Forgot to say that I agree with Russell: It would be very important to know which organizations are interested or are already working in relief efforts in the field, and what their needs are.
Cheers, Rafael. 2015-01-15 17:37 GMT-03:00 Rafael Avila Coya <ravilac...@gmail.com>: > Hi all: > > There has been an active mapping effort in North Nigeria since March last > year, both mapping with imagery (mainly roads and streets) and data imports > [1] from eHealth Africa [2] data. Data imported includes boundaries (at > ward level - highest) for the 10 northernmost states, residential areas for > all those states too, and health facilities and place nodes. > > TM jobs are the following: > > Kano state road network [3] > Kano city streets and buildings [4] > Kano state health facilities [5] > Kano state town and city places [6] > Bauchi state road network [7] (This one is actually being worked on by 8 > eHealth staff) > Bauchi state health facilies [8] > > Some of the TM jobs are still unfinished. > > The most affected states by this crisis are Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, but > Kano receives many attacks too (recently, a blast in a mosque in central > Kano city claimed the live of more than a hundred people. Other states, > like Bauchi, aren't safe from attacks either. > > Apart from Kano (and partially Bauchi and Kaduna), the rest of the states > are poorly mapped in terms of roads and mostly everything else. So I think > that one of the most urgent jobs would be to map the road network, starting > from the states more in need (I would start with Borno, followed by Yobe > and Adamawa. > > If you are interested, I could also contact eHealth Africa for other data > that might be interesting to import, like health facilities, place nodes > and others (schools perhaps). As far as I am aware of, data collection in > Borno and Yobe was very problematic, hard and risky, so it is much less > complete than in other states, like Kano for example. They didn't work with > Adamawa state (they only had boundaries data, at the LGA level). > > Most of North Nigeria has hires Bing imagery. I edited a uMap to show that > [9]. eHealth Africa may have their own imagery too, and they might be > willing to license its use too. Again, I could ask too. > > Cheers, > > Rafael Ávila Coya. > > [1] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nigeria#eHealth_Africa_Foundation_database_imports > [2] http://ehealthafrica.org > [3] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/474 > [4] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/537 > [5] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/566 > [6] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/581 > [7] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/635 > [8] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/637 > [9] > http://umap.fluv.io/en/map/north-and-central-nigeria-bing-hires-imagery-cover_1580 > > 2015-01-15 16:15 GMT-03:00 Jorieke Vyncke <jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com>: > > Don't have time to help out now with this, but I like the idea! >> Just a small remark : recently we got high resolution imagery for whole >> Cameroon from DigitalGlobe. And in the far north along the border with >> Nigera they face the same problems >> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11341289/Boko-Haram-push-across-border-to-attack-Cameroon-army.html>, >> and Nigerian refugees are coming too... So it might be an idea to start >> over there? I now a bunch of ngo's are working in the far north, like >> French Red Cross, GIZ and Unicef. >> >> Good luck! >> >> Jorieke >> >> >> 2015-01-15 23:03 GMT+06:00 Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>> I support the project idea and am glad to help with creating, >>> documenting and managing projects in the Tasking Manger (which is not the >>> hardest part of a project like this) for whomever would like to manage the >>> overall project. >>> >>> The first step would be to work out the licensing issues with the >>> imagery and it needs to be put on a TMS server so we can use it in iD and >>> JOSM. >>> >>> We have a process for imagery that I am not familiar with except that I >>> know requests always exceed availability in terms of imagery available, >>> hosting and bandwidth to make it available and people power to get it it >>> all arraigned. >>> >>> It seems like the availability is taken care of, not by Amnesty >>> International, but by their imagery provider, DigitalGlobe who is very >>> generous with our HOT mapping needs is my understanding, so I think they >>> are receptive to licensing for our use but would have to specifically grant >>> us permission to use the imagery they provided to AI as it does not look to >>> me like AI's current usage rights would allow us to use it. Plus we would >>> need the georeferenced hi-res source imagery that AI is not providing. Then >>> the hosting issue. >>> >>> But the whole process is something even a fairly new HOT community >>> member can give a try if you (or anyone) is interested. It will just take a >>> bit longer as you will have to learn the process as well as go through it :) >>> >>> If you (or anyone) is interested, I am happy to help, I want to learn >>> the process myself anyway. Just contact me off list and let me know. >>> >>> And of course, this is just my opinion and understanding, I could be >>> missing something totally. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Blake >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 1/15/2015 12:06 PM, Jeremy G wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> After the attacks of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria this january, a >>>> similar reaction as in Gaza (mapping before/after with the help of >>>> appropriate aerial images) could be appropriate to help build a precise >>>> evaluation of the damages. >>>> >>>> As a fairly new/unexperienced HOT contributor, I couldn't find any >>>> indication of such a project. Is it on track already, or is it planned ? >>>> >>>> Some aerial images released from Amnesty International : >>>> https://adam.amnesty.org/asset-bank/action/search? >>>> attribute_603=Nigeria+Satellite+Images+January+2015 >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Jeremy >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >
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