<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10361"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18490"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">Kambia district, Sierra Leone<br></span></b></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18489" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">To support the </span><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in the district of Kambia, Sierra Leone, we have added the following Task manager job.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10981" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10980" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/971">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/971</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10919" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_11116" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">UNMEER is collecting highway data in this area. Epidemiologists from </span><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">Robert-Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, are also deployed in Kambia district working with UNMEER, MSF and other groups. Colleagues from Germany have contacted us to express their gratitude for the OSM efforts for this epidemy. They also interface to support their colleagues. We propose to support them using either OSMand and OSMTracker. The basemap of Kambia will also support their action in this district.<br></span></div><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"></span><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_11115" dir="ltr"><br><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18488" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18630">UNMEER Routing Tool Discussions</b><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_11114" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525">We did chat today on the HOT IRC with UNMEER staff. You can see the log of the discussion at <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10736" href="http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-04-01.txt">http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/hotosm/2015-04-01.txt</a><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10707" dir="ltr">UNMEER staff expresses a certain emergency to develop rapidly this information with the rainy season approaching rapidly. At that season, with the road coniditons it is very difficult to circulate in West Africa<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18996" dir="ltr"><br><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10706" dir="ltr"><span style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10525"></span> They presented us their routing project to establish average travel time for the various roads, this to support Routing analysis, logistic operations. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18631" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18605" dir="ltr">We discussed at how to collect / store gps traces collected by various teams that circulate in West Africa to support the UNMEER action or that work for private fleet of vehicules. Android smartphones have been given to support the UNMEER action and they are using OSMAnd. From the discussions, it looks that it would be possible to develop an OSMAnd plugin to take care of collecting and uploading gpx traces. Specific POI's could also be added to OSM.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10918" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10917" dir="ltr">Discussions will continue on Skype. If you are interested to participate, contact me, providing your skype nickname.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18737" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_18739" dir="ltr">regard<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10640" class="y_msg_container"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10499" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10498" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre</font></span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10632" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1427920554059_10631" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </div> </div> </div></body></html>