<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>You bring up a good point... for many people that respond to far-flung disasters, disasters are things that happen to other people. FEMA begs to differ, of course!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I can live with interpolation to start, but your plan is definitely the target. I'll hook your info into the CERT team to see if I can scare out some mappers.
We've trained nearly 1000 out of our 85,000 residents so far, so I've got a pretty big, motivated pool.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Have you hooked up with your local CERT/Red Cross/VOAD type folks? They might be a good pool from which to draw mappers. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">I just learned that many college GIS courses require that each student work on a project, and something like this might be right in their wheelhouse.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Cheers from the middle of the Juan De Fuca Plate,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>David</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> David Hiers <davidhiers7836@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:23 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0537739033"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0537739033gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:28 PM, David Hiers <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:davidhiers7836@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:davidhiers7836@yahoo.com">davidhiers7836@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv0537739033gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">As you know, its all about location. After the quake/tsunami flattens the pacific northwest, we'll be flooded with damage reports, support requests, pop-up shelter locations, etc, all of which will probably be expressed in terms of street address, intersection, or landmark. To do any sort of automated work with that data (estimate the impact of the cloud of methyl-ethyl-badness from the derailed train car, for instance), first thing
I want to do is to geocode everything so I can do math on it.</blockquote></div><br clear="none">That should be a project that OSM can help with. We have some experience mapping prior to and especially after disasters. Living in the PNW has made me acutely aware of the environment we live in. Not only am I near Puget Sound, in the middle of earthquake county, but the damn river near by floods every year! </div>
<div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra">Addresses interested me because of the opportunity for door to door routing. Interpolation is nice if you have all day to find the address. But don't try it at night. Being able to route right up a driveway to the front door, while being a long way off, is do able. We just need more volunteer mappers. (I'm always making the pitch. Don't let me scare you off.) We had a good number of volunteers import building and address to Seattle. If you look at Seattle, every address and building should be in OSM. Next we want to extend at least the address mapping to all of King County. </div>
<div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra">I can use what you said to help encourage more people to help out. </div>
<div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0537739033gmail_extra">BTW - We could not do this without QGIS and PostGIS. They are a life saver. <div class="yiv0537739033yqt2717651333" id="yiv0537739033yqtfd76085"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="all"><div>Thanks,</div>-- <br clear="none"><div>Clifford</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>
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