Comments on: A Georgian Holiday

By: Nadejda Loumbeva

Nadejda Loumbeva — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:23:50 +0000

Paul – I have never been in a situation such as yours and so was wondering:

If there is no data, no electronic data, I mean, what other means and approaches do you use in order to get hold of the data?
-talk/listen to people?
-meet people?
-travel to places?
-organise meetings?

I guess simply in the context of coordination you get to know the picture of things and then data starts showing up, as part of that, too.

I guess the people lead you to the data, so to say!

Good luck!!

By: Paul Currion

Paul Currion — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:42:02 +0000

Tragically most of the maps on ReliefWeb are (as usual) a mixture of uninformative and ill-designed (no offense intended to the people who produced them, under much pressure). And of course ReliefWeb doesn’t host the base data, which is what I really need right now.

My head hurts. Why haven’t we got this right yet?

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:37:38 +0000

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc404?OpenForm&cc=geo

By: Paul Currion

Paul Currion — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:22:57 +0000

Admin boundaries would be a good start … I’m suffering from a serious lack of data, and Google Maps still doesn’t appear to have any coverage at all of Georgia!

By: Mikel

Mikel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:01:02 +0000

Good luck Paul. Don’t hesitate to put the call out if there’s something us folks out here can help with.

By: Warren

Warren — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:30:59 +0000

Hi Paul,

I’m interested to know; once you have collected and cleaned the data, how you manage to present it.

Cheers,

Warren