[HOT] Detailed mapping of Kalemie/DRC

Pierre GIRAUD pierre.giraud at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 10:02:17 UTC 2013


I've spent some time to manually update the job so that it takes
Laurent's requested area into account.
It shouldn't have break anything. Please don't hesitate to ask if you
encounter problems.

Pierre

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Laurent Savaete
<laurent.savaete at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pierre,
>
> thanks a lot for setting up the job! This is amazing! The square is indeed
> way bigger than we need. We only need the eastern part, the urban sprawl
> basically. I'm sending you the shapefile in a private email, so you can
> narrow down the requested area.
>
> Harry,
> as mentioned above, no problem with the low-res imagery. As a side note, the
> river actually flows *out* of the lake, ie: east to west. It's a pretty
> strange sight, being on the beach by the lake, as it really feels like the
> sea is flowing into a river :)
>
>
> 2013/9/23 Pierre GIRAUD <pierre.giraud at gmail.com>
>>
>> I just set up a new Job: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/312
>> If you think that the area currently defined as a big square should be
>> set more precisely don't hesitate to send me the shapefile.
>> Also, don't hesitate to ask if the description has to be modified.
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Laurent Savaete
>> <laurent.savaete at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello again HOTties,
>> >
>> > Following up on my previous email, I now have a working tilemill setup
>> > which
>> > allows me to print out great maps (using HDM-cartoCSS) of the area.
>> > As I mentioned earlier, cholera is hitting the city regularly, and we
>> > have
>> > now entered the "epidemic" stage, with over 40 cases last week.
>> > MSF is planning a cholera vaccination campaign, and the logistics
>> > manager
>> > just asked me if I could help print out maps for his vaccination team
>> > leaders to plan their job (for tomorrow...).
>> > The OSM map is getting pretty good, but for this specific action, over
>> > 70
>> > teams will be going door to door delivering oral vaccines, so getting as
>> > much detail as possible is key to success.
>> > Ideally, we'd like to give each team a printed map of the area they're
>> > working on, showing landmarks, streets/paths and possibly each house.
>> > The areas we're targetting are both sides of the river Lukuga, reaching
>> > pretty far north, roughly
>> > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hot-hdm-style_852#14/-5.9019/29.1829
>> > It would be amazing if we could set up a task manager job for this (I
>> > can
>> > send a more accurate shapefile for the area to cover), and get all
>> > buildings
>> > and streets added to the map. I'll be adding landmarks from field
>> > surveys to
>> > improve the result.
>> >
>> > Let me know if you think this is possible.
>> > Thanks a lot!
>> > Laurent
>> >
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>>
>>
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