How to help Kathmandu Living Labs from DC, Nepal Relief work

[Daniel Wood]

Hey all,

I'm normally in DC, but while en route to Nepal for a vacation with my sister who lives there, the earthquake happened, as you all know, and I just kept going, because....family? I dunno, its crazy over here, and I am now feverishly using my skills to help out Kathmandu Living Labs do a bit of mapping work for the rescue/relief effort. As teams leave the Kathmandu valley, we want to make sure that they have the most up to date maps available loaded on their phones, or printed out (because we're going into some low bandwidth locations as you would expect). HOTOSM is working diligently to update the data, now we want to make it available in digestible chunks as needed. 

If anyone has a good background in postgresql and/or OSM and wants to help us stand up a server that automatically updates some PDF maps for our website, that'd be a big help. Its a fairly decent lift, which I outline at the link below. We'd provide a set of bounding boxes and other relevant information. I think this could be a tool that is helpful for the future, and could be packaged for future disaster teams as well. 

bit.ly/quaketasks

Please reach out to me if you have any questions or if you think you could help (or know someone who could). We're hard at work on a bunch of things that require more local presence. This would be something that is fairly easy to achieve from a distance. Also, if I'm reinventing the wheel, and something like this already exists, please let me know!

Cheers,
Dan

daniel....@gmail.com

@danielpwwood

P.s. I know this is CFA(merica) but I guess in this case its Code for America for Nepal. Please excuse the deviation.