* Hi,
In three weeks, rebels from the Séléka coalition, coming from the Northern parts of Central African Republic, have taken over a large numbers of the cities in the direction of the capital, Bangui. Here<http://www.lechorepublicain.fr/photoSRC/W1ZTJ1FdUTgIBhVOGwYSHgYNQDUVGFdfVV9FWkM-/localisation-des-villes-aux-mains-de-la-rebellion-seleka-en-_954591.jpeg>is the situation five days ago, then Sibut <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=5.81&lon=18.98&zoom=8&layers=M>has also been taken over, so the rebellion becomes really close from Bangui. Political negotiations have started, but what will be the future there is currently completely unsure. To get information on the political situation there, you can follow the local journaldebangui.com <http://journaldebangui.com/depeches.php?t=0#6381>or Radio France Internationale <http://www.rfi.fr/search/sinequa_search/centrafrique>(in French), or Reuters <http://www.reuters.com/places/africa>. So far, from the medias and also the stakeholders we know in the field, the population would not have endured too much violence but many people have been scared and flew in the outskirts of the surrendered cities. As you know, Centrafrica is one of the countries involved in the Eurosha<http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0>project. The volunteers have done a great job, creating a lot of data based on the Bing imagery, especially over Bangui, promoting the OSM (and also Sahana Eden) platform to all the differents kinds of stakeholders (local government, authorities and NGOs, academics, international NGOs, UN system) and starting to train some of them with me when I was on their side first half of December. They had to leave the country for the security reasons at the end of last week, and now, as they are safe in Yaoundé, we can start the pre-activation, focusing on the Areas of Interest they got from the local stakeholders and their analysis of the existing Bing Imagery. * Good imagery and high priority, for which Tasking Manager jobs have been created Bria <http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/134> (2011_12_22): partly mapped (around 70 %), several hours left to finish Ndéle<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=8.4108&lon=20.6425&zoom=13&layers=M>(2011_11_30): already mapped by the team during the last weeks, so mo Tasking Manager job, but some additions can be made in the outskirts, especially along the Eastern main road Kaga – Bandoro <http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/136> (2012_06_15): partly mapped (around 70 %), part of the center missing, around 2 hours left to finish Batangafo <http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/138> (2012_11): partly mapped (around 70 %), some buildings and smaller roads missing, around 2 hours left to finish Kabo <http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/139>(2012_11_04): partly mapped (around 70 %) * Bad imagery, high priority Bambari is not covered by high res Bing imagery but there are 2 Orbview-3 images covering it, a bit old but that would be a good start though : Entity ID: 82956 USGS Entity ID: 3V060220P0001102171A520000100212M_001620935 Coordinates: 5.896901 , 20.665999 Acquisition Date: 20-FEB-06 Entity ID: 82958 USGS Entity ID: 3V060220P0001102171A520002100422M_001620935 Coordinates: 5.679683 , 20.666007 Acquisition Date: 20-FEB-06 Would someone be interested to put them on a server for the community? Sibut is unfortunately not covered neither by high res Bing nor Orbview-3 imagery * Good Imagery, lower priority, so Tasking manager jobs will be created only once the first ones completed Ippy – with a few clouds (hiding around 1/10 of buildings): partly mapped (around 70 %), 2 hours to finish Birao (2011_1_31) Bamingui (2012): already mapped by the team during the last weeks Mbrès (2012_04_14): already mapped by the team during the last weeks Ouadda (2011_12_11): started, just a few houses done Ouanda Djallé (2011_12_11): already mapped by the team during the last weeks * Bad imagery, lower priority Grimari Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Severin *
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