[HOT] Ebola Activation - Importing Place names from GNS and new Tasks

[Pierre Béland]

A priority expressed by MSF is to identify the villages names. MSF in various reports emphasized how important it is in such epidemy to 
locate villages rapidly and how the work done in march / april helped 
them. This info is used
by responders in locating cases and navigating through rural areas. Two new GIS officers will move to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Once we have added place names, they will revise this information and give us some feedback.


Thanks to Pierre Giraud who managed the Task Manager to let crowdsource the import of GNS Place names. For each task, we simply click to import directly the Place names for the Task. There will be some 100 nodes to geolocate. JOG Topomap will help to do this job like we did for Guinea.

One contributor responded so far. We need more experienced mappers. Please contact me and Andrew privately providing your OSM account. You dont need a special import account for this since this is not a mechanical import, each node being located with imagery.

We should receive new imageries this week to map the new priority areas with the rapid extension of the epidemy over the last month.

Thanks to the people who mapped for Ebola this weekend. They were 90 OSM 
contributors and.814 mapped since the beginning of this outbreak in 
march.

 
Pierre
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