Pierre, thanks for sharing this detail. Will you be blogging it as well? It would be a great thanks to all the contributors to be able to share the impact with their families and allies.
Thanks again Heather Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > Some update after 11 months of OpenStreetMap Response to the West Africa > Ebola outbreak. > > Pascal Neis map shows has of today, more then 15 millions of objects > edited (ie points, lines, relations). The zone covered goes from Bamako the > the Atlantic ocean (900 km) and from the Ivory coast border to the > Guinée-Bissau border (800 km). Impressive support from the OSM community. > Thanks to all. Excellent collaboration also with many partners, conjointly > working to provide a detailed and accurate map to respond to this quite > challenging outbreak and support the best we can the logistic of the > humanitarian organizations in the field. > > See Pascal Neis Ebola map > http://t.co/qnO2pOWfbd > > As the number of ebola cases goes down, the UNMEER and other UN agencies, > MSF, Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent, Nethope, etc. are working to > rebuild the health system, assure that better sanitation conditions are > available and distribute goods to the population dispersed in remote > areas. > > Both to manage such a huge territory and have the thousand of volunteers > visit the villages and distribute goods, maps are an essential part. > > The present actions are less spectacular, less covered by the medias. But > there is still a lot of work going on. There are many GIS on the ground > supporting the logistic of the various organizations. Andrew and I are > still collaborating to this UNMEER operation and are in contact with the > various actors through Skype. > > Behind the scene, there are also many collaborators from HOT, OSM and > various organizations doing various actions such as imagery processing, > validation, documentation / learning material, development. The various > GIS specialists also collaborate in various ways to update the OSM > database. For example, there was work done recently to update the > information about roads condition to support the Drive time analysis. > > Below are few examples of visualisations using the OSM basemap. > UNMEER Liberia > http://www.unmeer-im-liberia.website/unmeer-gims-web-map-app > WHO Drive Time Analysis tool http://maps.who.int/networkanalysis/ > WHO Global Ebola Response Monitoring and Mapping System > http://maps.who.int/MapGallery/ > WHO Roadmap > http://maps.who.int/mapjournal/?appid=0ad091b7cb7e404dbf35f7c49ee4c992 > HDX Ebola Depot https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/ebola > Nethope visualisations http://informatics.nethope.org/ > Resudox Ebola Cellular program http://ebola-cellular-map.resudox.net/ > > I invite again the GIS from the various organizations to give us some > examples that show how OpenStreetMap is useful in the field in various ways > including paper maps, GPS, smartphones, tablets, GIS downloads. > > regard > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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