[HOT] Trip to Swaziland:: What data could we collect?

[Blake Girardot]

Hi David,

Sounds very exciting.

Hopefully others with more field experience can chime in as well, but 
from my perspective as someone who helps provide data to humanitarian 
orgs, the important data is:

hospital/health site locations/names/services
village/community names
road names
schools, locations, names
markets
places of worship
gps traces of any sort (helps us align our imagery and identify roads 
that may not show on our imagery)

Any of that you can collect and input into OSM will be tremendously 
valuable to HOT, OSM and the people of Swaziland.

If you and your team collect the data, we can help you get it into OSM 
upon your return, or if you have connectivity, while you are in the field.

gps traces with poi's work great.

Just about any level of data you collect will help, we do not have a lot 
of data for Swaziland now and are actually in the middle of a large 
project to get building footprints for malaria eradication efforts.

Thank you for thinking of OSM and HOT and please let us know how we can 
help you and your team.

Cheers,
Blake




On 12/21/2015 6:43 PM, David Levin wrote:
> Howdy list!
>
> In 6 days our team will leave for Swaziland, in southern Africa, to
> conduct site surveys in rural communities for a humanitarian
> bridge-building project in cooperation with the non-profit Bridges to
> Prosperity <http://bridgestoprosperity.org>.
>
> We will have GPS units with our group and will be collecting plenty of
> data, and I wonder what kind of data could we collect that may be most
> valuable to HOT or even OSM in general.
>
> Also this opportunity paves the way for more trips to Swaziland in the
> future, and our group is happy to contribute in any ways that we can so
> if anyone has suggestions, please send them our way!
>
> Thank you,
> David Levin
>
>
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