[HOT] DRC ebola response: urban mapping in Likati

[Claire Halleux]

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much to all the really brave contributors who participated
to this mapping of Likati town last week based on this cloudy black and
white imagery, that was a tough mapping exercise!

Fortunately, Digital Globe has now provided us a slightly older but much
clearer and colored imagery of that area. We are now reviewing the mapping
of Likati town to improve its quality, using this newly available imagery
[1] <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3048>. Please join us in achieving
this mapping. It is currently our highest priority area, and it is
basically a "buildings only" task.

The data produced daily through those tasks for Bas-Uele are of immediate
use by the organisations involved in the outbreak response on the ground.
If you want to have an idea of the area covered so far by the first 8th
projects published during this outbreak, check the overview here [2]
<https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC/photos/a.418118811610722.94251.403356853086918/1401736683248925/?type=3>
.

Happy mapping!

Claire

[1] http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3048
[2]
https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC/photos/a.418118811610722.94251.403356853086918/1401736683248925/?type=3

Claire Halleux
+243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
OpenStreetMap RDC

http://www.openstreetmap.cd
https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to Digital Globe, a new task is now online to map Likati town:
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3009
>
> Likati is the biggest town in the area affected by this 8th ebola crisis
> happening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also the place
> where all the coordination of the response to the outbreak is now taking
> place. There are several teams on the ground with new material and staff
> coming in each day.
> At the time, this is our highest priority area.
>
> After several mapping projects in highly forested areas, this 5th one is
> focused on urban mapping: buildings and residential roads.
> The imagery is black and white so it's a bit less intuitive than usual,
> but that is the best we could obtain in such a short time for this area.
>
> If you are a validator, projects #2988, 2990 and 2991 still need you!
>
> Thank you very much to the many contributors supporting this emergency
> response,
>
> Cheers
>
> Claire
>
> Claire Halleux
> +243 81 611 6998 (Kinshasa, DRC)
> OpenStreetMap RDC
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.cd
> https://www.facebook.com/OpenStreetMap.RDC
>
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