[HOT] Malaria Campaign Updates

[Russell Deffner]

Greetings all!

 

HOT's collaboration to help end malaria continues to grow.  Although our
current focus remains on Zimbabwe and the projects found here:
http://bit.ly/2miQUyZ we recently partnered with the USAID GeoCenter to
enumerate buildings in 4 districts of Mali for the Abt. Associates efforts
in the Africa-wide Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) campaign.  Those projects
can be found by searching the HOT Tasking Manager for "Mali Malaria
Elimination".

 

To date 3443 mappers have contributed to an #eliminatemalaria campaign
project and we are closing in on 3 million buildings mapped; this wonderful
graphic by Mapbox is a great demonstration of just how much area and how
many buildings have been digitized:
https://www.mapbox.com/malaria-mapping/#5.06/-19.092/23.379 (as of May 21)

 

This is also the last weekend for the third and final round of the
YouthMappers Mapping to End Malaria Challenge.  Preliminary results show 3
Universities have stepped out ahead of the pack but are pretty close to each
other with several thousand buildings per mapper. However, there's a handful
of chapters that could make a big push this weekend and find themselves in a
top spot!

 

Last, we continue to explore ways like the YM challenge to make the mapping
fun and engaging. If your youthmappers chapter, local OSM group, or
organization would like to 'adopt' or commit to projects in any of the
locations we're mapping, please do reach out. We may be able to cover some
costs or small prizes.

 

Thank you, have a great weekend everyone!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

Russell.Deffner at hotosm.org

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/> 

 

 

 

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