Afghan EQ HOT Activation

[maning]

HOT Activated for 7.5 EQ over Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Region. @maning @shvrm @geohacker is coordinating with the HOT Activators via skype channel.

Current activities

• Improve imagery coverage over affected areas.
• Setup priority areas for preparation of Tasking Manager projects.
• Link with local contacts in the region for situation on the ground.
• @mapbox/team-data To work on TM projects.

cc/ @camillacaros @lxbarth @gundersen @mikelmaron

[camillacaros]

@maning @lxbarth @gundersen @mikelmaron

Imagery to z19 has been rendered for the entire Nangarhar province. Coverage gist map.

Nangarhar province new imagery coverage

Next

I'm working on the next round of imagery to publish for priority cities farther to the North in Badakshan, and Takhar provinces now.

[Rub21]

@maning @lxbarth @gundersen @mikelmaron @camillacaros :

Mapbox Peru Office started working since today in http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1264, we are focusing in the red area.

[camillacaros]

Sounds great @Rub21 I've moved fwd with processing imagery for the following area, which covers that priority activation zone as well as the larger activation zone. Hi-res imagery is currently flowing into mapbox.satellite for this HOT activation region down to zoom 19 and is available to use for tracing.

Please note this extent will not be fully processed for another few hours, but it is all in motion.

cc @maning @lxbarth @gundersen @mikelmaron

[pratikyadav]

Seeing a lot of 2010 imported data from user - afgroadsimport. The source of this dataset is Afghanistan Information Managment Service.

There are 2 issues with these import-

1. Alignment - based on low resoultion imagery are thus are not aligned.
2. Missing connection- Overlaping nodes on each other but not merged.

cc @mapbox/team-data

[maning]

Roads and dry river beds maybe confusing, use Mapbox Terrain or OpenCycleMap to compare. Rivers in gullies. Roads/paths normally follow ridges. There are exceptions of course

[pratikyadav]

Warning
Make sure you don't get confused between canals and roads. Found some canals that looked like paved roads.

cc @mapbox/team-data

[maning]

2015-10-28

Wins

🏆 10 @mapbox/india-office worked on TM Project 1264
🏆 Imagery updates to fill-in gaps from Bing (Nangarngar- 7,493 km^2, Takhar and Badakshan - 25,744 km^2) #132 (comment)
🏆 22% done for TM Project 1264 focusing on Kunduz and Fayzabad priority areas
🏆 2 blogs posts about the activation 1, 2

Editing issues

• Easy to trace residential areas but scanning the whole area takes time.
• Difficult to differentiate dry riverbed over tracks Afghan EQ HOT Activation #132 (comment)
• Fixing misaligned imported roads takes time Afghan EQ HOT Activation #132 (comment)
• Many isolated settlements particularly on the eastern section of Fayzabad
• Some tasks were marked as done but a there were many missing settlements and roads.

[ruthmaben]

@mapbox/team-data - You may come across similar tags building=yes. Need to change this to landuse=residential

[maning]

2015-10-29

Wins

🏆 12 @mapbox/india-office + @Andygol worked on TM Project 1264.
🏆 32% (+10% from yesterday) done for TM Project 1264 focusing on Kunduz and Fayzabad priority areas.
🏆 HOT Activators processed Post-EQ imagery from Pleiades. As agreed in skype, we keep this imagery for now, unless we get Post-EQ request.
🏆 Nailing #ogpmapping!

Editing issues

• Some residential areas were tagged as buildings.

[maning]

Per voice with @planemad, we decided we will do validation focusing on checking consistency of road tagging. This is to respond to the request of the Activators.

@planemad Already made a visualization for Nepal.

Some of the @mapbox/team-data will do it this week.

[maning]

validation focusing on checking consistency of road tagging.

Done validating lower half of the TM project 1264. Closing.