Thanks Sylvie for this feedback from MSF. And thanks to CartONG who has assured
the interaction with MSF on this. I am please to read that this has helped the
humanitarian teams in such a difficult context.
The village names file will be of great help. I will discuss with you about
this and assure we can update the OpenStreetMap database.
Pierre
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De : Sylvie De Laborderie <[email protected]>
À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : Vendredi 18 avril 2014 17h57
Objet : [HOT] FW: Message OSM + points villages MSF
Please kindly find feedback from the MSF GIS off. from the field.
To all OSM-Hot teams,
First of all and once again, we would like to send a big THANK YOU to every
single one of you. Your work is a gift to us all in the field. Building-scale
mapping for such an area is a huge help for our outreach teams, and for many
expats newly arrived and needing a briefing on how the outbreak is evolving.
Finding remote localities and access to them is often a race against time as a
few hours can make a serious difference, not only for patients, but also to
arrive in time to prevent new contacts to happen and keep the outbreak from
spreading further. Cross-checking between local knowledge and OSM maps allows
us to work much faster
Regarding locality names, we were able to acquire through various field trip
with GPS devices a confirmed database of localities covering the
sub-prefectures of Gueckedou-Centre, Temessadou-Dibo, and Guedembou.
Thought this might be a nice input for you guys, to come as support to your
amazing work. This data can be freely shared as long as credited to MSF-CH.
There might be still some minor confirmations/changes to make, especially in
remote/inaccessible areas, but these places have been taken directly by GPS on
the field, and confirmed with local inhabitants.
Hope this helps. One more time: thanks!
JG
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