Nate, Pierre, Thanks Nate for sharing those elements.
As for trying to improve upon OSM coverage (towns and roads as per AOIs), Lars Bromley (UNITAR/UNOSAT) suggested to check the OrbView-3 images available from USGS via earthexplorer.usgs.gov. (1 meter resolution and compatible with the OSM license). Pierre, I agree with the import work focusing on Places and admin. It would be important as well to start documenting those resources and discussion in a Mali wiki-page. Nico 2012/4/2 Nate Smith <[email protected]> > Nicolas, Pierre - > > Agreed, and we've been having conversations here as well and are just > getting some activities off the ground at Development Seed and MapBox. > We've started repo tracking some of the tracing work we finished up last > week: https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/wiki/Sahel-Priorities. These > don't encapsulate every place in need but hit the major places of entry for > aid organizations, trade routes, refugee areas, or significant cities. The > Bing imagery is only good enough for tracing in the capital cities, which > we worked on last week. > > The major OSM needs I see in the region are roads and populated places, > and imagery. We've started a wiki page tracking the priority places that > could benefit from better imagery: > https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/wiki/Sahel-Imagery-Needs. I have been > talking with Kate and Robert Soden about using various mechanisms to get > imagery and possibly partner with HOT to do some tracing efforts. So if > imagery comes through, there would be a lot of work to do. > > It would be great to do some imports of key reference data for the region. > This is something that we can help with and we're looking to see what else > we can add. Feel free to jump into the repo to track issues and priorities: > https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/. > > Nate > > > > > 2012/4/2 Pierre Béland <[email protected]> > >> >> Hi Nicolas, >> >> Some pre-activation work can be done. >> >> In the north of Mali, there is actually very little information that has >> been mapped. I think that we can map locally without creating to much >> conflict with the server when it will come back. >> >> In JOSM, we cannot import presently from nhttp:// >> api.openstreetmap.org/api server. But it is possible to use an other >> server. I tested this morning, and I was able to import in JOSM from >> http://api.openstreetmap.fr/api. >> >> The Bing Imagery is not detailed enough for Mali. Should somebody start >> to look for Imagery? >> >> I already added boundaries for Regions and Bamako District. >> >> I will also take care of importing populated place names. >> >> We can browse a map of Mali at >> http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/openlayers/mali.php. >> I includes OSM, Bing and Google Base Layers. >> >> Pierre >> >> ------------------------------ >> *De :* nicolas chavent <[email protected]> >> *À :* hot <[email protected]> >> *Envoyé le :* Lundi 2 avril 2012 8h07 >> *Objet :* [HOT] Mali >> >> Hey all, >> >> Greets from Haiti where I'll still be until the end of this week on this >> mapping project in Saint Marc (Haiti). The situation in Mali is evolving >> rapidly as one can see from the News and from reports on UNOCHA Relief web >> Mali <http://reliefweb.int/country/mli>. We got there a coup, de facto a >> secession of the Northern part of the country with large displacement >> issues, the last two events developing on an already bad situation in terms >> of food security in the overall African Sahel. I'll have a call tonight >> with one Information Management person from OCHA to get further details >> there. I'll try to get ahold on reference gis data additional to what is >> already listed in the OCHA Core Operational Dataset (COD) registry for >> Mali <http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/mali>. >> Minimally improving upon baseline data for major cities quoties in the >> above report shall be of help for responders already active in those areas. >> I'll revert to the list with further details from the call. And leave us >> guys deciding if moving forward, how and how to best handle this complex >> emergency where conflicts and food crisis are mixed >> >> Nico >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Mobile (Haiti): +509 4617 3334 Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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