[HOT] Churches, Synagogues and Mosque maps in North African cities

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Robert,

I haven't any experience in North Africa with this.  We've been doing
quite a bit in Indonesia.  Mosques are pretty easy to see from decent
satellite data.  Another option would be to create basemaps and
collect the information from local knowledge, which will be required
for some of the other types of religious facilities. That is what we
are doing in Jakarta this month:
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/Jakarta_best_community_mapped_for_preparedness

We are collecting other types of facilities as well but the idea is
for flood evacuation.

Best,

-Kate

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, robert colombo <robertcolombo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone any  information about maps of locations of religious centers in
> any North African city? Any experience in creating a OSM map with this has
> been developed.
>
> in any case i would like to see the possibility of engaging local community
> in Tunis to try to create this registry. Can this be done trough Satellite
> imagery (OSM has sufficient resolution??) . Can minarets
> be extracted automatically trough Remote sensing analysis?
>
> if a methodology is found, this can be a good idea for
> future developments as religious centers turn to be shelters, mass gahtering
> places, storage and safe heavens...
>
> Let me know!
>
> --
> Robert
>
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