[HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels
Pierre GIRAUD
pierre.giraud at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 21:41:55 UTC 2013
Sorry I didn't answer to your mail earlier.
I'll try to see what I can do tomorrow.
Pierre
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Jorieke Vyncke
<jorieke.vyncke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>
> Here a message from (a part) of the Eurosha-team who was working till the
> end of December in the Central-African Republic, and had to move because of
> the security situation. We are really glad to see your activity on the
> current crisis in the Central-African Republic.
>
>
> At this moment we are working in Cameroon, for Cameroon, but of course also
> for the CAR! Last week we obtained the permission to use the data of the
> World Recourse Institute (WRI) for the CAR and the DRC. This data
> (localities, road network, etc) can be very useful for the humanitarian
> actors on the field at this moment. For this reason we are now busy with
> setting up as soon as possible the importation process. And it is in this we
> need some help of you guys.
>
>
> Because we don’t really like the massive data importations as this would
> conflict with the existing data and could get very messy, we propose a
> crowd-sourced way to verify and import the data using the tasking manager.
> We have converted the existing shapefiles to OSM-XML format already and have
> setup a service that can serve the data into JOSM as follows:
>
>
> http://www.osmsharp.com:815/data/16748/10966/15/matrix.osm
>
>
> The data served is just a test area; the real converted data will be there
> soon. A request like this will return only data inside the requested tile.
> Any existing OSM file can very quickly be served on the site this way.
>
> We think it would be a very efficient and nice way to process and convert
> the data into OSM using the tasking manager if we could add a field or link
> to it that could load the data from the above url straight into JOSM or
> provide it as a download link in the task itself.
>
>
> Using this method all the humanitarian-relevant data can be converted and
> imported very quickly. But this means we need help from somebody to modify
> the tasking manager just a little bit to make this possible.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> The EUROSHA TEAM
>
>
>
> 2013/3/25 Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > *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
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > *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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