[HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels

Mon Mar 25 06:52:13 UTC 2013

Thanks, I updated the Wiki page
Would be good is possible to make a French version of the job. I created a
French page for the WIki project and the crisis, and informed the OSM-FR
community, which is one of the most active.

Severin

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Bing Imagery is available for this area. To be able to start mapping
> immediately,  I have created a Task Manager job for Zongo.
> We will have the opportunity to create other jobs later if necessary.
>
> See http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/218
> Please map in detail.
>
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
> *De :* "Banick, Robert" <Robert.Banick at redcross.org>
> *À :* Claire Halleux <Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>; Pierre Béland <
> pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
> *Cc :* Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org>; "hot at openstreetmap.org"
> <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Envoyé le :* Dimanche 24 mars 2013 20h47
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by
> the rebels
>
>   Zongo would definitely be helpful to humanitarian organizations. When
> last I heard the IFRC was operating in part out of Zongo (this was weeks
> ago and may have changed). We recently sent some folks out with poster
> sized OSM printouts of Bangui / Zongo and were frustrated by the relative
> lack of detail in Zongo.
>
>   *Robert Banick* | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American
> Red Cross <http://www.redcross.org/>
>
>     From: Claire Halleux <Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:44 PM
> To: Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
> Cc: Severin Menard <severin.menard at hotosm.org>, "hot at openstreetmap.org" <
> hot at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by
> the rebels
>
>   Since this Sunday morning, increasing numbers of CAR residents have
> been crossing the border to get more secured on the other side of the
> Ubangi river. Many of them arrived directly in Zongo, the neighbouring town
> on DRC side.
> Its mapping is far less detailed than Bangui's, maybe we could set a task
> for mapping Zongo (if Bangui digitization process is achieved), HR Bing
> imagery is available for the area.
>
>  Thousands of refugees from Central African Republic had already been
> registered around Mobayi area (East of Gbadolite) for the last few months
> but in this area, there is not so much imagery available yet.
>
> Claire
>
>
> 2013/3/24 Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
>
>  Séverin,
>
> I have revised the text in both french and english. Instead of talking
> only of Mali, I have modified to talk of african countries in general.
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
> *De :* Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org>
> *À :* hot at openstreetmap.org
> *Envoyé le :* Dimanche 24 mars 2013 16h13
> *Objet :* [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the
> rebels
>
> Hi all,
>
>  Bangui, the capital city of Central African Republic, has been taken
> over today by the Seleka rebels, three months after their coming from
> the northern part of the country. When they arrived close to Bangui in late
> December, we started a preparation, connecting with the humanitarian
> stakeholders there to identify both already affected towns as well as the
> ones prone to be, thanks to the EUROSHA volunteers that were deployed in
> Bangui (but obviously had to leave the country due this political crisis).
> Specific TM jobs have been created and partially completed, and an import
> process of the data provided by some stakeholders (eg UNICEF) have started.
>
>  I just updated the OSM wiki page for CAR<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Central_African_Republic> to
> coordinate the mapping goals as of today. Finishing both Bangui and
> secondary towns is one of them. Regarding the road network, I changed the
> former proposed typology by the one created for the Mali crisis. Indeed,
> the really impressive work made by the Hotties in charge of this activation
> apart, I really like this road typology that, IMHO, could be extended to
> the rest of Africa and maybe all the developing countries (what is the
> opinion from people experienced in other continents?). To involve more
> French speaking people, I translated it today. Pierre, might be good if you
> have a look on it to be sure I did not make any confusion.
>
>  Some existing data, surveyed in the field by various humanitarian
> organizations, will be imported soon, providing health centers, schools,
> and watsan objects.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Severin
>
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