Hi Jeff, HOT are currently working on a project in Liberia, I will connect you directly with the project manager to see if there is any overlap with the project - though he is in Liberia at the moment so might not have connectivity right away.
Thanks, Rebecca On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Dale Kunce <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > The Red Cross did a lot of mapping in Liberia (http://www.missingmaps.org/ > blog/2017/01/24/west-africa-mapping-hub-end/) and I think HOT has an > upcoming project as well. As Andrew pointed out the needed thing to map the > area remotely would be better satellite imagery. Once that is obtained the > areas could be mapped in detail in just a couple of days. > > Dale > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The towns don't look that big so mapping them would be quite easy to do, >> however nether Bing nor MapBox has imagery of imagery of the area that >> is high enough resolution to map them. If you can find a source of >> imagery where the license allows us to use it for tracing then it >> shouldn't be difficult but otherwise there may not be much we can do. >> >> -AndrewBuck >> >> On 02/15/2017 01:19 PM, Blossom, Jeffrey C. wrote: >> > Hello HOTOSM team, >> > >> > >> > I'm Jeff Blossom, a GIS Manager with the Center for Geographic Analysis >> at Harvard University. >> > >> > >> > I'm working with a Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, who is doing a long term >> health surveillance in West Africa, and has expressed the mapping need >> below: >> > >> > >> > "The recent Ebola epidemic in west Africa was unprecedented. Critical >> to the response at that time was accurate mapping of the most affected >> households in the most affected areas. Partners In Health is a Boston-based >> nongovernmental organization that began working in Liberia and Sierra Leone >> to assist in the disaster response at the time, but has now made a >> long-term commitment to building functioning health systems in these >> countries so that the next Ebola epidemic does not occur. >> > >> > >> > >> > We are looking for volunteers who can help map beneficiary communities >> in our catchment area, starting with Harper and Pleebo, Liberia. The goal >> would then be to use these detailed community maps to create public health >> strategies where local community health workers can perform regular >> outreach campaign to households to be sure that people are healthy, and >> connected to growing clinical services." >> > >> > >> > What is the process to get this mapping request considered? >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Jeff Blossom >> > >> > >> > GIS Service Manager >> > >> > Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University >> > >> > 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > HOT mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > > -- > sent from my mobile device > > Dale Kunce > http://normalhabit.com > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Rebecca Firth* Community Partnerships Manager [email protected] <[email protected]> @RebeccaFirthy Skype: rebeccafirth *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://donate.hotosm.org/>
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