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

Mon Mar 25 14:19:01 UTC 2013

The coastline around Zongo was traced before we obtain high res imagery for the area and needs extensive revision. Could somebody experimented with coatlines revise this?  

Pierre 

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> De : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
>À : Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org> 
>Cc : "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>Envoyé le : Lundi 25 mars 2013 10h05
>Objet : Re: [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels
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>The job is both in french and english.
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>Thanks again to the contributors to be so reactive for remote mapping in such emergency context.  After only 12 hours, nearly 50% of the job for Zongo is completed.
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>Mapping seems well advanced in the area, but it would be good if somebody from the ground could make the point about all of this and indicate if any other area needs to be covered or other infos added.  
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>And as usual, we have the capacity to remote mapping rapidly. But there is no facilities that are georeferenced. If we could establish a workflow where local people contribute to complete the map, this would be great. For example, this could be done using a smarphone OSM editor, or more simply using
 http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?zoom=16&lat=4.34969&lon=18.59663&layers=B0T
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>Humanitarians or other people with some knowledge of the area could simply zoom in, click on a building and give a short description of it. HOT contributors could later use this info to complete the map.  For the surname, they could simply add the prefix #hotosm.  After that, they could contact us by email in case we have any specific questions about this.
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>Pierre 
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>> De : Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org>
>>À : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> 
>>Cc : "Banick, Robert" <Robert.Banick at redcross.org>; Claire Halleux <Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>; "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org> 
>>Envoyé le : Lundi 25 mars 2013 2h52
>>Objet : Re: [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels
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>>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.
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>>Severin
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>>On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>>Bing Imagery is available for this area. To be able to start mapping immediately,  I have created a Task Manager job for Zongo. 
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>>>We will have the opportunity to create other jobs later if necessary.
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>>>See http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/218
>>>Please map in detail.
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>>>Pierre 
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>>>> 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
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross
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>>>>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
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Claire
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>>>>2013/3/24 Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
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>>>>Séverin,
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>Pierre 
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>>>>>>________________________________
>>>>>> 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
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>>>>>>Hi all, 
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>I just updated the OSM wiki page for CAR 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.
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>>>>>>Some existing data, surveyed in the field by various humanitarian organizations, will be imported soon, providing health centers, schools, and watsan objects.
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>>>>>>Sincerely,
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>>>>>>Severin
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