[HOT] Maps of Northern Kenya and Somalia

Bob Kerr openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Aug 4 18:51:53 BST 2011


Thanks for the link, I found some satellite photos but I unfortunately couldn't find any that I could use

Is there someone that I could lobby or contact to make this a little easier

Cheers

Bob


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From: Peter STUMPF <Peter.STUMPF at unoosa.org>
To: Bob Kerr <openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2011, 11:34
Subject: Re: [HOT] Maps of Northern Kenya and Somalia


Dear Bob, 

please have a look at the compilation
we're providing on our Knowledge Portal: http://www.un-spider.org/horn-of-africa-2011 
You can find maps / products on different
areas, which are being updated on a regular basis. 
Unfortunately there is no raw data available
yet, but therefore some high res products as JPG and/or KML 
Please let me know, if you find it useful
and if you find some more data out there in the web. 

Regards, 

Peter 
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Bob Kerr <openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk>  
Thursday, 4 August 2011 12:26 
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Hi, 

I am finding it frustrating that I cannot
get decent satellite images of the famine struck regions of northern Kenya
and Somalia, I have taken it upon myself to add comments to any story in
the Independent newspaper that concerns this story. I am just pointing
out that with all the billions of dollars of aid that is slowly going to
the region that there are no publicly available maps for the region. With
the UN and the largest Aid Agencies going there, yet there is no discussion
about the necessity of maps to help these agencies or to start planning
for long term development. The fact that the refugee camp in Daadab has
been there for 20 years and yet there is no map of it. 

So I am asking for a little help. If you
see an article in a newspaper about the famine can you post a comment about
public maps and the availability of UN Satellite images. We all pay for
the  UN so I would have thought that the images should be under a
public domain licence 

The Independent newspaper is here 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ 

but if your prefer you own newspaper then
thats good too 

Cheers 

Bob 
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