Without disrupting your work flows, I'm new to HOT. I have very slight mapping background; however, I've been a librarian for 20 years, previously worked for LexisNexis and often am deployed on projects involving current news/crises, etc. I will gladly research and deliver (hopefully) useful data to anyone on the team.
I also just joined SBTF and Crisismapping and am ready to start running searches immediately. Best, Joe Reilly, (Middle East Institute, Washington DC) On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <j...@arkemie.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Bruno, from OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa > (UNOCHA-ROWCA) informs us that they have identified the following data > needs: health structures, schools, religious structures, nutrition > centers. They are going to share with us the list of schools that is > available to them. > > Abdulaye, from the same office, is also informing us that roads, > streets, suburbs of cities like Gao, Tombuktu, Tessalit, etc... with > health and education infrastructure would be really useful. > > > Pierre is working on extending the data collection web application that > he had created to collect information about health facilities in Libya > (http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/openlayers/libya_health.php), > to also collect these other types of points of interest for Mali. When > this is ready, it will be possible to disseminate the address of the web > page to local contacts within Mali, and maybe also to the Malian > diaspora, to crowdsource the data collection. > (Of course, OsmBugs.org is already available to collect any kind of > information, in a less structured way). > > (@Om: maybe the SBTF would like to help with this, for example by > checking whatever could be available on the Internet. Would it be > appropriate to create a Skype group for this?) > > Previously, a need for populated places data had been identified. Pierre > had started to work on this, by merging COD data with OSM data. Some > satellite imagery can be used to check the location of places, remove > possible duplicates, and maybe find populated places that would be > missing from the dataset. Public domain maps can also help with this > process. See the wiki page for more details: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2012_Mali_Crisis > > It is likely that the OSM road network data can also be improved with > these sources. > > > For more information on the Sahel region and ROWCA (including the food > and nutrition crisis in Sahel, and the crisis in Mali) , please visit: > http://ochaonline.un.org/rowca > > You can also check ReliefWeb page on Mali: > http://reliefweb.int/country/mli > including the Mali maps page: > > http://reliefweb.int/country/mli/thumb?sl=environment-term_listing%2Ctaxonomy_index_tid_content_format-12 > > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Guilhem > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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