WikiMapia was helpful in showing mosques in Indonesia, maybe they will have some showing in N Africa as well.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Kate Chapman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kate@maploser.com">kate@maploser.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi Robert,<br><br>I haven't any experience in North Africa with this. We've been doing<br>quite a bit in Indonesia. Mosques are pretty easy to see from decent<br>
satellite data. Another option would be to create basemaps and<br>collect the information from local knowledge, which will be required<br>for some of the other types of religious facilities. That is what we<br>are doing in Jakarta this month:<br>
<a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/Jakarta_best_community_mapped_for_preparedness" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/Jakarta_best_community_mapped_for_preparedness</a><br><br>We are collecting other types of facilities as well but the idea is<br>
for flood evacuation.<br><br>Best,<br><br>-Kate<br><br>On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, robert colombo <<a href="mailto:robertcolombo@gmail.com">robertcolombo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Has anyone any information about maps of locations of religious centers in<br>
> any North African city? Any experience in creating a OSM map with this has<br>> been developed.<br>><br>> in any case i would like to see the possibility of engaging local community<br>> in Tunis to try to create this registry. Can this be done trough Satellite<br>
> imagery (OSM has sufficient resolution??) . Can minarets<br>> be extracted automatically trough Remote sensing analysis?<br>><br>> if a methodology is found, this can be a good idea for<br>> future developments as religious centers turn to be shelters, mass gahtering<br>
> places, storage and safe heavens...<br>><br>> Let me know!<br>><br>> --<br>> Robert<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> HOT mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
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