Kaohsiung/2014GasExplosion

This crisis mapping project is discussed at hackpad page (in Chinese).

Event

2014-07-31 to 2014-08-01: a series of gas explosions due to gas leakage in Cianjhen District and Lingya District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan at midnigh. At least 25 people were killed and more than 200 were injuried.

Tagging schema

Undamaged buildings:

building=yes explode:reviewed=yes

Damaged buildings:

typhoon:damage=yes used along side one of

building=damaged - for damaged buildings

building=collapsed - for complete collapsed buildings

Other damage: barrier=debris + explode:damage=yes - For an obstacle at a point on the road

For a blocked road section make a segment covering the damages and mark it: status=impassable + explode:damage=yes

Areas of debris (houses collapsed) landuse=brownfield + explode:damage=yes

Pipeline: man_made=pipeline pipeline=valve

Others?

Mapping

Source

• Survey
• UAV?
• Aerial image?

Remote Mapping

• Aerial images before accident
• Aerial images after accident

Visualization

• uMap http://umap.fluv.io/en/

• osm-bright https://github.com/mapbox/osm-bright

• Overpass turbo http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4qd

News

• http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28594693
• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-01/taiwan-gas-explosion-kills-22-in-southern-city-of-kaohsiung-1-.html

Vedio clips

• https://www.youtube.com/embed/KmEZNKAfh1Y
• http://hackfoldr.org/Kaohsiung-explode-20140801/5Oqk3KEtMHw
• https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ecyfmNekYs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY85434x4CE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhElyXb_QB0
• https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=789737851048591 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de5Az1vTgpQ)