Hi David,
Sounds very exciting.
Hopefully others with more field experience can chime in as well, but
from my perspective as someone who helps provide data to humanitarian
orgs, the important data is:
hospital/health site locations/names/services
village/community names
road names
schools, locations, names
markets
places of worship
gps traces of any sort (helps us align our imagery and identify roads
that may not show on our imagery)
Any of that you can collect and input into OSM will be tremendously
valuable to HOT, OSM and the people of Swaziland.
If you and your team collect the data, we can help you get it into OSM
upon your return, or if you have connectivity, while you are in the field.
gps traces with poi's work great.
Just about any level of data you collect will help, we do not have a lot
of data for Swaziland now and are actually in the middle of a large
project to get building footprints for malaria eradication efforts.
Thank you for thinking of OSM and HOT and please let us know how we can
help you and your team.
Cheers,
Blake
On 12/21/2015 6:43 PM, David Levin wrote:
Howdy list!
In 6 days our team will leave for Swaziland, in southern Africa, to
conduct site surveys in rural communities for a humanitarian
bridge-building project in cooperation with the non-profit Bridges to
Prosperity <http://bridgestoprosperity.org>.
We will have GPS units with our group and will be collecting plenty of
data, and I wonder what kind of data could we collect that may be most
valuable to HOT or even OSM in general.
Also this opportunity paves the way for more trips to Swaziland in the
future, and our group is happy to contribute in any ways that we can so
if anyone has suggestions, please send them our way!
Thank you,
David Levin
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