Hi Stace, I have just come back from Dhaka (literally on Thursday), where we were working with the local OSM community to map two areas, Kamrangirchar and Hazaribagh, for the Missing Maps project. We worked with between 10-30 volunteers of varying skills each day for two weeks. They are a smart and enthusiastic bunch and most said they planned to keep mapping anyway. They all have experience in using field papers and surveys and Osmand, and most have at least a days experience using JOSM to edit / upload.
I have email addresses and phone numbers if you want them or you can contact them via the OpenStreetMap Bangladesh Facebook page. There are also a number of very experienced mappers / OSM focused GIS people I can put you in touch with directly. Let me know what you think... Cheers, Pete On 30 Jan 2015 21:38, "Stacey Maples" <stacemap...@stanford.edu> wrote: > All, > > I'm working with a faculty member studying the efficacy of mobile app > based interventions, who needs detailed street and building footprints for > his pilot. He is working in the Kendua sub-district of Bangladesh, > initially, and needs data for health workers to use to identify cholera > patients homes/home village, pharmacies, etc... I've pasted his abstract, > below. If he finds efficacy, he will likely expand the project to other > sub-districts. We are wondering several things: > > First, what is the process to have a project added to the Task Manager? > > Second, do you happen to currently have mappers in this area who could > work on this? > > Finally, we may be able to obtain gps traces from food delivery drivers to > upload to OSM. It would be great to have a training for them if there are > mappers in the area, or in Dhaka who would be willing to travel. Wondering > who to contact about the possibility of that (I know bulk uploads are > frowned upon unless coordinated with OSM). > > Thanks in advance for your time, I've pasted the abstract for the project, > below my signature. > > > In F,L&T, > Stace Maples > Geospatial Manager > Stanford Geospatial Center > @mapninja > staceymaples@G+ > Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ <https://gis.stanford.edu/> > "I have a map of the United States... actual size. > It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." > I spent last summer folding it." > -Steven Wright- > > > Leveraging mobile technology to improve clinical outcomes and scientific > research of the second leading cause of childhood death: diarrheal disease > > Abstract > Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death among children > under 5 years of age globally. We are specifically interested in the > diarrheal disease cholera because of the devastating impact the disease has > on at-risk populations and the emerging opportunities to leverage mobile > technology to overcome fundamental clinical, epidemiologic, and scientific > challenges. Despite effective treatments and advances in provider > education, cholera case fatality rates remain unacceptably high. > Conventional methods have been unable to overcome barriers to provide > patients timely access to care in resource-poor settings. This is > especially true early in outbreaks because response teams are slow to > mobilize and cholera can infect, transmit and kill in less than 20 hours. > Our research challenge is to take an unconventional approach to develop a > new method using mobile technology to identify outbreak clusters early, > improve care, and advance our basic understanding of the disease. The > specific aims of this project are to (i) develop mobile technology for > clinical decision support and real-time epidemiology, (ii) test the > mobile-technology and determine microbial correlates to disease progression > at the hospital level, and (iii) test the mobile-technology and determine > microbial correlates to disease progression at the community level. We > chose to develop and test this strategy in partnership with the Ministry of > Health of Bangladesh at a site with high cholera morbidity and relatively > high mortality. We anticipate this NIH funded research will provide an > exciting cross-departmental forum for collaboration and training, as well > as a pathway to discovery that will directly benefit populations inflicted > with diseases like cholera. > > Eric Jorge Nelson, MD PhD > Pediatric Global Health Physician Scientist Instructor, > Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Pediatrics, > Stanford University School of Medicine > Email: eric.nelson.md...@gmail.com > Telephone: (857)-492-2174 > Address: Beckman B241, School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5323 > > > > In F,L&T, > Stace Maples > Geospatial Manager > Stanford Geospatial Center > @mapninja > staceymaples@G+ > > Get GeoHelp: https://gis.stanford.edu/ > > "I have a map of the United States... actual size. > It says, "Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile." > I spent last summer folding it." > -Steven Wright- > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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