[LINK] Help with Haiti Hospital Data

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Wed Feb 24 17:15:03 AEDT 2010


Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>  On Wed Feb 24 16:49 , Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> sent:
> 
>> The Sahana Foundation needs help with providing disaster relief
>> coordination via its Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal.
>> Volunteers are needed to update the records for all of the hospitals and
>> health facilities in Haiti:
>> http://trac.sahanapy.org/wiki/AddHospitalsUUID>.
> 
> Just a thought, but how will the Sahana Foundation ensure the quality of the data? Volunteers might make mistakes; there may be mischief makers, or even terrorists... etc.
> 
> I guess they could ask for volunteers to check the data. But then they'd need to call for volunteers to check the checkers... etc
> 

This was an awe inspiring talk
Mapping Haiti
Presenter: Shoaib Burq
Description: How OpenStreetMap helped map Haiti for 
earthquake response
<http://www.slideshare.net/sabman/haiti-qake2010-bar-camp-canberra2010>

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202





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