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,
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,
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
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
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