<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">For those that want to help and organize mapathons, be assure that there will have other tasks to map. </span><span style="" class="">We
have other jobs ready and will add to the list of tasks following the
priorities identified by the humanitarian organizations for the various zones affected. The various Satellite Imagery supporting us are making great efforts to find new imagery which will bring ever more Task Manager jobs.<br style=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">At the request of MSF, I just added this new one :</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;
font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;"><a style="" class="" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/647">TM #647 - Ebola Outbreak, Paynesville centre, Monrovia, Buildings <br style="" class=""></a></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;"><br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;">Note that for some areas around Monrovia area, the Bing imagery is fuzzy. In such cases, <br style="" class=""></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: 13.3333px; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;"><a style="" class="" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/647"><b style="" class="">Compare Mapbox and Bing Imagery for the square you map and decide which one is clearer for this zone.</b>
Indicate appropriate source on your changeset. The Mapbox imagery will be
opened automatically with these Tasks and it will be possible to zoom at lower
zooms. Note that the Mapbox is of lower resolution then Bing for this
area.<br style="" class=""></a></div>For those that like the technical details, Jean-Guilhem suggested to use tms:[17] to offer the possibility to zoom at lower levels with MapBox imagery is zones where it is medium-res. This way, the image will be stretche instead of be replaced by a black box when you try to zoom-in.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">For the validators that want to revise TM <a style="" class="" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/641">#641 - Ebola Outbreak, Gardnersville-New Georgia-Banersville, Monrovia, Buildings</a>, follow the same procedure. Since mappers had difficulty to spot buildings, you should see more to trace.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">With this
West Africa Ebola Outbreak activation, we have followed the priorities expressed by the humanitarian organizations, moving from the Geckedou / Macenta / Kissidouga areas (Guinea), to Lofa disctrict (Liberia), Kailahun and Kenema districts, Bo, Freetown (Liberia).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">The priority is presently around Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. </span><span style="" class="">Since the beginning of August, there has been a high
surge of Ebola cases in Liberia and the capital Monrovia. For Liberia, the number of deaths declared by WHO has increased from 255, Aug. 1 to 1,224 Sept. 6. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">For the UN operation of assistance that is planned presently, we have already provided a first set of OSM data for the Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Place names. The new UNMIL Settlement Data for Liberia should help to revise Place Names for Liberia. The quality of such information is
very important. Thanks to <span style="" class="" role="button" tabindex="0" data-action="contact-card-menu" data-name="Rafael Avila Coya" data-address="ravilacoya@gmail.com" title="Rafael Avila Coya">Rafael Avila Coya who accepted Andrew proposition to look at this.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="" class="">Plus, Thanks to all the partners, support team and contributors of this Activation<br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style=""
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