[Qgis-user] offline address geocoding

[David Hiers]

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!

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.

Have you hooked up with your local CERT/Red Cross/VOAD type folks?  They might be a good pool from which to draw mappers.  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.

Cheers from the middle of the Juan De Fuca Plate,

David



________________________________
 From: Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
To: David Hiers <davidhiers7836 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> 
Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding
 




On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:28 PM, David Hiers <davidhiers7836 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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.
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! 

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.  

I can use what you said to help encourage more people to help out. 

BTW - We could not do this without QGIS and PostGIS. They are a life saver. 




Thanks,-- 

Clifford

OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/attachments/20140105/91e2b525/attachment.html>