Humanitarian OSM Team/Open Mapping Hub - Latin America and The Caribbean/Activations/2024 Hurricane Beryl Response

Background

2024 Hurricane Beryl Response Description Hurricane Beryl. Coordination: Open Mapping Hub Lating America Partners: CoMapper Hashtag: 2024_mx_beryl Campaign: Time-frame: July 2024 - TBC Data Context of the Activation As of July 2024, both Tropical Storm Alberto and Hurricane Beryl are causing significant damage across the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Mexico. These natural hazards have prompted urgent alerts throughout the affected regions, leading authorities to activate emergency shelters to protect and assist the impacted populations. The combined effects of these hurricanes have caused substantial disruptions. Heavy rains and strong winds have resulted in flooding, causing widespread chaos and significant challenges.

Contacts

• Latin America: Céline Jacquin - celine.jacquin@hotosm.org
• Caribbean: Arnelle Isaac - arnelle.issac@hotosm.org

Hashtag

• All contributions on MapRoulette are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: #2024_mxqroo_shelters; #2024_mx_beryl; #LACH_MX_VW_2024; #maproulette
• All contributions through HOT's Tasking Manager are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: TBD

Timeline

• Start: July 1, 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.
• Leaderboard for tracking general editing statistics: TBC

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

• July 2, 2024 - In response, as part of the Mapping for Climate Ready Cities Program, the Open Mapping Hub in Latin America and the Caribbean Hub (Humanitarian Team of OpenStreetMap) and CoMapper, in collaboration with the Quintana Roo Government, are calling on mappers with intermediate experience to participate in the emergency mapping activation on OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Quintana Roo. The primary objective will be to map temporary shelters following the passage of Tropical Storm Alberto and Hurricane Beryl.
• July 4, 2024 - Preparation for shelters mapping in Veracruz, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche and Tamaulipas was started by the Open Mapping Hub in Latin America and the Caribbean Hub.
• July 8, 2024 - Beryl, now a category 1 hurricane, intensified on the night of Sunday, July 7th. Currently, its center is located 105 kilometers south-southeast of Metagorda, Texas. The hurricane continues to move away from Mexican territory, it is heading towards the United States.
• July 9, 2024 - The LAC Hub is supporting anticipatory mapping efforts in the Eastern Caribbean Islands following the severe damage to infrastructure, services, and livelihoods in Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica.

Data Quality

Validation

Validation permissions for Tasking Manager projects are restricted to particular Tasking Manager Teams / users to ensure high quality validation:

• HOT Global Validators
• Validator Trainees
• MSF Validators
• Data Quality Interns
• Data Quality Interns 2022

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:

Tasking Manager

		Tasking Manager Projects
Project	Priority	Name	Task Mapping Status %	Task Validation Status %
#17204	Low	Hurricane Beryl 2024 - Saint Vincent	0% (in process)	0% (in process)
#17182	Low	Hurricane Beryl 2024 - Grenada	0% (in process)	0% (in process)

MapSwipe

		MapSwipe Projects
Project	Priority	Name	Task Mapping Status %	Task Validation Status %
Link in MapSwipe Web	High	Find - Buildings	100% (complete)	100% (complete)

MapRoulette

		MapRoulette Projects
Project	Priority	Name	Task Mapping Status %	Task Validation Status %
#48650	High	Mapping of shelters for Hurricane Beryl response - Tamaulipas - Mexico	100% (complete)	0% (in process)
#48651	High	Mapping of shelters for Hurricane Beryl response - Veracruz - Mexico	38% (in process)	0% (in process)
#48627	High	Quintana Roo Shelters 2024	100% completed	100% completed

Community Mapathons

Community Mapathons

Date	Time	Lead Community	Country	Location/ Meeting Link/ Registration Link	Type	Status	Notes	Social Media Post
July 2nd	6 pm (Mexico City) - Check timezone here	CoMapper	Mexico	Registration link	Intermediate	Completed	Help us identify and map temporary shelters.	Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Mastodon

Available Imagery

Project-Specific Mapping Notes

TBC