<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks for the write up Karen, interesting work. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>From the OSM perspective, would be really interested to see if this might complement OSM data already. Please keep us informed if they make the data available through GIST, and hope they keep in mind license compatibility. Happy to discuss the details of that if helpful.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Cheers</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Mikel</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Karen A Payne
<kpayne@itos.uga.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Sam Larsen <samlarsen1@yahoo.co.uk>; HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "Shoreh Elhami (shoreh.elhami@gmail.com)" <shoreh.elhami@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:05 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [HOT] GISCorps mapping N Korea<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">Hi Sam,</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">As the Project Advisor for this endeavor and I'd like to clarify a few things:</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">1. We are digitizing a set of scanned, georeferenced atlas pages - a set of 400 topographic sheets; there is no satellite imagery involved. This is the lineage of the atlas:</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText"> The originator was the Japanese Land Survey Ministry who conducted the initial surveying between 1937-1942 and published the Atlas in 1949. The Atlas was revised (data supplement 1976 - 1979) by Soviet Joint Chiefs of
Staff, in 1981. Original Russian text translated into Korean and English and replaced by MuongJi University and KyongIn Publishing Co, with support from the Dept. of Russian Language, Korea Foreign Studies University.</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">2. We are conducting this project at the request of WFP and iMMAP, who will own the data at the conclusion of the project. They have said they will make this data, as well as the source data, available to the public through the
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://gistdata.itos.uga.edu/">GIST Data Repository</a> here at ITOS at the conclusion of the project.
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">3. We wrote the protocol to generate data that is consistent with WFP and iMMAPs operational needs - it's a modified VMAP1 schema with solid topological relationships capturing the following features: roads (primary and secondary), tracks,
trails, bridges, tunnels, railroads, named populated places, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, airports, runways, ports, a coastline, and administrative boundaries. With the fine work of GIS Corps volunteers, team leaders and several layers of quality control I
feel this will be an excellent contribution to the wider humanitarian community.
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">4. Unfortunately I wouldn't characterize us as "wrapping up the project." While it is true that we have nearly all of the sheets have been assigned for digitizing, at this point only 145 of the 400 sheets are complete, with other sheets
in various stages of production. We will also need time after the digitizing is complete for post processing and edgematching. I can’t give you a solid timeframe on that at this point. You can check the
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.giscorps.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=63">
project page</a> for progress updates.</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">I really can’t thank the GIS Corps volunteers enough – they are a spectacular group of professionals and I am very grateful for their continued support of the project.</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">Best,</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">Karen</div>
<div class="yiv181288117MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dr. Karen Payne<br>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Sam Larsen [mailto:samlarsen1@yahoo.co.uk] <br>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:11 AM<br>
To: HOT<br>
Subject: [HOT] GISCorps mapping N Korea</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">Hi all,</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">FYI - I've been speaking to a colleague who is involved in the GISCorps mission to map North Korea (Mission with iMMAP/WFP - North Korea)</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">They are wrapping up the project and seem to have completed most of their digitising of North Korea from what sounds like satellite imagery (i don't know how old these are) and old Russian maps (probably from 60's)</div>
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<div class="yiv181288117MsoPlainText">Someone may be interested in opening up a connection with them to manually import some data to fill in any gaping holes in our coverage, this could be a useful exercise for preparedness for any future deployments in N Korea.</div>
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