*Hi,* *I just created a blog post about CAR on HOT website <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-01-13_hot_activation_in_central_african_republic_review_of_current_progresses>. Please find the text below:*
Thanks to all the contributors who helped finishing mapping Bangui<http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/4.3757/18.5513&layers=H> and Zemio <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/5.0223/25.1273&layers=H> last week! I made a *review of the progresses of mapping cities and towns in CAR with OSM *as well as the potentials. The results are synthesized in this uMAp<http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/central-african-republic_3868> . If you pass the mouse over the icon with layers and drop on the left side, then on Browse data, the colors are explained: - red wine (actually the HOT logo color) for the towns being mapped with the Tasking Manager - dark orange for those already mapped - yellow for those mapped and validated - red for the 6 prefectures (admin1 capitals) already not mapped, because so far there was no request to do it, but they may be the next ones to be tasked - blue are the 3 ones with no high res Bing imagery, so currently they cannot be mapped on OSM The blue areas are a layer I created in order to get the *high res Bing imagery cover over the country*, so that everyone interested by the OSM data for CAR knows the current limit for the remote tracing over imagery. If you click on any icon, it will give you access either to the Tasking Manager to contribute to the mapping, or to the HOT Exports service to download the data in various GIS formats. The OSM wikipage for CAR<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic> is up to data and provide the same accesses, as well as an Export job covering the whole country and the areas around, as Southern Chad where refugee camps have been mapped last year during the EUROSHA program<http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0> . Next activities are: - access to recent imagery to *map the IDP camps* - in the meantime, *continuation of mapping towns and cities affected by violences on Bing Imagery*. I make sure there is always one featured job in the Tasking Manager, as for South Sudan. Maybe we will increase this once the remaining jobs for the Philippines are done - *validation/correction of achieved Tasking Manager jobs*. This is really valuable for the humanitarian organizations that will use the OSM data, but actually it takes time and I would need some experience mappers to join, - starting again the import of UNICEF data about Health, Education and Water facilities - finishing the* review of roads that are still to be mapped, as well as the villages extent along and their names* *Sincerely,* [image: logo] *Severin Menard* Airtel Africa tel: +code 993414989 France tel: (+33) 9 70 46 75 95<http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs.wisestamp.com%2Flinks%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fs.wisestamp.com%252Flinks%253Furl%253Dtel%25253A%25252528%2525252B33%25252529%252525209%2525252070%2525252046%2525252075%2525252095%2526amp%253Bsn%253D%26amp%3Bsn%3D&sn=c2V2ZXJpbi5tZW5hcmRAZ21haWwuY29t> France tel: (+33) 6 95 39 42 95<http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs.wisestamp.com%2Flinks%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fs.wisestamp.com%252Flinks%253Furl%253Dtel%25253A%25252528%2525252B33%25252529%252525206%2525252095%2525252039%2525252042%2525252095%2526amp%253Bsn%253D%26amp%3Bsn%3D&sn=c2V2ZXJpbi5tZW5hcmRAZ21haWwuY29t> Skype ID: severin.menard
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