Hi, Just published a blog post<http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-01-04_hot_monitoring_for_the_current_crisis_in_south_sudan>on HOT website about this topic. Here is the text:
South Sudan is currently on top of the humanitarian focus if we consider the number of number of publications over the week in ReliefWeb<http://reliefweb.int/%20> . Since violence raised in the country by the end of December, we started a HOT Monitoring, to provide baseline data for the humanitarian response. So far, South Sudan was not a country extensively mapped in OpenStreetMap (OSM), and a lot of work remain to get the same completeness rate than a country like Central African Republic (whose situation will be presented in another post). It will take time to have a consolidated data regarding road network, residential areas and location names. Our main target for the moment, as for the Philippines after Haiyan Typhoon, is to get the most affected cities mapped in OSM, using the HOT Tasking Manager <http://tasks.hotosm.org/>. Some humanitarian staff working on the country suggested us additional ones. The objectives, their current state and download links to get the data in GIS formats are presented in this OSM Wikipage <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_Sudan>. You can also find a download job covering the whole country<http://export.hotosm.org/fr/jobs/6322> . Bor, in Jeglei State, was the first job to be started and just came to an end. Thanks to all the OSM mappers (at least 22) that contributed! Bentiu is still ongoing. Juba (country Capital), Malakal (a state capital) and Mundri (a county capital) will be the next targets. For Bor, I used a global validation process I am testing and will document, not only in order to correct mistakes or add some missing features, but above all to get a more consolidated result from the contributions of all the mappers, everyone having different habits of mapping and tagging, especially regarding the road hierarchy. I applied the Highway Tag Africa<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa> that had been discussed and used since the HOT Activation for Mali and has the advantages to be easy, clear, and adapted to the road networks in Africa, and actually to the developing countries in general. IMHO, the resulting map<http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/6.2107/31.5774> make the geographical context really easier to understand. During the following days, we will continue the remaining tasks and we may have access to recent imagery to also map the IDP camps. Anyone that would like to join the mapping is welcomed, as any suggestion or mapping request! Sincerely, Severin Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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