On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:51 PM, "Banick, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kate already asked me about posting and I said sure absolutely! I’ve got mad > pictures, how should I send them to you? Or should I just post directly? Internet! Internet! Internet! > > > Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red > Cross > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > > From: Mikel Maron [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:32 PM > To: Banick, Robert; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HOT] Update: Gulu / Lira mapping exercise > > Robert, did you gather any photographs while in Gulu? Would be great to post > this note, along with some on the ground views, to the HOT blog! > Cheers, Mikel > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > From: "Banick, Robert" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:21 PM > Subject: [HOT] Update: Gulu / Lira mapping exercise > > 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 | Ì American Red > Cross > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 404-964-3451 | Fax 202-303—052 | Skype robert.banick > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
