Humanitarian OSM Team/Open Mapping Hub - Latin America and The Caribbean/Activations/2024 Mexico Pacific Hurricanes Response
Background | |||||||||||||
Context of the ActivationHurricane John has severely impacted the Pacific coast, particularly the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca. With at least twelve fatalities and numerous homes destroyed, many communities have been cut off due to flooding and landslides. The urgency of mapping shelters and essential facilities is critical to coordinating rescue operations and ensuring that humanitarian aid reaches the most affected areas. This effort will help guarantee that vulnerable populations have timely access to vital resources and safe spaces. |
Contacts
- Latin America: Céline Jacquin - celine.jacquin@hotosm.org
Hashtag
- All contributions on MapRoulette are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: TBD
- All contributions through HOT's Tasking Manager are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: TBD
Timeline
- Start: September 27th, 2024
- End: To be defined
Remote Mapping Coordination
- Source data for task location in populated places: Bing.
- List of active projects in the Tasking Manager: 0.
- List of active projects in MapRoulette: 0.
- Leaderboard for tracking general editing statistics: TBC
Dashboard to Track General Editing Statistics
Map and Data Services
Using OSM data on mobile
Exporting OpenStreetMap data
Using Overpass Turbo's link here.
About This Disaster Activation
About HOT
To learn more about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), explore more of our wiki-pages (root: HOT) or our website hotosm.org. HOT is a global community, mostly of volunteers, and it is a US registered nonprofit able to contract with organizations (email info at hotosm.org to contact our staff), we are also a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
History of this Activation
- September 27, 2024 - In response to Hurricane John in Guerrero, Mexico, the State Civil Protection requested support to identify and map all temporary shelters. Through MapRoulette, the OSM community successfully identified and accurately tagged over 600 shelter locations.
Data Quality
Validation
OSMCha
A specific OSMCha filter can be used to detect data quality issues across a wider area.
Overpass Turbo A specific Overpass Turbo query can be used to check the data quality regularly. Open it in JOSM and run validation (Shift+V).
For Mappers
How You Can Contribute
Learn to Map
- Most of our volunteer needs are for remote OSM contributors, visit LearnOSM.org and MapRoulette to get started.
Mapping Priority
- Please choose from highest priority first.
- We call for local mappers to prioritize local knowledge on the area.
- The call is only for intermediate and experienced mappers.
- Experienced mappers are also asked to participate in validating completed tasks. Information on validating can be found here:
MapRoulette
MapRoulette Projects | ||||
Project | Priority | Name | Task Mapping Status % | Task Validation Status % |
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#48650 | High | Mapping of Shelters for Hurricane John Response - Guerrero | 100% (complete) | 0% (in process) |
Available Imagery
Project-Specific Mapping Notes
TBC