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<font face="Calibri">Hi Jeff,<br>
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As Rebecca mentioned, we are currently working on a project in
Liberia indeed! Which I'm managing, and I'm actually in
Gbarnga/Ganta at the moment together with David Luswata. This
project focuses mostly on supporting local gov't in Gbarnga, Ganta
and Zwedru in collecting and using geodata for urban planning and
service delivery, in close collaboration with local partners such
as LISGIS and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.<br>
<br>
I don't think we'll actually get to Maryland county (where Harper
and Pleebo are), but I have been in contact with an NGO (Partners
in Health, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pih.org/">http://www.pih.org/</a>) that has a presence there and is
interested in mapping to support their operations. I'm hoping your
objectives would align quite well, and I'd be happy to chat more
on how we can setup remote mapping for these areas (providing road
networks/building outlines) and work on getting more local
knowledge/ground truthed data in for this county.<br>
<br>
best,<br>
Paul</font><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Jeff,
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Rebecca</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Jeff,
<div>The Red Cross did a lot of mapping in Liberia (<a
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target="_blank">http://www.missingmaps.org/<wbr>blog/2017/01/24/west-africa-<wbr>mapping-hub-end/</a>)
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. </div>
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<div>Dale</div>
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PM, Andrew Buck <span dir="ltr"><<a
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towns don't look that big so mapping them would be
quite easy to do,<br>
however nether Bing nor MapBox has imagery of
imagery of the area that<br>
is high enough resolution to map them. If you can
find a source of<br>
imagery where the license allows us to use it for
tracing then it<br>
shouldn't be difficult but otherwise there may not
be much we can do.<br>
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-AndrewBuck<br>
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On 02/15/2017 01:19 PM, Blossom, Jeffrey C.
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> Hello HOTOSM team,<br>
><br>
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> I'm Jeff Blossom, a GIS Manager with the
Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard
University.<br>
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> 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:<br>
><br>
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> "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.<br>
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> 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."<br>
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> What is the process to get this mapping
request considered?<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Jeff Blossom<br>
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> GIS Service Manager<br>
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> Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard
University<br>
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