[HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise

[Pierre Béland]

As other said, there are no urgent tasks presently.  

An other task that I can suggest is in Mali. See http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/150 While this in not an emergency, there is still a lot to cover with this task. In the context of a Crisis Mapping course, it is also interesting to look at this.

When we started the Mali Activation at the beginning of the year, we had a huge area to cover in the Niger Delta and in the more desertic areas north of Mali. For this Niger Delta task, there is also a challenge while mapping, since imagery taken at the flooded season is difficult to interpret. Often people will identify lakes while looking more closely, we find villages and farmlands. 

We have already used Kuona, a Crowdsource Imagery Application to locate villages in this vast area. Villages are either identified by a name or a gray polygon on the OSM map. This will help to locate villages and trace information related to these villages. From these villages, an other challenge is to find roads or tracks connecting the village to main roads.


 
Pierre 



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 De : Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>
À : Jonas Shorn <shornjonas at googlemail.com> 
Cc : hot at openstreetmap.org 
Envoyé le : Mardi 5 novembre 2013 8h44
Objet : Re: [HOT] University Course on VGI and Crisis Mapping - OSM Exercise
 

El Martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013 14:30:39 usted escribió:
> Thanks Ivan :-)
> 
> I thought there might be a patricular project very urgent at the moment!
> 
> But then, i will just pick a task for the students!

If there is a very very urgent HOT project, and newcomers can help, there will 
be a task set at the tasking manager. :-)

IIRC, urgent or important tasks are shown at the top of the list.


Best,
-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>


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