Hi All, Just a gentle reminder that the Red Cross tasks in Northern Haiti are still very much operational and needed.
We kept quiet during the flooding in Khartoum so as not to distract from needed relief. Now that that's dying down, we would greatly appreciate support from any HOT volunteers who can spend time tracing for us. This data remains incredibly important to the Red Cross's work in Northern Haiti, most especially a forthcoming training on participatory GIS using OpenStreetMap. Best, Robert Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross<http://www.redcross.org/> 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 202-805-3679 | Skype robert.banick From: <Banick>, Robert Banick <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:59 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "Kunce, Dale" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Joseph, Daniel B." <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "Folkman, Emma" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [HOT] Red Cross Tasks in Northern Haiti Hi All, I'm writing to ask for the assistance of the HOT community with a couple of tasks that the American Red Cross has added to the tasking manager. We're looking to map the roads, buildings and basic land uses in 6 sections communales in Northern Haiti targeted for extensive Red Cross work over the coming years. The tasks in question: Caracol - http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/280 Ferrier & Ouanaminthe - http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/284 Borgne - http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/285 Bahon - http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/286 Ranquitte & La Victoire Tracing Task - http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/287 The overview We'll be working in over 100 communities within these sections communales and would really like to have accurate, detailed maps of the communities and the surrounding environs. We've planned to work with Haitian Red Cross volunteers and staff to do much of the mapping ourselves, but it's just too much terrain to possibly cover it all on the ground within our timeframe. As such, we wanted to pitch some of the initial footwork to the crowd. We need your help creating a map "skeleton" of the areas in question: roads, buildings, land uses (in that order of importance). Our teams on the ground will take it from there, creating rich, detailed base maps in OSM for the communities in question. We'll then use these to for a participatory GIS module leveraging OSM within our assessment process. The end goal? Stronger analysis leading to more responsive programming. And proof of the concept that OSM is a natural fit for participatory GIS work. Looking forward Our hope is to build on the work on the excellent work already done by the HOT team in the North of Haiti. We've been in contact with the team from there and hope to work with the local HOT staff trained up during the recent program. More on that as it comes. Thank you to all who have contributed to these tasks so far. Best, Robert Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross<http://www.redcross.org/> 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006
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