[HOT] kindly guide me ...........

Anna N schools.agents at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 17:01:46 UTC 2017


Thanks, I'll check it out.
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On Aug 3, 2017 7:35 PM, "Arun Ganesh" <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> OpenStreetMap is more designed to map permanent features.  Jiggers sounds
>> more as if it is transient.  So mark on a map where cases are reported and
>> have some sort of communication system that sends out an alert when the
>> problem is more pressing.  Adding this to an existing infrastructure would
>> be simpler and cheaper and the ideal place would be Uganda's public health
>> service however I suspect that Uganda's public health system is not well
>> funded as it could be.  This I suspect needs more education and long term
>> political movement, a realisation that health care brings economic benefits.
>>
>
>
> If you are looking at tracking transient or temporary data like location
> of suspected cases, you could try something like the fieldnotes demo that I
> hacked together: https://osmlab.github.io/fieldnotes/ <- Feel free to add
> a point
>
> The entire code is around 200 lines [1] and should be fairly easy to
> customize with a custom form for the data you want to collect. It works by
> saving data points as an overlay layer in a Mapbox dataset [2].
>
> [1] https://github.com/osmlab/fieldnotes/blob/master/index.js
> [2] https://blog.mapbox.com/the-datasets-api-is-now-
> available-to-all-29942ac49015
>
>
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