[HOT] [osm-tasking-manager] Add images from ground to tasks (#155)

[Pierre Béland]

Hi duesseljan,

I cc this response to the HOT discussion list. This is where the HOT contributors follow our actions and discussionss and where we coordinate for mapping actions in general.


We rarely have people in the ground when we make such remote activations and especially at the beginning where we try to respond rapidly to such disasters.. 


For the Mali activation, we coordinated with OCH and the humanitarian clusters that coordinated the relief efforts. We did, has you suggest here, asked them to provide us pictures of how various objects look on the ground (ie. houses, schools, medical facilitiies).

It would surely help when we start this type of remote mapping, if somebody could gather rapidly suchs pictures and place somewhere (flickr or similar sites) and place the link in the wiki coordination page.

As you say, we often see walled courts besides the houses.  I have noticed what you call the rounded walls with a few meter radius. I suspect that these are water wells. This is an important feature to map and it would be good if we can identify this correctly. 
Pierre 



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Objet : [osm-tasking-manager] Add images from ground to tasks (#155)
 


Hi,
I've been mapping some tasks in Khartoum and the Pakistan earthquake issue recently. Being an "armchair" mapper, I have never been to either place, and most probably most other "armchair" mapper will be in the same situation. As a consequence, I have only very vague ideas of how people live in the places I am supposed to map. Therefore, I usually search photos from the regions on the internet before starting to map. This gives a much better chance to correctly identify structures in the bing satellite images (e.g. I learned that people in Balouchistan tend to have a walled court attached to their houses; however, I still don't know what the round walls are, that often appear close to their villages).
In many tasks, I gather that HOT has people in the field in the affected areas. In order to make "armchair" mapping more reliable, I think that it would be helpful that these people could upload photos from the ground to the tasks so that remote mappers can do a better mapping job.
Best,
duesseljan
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