2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami

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2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami (Main Page)	Mapping coordination and data sources	Imageries

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The epicenter (map)

The 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami is a current disaster. See wikipedia:2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami for details and news. OpenStreetMap has good map data in this region, and the Humanitarian OSM Team is on hand to help. An OpenStreetMap based disaster information sharing site sinsai.info has been set up.

Disaster Overview

The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin) is an earthquake that generated the coast of Pacific Ocean Sanriku as a hypocenter at about 14:46 March 11, 2011.

This page in Japanese ( 日本語 ): JA:2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
Wikipedia 2011 Tohoku Earthquake summary in Japanese: 2011年東北地方太平洋沖地震
Wikipedia 2011 Tohoku earthquake summary in English: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

OpenStreetMap Resources for use by activities on the ground

Browse the OSM map of Northern Japan

road damage status, obstacles - following tags are visualized:(impassable=yes, barrier=*, tsunami:damage)。
POI Map for disasters - POIs shown as icons based on High priority emergency POIs
Geofabrik downloads - daily updated extracts in .osm format, shapefile. Garmin coming soon.
CloudMade downloads - weekly updated extracts in .osm format, various shapefile formats, and Garmin img files.
Garmin IMG files with contours for Sendai (64Mb) and Honshu by Ralph Kleineisel
Other Garmin img downloads are listed at OSM Map On Garmin/Download#Asia
High Resolution PDF/PNG of latest OSM at http://eqjp.dbsgeo.com/prints/
Map overlay (WMS, can be used with OpenLayers) showing the road status (passable/impassable).
POI-Maps by Lübeck updated daily hopefully - wms-layer barrier and road-status added
- Short-URL: http://osm.tappenbeck.net/hot_japan and japanese localized version
- danger zone around the nuclare-factory Fukushima [1]

Realtime situational mapping

sinsai.info Ushahidi Site - Current status/hazards/needs on a map. Various reporting channels including text messages (using OpenStreetMap!)
ESRI's latest news map - Similar idea. Geoloacted YouTube movies, tweets, and photos on esri's platform.

Contact

Within Japan

The OSM Japan community is also coordinating through the OpenStreetMap Japan - Crisis Mapping Project.

Outside Japan

For help using OpenStreetMap, or other requests/information:

Check the wikipage of HOT (the Humanitarian OSM Team), or send a email to the official HOT contact address: hotosm [AT] gmail.com
HOT mailing list - for public discussion
IRC chatrooms include a #osm-ja channel (logged) and a #hot channel (though the general #osm channel is always busier)
See Contact for other OpenStreetMap channels

Ways to help mapping

Note:This is a brief overview. See mapping coordination and data sources for details.

Help mapping from afar

There are several ways you can help from a remote place. If there is anything you can do, please help. However, please note that OpenStreetMap is operated under an open data license, so you cannot incorporate data from incompatible licensing.

Tracing imagery

Satellite imagery are used as source data from which roads and buildings are traced (digitized, by clicking on the image) and incorporated into the digital map.

Importing data

Public data, and data provided for OpenStreetMap are imported into the OpenStreetMap database. This will import data for a vast area in a large batch, so this requires coordination among mappers and communication to discuss tagging.

Copying coordinate data

If there are data that comes with coordinate information, that can be written to OpenStreetMap. Make sure that the license scheme of the data source is compatible. Data sources confirmed to be compatible are follows:

emergency shelter map by Miyagi Prefecture local government(Japanese). Incorporation work is coordinated with this spreadsheet(Japanese). See here for tagging information.

Mapping on the ground

To avoid confusion, at the time of this writing (Mar. 21, 2011), gathering data and mapping on the ground (e.g. moving around with a GPS device) by people other than rescue professionals or people living in the area, is not recommended.

What to map

Note:This is a brief overview. See mapping coordination and data sources for details.

Base map

Base map information, such as road and buildings, has not been mapped sufficiently in the north-eastern area of Japan. Please consider helping data entry in the base map. Much traceable imagery is available.

Importable (digital) data is also provided. Please consider helping with this activity if possible.

Post disaster map

Damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami has to be mapped. If you have experience in crisis mapping, please help mapping things that should be mapped, based on your experience.

However, situation is changing rapidly and the kind of information that is required must be considered with experts in the field. The japanese OpenStreetMap community is discussing with HOT to set up policies. Please wait for a while.

Other Ways to Help

Translations

We are currently recruiting translators. There are many documents that need translating. Even translating one of them would be a big contribution.

2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami/Translation Request

Mapping Applications

Developing means to utilize OpenStreetMap (such as creating applications, etc.) or localizing(translating) existing applications, are very helpful. Applications well thought for the use on the ground are especially appreciated. At this time, the following forms of applications are being created, or planned. For any other ideas, your imagination is the limit.

Offline Maps (i.e. map data for use in Garmin)
Paper Maps
POI Maps
- Example：Sendai earthquake and tsunami

For beginners to OpenStreetMap (New to mapping?)

Thank you for showing your interest in helping the mapping activities of OpenStreetMap.

First step guide

Please read:

About
Beginners' guide. It explains about gathering data with a GPS device, but that might be less relevant in our case.
FAQ

How to map

We're working to make things easier, but it may take a little while to learn the ropes. Take your time and feel free to Contact people to ask questions.

Tutorials

(new) Video demonstrating tracing roads from aerial photography using JOSM (a desktop OSM editor).

Communication

(JA to EN translation ommited. It is for people who can read/write Japanese. If you're ok with Japanese, go to the japanese page.)

Recovery aiding activities by OpenStreetMap Japan

Shortly after the disaster, OpenStreetMap Japan has set up OpenStreetMap Japan - Crisis Mapping Project and has started the following activities:

OpenStreetMap Japan - Crisis Mapping Project
sinsai.info North-East Earthquate(sinsai) information site( An information portal for the damaged area )