<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Frederic<br><br>Perhaps everyone is not as aware of the humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast? Can you elaborate what's happening?<br>The media focus was on Gbagbo (at least in the US), and the humanitarian crisis there was overshadowed by Japan.<br><div> <br>-Mikel<br><br></div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Frédéric Bonifas <fredericbonifas@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> hot@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, April
21, 2011 7:35:54 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [HOT] Why we fail mapping Ivory Coast ?<br></font><br>Hi,<br><br>I have noticed that the participation in mapping Ivory Coast isn't huge.<br><br>We usually have no data sources. So we spend time tracing with landsat, defining the areas of interest, trying to get images, and complaining about the lack of available data sources.<br>
<br>For Ivory Coast we are in the contrary case : we have tons of satellite images but no one to trace over it.<br><br>Perhaps you are currently mapping another area ?<br>Perhaps you don't see the interest in mapping Ivory Coast ?<br>
Perhaps the data sources available were not promoted enough ?<br>Perhaps quality of available satellite imagery is too bad ?<br>
Perhaps the communication around the usefulness of this mapping action wasn't good ?<br>Perhaps the media did not talk a lot about this crisis ?<br>Perhaps ... ?<br>
<br>This is really a "naive" message, without pre-conceived ideas, just to understand why we fail and how we can improve.<br><br>Thanks<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Frédéric Bonifas<br>+33672652807 skype:fredericbonifas<br>
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