<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thanks Blake for this,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I finished adjusting counties to these boundaries. I imported district boundaries as well. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Now we are looking for such information for Guinea and Liberia. I contacted a contributor who added districts in Sierra Leone 2 years ago. He responded quickly and sent me very detailed shape files coming from the Sierra Leone Statistical dept. But it seems to be a private copy he received. It would be good if we could negociate open license for this. But no contacts.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The same in Guinea, Prefecture boundaries have been added. But we dont know where they come from.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As you saw in the last email to the HOT list, the UN agencies are counting on OSM except WHO which keep is one Map database. We are looking at adding pcodes to the place names. But first,
a lot of work to do.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Blake, I dont know how exactly the file for Liberia came to us. If you had a contact in the Liberia Statistical office, please inform them that the boundaries for counties and districts are now available in OSM. And a great thank to them.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,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-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>About names that we see on LISGIS maps. Do we have files with geolocated place name? This would be an other tool to validate our info.<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-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, 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> Jean-Guilhem Cailton <jgc@arkemie.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Blake Girardot <bgirardot@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> hot@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Samedi 23 août 2014 11h04<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HOT] GNS name merging discussion thread<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Le 20/08/2014 16:13, Blake Girardot a écrit :<br clear="none">> [...]<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I would love another map source for Liberia.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">And it seems that you found it. :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">8 georeferenced County maps from LISGIS (from this page:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.lisgis.net/page.php?&7d5f44532cbfc489b8db9e12e44eb820=NDQ%3D"
target="_blank">http://www.lisgis.net/page.php?&7d5f44532cbfc489b8db9e12e44eb820=NDQ%3D</a><br clear="none">) that include villages (with population larger than 200) names and<br clear="none">locations, in addition to counties and districts boundaries are<br clear="none">available as TMS.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Their URLs for JOSM are:<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Bomi <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/bomi_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/bomi_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Bong <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/bong_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/bong_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Gbarpolu <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect"
href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/gbarpolu_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/gbarpolu_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Grand Bassa <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_bassa_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_bassa_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Grand Cape Mount <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_cape_mount_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_cape_mount_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Grand Gedeh <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_gedeh_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_gedeh_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS
Grand Kru <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_kru_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/grand_kru_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none">Ebola LISGIS Lofa <br clear="none">tms[15]:<a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/lofa_lisgis/" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/tms/1.0.0/lofa_lisgis/</a>{zoom}/{x}/{y}<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">My understanding of the letter from LISGIS that you forwarded to us is<br clear="none">that their content is in the public domain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(LISGIS should be mentioned as source.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">The remaining 7 maps from that page only show counties and districts<br clear="none">boundaries. Since the split is on alphabetical order, maybe it was just<br clear="none">an oversight that
they do not contain the villages. (In case someone is<br clear="none">interested, they are available as WMS only, not TMS for now, from<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/wms" target="_blank">http://imagery.openstreetmap.fr/wms</a>)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'll look into setting up the polling station data.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best wishes,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jean-Guilhem<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt7261009712" id="yqtfd52714"><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
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