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</head><body text="#000000">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.<br>
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Could you organise an effort to tag in someway those locations that have
the correct name as correct so they can be relied upon? <br>
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Thanks John<br>
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<span>Jorieke Vyncke wrote on 2020-03-19 12:23 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>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! </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes, </div><div><br></div><div>Jorieke</div><div><br></div><div><p
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op wo 18
mrt. 2020 om 00:29 schreef David Garcia <<a
href="mailto:mapmakerdavid@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">mapmakerdavid@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote
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class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div
class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Sincerely,</div><div
class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><b>David</b></div></div></blockquote></div>
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