Update - OSM Helping the Türkiye Syrian earthquake(s) response
Posted by unen on 18 February 2023 in English.Authors: Heather Leson, Said Türksever
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OSM communities continue to respond to the Türkiye and Syrian earthquakes. We seek your help this weekend and have some guidance. OSM communities and individuals have been great in helping complete mapping tasks.
Your impact
You’ve had a great impact. See the OSM wiki for examples of how emergency responders are using your edits and how OpenStreetMap communities contributed
- OSM data used to support rescue coordination in Turkey by AKUT Search and Rescue Association and AFAD - (see Tweet).
- 5299 OpenStreetMap contributors mapped +1.1 million buildings and +61 thousands kilometres of roads to respond to earthquakes in the affected areas.
- More than 30 mapathons are organized by various organizations, including UN Mappers, Missing Maps, YouthMappers, and OSM local chapters.
- 211 validators have validated 4525 tasks in Turkey in the last 8 days for the earthquake response - (see tweet)
Priorities
- Validation: Can you help with the validation of tasks? This is a major area that needs some support. Many more experienced mappers can help here. If you’re not already part of a validator team on Tasking Manager, but want to be, please fill in this form: http://bit.ly/HOTValidators
- Mapping support for the actvie HOTOSM Tasks in Syria and Turkey (some of these are newly added). See the Tasking Manager.
- Mapping building damage, temporary sites and health facilities via MapRoulette: Yercizenler is consolidating these datasets from various open data resources and constantly updating tasks in MapRoulette; please see MapRoulette tasks here.
See the Getting started post, the OSM wiki for the emergency, and the Tasking Manager.
Thanks so much.