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henke54

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Registered: 2015-03-17

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

It remains a mystery how osm can be helpful to the Nepalese government. If there is not enough money to print paper maps, then how can they afford the computers that are necessary to make use of osm? If they have computers, which seems to be true, then why doesn't the Nepalese government hire 100 people to map these four relatively small areas? It is nice to help but not if the recipient appears lazy.

Does the Dutch government provide a high resolution layer when there is a disaster in the Netherlands ??

marek kleciak

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

[moderator edit] political and abusive text, not contributing to the mapping topic removed!

It remains a mystery how osm can be helpful to the Nepalese government. If there is not enough money to print paper maps, then how can they afford the computers that are necessary to make use of osm? If they have computers, which seems to be true, then why doesn't the Nepalese government hire 100 people to map these four relatively small areas? It is nice to help but not if the recipient appears lazy.

There is no master study in geoscience in whole Nepal.

I´m doing map for people they have Apps like OSMand and use it in disaster areas and for KLL which prints big maps and provide it to the NGO´s active in disaster regions.

There is very huge and interesting gape between skills of young, engaged Nepali and old political ang administrative stuctures comes directly from the King era. One can say, generation crash. The young, more educated people understand what can be done with the map and they do.

observer

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

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henke54

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

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Eilandgast

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Registered: 2017-08-23

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

Long time ago that I did this mapping stuff. After the call for Help on TV for Nepal flooding I started.
My question is what scale of detail is required e.g. for mapping buildings. Some maps are full little sheds which are houses in Nepal I guess. Most of them are already marked as Residential areas (colour yellow). Should all little sheds/houses be marked as buildings?
Please advise.

marek kleciak

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

Hello Eilandgast,
there is the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pro … #Buildings
One can find there some details more about mapping in Nepal.
Yes, please collect every visible buildings, even if shed like.

Thank you very much for help!
Marek

henke54

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

I´m doing map for people they have Apps like OSMand and use it in disaster areas and for KLL which prints big maps and provide it to the NGO´s active in disaster regions.

I found some interesting links about drone mapping in dense area's ;
https://openforests.com/drone-mapper/
https://3dr.com/enterprise/industries/survey-mapping/
http://ourpiece.openforests.com/jbp/webmap/live/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news … -pictures/

marek kleciak

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

Please take a look: Nepali do a lot using OSM:
https://govinsider.asia/inclusive-gov/n … formation/

Eilandgast

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From: NL

Registered: 2017-08-23

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

Hello Eilandgast,
....... Yes, please collect every visible buildings, even if shed like......

Is this a house?
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AoeculzvnYm0gdAA79WLN-SWVyI17A

Last edited by Eilandgast (2017-08-24 19:59:17)

marek kleciak

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

No, it´s harvest.

henke54

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Re: Heavy flood in Nepal.

This weather woman (Jill Peeters) from Flanders says it right ;

De "vergeten Harvey" met meer dan 1000x zoveel slachtoffers, en ongetwijfeld minder dan 1000x zoveel middelen voor heropbouw of evacuatie

Translation ; The "Forgotten Harvey" with more than 1000x so many victims, and undoubtedly less than 1000x so much resources for reconstruction or evacuation.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/9080/Waterover … oden.dhtml