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Mission with FLOSSK - Albania |
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Nine volunteers are deployed to a project in Albania
This project is commissioned by Free Libre Open Source Software Kosovo (FLOSSK), a non-profit organization in Kosovo. FLOSSK is requesting the assistance of GISCorps volunteers in creating an accurate base map for a region in northwest of Albania known as Shkoder. This region was struck by flood in January 2010. The base map will include road network (on Open Street Map – OSM interface), damaged buildings, flooded areas and various imagery datasets.
Nine volunteers from five countries have been recruited for this project. One of the volunteers, Miguel Morgado from the UK, is the Project Manager and eight other volunteers are: Michele Morettini and Massimiliano Rossi from Italy, Takeo Shibata, Andrew Ross, Janet Vaughn, Adebayo Adepegba from the US, Doug Brown, from Mexico, and Kerice Masters from Jamaica.
Volunteers are responsible for various geographic regions and tasks and report their progress to the project manager on a weekly basis. The following screen shots demonstrate the results of their work from January to early April in OSM as well as Google Earth environment.
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| Figure 1: Volunteers’ work from January to early April on Google Earth (Shkoder region) |
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| Figure 2: Volunteers’ work from January to early April on Google Earth (zoomed into Shkoder) |
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| Figure 3: Volunteers’ work from January to early April on OSM environment |
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| Figure 4: tracing of houses using aerial images in the South West region of Shkoder |
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| Figure 5: zoomed image showing houses in detail |
This project is ongoing. Visit this page for future updates.
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