Hi Hotties, I am hoping that some of you can help us with a task in the next week or so...
We are (so) close to finishing the mapping of Lubumbashi in DRCongo [1 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-11.6655/27.4786>]! It has been a real collaborative effort with HOT (Claire Halleux and Jorieke Vyncke), MSF (Ivan Gayton) and OSM (Lubumbashi and Kinshasa chapters) pitching in on the field data side [2 <http://hotosm.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc>] and hundreds of people contributing remotely and at mapathons. We just need to get the admin divisions in now. This is fairly technical so you'll need JOSM experience, but Claire, myself and Robert Scott have put together the following wiki page to walk people through it [3 <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Lubumbashi_Congo_admin_division_mapping_Aug15#What_to_do> ]. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to reply and if you want to improve the wiki page, please go ahead. To give you an idea of why this is important, MSF and the British Red Cross are collaborating on a tool to help medics in Lubumbashi understand the spread (and potential sources) of the frequent cholera outbreaks the people that live there experience. This is an open source tool being developed by Simon Johnson [4 <http://simonbjohnson.github.io/>] at BRC and we are hoping to implement it in November. However, Simon needs the geometry of the city to finish the visualisations. If we can make this work, so that it has positive impact on how we respond to cholera, it can be repurposed for many other places and disease outbreaks... Your help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Pete [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-11.6655/27.4786 [2] http://hotosm.org/updates/2014-04-01_a_week_in_lubumbashi_drc [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Lubumbashi_Congo_admin_division_mapping_Aug15#What_to_do [4] http://simonbjohnson.github.io/ -- *Pete Masters* Missing Maps Project Coordinator +44 7921 781 518 missingmaps.org <http://www.missingmaps.org/> *@pedrito1414* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *@theMissingMaps* <https://twitter.com/TheMissingMaps> *facebook.com/MissingMapsProject* <https://www.facebook.com/MissingMapsProject>
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