[HOT] Activation for Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

[Pierre Béland]

This week was just awesome. More then 800 OpenStreetMap contributors have updated the map for Phillippines and more then 2,000,000 objects were edited! Thanks to all for this tremendous effort. Be assure that this reactivity of our community saved lifes.

We are also starting to receive aerial imagery through the International Humanitarian Chapter, a network of spatial agencies that provide imagery free for this Activation.

We coordinate for this crisis with the Red Cross, with the Digital Humanitarian Network (HOT is is part of DHN) and some other NGO's.

And this overwhelpming effort is recognised by major humanitarian
 organizations we are working with plus various medias.  The Typhoon 
wiki page already list 20 articles published this week about the 
OpenStreetMap community. Please update this page for any other article 
you find and in various languages.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan

Article about Red Cross and HOT
http://m.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2013/11/how-online-mapmakers-are-helping-red-cross-save-lives-philippines/73637/

The OCHA UN  Agency Humanitarian Response COD FOD  references OpenStreetMap for Phillippines and the Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda : "OpenStreetMap provides good mapping data for this country (free!) Hourly updates of Geofabrik data is available"
https://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/search/field_country_region/164

Again, thanks to all the contributors and other groups that coordinate with us for this humanitarian action.


 
Pierre
Coordination of this Activation : Andrew Buck with the support of Maning Sambale and Pierre Béland. Kate Chapman acts as one of the coordinators of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN).
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