Thanks Pierre, for sure, I missed a lot of individuals and orgs. Sorry for that.
Maning Sambale (mobile) On May 6, 2014 7:11 PM, "Pierre Béland" <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Thanks for this Maning and yes let's declare this Great activation over. > A tremendous effort was made remotely from people around the world. > > From one activation to the other, we are developping new ways to > collaborate with the humanitarian organizations and local communities. The > coordination with international organizations such as UN-OCHA, Red Cross, > GFDRR, HIU was awesome. We also had a fantastic support from various > imagery providers who let us cover such a large area for this emergency. > And a great thanks to Jean-Guilhem Cailton, Fred Moine and OSM-fr who > supported us for the imagery. Thanks also to the developpers who > contributed to deliver these poster size OSM maps to the Tacloban airport > 10 days after the Typhoon, and offer various services such as GPS and > OSMAnd / Android downloads. These various services offer a great support > to the humanitarians while deploying on the ground in the context of such > emergencies. > > The Philippines is different from other activations with the local OSM > communities contributing to complete the map with their local knowledge. > Thanks to Maning and all the OSM-ph contributors for your contribution in > such a difficult context. This is an essential part of the map and I am > pleased to see that this has some recognition from the various governmental > agencies. > > Pierre > > ------------------------------ > *De :* maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > *À :* HOT <h...@openstreetmap.org>; osm-ph <talk-ph@openstreetmap.org> > *Envoyé le :* Mardi 6 mai 2014 11h52 > *Objet :* [HOT] Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Activation Wrap-up > > 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 and international humanitarian groups. Locally, I can say that > OSM became the de-facto resource for updated geographic data. Various > government agencies (including the national mapping agency) are now > taking a second look at the wealth of data we created. Along the way, > we were able to refine our coordination protocols which I hope became > useful in the successive response we are currently supporting > worldwide. > > Let me thank everyone who supported this response, from the remote > mappers, humanitarian agencies who used our data, image providers, > organizers of numerous mapathons, the people who shared the appeal to > social and mainstream media and, the core HOT volunteers (especially > Andrew, Pierre, JGC and many others) who provided both technical > guidance and moral support during the height of the activation. > > If you view the history tab in osm.org right now, you will notice that > local volunteers (who were victims themselves) are working on updating > the map. This will be a big task for us in the OSM-PH community, but > slowly, we are taking on the challenge to keep the map up to date. > > Remote mapping has dwindled the past few months and I would like to > formally declare (through this email, since I don't know the > "protocol") that we are wrapping-up this activation. Thank you again > for all your help. > > There will be a little bit of clean-up such as removing non-essential > data (i.e. tasking manager relations used in creating tasks). If > anyone has a need for this kind of data to remain in the DB, let us > know. > > Thanks again, please update the wiki [0] if there are things we missed > during the activation. Also, if there are reports/assessment on the > way we responded please add them to the wiki as well. > > [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > h...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > >
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