Thanks Claire for sharing all the details - for anyone wanting to learn validation, Matt Gibb recently delivered a validation training webinar as part of the HOT Community Webinars program. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSUVLbTw5IU&feature=youtu.be and there's also a useful guide on the Missing Maps website: http://www.missingmaps.org/assets/downloads/MissingMaps_validation_josm_en.pdf
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 6:35 AM, Claire Halleux <claire.hall...@hotosm.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Many thanks to the 293 OSM contributors and to the amazing validators who > have already participated to the mapping in the Equateur province, since > May 8th. > > The 17th task was published this morning to respond to the needs expressed > by Doctors without Borders and the Congolese Ministry of Health. > Yesterday afternoon, while visiting the emergency operation center team at > the Ministry, it was said that the identification of inhabited areas in OSM > (mapped as residential landuse) is particularly helpful to them at the > moment, as well as the detailed mapping of the urban areas, to better > follow the people that have recently been in contact with confirmed cases. > > While there's been at least one new case detected each day in the area > since the outbreak declaration, they also wished additional areas to be > mapped as well. > Some tasks are already ready to be added but in order to keep up with the > quality of the data produced (i.e. keeping the rythm with the validation), *we > need more validators*. > > If you are already participating to this validation, thank you so much! If > you are not yet but have already significantly contributed to OSM, maybe > it's time to give it a try... > > If you want an overview of the area covered by these mapping tasks so far, > you'll find one here: > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/osm-mapping-response- > ebola-outbreak-2018_219291#9/-0.5273/18.8965 > > Happy mapping! > > Claire > > > Claire Halleux > +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC) > OpenStreetMap RDC > > http://www.openstreetmap.cd > https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Rebecca Firth* Community and Partnerships Manager rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org> @RebeccaFirthy *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* You can #mapthedifference today! Donate.hotosm.org <http://donate.hotosm.org/> web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://donate.hotosm.org/>
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