[HOT] Increasing Somalia Coverage

nicolas chavent nicolas.chavent at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 17:58:35 BST 2011


Hi

Additional resources:

Reports
* For UN Overview on HOA, see Relief Web - Horn Of Africa
section<http://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/8727>

Secondary data analysis/report
* See ACAPS 26-jul Secondary Analysis
report<http://www.acaps.org/img/documents/secondary-data-review-horn-of-africa-drought-somalia-and-displacement-secondary-data-review---horn-of-africa-somalia-and-displacement.pdf>by
Assessment
Capacities Project (ACAPS) <http://acaps.org/en/pages/home>.

Nicolas


2011/8/7 nicolas chavent <nicolas.chavent at gmail.com>

>
> 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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>>
>> --
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>>
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Nicolas Chavent
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