You are right Toby, we are definitely lacking what to do in new areas. Esp. with places like the Pakistani NW. And you are right a lot of great stuff was put together for Haiti but it seems it needs to be generalized a bit. If people know of links to tutorials please post them here and the wiki as Toby suggested.
I'll do some searching too On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm kind of new here so I wasn't around for Haiti. Is there a general > "here is how to help map disaster areas" page on the wiki? I would be > willing to help out but the mapping I have done so far here in the US > is a little different thanks to TIGER data that at least gives you a > point to start from. It would be helpful to give some guidance on how > to go about mapping a blank area that you have no personal knowledge > of. And of course a link to that from the project-of-the-week page > wouldn't hurt either. > > This is a good start although some of it is Haiti specific: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Package > > Seems like something HOT would want to put together. Or have they > already and my searches just aren't finding it? > > > Toby > > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Shoaib Burq <sho...@nomad-labs.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Kashif just added Pakistan's Flood affected areas to the project of >> the week. If you are in the mood for tracing Yahoo Imagery it would be >> great to get some of these towns listed in the wiki page for the >> Pakistan floods traced >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Aug_08 >> >> Hope we can help out - this part of the word has seen enough heart-ache >> already >> >> Cheers >> Shoaib >> -- >> sho...@nomad-labs.com >> Canberra, Australia >> http://twitter.com/sabman >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
