Intitial locations

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

http://shelterfinder.org/wiki/index.php/JavaQuakeLocs

here';s a start.. more to follow.

[Wendy Edwards]

I'm going to have to look at it tomorrow, where I have more software.
BTW, is it intentional that the data I saw doesn't have labels for
villages?

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

Sure Wendy,

data should have had labels on them, I'll request for an updated version if there;s one around.

cheers,
angelo.

[Wendy Edwards]

I've tried it in 3 open source GIS packages and didn't see any labels.
If you want, I can try to look for some village data tomorrow that
would work with KML.

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

that would be helpful Wendy, meanwhile ill try to look around for something with labels...

[Wendy Edwards]

OK, here's the situation. I wasn't sure how helpful village
shapefiles with no label data would be. So I went to

http://earth-info.nga.mil/ and downloaded the Indonesia file. It's
about 18 MB uncompressed and has a lot of latitude/longitude data,
which could be used for KML. I was able to pull the text file into
MySQL, and have been querying it.

Does anyone have any hints about how to narrow it down? I'm taking it
that we want villages in Java, where the quake hit, not all of
Indonesia. I'll take a look at the wiki and see if anything jumps out
at me.

Wendy

[Wendy Edwards]

I put coordinates for some Yogyakarta and some Central Java cities up at
http://shelterfinder.org/wiki/index.php/Central_Java_Coords and also
included a link on another page.

BTW, I'm attaching a gif since the wiki won't let me upload images.
It shows where the Dr. Sardjito hospital is in Yogyakarta.

[paola....@gmail.com]

Brill Wendy

thanks a lot

Anand, how can we best use such coordinates to have the flags show up on the tool?

I think pics must be loaded to a directory to show up on the wiki,  or can also be pointed to from a url using a tag

<img src="http://www.yogyes.com/en/yogyakarta-map">

but it doesnt seem to work, dont know why,  I have however created a link
on the same page to it

p

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[Wendy Edwards]

If I could somehow get access to the database, I could probably
update entries with latitude/longitude coordinates. As a
friendly word of warning, there seems to be some confusing and
conflicting information about where some things are - I saw this
in the geocoding data I downloaded, and also with Google Earth.

Wendy

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[Wendy Edwards]

I'll have a look. Meanwhile, I have more and better GIS data.
The wiki doesn't seem to allow me to upload files - guess I
could put them up somewhere so people who are working on the
Google maps can get to them. What format would you prefer -
text, Excel, shapefiles, ...? Also, I have data on population
density, rainfall, and altitude - might be useful for logistics.
Google Earth allows layers to be turned on and off, not sure
about Google Maps with KML.

Guess the next step is to find or write a script to turn this
into KML - maybe Perl would be a good way to go.

Wendy

On 5/31/06, Nancy Bohrer <nancy....@gmail.com> wrote:
> a link on front page of wiki http://shelterfinder.org/ isn't right, I don't
> think. Could somebody fix that with proper link? I can't do that now.

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> Nancy Bohrer
> nancy.bohrer on Google talk
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[Angelo Embuldeniya]

re uploading -- which wiki is giving u probs? wwh or sf? Also maybe
if we could have that data in .xls extensions would be good as we
could then convert it to other formats if necessary like csv for
instance.

thanks,
angelo.

[Wendy Edwards]

I know that I'm not permitted to upload images to the SF wiki - not
sure whether that's also the case with asiaquake.org . As far as
the geocoded villages in Yogyakarta and Central Java, I do have a list
of villages and coordinates. The XLS files are at

http://shelterfinder.org/wiki/index.php/General_Data_and_Information_as_it_becomes_available

The specific links are

http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/wedwards/centjava2.xls (Central Java)
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/wedwards/yogyakarta.xls (Yogyakarta)

Are we coordinating with other relief agencies? Do they have any input
on what would be most useful to them?

Wendy

[Angelo Embuldeniya]

AL has enabled uploading on the javaquake help wiki :)

On 6/1/06, Angelo Embuldeniya <angelo.em...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Wendy Edwards]

Thanks!