All,
We are currently working on providing shelter to people affected by the
floods in January. We are still badly in need of an overall damage
assessment, because a big part of the area is inaccessible. We have
currently pretty ok building data for the lower shire (Nsanje and
Chikwhawa districts), both due to mapping of the department of surveys,
and the HOT OSM task for that area. Current priorities therefore are the
districts of Phalombe, Mulanje, Zomba and Blantyre City (in order of
priority). And especially those buildings that are within the flood plane.
Please see here a map of the flood plane, to prioritize the effort. It
is a rough map, but at least it will show you what areas to focus on.
http://geonode.wfp.org/layers/geonode:moz_mwi_dfo_floodextent_20150126
There is already a task for this on OSM.
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/847#
As soon as we have the buildings in these areas properly mapped, we will
overlay them with new flood plane layers and count the number of
buildings inundated. As we are still in the emergency phase, an
upscaling of effort would be really welcome.
Thank you for those helping out,
Maarten
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Maarten van der Veen
Shelter Cluster Support - Information manager
Malawi Floods 2015
Malawi Red Cross Society, Lilongwe
E: im.mal...@sheltercluster.org
M: +265 997 314 918
Skype: maartenvanderveen
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