<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span><span><span><font size="2">Lukasz</font></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">The problem of such data availibity and quality arises every time we start a project in a country.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new
york,times,serif;"><br><span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">OCHA's CODs data is usefull but not alway complete. Also, quality varies from one country to the other. </span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"> Also, the license is not compatible with OdbL OSM license.</span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><br></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma,new
york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">There are other sources like NGA, and again with varying quality.</span> </span> See http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm<br><br>Geolocation is often approximative. </span></span>Such data have to be examined carefully and corrected before importing into OSM. <br></span></span><br> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);
margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Lukasz Kruk <lukasz.kruk@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> hot@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 5 octobre 2012 10h35<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes<br> </font> </div> <br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv1791831209"><div>Dear HOTsters (HOTties?),</div><div><br></div><div>That's my first post here, so I presume that a short introduction is in order? I'm a recent graduate of MSc in Geospatial Technologies,
during which I was fortunate enough to have a number of humanitarian issues used as case studies for GIS applications. Currently I'm leading the IT Team at one of Geneva's IM-oriented humanitarian NGOs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd like to start my participation here with a question - probably something fairly well known to those in humanitarian aid world, but fairly new to me: data availability and the approach to the problem by those who (theoretically?) have the power to make a difference. I know that the topic is enough for a book or few, so I'll try to use a specific example: what do you think about OCHA's CODs and FODs:</div>
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<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/">http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/</a></div><div><br></div><div>is this data actually useful, complete, high-quality? Is the availability of it any help when data is actually needed? Is there any benefit for having for example elevation data in there, if it's no higher resolution than SRTM? What about free data provided by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/</a> while a lot of countries don't have any data assigned on COD/FOD page? All and any thoughts and comments are welcome.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope that this question makes sense here (I'm sorry if it doesn't!), and will be grateful for any feedback.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg<br>
Łukasz Kruk<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lukaszkruk.com/">http://lukaszkruk.com</a><br>
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