Re: [HOT] OSM Sierra Leone is fundraising!
Hi Tommy, I am happy for this initiative. I did OpenStreetMapping of roads, rooftops, health centres, swamps and sectional boundaries of Bo City, Sierra Leone between 2012 and 2016. I also did some mapping of the road network in Kenema City. I hope you have a national mapping plan which I I’m thinking will be really useful for researchers, planners and the city councils. Best of luck with your fundraising Kind regards Alfred Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:13, OSM Sierra Leone wrote: > > Hello > > I'm Tommy Charles a coordinator at Openstreetmap- Sierra Leone which is a > registered Non-Governmental Organization in Sierra Leone. We're are engaged > in humanitarian mapping with the application of Openstreetmap and other open > data collection and visualization techniques. > > Currently, we are working to revive and expand our mapping community but we > lack all the prerequisites to do so. These prerequisites include, a permanent > venue to hold mapathons, computers, mobile phones and Internet facilities. > > Our main goal is to have a community with a strong foundation and structures > to execute mapping, community awareness and exposure projects similar to Map > Kibera, Open Cities and vulnerability assessments. This will be very > essential in a country that experiences disease outbreaks, Landslides and > flooding every year > > Against this backdrop we are seeking funds to procure computers, mobile > phones and portable internet sources for mapping, data collection, workshops > and other beneficial activities . > > With these we'll be able to have a memorandum of understanding with the > Geographic Information System- Laboratory at Fourah Bay College in order to > use the Laboratory as a permanent location to hold mapathons, workshops and > activities of our community. > > We are kindly pleading for your donations in order to achieve this goal. > Please do so by checking out our donation page through the link below where > you'll find our donation link. > > https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMTDsierraleone=D=2=AFQjCNGw4IMZjNz6-q54KXhOts1100cuwA > > > Our community will appreciate your kind efforts whether big or small to keep > it alive and sustainable to continue its humanitarian course. > > Regards > Tommy Charles > Coordinator > ___ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
[HOT] Introducing myself to OSM world
Dear All I am a Sierra Leonean lecturing in the Institute of Environmental Management and Quality Control, School of Environmental Science, Njala University Sierra Leone. I also serve as Independent Contractor for George Mason University as GIS and Database Expert for a disease surveillance and research laboratory (Mercy Hospital research Lab) located in Bo City, Sierra Leone. I have done many consultancies for local and international organisations in Sierra Leone and co-authored many article publications in science journals. Among my skills include; • GIS data capture using GPS and mobile handheld devices (ODK Collect, Collector for ArcGIS, Avenza pdfmaps, Mytracks etc..) • GIS mapping using desktop software packages (ArcGIS 10.2, GlobalMapper, Google Earth and QGIS) and Internet based platforms (ArcGIS Online, Openstreetmap, Google Map, Mapguide and Ushahidi). • Development of relational databases for data management and analysis using MS Access, FileMaker pro and SQL • Production of electronic based survey forms for mobile data collection using android devices • Research data analysis and reporting using SPSS, MS Excel and ArcGIS I wish to formally join in contributing to openstreet mapping of our homes, communities and countries to help solve a host of problems we are currently facing due to lack of spatial data GIS would have been a better tool to fight the West Africa Ebola outbreak but the outbreak came in meeting no relevant spatial data in store. If each incident case would have been mapped from start, it would have been possible to easily know the outbreak patterns and hotspot areas, and the statistically significant factors contributing to the hotspots. Through this, contact tracing could have been more effective and resources would have been properly allocated. I want to become a reputable researcher and hardcore professional in areas of geographic information systems, management information systems and research. I am operating a registered NGO in Sierra Leone called Research Agency for Health and Development (RAHD-Salone) with primary aim to promote research in areas of public and environmental health. One of our objectives is to provide research tools and information to organizations in line with their project objectives so as to be able to solve problems limited by research. RAHD intends to create a data hub for storage of spatial and textual data so that researchers national and international can tap from them for their research work and be able to provide appropriate policy recommendations. I hope the OSM community will partner with RAHD in modelling the world for better planning and easy navigation. Regards Alfred S. Bockarie -- email: asbo...@gmail.com mobile: +23278624276 Every answer must lead to a new question, and life will go on ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
