[HOT] Ebola Outbreak Activation : The point
Pierre Béland
pierzenh at yahoo.fr
Mon Jun 30 18:11:31 UTC 2014
Sorry, I did not specify the new tasking manager job,
This is http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/572
The job for the Kailahun district needs also some more care to be completed.
http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/568
Pierre
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De : Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>
À : HOT Discussion list <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Envoyé le : Lundi 30 juin 2014 14h01
Objet : Ebola Outbreak Activation : The point
With the resurgence of the Ebola outbreak, both MSF and WHO have warned
about the risk of the spread of the epidemy with the multiplication of
sites of infection. There are difficulties, notably in the forests of
Sierra
Leone, Guinea and Liberia, in identifying cases, tracing the point of
contact and delivering the message to the population about the
infection. There will be an internatioanl conference this week to make
the point about the situation.
Both the Red Cross and MSF are deploying actually in Sierra Leone where
various sites of infection have been identified. There will be again a
CartONG GIS specialist on the ground. This should faciliate the interface with HOT about priorities to map. As new
imagery is available, we will create new jobs.
You can contribute to this new Tasking manager job covering the zone from Koidu to Gueckedou.
It is also important to follow this mapping progress with validating the
data and correcting road classification. For the road data to be
effective for road navigation, it would be important that some
experienced mappers take the responsability to revise the highway
classification according to the https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa wiki page. This Overpass query facilitates importing highway data in
JOSM for review of the classification. It imports both highway=track
and highway=road for review.
see http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/40c
Note
that we should not tag highways based on the condition of the road. A
highway interconnecting villages should be tagged as tertiaray, Highways
ending to various hamlets are taggged as unclassified. Track highways
should be reserved for roads going out of villages in surrounding
forests and farmlands.
ReliefWeb report
http://reliefweb.int/map/guinea/west-africa-ebola-viral-disease-overview-outbreak-reported-22-june-2014
MapAction Map
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/overview_west_africa_ebola_outbreak_june_2014.pdf
Pierre
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