Of course yes, Libya does deserve emergency mapping. This had been discussed in the H.O.T. mailing list, but making the broader audience here aware of it could indeed be helpful. See the thread starting at: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2011-February/000547.html
Calls for help have been made from Libya to humanitarian NGOs. The Red Cross, for example, has planned missions to Libya. They can usually use OpenStreetMap maps, when they are of sufficient quality. This might be a problem currently with OSM data for Libya. The positive side is that it should be relatively easy to improve it very significantly. There is indeed now high resolution Bing imagery of Tripoli, Benghazi and Khoms areas. (Sometimes, very high resolution). Roads and streets can be traced in these areas. I am not aware of other high resolution imagery currently available. Public domain maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection could also be useful, for example for tracing roads in combination with medium resolution imagery, in areas where only Landsat imagery is available, from Yahoo or Bing (I've found Yahoo version more readable in some places). Or for locating place names - Wikipedia can also be very useful for finding the current names from the old Italian names. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/libya.html The hashtag #OSMapLibya had been proposed for mapping coordination via the Twitter social network, with the intent of eliciting local knowledge, and pointers to OpenStreetBugs for easy input, but this hasn't taken so far. The #hot IRC channel on irc.oftc.net is of course available for chatting. Thanks. Best wishes, Jean-Guilhem Le 24/02/2011 16:10, Ch. Rogel a écrit : > > Being not involved in Lybian events, except by political interest, I > find it strange that no move for an emergency mapping has risen yet as > it has for Ivory Coast. > > Same problem : no international call for helping populations, but a > predictable disaster. > > Mapping Tripoli, Benghazi and Khoms from Bing is possible and enough > former inhabitants have fled to our countries. > > Is there any other imagery? > > A few information here : > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Libya > > Ch Rogel > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Jean-Guilhem pgp 0x5939EAE2
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