is a map of typhoon eye track, created by Pierre Lorioux of > CartONG, currently intern at ICRC : > http://54.201.17.178/cartong/Haiyan/Haiyan_Philippines_10112013_CartONG.pdf
This map seems to correspond to the reported damages by local media, although many areas are still inaccessible. Reports from local media is slowly coming in and it is not very good news. Some reports estimates the death toll to exceed 10K. While Haiyan/Yolanda is now out of the Philippines, there is new low pressure brewing in the Pacific [0] which could exacerbate the situation in many affected areas. Right now, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) the major government agency organizing the relief is using OSM as the basemap for its Disaster Situation Map [1]. Please continue working on the current tasks, we will create new tasks as we get additional request from local responders. IMO, priorities should focus on: - access - roads and bridges - presence of settlements - landuse=residential should be sufficient [0] http://openweathermap.org/Maps?zoom=5&lat=11.54473&lon=122.4209&layers=B0FFTFTT [1] http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php PS. I went to Tacloban just this year to talk about FOSS4G and OSM for DRR. My visit in some ways, sparked the interest of local NGOs, GIS users and government employees to start contributing to OSM. These are the areas you may have noticed to be well-mapped road-wise. Some of these mappers live in the mostly devastated areas. I tried to contact a few but haven't heard from any of them since the Yolanda made landfall in Tacloban. Still hoping they are safe. ------------------------------------------------------ "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 https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
