Hi, Since the beginning of March 2014, severe shortages of food and water have been reported in Tharparkar District<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharparkar_District> in Pakistan's south-east Sindh province. A number of children have reportedly died of malnutrition. The area has not received any significant rainfall since the end of 2013. Tharparkar has been declared calamity-hit by the Government of Sindh and PKR 18.6 million have been released for immediate relief. See these reports from ECHO <http://ec.europa.eu/echo/index_en.htm> : http://reliefweb.int/map/pakistan/10-march-2014-pakistan-displacement-drought and from the Government of Pakistan: http://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/tharparkar-drought-sindh-situation-report-11-covering-period-21-march-2014-1400-hrs
I created this uMap<http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/sindh-province-pakistan-drought-2014_5729>to help identify the district and see what is the stated of the OSM data. Thanks to Pierre, the main roads are already mapped. I checked the imagery and the whole district is covered by quite good Bing imagery, so we can provide the baseline data for the relief. Basically, it would be hard for me or Pierre to lead, would be great if someone would be interested to lead a monitoring over this area. Basically, it encompasses creating an OSM wikipage, featured TM jobs (one by one, with each one covering only a town, not a huge area, eg look at the jobs for the Central African Republic), HOT exports jobs <http://export.hotosm.org/>, updating the uMap (see this example<http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/central-african-republic_3868>), providing feedback to the HOT mailing list and if possible write a blog post when achieved. If you are already experienced, great. If you feel you do not master everything listed above but would really like to learn, no problem, IMHO there are enough experienced people that can help you to start through email, IRC or Mumble <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble>. If there are more than one candidate, this will make a great team! Sincerely, Severin
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