Re: [HOT] MSF Report on How Maps Helped Fight Ebola

2015-12-02 Thread john whelan
The other thing I noticed was reference to the intermittent Internet bandwidth. Perhaps something like BTsync which runs the bit torrent protocol ie chopping everything thing up into small packets combined with OSMAND .obf files which are highly compressed might work. You can create a custom map

Re: [HOT] MSF Report on How Maps Helped Fight Ebola

2015-12-02 Thread john whelan
Can we build on this, specifically it mentions supporting the countries own cartography departments and the necessity to add village names and other details which needs to be done on the ground. Also there can be multiple names for the same settlement or bit of settlement so probably we need to ta

Re: [HOT] MSF Report on How Maps Helped Fight Ebola

2015-12-01 Thread Luswata David
Pete this is very insightful and energizing. Thanks all. David. On 12/1/15, Pete Masters wrote: > Thanks for flagging, Cristiano. A very interesting perspective. I think > this is great for operational people and non-operational people alike. > > For operational people, the lessons learned are

Re: [HOT] MSF Report on How Maps Helped Fight Ebola

2015-12-01 Thread Pete Masters
Thanks for flagging, Cristiano. A very interesting perspective. I think this is great for operational people and non-operational people alike. For operational people, the lessons learned are really valuable in terms of deployable GIS peeople and engagement with communities like HOT. For non-opera

[HOT] MSF Report on How Maps Helped Fight Ebola

2015-11-30 Thread Cristiano Giovando
Not sure if this was already shared, but just in case, from our colleagues at MSF: http://sm4good.com/2015/11/30/maps-helped-fight-ebola-part-ii/ Full report here: http://sm4good.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/GIS-Support-Ebola-2015_EN.pdf Plenty of references to HOT, OSM and Missing Maps, and h