[OSM-talk] Does Libya deserves emergency mapping?

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

There has been a confirmation that a major international humanitarian
organisation (other than the Red Cross) is looking into using OSM for
its deployment in Libya.

Jean-Guilhem


Le 24/02/2011 17:09, Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit :
> Of course yes, Libya does deserve emergency mapping.
> This had been discussed in the H.O.T. mailing list, but making the
> broader audience here aware of it could indeed be helpful. See the
> thread starting at:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2011-February/000547.html
>
> Calls for help have been made from Libya to humanitarian NGOs. The Red
> Cross, for example, has planned missions to Libya. They can usually
> use OpenStreetMap maps, when they are of sufficient quality.
>
> This might be a problem currently with OSM data for Libya. The
> positive side is that it should be relatively easy to improve it very
> significantly.
>
> There is indeed now high resolution Bing imagery of Tripoli, Benghazi
> and Khoms areas. (Sometimes, very high resolution). Roads and streets
> can be traced in these areas.
>
> I am not aware of other high resolution imagery currently available.
>
> Public domain maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
> could also be useful, for example for tracing roads in combination
> with medium resolution imagery, in areas where only Landsat imagery is
> available, from Yahoo or Bing (I've found Yahoo version more readable
> in some places). Or for locating place names - Wikipedia can also be
> very useful for finding the current names from the old Italian names.
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/libya.html
>
> The hashtag #OSMapLibya had been proposed for mapping coordination via
> the Twitter social network, with the intent of eliciting local
> knowledge, and pointers to OpenStreetBugs for easy input, but this
> hasn't taken so far.
>
> The #hot IRC channel on irc.oftc.net is of course available for chatting.
>
> Thanks. Best wishes,
>
> Jean-Guilhem
>
>
>
> Le 24/02/2011 16:10, Ch. Rogel a écrit :
>>
>> Being not involved in Lybian events, except by political interest, I
>> find it strange that no move for an emergency mapping has risen yet
>> as it has for Ivory Coast.
>>
>> Same problem : no international call for helping populations, but a
>> predictable disaster.
>>
>> Mapping Tripoli, Benghazi and Khoms from Bing is possible and enough
>> former inhabitants have fled to our countries.
>>
>> Is there any other imagery?
>>
>> A few information here :
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Libya
>>
>> Ch Rogel
>>
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