Fwd: Hydrography of Pestel Map

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you this new project that I'm undertaking with a 3rd year medical student (Novneet Sahu) to begin to map out crucial data for Pestel.

This not only looks neat, but in my mind it's really amazing.  Just on this little map alone you can see

1.  the 6 sections of Pestel outlined.   The ONLY other place I've seen the 6 sections has been a hand-drawn map on the wall of Dr. Seneque's office.   And using the software we can find the exact GPS coordinates for the boundaries.   

2.  You can see where the roads in Pestel go (dotted lines).  

3.  You can see small streams.  This is entirely new information.   Novneet found these geographically-accurate maps on the internet that were made to work with this particular software.

Now, this is what we'll do:

We are having someone in Pestel send us (by email) the list of village names AND their GPS coordinates.   That means for the first time (ever?) we will be able to exactly locate the villages throughout Pestel.   Remember, with the Child Health Program we found about a 100 villages that were not on the official rolls.

Once we place the villages on this map, we can then 'attach' all kinds of data to it.   Take the anemia testing for example.   If we tested 20 kids in Village A for anemia and 'attach' those 20 results to Village A....we can then color code ALL the villages based on severity of anemia.   We can see instantaneously on this map which villages have the worst levels of anemia....

Same with malnutrition...

Same with educational opportunities...

Same with rates of childhood fever...

And so on!!!

This will be a powerful tool to help in planning, coordination, and also in promoting the work that is being done and needs to be done.

:)

I'm pretty psyched

Ben

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Novneet Sahu <novneetsahu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Subject: Hydrography of Pestel Map
To: Ben Fredrick <benfredrick@gmail.com>

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