[HOT] Fwd: Urgent: Nepal satellite imagery (Pre-Earthquake VIIRS Sample Files)
see below. perhaps of interest for prioritization. Send from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 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- Original message From: Roman, Miguel (GSFC-6190) miguel.o.ro...@nasa.gov Date:04/30/2015 4:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Azevedo, Meredith meredith.azev...@yale.edu, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, Turin, Mark mark.tu...@ubc.ca, Shneiderman, Sara sara.shneider...@ubc.ca, Pablo Suarez suarez...@gmail.com, Jones, Brenda bkjo...@usgs.gov, Schultz, Lori A. (MSFC-ZP11)[UAH] lori.a.schu...@nasa.gov, eleanor.sto...@yale.edu, Seto, Karen karen.s...@yale.edu, Cole, Tony A. (MSFC-ZP11)[UAH] tony.a.c...@nasa.gov, Molthan, Andrew L. (MSFC-ZP11) andrew.molt...@nasa.gov, Voiland, Adam P. (GSFC-613.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] adam.p.voil...@nasa.gov Cc: Habib, Shahid (GSFC-6104) shahid.habi...@nasa.gov, Irons, James R. (GSFC-6100) james.r.ir...@nasa.gov, Sellers, Piers J. (GSFC-6000) piers.j.sell...@nasa.gov, Masuoka, Edward J. (GSFC-6190) edward.j.masu...@nasa.gov, Devadiga, Sadashiva (GSFC-619.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] sadashiva.devadig...@nasa.gov, Lynch, Patrick Gerald. (GSFC-606.4)[Wyle Information Systems, LLC] patrick.ly...@nasa.gov, Allen, Jesse S. (GSFC-613.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] jesse.s.al...@nasa.gov, Carlowicz, Michael J. (GSFC-613.0)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] michael.j.carlow...@nasa.gov, KITTEL, DREW H. (GSFC-5860) drew.h.kit...@nasa.gov Subject: RE: Urgent: Nepal satellite imagery (Pre-Earthquake VIIRS Sample Files) Meredith et al., Here's a google drive link containing the latest Suomi-NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band nighttime composites developed by our NASA/GSFC team. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8mPn1wjvuVOWXBWUV9hc01nRVUusp=sharing A Readme is attached to the folder (also included below). Note there are still a lot of corrections to be made in order to make this a scientifically valid estimate of VIIRS nighttime lights. Thus, this sample data are to be considered of BETA quality and should be used with care. Having said that, the sooner we can start analyzing, producing, and sharing our results, the better. Comments and feedback are welcomed. A few key shout outs and updates: Mark (UBC): We haven't forgotten about your district-level plots. We just need a few more days of 'post-earthquake' data to build a good enough sample of the region (the cloudy monsoon period is really hitting us hard). Brenda (USGS): Feel free to relay this message to HDDS listserv + post these files on HDDS portal: http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov. I would encourage **everyone** on this list to register to HDDS and contribute satellite and GIS data in support of this effort. Lori (NASA SPoRT, cc: Tony and Andrew): Just wanted to plug your recently published VIIRS DNB change detection image of the Kathmandu region: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/kathmandu-with-lights-out-26april15.html?linkId=13865832 I cannot state how significant these results are for the Nepal community. Well done!! Let's all keep up the good work! Cheers, Miguel_ --- Miguel O. Román, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 619 Bld-32 S-036F, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA miguel.o.ro...@nasa.govmailto:miguel.o.ro...@nasa.gov, phone +1-301-614-5498, Twitter: @NASA_Roman,https://twitter.com/NASA_Roman URL: http://goo.gl/oRC3rH Latest News Releases: NASA NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record (Univisión América)http://uni.vi/3vMBwv Night Watch: Washington From Space (The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5 FM NPR)http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2015-01-22/night_watch_washington_from_space --- README V 4/30/2015 07:50:10 Author: Miguel O. Román (NASA/GSFC) --- Description: Included in this folder are 16 Suomi NPP VIIRS daily nighttime composites for the Nepal Region in GEOTIFF format for the period of 4-10-2015 to 4-25-2015. A multidate compositing method, based on Román and Stokes (2015) (see reference below), was adapted to ensure that the correct trajectory of nighttime lights could be retained. File Details: The naming convention for each file is: DNB_DATA.Ayeardoy.AS.MX_version.moon_phase_angle_dow.tif.%QA.tif Here: (1) yeardoy is the year follow by the day-of-year (2) AS is the NASA Land SIPS archive set (used for testing purposes) (3) MX_version is the operational IDPS build used (used for testing purposes) (4) moon_phase_angle = Lunar Phase angle, with 0 = Full moon and 180 = New moon and 90 = half moon. http://the-moon.wikispaces.com
Re: [HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal
Severin, Some of us not quite experienced enough yet HOTTIES would be interested in seeing a summary of the workflows and issues encountered during this task, once it is done. Send from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 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- Original message From: Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com Date:04/30/2015 5:17 AM (GMT-08:00) To: hot@openstreetmap.org Cc: activat...@hotosm.org Subject: Re: [HOT] TM Job to add GNS place names in Nepal Hi, Forgot to mention I will need the OSM username from the interested people to be able to add them in the job users. Sincerely, Severin On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Severin Menard severin.men...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We just created a TM job to add the place names from the Public License GNS (GEONet Names Server) data, in order to facilitate the rescue operation in Nepal. As it is a job that requires a strong OSM mapping experience, volunteers fitting with this can express their will to join it by sending a message on the activation email (copied). Thanks again to everyone having joined this Activation and by advance for the future contributions! Sincerely, Severin ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] Would like to assist in the Nepal Mapping project
Apologies for cut and paste, here you go Harushi: Basic Information for Contributing RIGHT NOW Working on OpenStreetMap Tasks General Info on the OSM Humanitarian Mapping effort : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake If you want to contribute IMMEDIATELY to ongoing Humanitarian Mapping efforts for Nepal through Humanitarian OpenStreetMap.org, please do the following: First go through the 30 minute training on http://mapgive.state.gov to learn the basics of humanitarian mapping using OpenStreetMap.org Then go to the HOTOSM Task Manager at http://tasks.hotosm.org/ and select a job that you feel comfortable contributing to. Read the directions carefully for the job, then select one of the squares next to one that is marked as complete. This will allow you to pan to the completed square so you can see how others are digitizing the features and mimic their work. It doesn't matter how long you work, or how many features you digitize. There are currently hundreds of people mapping on HOTOSM for the Nepal Earthquake.Every edit counts. Additional Tutorials and HOTOSM Resources * For examples of Before and After Earthquake Damage Assessments from Satellite Imagery http://unosat-maps.web.cern.ch/unosat-maps/NP/EQ20150425NPL/UNOSAT_Nepal_20150427_v1.pdf * Guidance for Mapping IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camps in the Nepal HOTOSM Tasks http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/Nepal.html In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 Find GeoData: https://earthworks.stanford.edu 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- - Original Message - From: Harushi Tetsuka haru...@prod-ent.com To: hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 12:51:47 PM Subject: [HOT] Would like to assist in the Nepal Mapping project I am a retired professional with above average computer skills. I have registered with Open Street and HOT. I am ready to help but I am not clear on how to receive an assignment. In the meantime, I will try and get acclimated with the map making program. Please advise. Harushi Tetsuka ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!
Yes, this is EXACTLY what we need more of. For every feature type being requested for major activations, there should be THIS type of specific guidance. Thanks Chad. I've added it to my page: http://stanfordgeospatialcenter.github.io/Map4Nepal_Resources/ In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 Find GeoData: https://earthworks.stanford.edu 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- - Original Message - From: Chad Blevins cblev...@usaid.gov To: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:54:45 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] AAGH! Hi Stacy, The lack of guidance does lead to poor quality data. Do you have any feedback on this guide for identifying IDPs in Kathmandu ? I tried to keep is short enough so people would read it and informative enough so everyone knows why they are doing this. Thank you, Chad On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: Joining this megathread with some feedback from trainings I'm running: 1. Peole area eager to do things the right way the problem is that once you've completed the Mapgive style training and selected a specific job to work on, there is VERY LITTLE TO NO GUIDANCE on what is the right way to digitize buildings, Residential areas, roads and paths for specific tasks. 2. Project Descriptions and Instructions should include the stakeholder's end use (what are the building footprints to be used for? Why is delineating residential areas important?, etc...), so people understand what the use of what they are creating is. I'm not even sure what the data is being used for as I am doing training, so my stock answer is buildings are not for cadastral purposes, they don't need to be perfect. They are for counts, for population estimates and for prioritization and assessment. It would be helpful if someone with more knowledge of the end use could provide real insight into HOW the data is actually being operationalized. That kind of feedback can drive better data creation. 3. Images of region and job specific examples of buildings, resid areas and roads/paths need to be part of the Description/Instructions. An excellent example of how effective this can be is this recent job: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1010 4. If you have a complaint about how something is being done, Don't spend 10 minutes creating a rant email. Spend 30 creating a tutorial for how to do it right. People want to help, they want to know how to help, they want to know how to help in the best way possible. Help them help. I'm doing a training in 20 minutes (did one last night for 20+ Nepali students here at Stanford). When I'm done, I will work on screenshots and writing up examples of good work on Nepal Roads, Buildings and residential areas. If someone can send me links to examples in OSM, or provide clarification on stakeholder needs and uses of these layers to help guide me in that tutorial, that would be great. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 Find GeoData: https://earthworks.stanford.edu 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- From: Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr To: Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com , hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:57:10 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] AAGH! I would add to this, This is the ransom of the success we had with the OpenStreetMap responses over the last few years - Haiti 2010 1.5 million edits - Haiyan 2013 4.5 million edits - Ebola million edits 16 milllions up to now? - Nepal 2015, 1.5 million edits in three days (my last count yesterday night) These HOT activations are quite a labotary, both very frustrating and motivating. We grow rapidly, interconnect with more organizations and constantly have to revise our workflows, adapt to new contexts. At the same time, this is what's make our force. What's can help the most in such HOT activations is some groups of experimented OSM contributors that take tasks like validation or routing. At the same time, the coordination is very important. Workflows and progress should be discussed. Amazing also all the products that came out in the last few days proposed by various developpers. Too busy to list them now. Please add these in the wiki. Cheer Pierre De : Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 8h18 Objet : Re: [HOT] AAGH! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE
Re: [HOT] AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGH!
Joining this megathread with some feedback from trainings I'm running: 1. Peole area eager to do things the right way the problem is that once you've completed the Mapgive style training and selected a specific job to work on, there is VERY LITTLE TO NO GUIDANCE on what is the right way to digitize buildings, Residential areas, roads and paths for specific tasks. 2. Project Descriptions and Instructions should include the stakeholder's end use (what are the building footprints to be used for? Why is delineating residential areas important?, etc...), so people understand what the use of what they are creating is. I'm not even sure what the data is being used for as I am doing training, so my stock answer is buildings are not for cadastral purposes, they don't need to be perfect. They are for counts, for population estimates and for prioritization and assessment. It would be helpful if someone with more knowledge of the end use could provide real insight into HOW the data is actually being operationalized. That kind of feedback can drive better data creation. 3. Images of region and job specific examples of buildings, resid areas and roads/paths need to be part of the Description/Instructions. An excellent example of how effective this can be is this recent job: http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1010 4. If you have a complaint about how something is being done, Don't spend 10 minutes creating a rant email. Spend 30 creating a tutorial for how to do it right. People want to help, they want to know how to help, they want to know how to help in the best way possible. Help them help. I'm doing a training in 20 minutes (did one last night for 20+ Nepali students here at Stanford). When I'm done, I will work on screenshots and writing up examples of good work on Nepal Roads, Buildings and residential areas. If someone can send me links to examples in OSM, or provide clarification on stakeholder needs and uses of these layers to help guide me in that tutorial, that would be great. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 214.641.0920 Find GeoData: https://earthworks.stanford.edu 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- - Original Message - From: Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr To: Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com, hot@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:57:10 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] AAGH! I would add to this, This is the ransom of the success we had with the OpenStreetMap responses over the last few years - Haiti 2010 1.5 million edits - Haiyan 2013 4.5 million edits - Ebola million edits 16 milllions up to now? - Nepal 2015, 1.5 million edits in three days (my last count yesterday night) These HOT activations are quite a labotary, both very frustrating and motivating. We grow rapidly, interconnect with more organizations and constantly have to revise our workflows, adapt to new contexts. At the same time, this is what's make our force. What's can help the most in such HOT activations is some groups of experimented OSM contributors that take tasks like validation or routing. At the same time, the coordination is very important. Workflows and progress should be discussed. Amazing also all the products that came out in the last few days proposed by various developpers. Too busy to list them now. Please add these in the wiki. Cheer Pierre De : Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com À : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 28 avril 2015 8h18 Objet : Re: [HOT] AAGH! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do agree with you in principle, and actually suggested using the information on the task manager linke number of tiles a user has completed to do things like flag new users tiles for extra caution in validating and such. Whether we want to restrict validating by them as well is another possibility. We need to be very careful though to not discourage them because new users are the people that become experienced users a short time later and we need all the volunteers we can get. Also, I do think we tend to focus too much on the task manager, especially during activations; that is why I mentioned the josm thing. It is an excellent tool, and we should definitely continue using it, but we should also look at other ways more experienced mappers can help out. Downloading large areas by an experienced mapper and 'spot checking' them it a very good, and efficient, way of doing QA for those that know how. We need to be thinking of these other, non task manager, workflows for more experienced mappers that don't interfere with the workers on the task managers, but also allow for more efficient work by those who can handle the tools. -
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
the project. I’ve been looking at some of the Missing Maps projects and they seem to have a well developed template/protocol for deploying HOT tasks. We’d love to have our project area adopted as a Missing Maps promoted project. We are also looking forward to the trial phase of the study, which will be deployed on a larger region, probably the Netrokona region, as a whole. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 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- - Original Message - From: Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com To: Mikel Maron mi...@groundtruth.in Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com, Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com, hot@openstreetmap.org, Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org, Claudia A. Engel cen...@stanford.edu Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 9:22:39 PM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Hi Stace and Mikel, FYI, Kendua is a sub district (upazila) of Netrokona District. Kendua also divided in 14 subdivision (13 unions and 1 Paurashava/municipalty). Here I have attached the boundaries and kmz of all for your convenience. I tried to upload in umap but couldnt. Hope Mikel could do it for me. Best regards Ahasan . Ahasanul Hoque GIS Environmental Data Mgt Specialist WSP, The World Bank. MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh. Diploma in Disaster Mgt Humanitarian Response | Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand . Contact: hoque.aha...@gmail.com ; ahasan...@yahoo.com | Web: ahasanulhoque.com Skype: ahasan4u | Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Mikel Maron mi...@groundtruth.in wrote: Stace I updated the coordination map of all Bangla projects with the boundary of Kendua http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bangladesh-mapping-projects_26815#8/23.612/89.742 -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Sunday, February 1, 2015 1:33 PM, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: blockquote Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841 , as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 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- From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu , hot@openstreetmap.org , Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu , Fred Moine frmo
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
Well, since we are interested in the entirely of the sub-district, I think we keep the original shape in the Umap, but I would think we want the subdivisions reflected in OSM? In F,LT, 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- - Original Message - From: Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com To: Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com, Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu Cc: Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org, hot@openstreetmap.org, Claudia A. Engel cen...@stanford.edu Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 9:33:23 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Thanks Ahasanul. Let me defer to Stace on whether to update with this new boundary. Stace, should we keep the boundary previously shared, or update with this one? It should be the boundary of the actual project work. * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Monday, February 2, 2015 6:47 AM, Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stace and Mikel, FYI, Kendua is a sub district (upazila) of Netrokona District. Kendua also divided in 14 subdivision (13 unions and 1 Paurashava/municipalty). Here I have attached the boundaries and kmz of all for your convenience. I tried to upload in umap but couldnt. Hope Mikel could do it for me. Best regards Ahasan . Ahasanul Hoque GIS Environmental Data Mgt Specialist WSP, The World Bank. MSc in RS and GIS | AIT, Thailand. MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh. Diploma in Disaster Mgt Humanitarian Response | Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand . Contact: hoque.aha...@gmail.com ; ahasan...@yahoo.com | Web: ahasanulhoque.com Skype: ahasan4u | Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Mikel Maron mi...@groundtruth.in wrote: blockquote Stace I updated the coordination map of all Bangla projects with the boundary of Kendua http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bangladesh-mapping-projects_26815#8/23.612/89.742 -Mikel * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron On Sunday, February 1, 2015 1:33 PM, Stacey Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu wrote: blockquote Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841 , as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 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- From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu , hot@openstreetmap.org
[HOT] HOT Mappers at Stanford?
Are there any experienced HOT mappers in the Stanford University area, who might be willing to meet/help/ do a training for us on a project to map a sub-district in Bangladesh? We've made great contacts in-country, but I think it would be good to build a core of remote mappers, here, too. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 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
Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
Thanks all. Here is the Umap for our pilot study area: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/kendua_27641#11/24.6913/90.7841 , as I understand from Eric, patients arrive at the subdistrict medical center from within the Kendua District, but I wonder if there might be some spillover from adjacent subdistricts (also, please correct my admin boundary terminology, if necessary), based upon travel times. TO account for that, it might make sense to work on a slightly larger envelope than Kendua. Yes, I agree on the building footprints being secondary. Our primary objective is to build a map that will provide a familiar enough reference for local health care workers and family members to identify the home village/community of the patients, without being present at the location, as care will be primarily given outside of the home community. Obviously, roads, paths and probably (I am only guessing as I have never been to Bangladesh) water courses would be most important for reference. I have seen some HOT jobs identifying residential or populated areas, which might also be useful, short of building footprints. In our discussions, we identified schools, places of worship, markets, etc... as other landmarks that might help users orient. So if we move to creating building footprints, those would be of primary importance. We are also interested in the locations of pharmacies, and clinics/hospitals and other healthcare points of service. Finally, and I know this one would require people on the ground with GPS, it would be incredibly useful to identify drinking water facilities/sources. Mikel suggested establishing an OSM Bangla Skype Group to coordinate. I've just logged into my Skype account for the first time in years, so it is active. I will make sure I have a Skype client installed on all of my machines by tomorrow. My Skype= stacey.maples Again, this response is fantastic. Thanks so much. In F,LT, Stace Maples Geospatial Manager Stanford Geospatial Center @mapninja staceymaples@G+ Skype: stacey.maples 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- - Original Message - From: Jorieke Vyncke jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com To: Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com Cc: Stace Maples stacemap...@stanford.edu, hot@openstreetmap.org, Eric Jorge Nelson eric.j.nel...@stanford.edu, Fred Moine frmo...@gmail.com, Kunce Dale dale.ku...@redcross.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:05:12 AM Subject: Re: [HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh. Hi Stace and Eric, Pete is talking about the same people as I did to you before. Some of our Bangladesh mappers are now also on this list... But I will sent you a follow up mail on this. Further I like very much your idea, and would like to give you some input. Talking out of my experience; to trace patients, not necessarily all buildings are needed in the first phase. To track patients the main important this is to be able to locate people. So this means collecting locally used neighbourhood names, locally used street names, and landmarks used by the people. Buildings are in my view then a second step. I don't know how big the area is you're focused on? Maybe you can quickly point it on a Umap for us? Fingers crossed, for good imagery in the area of interest... Also I was thinking it might be good to set up an OSM Bangla Skype group to try to coordinate all the upcoming projects a little bit. Lastly there was also interest of Terre des Hommes, the American Red Cross is going to do more things in spring,... So we can coordinate a bit and share resources and thoughts on mapping in the very particular context of Bangladesh. Please let me know if you are interested in this. Best greetings, Jorieke 2015-01-31 9:55 GMT+01:00 Pete Masters pedrito1...@googlemail.com : 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: blockquote All, I'm working
[HOT] Request for help/guidance on a project to test diarrheal disease interventions in Kendua Sub-District, Bangladesh.
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,LT, 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- 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,LT, 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
