[HOT] Increasing Somalia Coverage

nicolas chavent nicolas.chavent at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 16:23:00 BST 2011


Hi-

The two main sources of information about vector and raster data for the
Horn Of Africa are
* Imagery & product UN Spider Data Portal for Horn Of Africa
2011<http://www.un-spider.org/horn-of-africa-2011>
* UNOCHA Core Operational and Fundamental Datasets
website<http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/>,
COD Somalia page<http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/country-region/somalia>

Imagery outreach work done towards UNOSAT/UNITAR, SPOT, SAFER and US State
Department
Vector outreach work done on refugees and transportation

Nicolas

2011/8/7 Peter Dörrie <peter.doerrie at googlemail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I usually dont post here, but I recently had contact with a guy on G+ (
> https://plus.google.com/102007286981401611393/about) who works for an NGO
> active in Kenya/Somalia and who was very interested in maps of the region. I
> mentioned OSM to him and also proposed that people on the ground like him
> could improve the map data.
>
> Maybe someone "official" could pick up the contact with this guy and other
> NGOs as well.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Dörrie
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>
>> Also wanted to mention I'll be hanging out on #HOT in IRC today as
>> well if anyone wants to discuss there.
>>
>> For those not familiar with IRC: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Any ideas on how we can increase the OSM coverage in the famine
>> > affected regions of Somalia?
>> >
>> > Could we put together a list of possible data sources to import here?
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Somalia
>> >
>> > It looks like there is a road source that is available, but not
>> > imported according to the wiki.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Kate
>> >
>>
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