I cannot spot water wells. The pattern I see in this area is that there is
often what seems to be a pond inside the walls of habitations.
Andrew and others might be better then me to spot if any water wells.
Pierre
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De : Severin Menard <[email protected]>
À : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>
Cc : "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 16h07
Objet : Re: [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
Hi Pierre,
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Severin
>
>In this Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of Intermittent
>ponds
>url=http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
>If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I think tha a
>polygon should be trace around all the zone with the tag flood_prone=yes, plus
>identify the more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou and
>have mapped a few of the flood_prone areas as an example.
>
I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou
itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field
assessment.
>The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the cattles
>operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able to spot such wells
>by observing odd looking "fans" around them in the aerial imagery made by the
>cattles circulation.
>
Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou? Would be good
to document this with the examples provided through the discussions for Mali
>See discussion for Mali
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
>
>
>
>Pierre
>
>
>
>________________________________
> De : Severin Menard <[email protected]>
>À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
>Objet : [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a town
>close to the border with Mali, for a development project about drinkable
>water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know more:
>http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>
>
>As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for and
>about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make suggestions.
>
>
>The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds -
>please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an idea how
>to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
>
>
>I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web, to
>have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Severin
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