Has anyone get any consensus on how to tag the national and provincial roads in RDC?
There is a wiki [1] with very nice info about the roads, with their references and routes, but it doesn't say how to tag each of them: trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary and unclassified. Any clue? Cheers, Rafael Ávila Coya (edvac). On 23/03/13 18:17, Pierre Béland wrote: > The area around Sake and Kitchanga is a strategic point at the carrefour > of various roads and humanitarians have expressed concerns. There have > been violences repeatedly, massive displacements of people and sanitary > risks. Thanks to the US State Department, we now have good imagery to > cover this area. Thanks also to Jean-Guilhem and Andrew for the imagery > corrections and server setups. > > We should be able to cover this area rapidly. While we have access to > the Nextview imagery, we should map as much as we can. For this Task > Manager job, We will give Workflow instructions to map this area in > detail including the buildings. > > > Pierre > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *De :* Jean-Guilhem Cailton <[email protected]> > *À :* [email protected] > *Envoyé le :* Samedi 23 mars 2013 10h45 > *Objet :* Re: [HOT] New Job for Tracing in the Congo > > Hi, > > When I pointed out that clear high resolution images of the town of > Kitchanga (and of the area between Saké and Kitchanga, including the > village of Burungu) were available, thanks to the State Department, > Claire, who is our main contact in DRC, replied that : > "We could set tasks for the national road surroundings, Burungu and > Kitchanga. > But it would also be valuable to use them for mapping all visible > infrastructures out of those first three." > > And, half an hour later, she added : > "ICRC confirmed their interest for Kitchanga data already. > Considering the level of recent damages in town, it would be good to > get all the buildings drawn as well. > Some other organisations might also be interested soon." > > > For more information in your language about what happened recently > in Kitchanga, you can look it up in your favorite search engine. > > Here are for example a few links, in English : > > https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=6673&cat=field-news > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21623068 > > and in French : > > http://blog.lesoir.be/colette-braeckman/2013/03/07/kitchanga-nord-kivu-ville-martyre/ > > http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2013/03/06/felix-prosper-basse-la-monusco-appuye-les-fardc-pour-empecher-lavancee-de-lapcls/#more-144986 > > http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_nord-kivu-kitchanga-se-noie-dans-son-sang?id=7943339 > > http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/03/07/la-croix-rouge-denonce-une-situation-dramatique-a-kitchanga-en-rdc_1844415_3212.html > > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Guilhem > > > Le 23/03/2013 14:48, Andrew Buck a écrit : >> I am not sure what the goal is specifically, only that we have a gap >> in our coverage in the strip heading north from Sake and we were >> granted access to some imagery to cover the area. We got the imagery >> due to interest in the region from humanitarian organizations, but I >> do not know who asked for the coverage or what specifically they are >> looking for. All I know is that we were missing imagery for this area >> and now we have it. >> >> Wish I had a more specific answer for you but that is all I have at >> this point. Hopefully someone can elaborate further so we can set >> priorities appropriately, but even if not, this is just a good gap in >> our coverage to fill in anyway. >> >> -AndrewBuck >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > -- > gpg 0x5939EAE2 > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ravilacoya -------------------------------- Por favor, non me envíe documentos con extensións .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, aínda podendoo facer, non os abro. Atendendo á lexislación vixente, empregue formatos estándares e abertos. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#Tipos_de_ficheros _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
