<div><br></div><div>All-</div><div><br></div><div>Senegal got badly hit by heavy rain falls in the last days and large areas of the country and the capital Dakar are flooded</div><div>The situation seems as difficult if not worsed than in the last major flood event dating 2009 where Senegal requested international assistance</div>
<div>So far the Directorate of Civil Protection (DPC) asked OCHA to place an imagery request on his behalf to UNOSAT so that the coutnry can get access to the imagery provided by the Charter.</div><div><br></div><div>Civil Society groups are stepping in and the local mappers are willing to act.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It looks like the situation calls for a response on our end, its magnitude is not yet clear and more info will help us framing it in an appropriate manner in the next days </div><div><br></div><div>A wiki crisis page got started at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Senegal/Flooding_2012">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Senegal/Flooding_2012</a> to coordinate</div>
<div>Talks are already happening on talk sn</div><div>Expect as well elements on the hot facebook and twitter</div><div><br></div><div>Asides of the specific requests that may arise from on the ground actors, the Bing Imagery over Dakar is good and since baseline data is an asset, tracing is the first task that can be done in order to help</div>
<div>The worsed hit areas that we know so far are</div><div>* Nord and Ouest Foire (neighborhoods)</div><div>* Grand Yoff/ Yoff</div><div>* Areas in Pikine</div><div>* Areas in Guediawaye<br><br>More on the Mapping Tasks section of the wiki as time goes by-<br>
<br>Nico</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Nicolas Chavent<div>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team<div><a href="http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/" target="_blank">http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/</a> <br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti</a><br>
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