There has been a confirmation that a major international humanitarian organisation (other than the Red Cross) is looking into using OSM for its deployment in Libya.
Jean-Guilhem Le 24/02/2011 17:09, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit : > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Jean-Guilhem pgp 0x5939EAE2
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