[HOT] Mapping Northern Nigeria ?

Thu Jan 15 20:37:25 UTC 2015

Hi all:

There has been an active mapping effort in North Nigeria since March last
year, both mapping with imagery (mainly roads and streets) and data imports
[1] from eHealth Africa [2] data. Data imported includes boundaries (at
ward level - highest) for the 10 northernmost states, residential areas for
all those states too, and health facilities and place nodes.

TM jobs are the following:

Kano state road network [3]
Kano city streets and buildings [4]
Kano state health facilities [5]
Kano state town and city places [6]
Bauchi state road network [7] (This one is actually being worked on by 8
eHealth staff)
Bauchi state health facilies [8]

Some of the TM jobs are still unfinished.

The most affected states by this crisis are Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, but
Kano receives many attacks too (recently, a blast in a mosque in central
Kano city claimed the live of more than a hundred people. Other states,
like Bauchi, aren't safe from attacks either.

Apart from Kano (and partially Bauchi and Kaduna), the rest of the states
are poorly mapped in terms of roads and mostly everything else. So I think
that one of the most urgent jobs would be to map the road network, starting
from the states more in need (I would start with Borno, followed by Yobe
and Adamawa.

If you are interested, I could also contact eHealth Africa for other data
that might be interesting to import, like health facilities, place nodes
and others (schools perhaps). As far as I am aware of, data collection in
Borno and Yobe was very problematic, hard and risky, so it is much less
complete than in other states, like Kano for example. They didn't work with
Adamawa state (they only had boundaries data, at the LGA level).

Most of North Nigeria has hires Bing imagery. I edited a uMap to show that
[9]. eHealth Africa may have their own imagery too, and they might be
willing to license its use too. Again, I could ask too.

Cheers,

Rafael Ávila Coya.

[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Nigeria#eHealth_Africa_Foundation_database_imports
[2] http://ehealthafrica.org
[3] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/474
[4] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/537
[5] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/566
[6] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/581
[7] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/635
[8] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/637
[9]
http://umap.fluv.io/en/map/north-and-central-nigeria-bing-hires-imagery-cover_1580

2015-01-15 16:15 GMT-03:00 Jorieke Vyncke <jorieke.vyncke at gmail.com>:

> 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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