Hi Robert..
It's great to see that the progress of the project is good, Lira will receive,
(if it hasn't yet), more love, and consequently the whole area (including Gulu)
will fully be mapped, even more so that there is very high imagery in Lira from
bing.
Yours Truly
Douglas Ssebaggala Musaazi
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1. Update: Gulu / Lira mapping exercise (Banick, Robert)
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:21:14 +0000
From: "Banick, Robert" <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HOT] Update: Gulu / Lira mapping
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Hi Hotties,
The first stage of the Red Cross's on-the-ground mapping exercises are wrapping
up and I wanted to provide an update to all the incredible volunteers who got
us this far.
Your contributions to OSM were huge to us in Gulu, where we led a training on
GIS basics for 12 Uganda Red Cross Society members. OSM in Gulu was used
throughout to ground the course in real data: our GPS exercises were about
collecting data for OSM and our mapping sessions made heavy use of the Gulu
data. Uganda Red Cross staff were pretty
delighted to see their contributions go right into the map.
As our project is just getting under way, we've only begun to scratch at the
surface of what's possible. The next step will be to use the data at hand to
make in-house maps identifying the most at-risk areas in Uganda. See the
attached map made by the American Red Cross and the Ugandan Red Cross Society
during our training for an idea of where we're going with this. As we narrow
our focus on specific neighborhoods and communities within Gulu, we'll come up
with a hit list of critical infrastructure to be mapped and design a curriculum
to collect it. This map is very much alive.
Having the basic infrastructure in place means the world to us, and we owe it
all to you. On behalf of the American and Uganda Red Cross Societies, thank you
to all of the volunteers and HOT members who put time and effort into making
the maps of Gulu and Lira as incredible as they are. A lot of people
inside the Red Cross, myself included, are blown away by the quality of these
maps and the possibilities they create for us. We're in the very unfamiliar and
totally fantastic position of having more data than we know what to do with and
we're quite excited to see what innovative stuff we can come up with now. We'll
be sure to share any successes that emerge.
A final note (and appeal): Lira still needs a little bit of love, particularly
in the hut tracing department. As the attached map shows, knowing where these
huts are an effective rough proxy for any number of social vulnerability
indicators. Thankfully, Bing just contributed some very high resolution imagery
which can be used to trace the remaining roads in huts in the Lira area. Anyone
who has free time and energy to commit to mapping the huts of Lira would earn
our eternal gratitude. I'll be pitching in to do the same in my free time.
Again, my sincerest thanks to all of the
volunteers and HOT members who contributed to this project. You all have
helped prove the value of crowdsourced mapping to the Red Cross and opened a
lot of eyes on this end. Thank you.
Best,
Robert
Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | ? American Red
Cross<http://www.redcross.org/>
2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006
Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303-052 | Skype robert.banick
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