Hi Robert, I'm sending you a few contacts separately. Regarding, this topic, I'd love to exchange more about it and we could involve a few UNHCR people too. The camp mapping page on the wiki could serve as a base for discussion.
Best, Claire Claire Halleux +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC) OpenStreetMap RDC Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC http://www.hotosm.org/ On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Robert Banick <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI all. My contacts at REACH have moved on from it, does anyone here have > contacts with the current REACH Jordan team? > > In a larger sense these questions of sustainability and long-term accuracy > will be a recurring issue for humanitarian mapping of camps so it would be > good to explore this topic more. I would type some thoughts but I'm on a > tiny phone screen right now. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Frederik Ramm" <[email protected]> > Date: 21 Dec 2015 06:00 > Subject: [OSM-talk] Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan / UNHCR / REACH > To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > Hi, > > I see that there's a lot of detail mapped at this refugee camp > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=32.29460120201111&mlon=36.3242769241333#map=14/32.2946/36.3243 > > but when inspecting things more closely, most information seems to come > from imports that are more than a year old. > > How stable are camps like this - is it prudent to assume that either > > (a) if there was a greengrocer two years ago in a place, it will likely > still be there? > > or > > (b) the people who have imported data two years ago as part of their > job/project/assignment will still be around and change things as necessary? > > or > > (c) people living in the camp have the necessary training and resources > to take map updates into their own hands? > > I'd love to get in touch with people who mapped this camp, or others in > the more recent past, for a couple of general refugee camp mapping > questions. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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