<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>The OCHA COD FOD present boundaries that the Bangui office has worked on.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>See https://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/search/field_country_region/central-african-republic/field_category/admin-level-1-boundaries-201</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The problem with the COD FOD is that the data is gathered from various sources and that OCHA do not provide a publishing license compatible with OSM.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I can help to import the boundaries if we can find data with the appropriate license.<br></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size:
10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Michael Krämer <ohrosm@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> Samedi 8 mars 2014 14h45<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] Admin boundaries level 1, CAR - Lobaye missing in OSM<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Am 08.03.2014 20:24, schrieb Severin Menard:<br clear="none">> I am not used to admin level addition in OSM and does not know which group<br clear="none">> to contact. I have just noticed that one Admin level 1 (called Prefectures)<br clear="none">> for Central African Republic
called Lobaye (see in<br clear="none">> Wikipedia<<a shape="rect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobaye" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobaye</a>>)<br clear="none">> appears on OSM as a<br clear="none">> name<<a shape="rect" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/4.2916/17.9022&layers=H" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/4.2916/17.9022&layers=H</a>>but<br clear="none">> its boundaries are missing (for a long time, as it<br clear="none">> does not appear either on<br clear="none">> FOSM<<a shape="rect" href="http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html#8/4.623/18.138" target="_blank">http://pierzen.dev.openstreetmap.org/hot/leaflet/OSM-Compare-before-after.html#8/4.623/18.138</a>>).<br clear="none">> They can be found on<br clear="none">> Maplibray.org<<a shape="rect"
href="http://www.mapmakerdata.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/library/stacks/Africa/Central%20African%20Republic/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mapmakerdata.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/library/stacks/Africa/Central%20African%20Republic/index.htm</a>>,<br clear="none">> the data source used to provide the admin level 1 in OSM, is there someone<br clear="none">> experimented with admin boundaries who could kindly add Lobaye?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I just had a look at the data since I've worked on boundaries before. <br clear="none">Unfortunately this seems to be pretty strange: Maplibrary shows quite <br clear="none">different borders for Lobaye than NaturalEarth does. The Wikipedia <br clear="none">article linked above shows the same outline as NaturalEarth. So I am not <br clear="none">really sure which one is the correct one. I'd rather favor the outline <br clear="none">from NaturalEarth.<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">Does anyone know more about this?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Michael<div class="yqt7265195181" id="yqtfd90834"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">HOT mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>