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Nabirye Annette Atugonza. On Aug 3, 2017 7:35 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <arun.plane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OpenStreetMap is more designed to map permanent features. Jiggers sounds >> more as if it is transient. So mark on a map where cases are reported and >> have some sort of communication system that sends out an alert when the >> problem is more pressing. Adding this to an existing infrastructure would >> be simpler and cheaper and the ideal place would be Uganda's public health >> service however I suspect that Uganda's public health system is not well >> funded as it could be. This I suspect needs more education and long term >> political movement, a realisation that health care brings economic benefits. >> > > > If you are looking at tracking transient or temporary data like location > of suspected cases, you could try something like the fieldnotes demo that I > hacked together: https://osmlab.github.io/fieldnotes/ <- Feel free to add > a point > > The entire code is around 200 lines [1] and should be fairly easy to > customize with a custom form for the data you want to collect. It works by > saving data points as an overlay layer in a Mapbox dataset [2]. > > [1] https://github.com/osmlab/fieldnotes/blob/master/index.js > [2] https://blog.mapbox.com/the-datasets-api-is-now- > available-to-all-29942ac49015 > >
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