[HOT] Mapping Northern Nigeria ?

[Jorieke Vyncke]

Don't have time to help out now with this, but I like the idea!
Just a small remark : recently we got high resolution imagery for whole
Cameroon from DigitalGlobe. And in the far north along the border with
Nigera they face the same problems
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11341289/Boko-Haram-push-across-border-to-attack-Cameroon-army.html>,
and Nigerian refugees are coming too... So it might be an idea to start
over there? I now a bunch of ngo's are working in the far north, like
French Red Cross, GIZ and Unicef.

Good luck!

Jorieke


2015-01-15 23:03 GMT+06:00 Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> I support the project idea and am glad to help with creating, documenting
> and managing projects in the Tasking Manger (which is not the hardest part
> of a project like this) for whomever would like to manage the overall
> project.
>
> The first step would be to work out the licensing issues with the imagery
> and it needs to be put on a TMS server so we can use it in iD and JOSM.
>
> We have a process for imagery that I am not familiar with except that I
> know requests always exceed availability in terms of imagery available,
> hosting and bandwidth to make it available and people power to get it it
> all arraigned.
>
> It seems like the availability is taken care of, not by Amnesty
> International, but by their imagery provider, DigitalGlobe who is very
> generous with our HOT mapping needs is my understanding, so I think they
> are receptive to licensing for our use but would have to specifically grant
> us permission to use the imagery they provided to AI as it does not look to
> me like AI's current usage rights would allow us to use it. Plus we would
> need the georeferenced hi-res source imagery that AI is not providing. Then
> the hosting issue.
>
> But the whole process is something even a fairly new HOT community member
> can give a try if you (or anyone) is interested. It will just take a bit
> longer as you will have to learn the process as well as go through it :)
>
> If you (or anyone) is interested, I am happy to help, I want to learn the
> process myself anyway. Just contact me off list and let me know.
>
> And of course, this is just my opinion and understanding, I could be
> missing something totally.
>
> Cheers,
> Blake
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/15/2015 12:06 PM, Jeremy G wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After the attacks of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria this january, a
>> similar reaction as in Gaza (mapping before/after with the help of
>> appropriate aerial images) could be appropriate to help build a precise
>> evaluation of the damages.
>>
>> As a fairly new/unexperienced HOT contributor, I couldn't find any
>> indication of such a project. Is it on track already, or is it planned ?
>>
>> Some aerial images released from Amnesty International :
>> https://adam.amnesty.org/asset-bank/action/search?attribute_603=Nigeria+
>> Satellite+Images+January+2015
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
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