[HOT] Mapping request for Harper and Pleebo, Liberia

Rebecca Firth rebecca.firth at hotosm.org
Wed Feb 15 21:46:12 UTC 2017


Hi Jeff,

HOT are currently working on a project in Liberia, I will connect you
directly with the project manager to see if there is any overlap with the
project - though he is in Liberia at the moment so might not have
connectivity right away.

Thanks,

Rebecca

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Dale Kunce <dale.kunce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
> The Red Cross did a lot of mapping in Liberia (http://www.missingmaps.org/
> blog/2017/01/24/west-africa-mapping-hub-end/) and I think HOT has an
> upcoming project as well. As Andrew pointed out the needed thing to map the
> area remotely would be better satellite imagery. Once that is obtained the
> areas could be mapped in detail in just a couple of days.
>
> Dale
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The towns don't look that big so mapping them would be quite easy to do,
>> however nether Bing nor MapBox has imagery of imagery of the area that
>> is high enough resolution to map them.  If you can find a source of
>> imagery where the license allows us to use it for tracing then it
>> shouldn't be difficult but otherwise there may not be much we can do.
>>
>> -AndrewBuck
>>
>> On 02/15/2017 01:19 PM, Blossom, Jeffrey C. wrote:
>> > Hello HOTOSM team,
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm Jeff Blossom, a GIS Manager with the Center for Geographic Analysis
>> at Harvard University.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm working with a Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, who is doing a long term
>> health surveillance in West Africa, and has expressed the mapping need
>> below:
>> >
>> >
>> > "The recent Ebola epidemic in west Africa  was unprecedented. Critical
>> to the response at that time was accurate mapping of the most affected
>> households in the most affected areas. Partners In Health is a Boston-based
>> nongovernmental organization that began working in Liberia and Sierra Leone
>> to assist in the disaster response at the time, but has now made a
>> long-term commitment to building functioning health systems in these
>> countries so that the next Ebola epidemic does not occur.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We are looking for volunteers who can help map beneficiary communities
>> in our catchment area, starting with Harper and Pleebo, Liberia.   The goal
>> would then be to use these detailed community maps to create public health
>> strategies where local community health workers  can perform regular
>> outreach campaign to households to be sure that people are healthy, and
>> connected to growing clinical services."
>> >
>> >
>> > What is the process to get this mapping request considered?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jeff Blossom
>> >
>> >
>> > GIS Service Manager
>> >
>> > Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University
>> >
>> > 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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