Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread Rebecca Firth
Hi Jeff, HOT are currently working on a project in Liberia, I will connect you directly with the project manager to see if there is any overlap with the project - though he is in Liberia at the moment so might not have connectivity right away. Thanks, Rebecca On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:22 PM,

Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread john whelan
A couple of days? We have projects that have been open for a couple of years. Given a couple of decent mappers an area can be mapped and validated quite quickly depending on the imagery. Given poor quality imagery people tend to drift off to other projects. MSF, Red Cross organise maperthons,

Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread Dale Kunce
Jeff, The Red Cross did a lot of mapping in Liberia ( http://www.missingmaps.org/blog/2017/01/24/west-africa-mapping-hub-end/) and I think HOT has an upcoming project as well. As Andrew pointed out the needed thing to map the area remotely would be better satellite imagery. Once that is obtained

Re: [HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread Andrew Buck
The towns don't look that big so mapping them would be quite easy to do, however nether Bing nor MapBox has imagery of imagery of the area that is high enough resolution to map them. If you can find a source of imagery where the license allows us to use it for tracing then it shouldn't be

[HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

2017-02-15 Thread Blossom, Jeffrey C.
Hello HOTOSM team, I'm Jeff Blossom, a GIS Manager with the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. I'm working with a Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, who is doing a long term health surveillance in West Africa, and has expressed the mapping need below: "The recent Ebola epidemic in