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We have various sources for information about news for the OSM crisismappers. There is OSM-Talk, the crisismappers list, twitter, IRC and the various wiki pages. But it's getting increasingly difficult to follow this high traffic medias and stay up to date with the important information.

This wiki page will be used to list the important news like new WMS services/imagery available, new maps available or new map features need to be mapped. Please only list important news, describe them with a short note and link to the associated web pages. Time should be added using the UTC (Clock for web browser) and ISO 8601

Be concise. Make links to more developed parts. Sign your post or paste the timestamp : 2012-02-10 12:52.

Thank you for posting your news !

Contents 1 2012-02-10 12:52 2 Archives 2.1 2010 February 2.2 2010-01-25 2.3 2010-01-25 2.4 2010-01-24 2.5 2010-01-23 2.6 2010-01-21 2.7 2010-01-20

2012-02-10 12:52

• WikiProject revisions: Revisions to front page of WikiProject completed = everything consolidated into a single table or moved to different pages. --Ceyockey 16:34, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
• WikiProject revisions: Revisions are underway (slowly) to revise the WikiProject from crisis-response to mapping-as-usual mode. --Ceyockey 16:34, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
• On-the-ground: Fourth deploy write-up - 2010-09-08
• On-the-ground: HOT Mission 3 complete [2] - 2010-06-28
• Hot website launched with blog category 'Haiti' - 2010-05-??

Archives

2010 February

• Data : Haiti boundary shapefile available. read more --2010-02-18 00:08
• First import of radio and tv stations --2010-02-07
• First import of the PAHO/WHO dataset of health facilities completed --2010-02-07
• New hi-res imagery from Google available --2010-02-05
• New Video: Using Presets in Potlatch - Work more efficiently in OSM --2010-02-01 22:18

2010-01-25

• Feedback: ...saved me from getting lost twice... -- 2010-01-26 21:02
• Haiti Symbolic Project. Also, One-Click OSM wiki editing available. -- 2010-01-26 06:30 (UTC)

2010-01-25

• Status: Mapping of Haiti and PaP animated (mp4) -- 2010-01-25 15:49
• Imagery: new aerial imagery provided by WorldBank -- Gubaer 09:08, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

2010-01-24

• Web : new LatLon tools for Haiti [3] [4] -- FrViPofm 14:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
• Press : The OSM Foundation has prepared a press release about haiti
• Web : OSM-Emergencies: OpenStreetBug instance dedicated to Haiti available at ose.petschge.de. -- Petschge

2010-01-23

• ML: Open dedicated new mailing list available (subscribe by mail here) Please cc: to OSM-talk, at least at the beginning. -- Jgc 21:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
• Wiki: A new User box in test for the Volunteers to put on your page. FrViPofm 23:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
• Imagery: WorldView-2, DigitalGlobe, 2010-01-20 available. -- FrViPofm 21:23, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

2010-01-21

see also Hospital Data From Sahana

• new (2010-01-31): Precise coords have been entered in shared spreadsheet, apparently from PAHO.

Use source=PAHO.

• Look up the locations for hospitals that are in the shared spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArlMTYEgfvwsdERtTkxRUVVqRXdpVzlDSlFnb3F1UHc&hl=en

Update the spreadsheet, and enter the hospitals in OSM if you can (there is a "present in OSM" column in the far right).

new (2010-01-23) : another hospital spreadsheet has been created yesterday (2010-01-22) at

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aoyf-OlHreuhdDBkSWJ2d1FtMkpkTzZrV1B4dDlKREE&hl=en by Mark Prutsalis (Sahana)

It is formatted differently, but valuable information could be found there. Is also contains a quality code, defined by Margie Roswell. (The first shared spreadsheet had been created by Dino Pagliardi)

• from European Joint Research Center (JRC) :

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047379.html

The attached KMZ was stripped in forwarding. It is there : http://www.mediafire.com/?yymdnmyjyzz

Sources of Hospital Data: (Updated: 2010-01-21 23:13Z)

http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers/attach/cb6180186debfc74/JRC_Hospitals.kmz?part=4 (Google Earth .kmz file)

requires membership application and approval of membership

http://www.arcgisonline.com/sharing/content/items/750eb59b50aa4351ac39a0d91ca3fb9a/data (ArcMap .lpk layer file)

about the .lpk file format

http://events.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/services/NCMI_HealthFacilities_Haiti/MapServer/WMSServer? (WMS)

need instructions on how to use this as a WMS layer

http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers/web/JRC_Hospitals-2010-01-21_0510Z.xls (EC JRC Compilation)

requires membership application and approval of membership

A directory of Haiti hospitals, addresses and phones, no maps http://haitimedical.com/union/reference/hospitals.asp

Use amenity=hospital, name=*

Use source:addr=https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArlMTYEgfvwsdERtTkxRUVVqRXdpVzlDSlFnb3F1UHc&hl=en if you get the address from there.

When I have no other information than town, I just a point there, in case people looking for a hospital (e.g. from name) are happy to find even approximate coordinates, until more information is available. In this case, when entering the coordinates in the spreadsheet, I put no more than 3 digits after "." in the coordinates, and use a lighter yellow color to highlight. Please edit wiki and correct if this is wrong.

You can use the chat dialog in the shared spreadsheet (more specific) and/or IRC to coordinate with others working on the same task.

When you have time to refine :

Use the tag addr:full=* to store the address

Use the Karlruhe schema if you can parse the address: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema

For context, see : http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047364.html

2010-01-20

• You have to use the source= tag to describe the layer you were using, including the satellite, the owner of the imagery and the date of the imagery, e.g. source=Quickbird, DigitalGlobe, 2010/01/15. This is required by the imagery owners and helps us to see if your mapping might be outdated. See WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#Imagery