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There are various groups of volunteers working for relief efforts in Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, Nagapattinam and thiruvarur districts in Tamil Nadu. They are distributing basic things like food, water, clothes etc inside the villages.
My question is how to introduce osm to these volunteers? Any osm volunteers from Tamil Nadu or within India to brief them on how to use. Also, there were 1000’s of electric posts, transformers were fallen or damaged and no electricity for past 5 days since Friday. We may train them to point the electric related Geo positions. Just these are my thoughts.
Discussion
Comment from naveenpf on 21 November 2018 at 09:52
The same difficulty I had after Kerala floods 1. Talk to Govt, ask to release GIS data via https://tn.data.gov.in in ODGL 2. Create meetups. 3. Pass video messages. - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Naveenpf/Outreach#Videos 4. Contact media. 5. Create Watsapp group- we have OSM group which has GOK people too.
Comment from naveenpf on 21 November 2018 at 09:56
On the electric post KSEB with help of ICFOSS, Kerala had created power line map. That helped them very much to come back from flooded situation. http://hris.kseb.in/pmumap/ (zoomin)