[HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request

[Severin Menard]

Hi Pierre,




On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Severin
>
> In this  Task Manager job descripton, there are examples give of
> Intermittent ponds url=
> http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=kn5s43gh3j74&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=b&form=LMLTCC
>
> If you zoom-out, it seems that all this zone is flood_prone. I think tha a
> polygon should be trace around all the zone with the tag flood_prone=yes,
> plus identify the more permanent ponds. I mapped rapidly inside Bassikounou
> and have mapped a few of the flood_prone areas as an example.
>
I checked on OpenCycleMap and seems this area is not as low as Bassikounou
itself. But I can ask the ICRC Watasan local staff in charge of the field
assessment.

>
> The film about the water well operation is interesting wit the cattles
> operating around the well. For Mali activation we were able to spot such
> wells by observing odd looking "fans" around them in the aerial imagery
> made by the cattles circulation.
>
Interesting. can you recognize such situation around Bassikounou? Would be
good to document this with the examples provided through the discussions
for Mali

>
> See discussion for Mali
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT/Mali_Activation_Discussion_with_humanitarians_2013-02-18#Discussion_of_water_wells
>
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De :* Severin Menard <severin.menard at gmail.com>
> *À :* "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Envoyé le :* Jeudi 6 mars 2014 12h14
> *Objet :* [HOT] Mapping Bassikounou, Mauritania - ICRC request
>
> Hi,
>
> ICRC requested us to map an AOI (Area Of Interest) around Bassikounou, a
> town close to the border with Mali, for a development project about
> drinkable water. The approach is the same than for Walikale in DRC. To know
> more: http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/447
>
> As you can see, I added a banner to make clear what the job is from, for
> and about. For sure HTML and wording could be improved, please make
> suggestions.
>
> The map features are a bit more various than usual (eg intermittent ponds
> - please find a link provided by the local Watsan specialist tp have an
> idea how to identify them on Bing imagery - and trees).
>
> I also added a picture and a video of Bassikounou that I found in the web,
> to have a better idea of what look like the streets and the outskirts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
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