[HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels
Rafael Avila Coya
ravilacoya at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 15:18:55 UTC 2013
I'm doing that.
Cheers,
Rafael Avila (edvac).
On 25/03/13 15:19, Pierre Béland wrote:
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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
>
> The job is both in french and english.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
> Pierre
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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
>
> 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 <mailto: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
>
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> *De :* "Banick, Robert" <Robert.Banick at redcross.org
> <mailto:Robert.Banick at redcross.org>>
> *À :* Claire Halleux <Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com
> <mailto:Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>>; Pierre Béland
> <pierzenh at yahoo.fr <mailto:pierzenh at yahoo.fr>>
> *Cc :* Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org
> <mailto:severin.menard at hotosm.org>>;
> "hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>"
> <hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto: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
> <mailto:Claire.du.RGC at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013 7:44 PM
> To: Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr
> <mailto:pierzenh at yahoo.fr>>
> Cc: Severin Menard <severin.menard at hotosm.org
> <mailto:severin.menard at hotosm.org>>,
> "hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>"
> <hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
>
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> *De :* Séverin MENARD <severin.menard at hotosm.org
> <mailto:severin.menard at hotosm.org>>
> *À :* hot at openstreetmap.org
> <mailto: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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