<div dir="ltr">Hi James, <div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for the initiative!</div><div><br></div><div>For the two Congo's it might be usefull to still try to reach out a little more to the local communities. Because I know in both countries, we have OSM enthusiasts.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, are we talking about the same data? <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Central_Africa_Import">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Central_Africa_Import</a></div><div>Then you should also have a look on the Task we created for CAR: <a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/219">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/219</a></div><div>It is partially done. </div><div><br></div><div>Happy mapping! </div><div><br></div><div>Jorieke</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-03-25 16:08 GMT+00:00 James Conkling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.lane.conkling@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.lane.conkling@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hi all,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">I’m pleased to announce the launch of a long-term initiative to upload logging road data from across the Congo Basin.  We currently have three TM projects running:</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Democratic Republic of the Congo: </span><a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/920" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/920</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Central African Republic: </span><a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/956" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/956</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Congo Brazzaville: </span><a href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/957" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/957</span></a></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Over the coming weeks, we will be launching new TM projects for</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Gabon</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Equatorial Guinea</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Cameroon</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This is a joint initiative between the World Resource Institute and Moabi--with considerable help from the HOT and OSM communities.  We are validating and uploading to OSM thousands of kilometers of tracks.  At a later point, we hope to compare these roads to high-res satellite imagery mosaics from the year 2000 to 2014 so that we can gain a better understanding of when roads were first cleared and if they have since been abandoned.  Currently, however, we are working to conflate all data with what already exists in OSM.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you are interested, please join us with the upload on any of the above TM projects, which include links to the project wikis.  If you do contribute, please create a separate specific import account for the upload (if you don’t have one yet), and follow the detailed instructions in the workflow wiki.</span></p><br><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you have any questions, please reply to this thread or reach out to me directly.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Find the initial call for comments announcement on the HOT listserv here: </span><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2015-February/007307.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2015-February/007307.html</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> , and the announcement on the imports listserv here: </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2015-February/003663.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2015-February/003663.html</a></span></p><div><br></div></span></div>
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