Hi Jeff,
As Rebecca mentioned, we are currently working on a project in Liberia
indeed! Which I'm managing, and I'm actually in Gbarnga/Ganta at the
moment together with David Luswata. This project focuses mostly on
supporting local gov't in Gbarnga, Ganta and Zwedru in collecting and
using geodata for urban planning and service delivery, in close
collaboration with local partners such as LISGIS and the Ministry of
Internal Affairs.
I don't think we'll actually get to Maryland county (where Harper and
Pleebo are), but I have been in contact with an NGO (Partners in Health,
http://www.pih.org/) that has a presence there and is interested in
mapping to support their operations. I'm hoping your objectives would
align quite well, and I'd be happy to chat more on how we can setup
remote mapping for these areas (providing road networks/building
outlines) and work on getting more local knowledge/ground truthed data
in for this county.
best,
Paul
On 15-02-2017 21:46, Rebecca Firth wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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/
<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] <mailto:[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
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