Thanks Bruno and Mapbox to provide this imagery for Mamou. This will let us
support CartONG - MSF Switzerland and IFRC / Red Cross with this activation in
Western Africa.
I created a new Task Manager job to map Mamou in detail and we invite
contributors to map in detail.
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/484
All other jobs for this Activation are found at
http://tasks.hotosm.org/#featured/Ebola
You can see some photos of MSF intervention for this Ebola outbreak at
http://www.msf.org/article/photo-week-ebola-guinea
Photo of the Week: Ebola in Guinea
Photo of the Week: Ebola in Guinea
Afficher sur www.msf.org Aperçu par Yahoo
Battling fear and stigma over Ebola in West Africa - IFR...
Red Cross volunteers help stem panic in communities.
Afficher sur www.ifrc.org Aperçu par Yahoo
See also this update from IFRC
http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/africa/guinea/battling-fear-and-stigma-over-ebola-in-west-africa-65367/
Pierre
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De : Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuno <br...@mapbox.com>
À : Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr>; HOT@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mercredi 2 avril 2014 15h40
Objet : Re: [HOT] Ebola Outbreak Guinea - West Africa, Mapping to support
CartONG - MSF-CH - IFRC
We´ve just finished processing Mamou raster data:
Acq Date: Jan 8, 2013. 11:18:44Z
Avg Off Nadir Angle: 9°
Sensor: Digital Globe - GE01
Rendered down to z20
License: Image is licensed to be traced on OSM.
http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.Mamou/page.html#17/10.37698/-12.07985
iD custom layer:
http://b.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.Mamou/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
For this Ebola Outbreak, CartOng - MSF-CH and IFRC - Red Cross have asked us to
map in detail 7 towns of Guinea. Six of them are map and we are waiting for
Imagery to trace the town of Mamou.
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>We are also following the situation. When suspected cases are reported, it
>takes many days to confirm / infirm such cases. We have reports
coming from various regions of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Until these
cases are confirmed, we prioritize to add the Place names to the map. This
facilitates the monitoring of the situation and is useful to provide a better
base map of this region. Once confirmations will come, we will had new tasks
to trace towns in detail.
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>We have a new job to add the place names. This can be done by less experienced
>mappers. See http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/483
>We invite more experienced mappers to join the discussion on Mumble and see
>tasks to validate information / align places with comparison with the various
>imageries available.
>Instructions for Mumble https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mumble
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>To see all available jobs for this Ebola Outbreak
>http://tasks.hotosm.org/#featured/Ebola
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>Pierre
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