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<div>The American and Haitian Red Crosses could use help finishing up the tasks we've made in Northern Haiti. We're due to start mapping individual communities and collecting primary data (risk zones, health worker locations, etc.) from them on the ground in
2 weeks. We plan on using paper printouts of OSM for this process in over 200 communities, so having all the roads, land uses and buildings down will make that a much easier process.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Pierre Béland <<a href="mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr">pierzenh@yahoo.fr</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, November 5, 2013 10:41 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a href="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es">ivan@sanchezortega.es</a>>, Jonas Shorn <<a href="mailto:shornjonas@googlemail.com">shornjonas@googlemail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">hot@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise<br>
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As other said, there are no urgent tasks presently. <br>
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An other task that I can suggest is in Mali. See <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/150">
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/150</a> While this in not an emergency, there is still a lot to cover with this task. In the context of a Crisis Mapping course, it is also interesting to look at this.<br>
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When we started the Mali Activation at the beginning of the year, we had a huge area to cover in the Niger Delta and in the more desertic areas north of Mali. For this Niger Delta task, there is also a challenge while mapping, since imagery taken at the flooded
season is difficult to interpret. Often people will identify lakes while looking more closely, we find villages and farmlands.
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We have already used Kuona, a Crowdsource Imagery Application to locate villages in this vast area. Villages are either identified by a name or a gray polygon on the OSM map. This will help to locate villages and trace information related to these villages.
From these villages, an other challenge is to find roads or tracks connecting the village to main roads.<br>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a href="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es">ivan@sanchezortega.es</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Jonas Shorn <<a href="mailto:shornjonas@googlemail.com">shornjonas@googlemail.com</a>>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> <a href="mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org">
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mardi 5 novembre 2013 8h44<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise<br>
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El Martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013 14:30:39 usted escribió:<br>
> Thanks Ivan :-)<br>
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> I thought there might be a patricular project very urgent at the moment!<br>
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> But then, i will just pick a task for the students!<br>
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If there is a very very urgent HOT project, and newcomers can help, there will <br>
be a task set at the tasking manager. :-)<br>
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IIRC, urgent or important tasks are shown at the top of the list.<br>
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a ymailto="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es" href="mailto:ivan@sanchezortega.es">ivan@sanchezortega.es</a>><br>
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