Hi- The two main sources of information about vector and raster data for the Horn Of Africa are * Imagery & product UN Spider Data Portal for Horn Of Africa 2011<http://www.un-spider.org/horn-of-africa-2011> * UNOCHA Core Operational and Fundamental Datasets website<http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/>, COD Somalia page<http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/somalia>
Imagery outreach work done towards UNOSAT/UNITAR, SPOT, SAFER and US State Department Vector outreach work done on refugees and transportation Nicolas 2011/8/7 Peter Dörrie <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I usually dont post here, but I recently had contact with a guy on G+ ( > https://plus.google.com/102007286981401611393/about) who works for an NGO > active in Kenya/Somalia and who was very interested in maps of the region. I > mentioned OSM to him and also proposed that people on the ground like him > could improve the map data. > > Maybe someone "official" could pick up the contact with this guy and other > NGOs as well. > > Regards, > > Peter Dörrie > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also wanted to mention I'll be hanging out on #HOT in IRC today as >> well if anyone wants to discuss there. >> >> For those not familiar with IRC: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Kate >> >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Any ideas on how we can increase the OSM coverage in the famine >> > affected regions of Somalia? >> > >> > Could we put together a list of possible data sources to import here? >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Somalia >> > >> > It looks like there is a road source that is available, but not >> > imported according to the wiki. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Kate >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > Jens Peter Dörrie > > email: [email protected] > google+: http://gplus.to/PeterDoerrie > twitter: @PeterDoerrie <http://twitter.com/#%21/PeterDoerrie> > homepage: http://www.peter-doerrie.de > blog: http://gooddevelopments.posterous.com > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Mobile (Haiti): +509 389 583 05 Mobile (France): +33 6 89 45 54 58 Landline (FRA): +33 2 97 26 23 08 Email: [email protected] Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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