Yes, Political crisis following the presidential elections led to violence all over the country :
* In Abidjan, number of displaced people was estimated to 800.000 two weeks ago. Although calm slowly returns to Abidjan, violence is still ongoing especially in the Yopougon district (west of the city, 1 million people). * Violence has been terrible in the western part of the country. UNHCR talking about "massacre" [1]. This area has been especially affected [2] and the imagery we got yesterday from SPOT covers this. * There are refugee camps in Liberia, approximately 150.000 Ivorian refugees according to UNHCR [3]. UNOSAT has authorized OSM to trace over one of its imagery for the Bahn camp in Liberia (the biggest camp if I make no mistake) [4] Unfortunately, the "end" of the political crisis does not automatically implies the end of the humanitarian crisis : displaced people will still stay in camps for a time, infrastructures are destroyed, people are afraid of reprisals and violence. Protection, health and food needs are big. Many organizations are now operating there and lacking good baseline data. As I told yesterday, OSM is in the Common Operational Dataset of OCHA [5] : so OSM data is already used but needs to be improved I know I am not good at summarizing the situation, many reports can be found here for those interested : http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/69 Frederic [1] : http://reliefweb.int/node/394813 [2] : http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/map_47.pdf [3] : http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/map_59.pdf [4] : wms:http://cernunosat05.cern.ch/ArcGIS/services/CIV/CIV_Liberia4/MapServer/WMSServer?FORMAT=image/jpeg&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&Layers=0&Styles=default&; [5] : http://ochaonline.un.org/UrgencesEmergencies/ElectionsCocirctedIvoire/tabid/7330/language/fr-FR/Default.aspx 2011/4/21 Mikel Maron <[email protected]> > > Frederic > > Perhaps everyone is not as aware of the humanitarian situation in Ivory > Coast? Can you elaborate what's happening? > The media focus was on Gbagbo (at least in the US), and the humanitarian > crisis there was overshadowed by Japan. > > -Mikel > > == Mikel Maron == > +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > ________________________________ > From: Frédéric Bonifas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 7:35:54 AM > Subject: [HOT] Why we fail mapping Ivory Coast ? > > Hi, > > I have noticed that the participation in mapping Ivory Coast isn't huge. > > We usually have no data sources. So we spend time tracing with landsat, > defining the areas of interest, trying to get images, and complaining about > the lack of available data sources. > > For Ivory Coast we are in the contrary case : we have tons of satellite > images but no one to trace over it. > > Perhaps you are currently mapping another area ? > Perhaps you don't see the interest in mapping Ivory Coast ? > Perhaps the data sources available were not promoted enough ? > Perhaps quality of available satellite imagery is too bad ? > Perhaps the communication around the usefulness of this mapping action wasn't > good ? > Perhaps the media did not talk a lot about this crisis ? > Perhaps ... ? > > This is really a "naive" message, without pre-conceived ideas, just to > understand why we fail and how we can improve. > > Thanks > > -- > Frédéric Bonifas > +33672652807 skype:fredericbonifas -- Frédéric Bonifas +33672652807 skype:fredericbonifas _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
