[HOT] COVID-19 - How you can help

[John Whelan]

Place names are probably one of the biggest challenges that we face and 
unfortunately local knowledge on the ground is the best source.  Some 
data is available for imports such as school names but  the quality is 
variable only some line up with a building or even being within a 
kilometer or two out.

Could you organise an effort to tag in someway those locations that have 
the correct name as correct so they can be relied upon?

Thanks John

Jorieke Vyncke wrote on 2020-03-19 12:23 PM:
> Hi all,
>
> Just sharing from the point of view of Médecins Sans Frontières 
> (MSF).  Our teams have not requested any mapping data yet, but just 
> letting you know that the data that is most useful for medical 
> interventions (Covid-19 but also for most other health interventions) 
> are information about where health facilities are and place names. 
> Locations and names of health facilities is fairly obvious, but also 
> place names are very important! Names of villages, of neighbourhoods 
> in your towns, but also the boundaries of these, do allow 
> epidemiologists and other health professionals to do contact tracing 
> and the mapping of cases. So any health facility or place 
> name/boundary that you add on the map is useful!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jorieke
>
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>
> Op wo 18 mrt. 2020 om 00:29 schreef David Garcia 
> <mapmakerdavid at gmail.com <mailto:mapmakerdavid at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Dear friends in OSM and HOT, these are trying, overwhelming, and
>     perilous times for all of us. Please let's be kind and listen
>     slowly to one another and support each other.
>
>     Sincerely,
>     *David*
>

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