[HOT] Pre activation in Eastern DRC - Goma

[nicolas chavent]

Hey all

I am reaching out to some of the UN agencies active in DRC, and to GISers
or contacts that we have down there to get a good plan of actionl, will
update the list tomorrow

This will encompass
* Areas of Interest
* GPS tracks
* GIS data for imports
* imagery support and local groups
* specific needs

I think that asides of this interesting work on Bing, it would be great to
monitor the reports about East DRC in Relief Web and generate our awareness

We can definitively start setting up a job on Goma and start mapping there
since Bing is not bad over this town
We are planning in Senegal to have DRC as a red line and focus the efforts
of trainees on the TM in mapping this town and will call to help as well
Eurosha volunteers so that African OSM mappers can step in this crisis

My internet here is not good enough to set the job, can change tomorrow, if
anyone in the mean time feel comfortable doing this, this would be great

Best
Nicolas


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Looking quickly at the Bing Image Analyser, Goma and some surrounding
> areas are covered in high detail:
>
>
> http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/?lat=-1.689891955079034&lon=29.226718902587876&zoom=11
>
> I've not been able to find any coverage areas as shapefiles or equivalent,
> however.
>
> Does anyone have a good way of scripting usage of the Image Analyser? I've
> previously scripted some checking of an area south of Goma, but it can't
> have been the most efficient way of doing it: Scripting Firefox to open new
> tabs until my PC ran out of memory wasn't too elegant.
>
> Cheers, Joseph
>
>
>
> On 26 November 2012 02:40, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> We have no officially activated yet. At the moment there isn't much to
>> do. (We are looking for someone to lead the activation though).
>>
>> One thing to do would be look for available imagery in the area that
>> can be used for digitizing. Just having an outline of where Bing is
>> would be a good start.
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Joseph Pollack
>> <josephrichardpollack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear List,
>> >
>> > is there anything I can do on your Goma activation?
>> >
>> > Warm Regards,
>> >
>> > -Joseph.
>> >
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