<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear list,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Earlier this year, the Uganda team of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) began the process of incorporating AI-generated building footprints of three districts in Uganda - Kapelebyong, Butambala, and Amuria - into OpenStreetMap. At the start of this exercise, our team used the RapID platform and the MapwithAI plug-in in JOSM to upload this data. Later in the process, our team transitioned to a different workflow, which enabled mappers to process and clean the buildings dataset offline and then upload the data through JOSM. Since RapID is used as an editor in OSM and the buildings were directly available via RapID, our team mistakenly assumed that no additional documentation would be needed to kick-start the process. During the implementation of the second workflow, the DWG flagged the exercise and informed our team that adding AI-generated building footprints to OSM is considered an import and, because no discussions were facilitated about the import through the mailing list, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">this exercise was in violation of the import guidelines. As soon as our team was notified of the violation, all mapping activities were halted and we began working to develop the necessary project-specific import guidelines to be aligned with the broader import guidelines.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The purpose of this message is to acknowledge our mistake and the genuine oversight our team made in not considering this activity an import, consequently violating the import guidelines process. Our intention is to provide </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a clear and honest overview of when the import was carried out, what it consisted of, how it was carried out, and what we still intend to complete after approval </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to ensure there is transparency around the initial import process and the steps we have taken since the violation was flagged to become aligned with the import guidelines process.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timeline</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The process of incorporating building footprints for Uganda (using RapID) began on 13 February 2020 and continued through 30 April 2020. When this was flagged by the DWG on 30 April 2020 as an import, all activities were halted. On 1 May 2020, a handful of quality checks were carried out to ensure data was completely validated. From 1 May onwards, our team has been working to develop and disseminate the import workflow according to the import guidelines.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Purpose of the import</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In early 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) reached out to HOT requesting an updated building footprint and roads dataset for the districts of Kapelebyong, Amuria, and Butambala to support the institution in planning and implementing a pilot household census exercise. These three districts, in particular, will be part of the pilot household census exercise planned to take place in early to mid-2021. UBOS plans to use the building footprint dataset to estimate the amount of time and resources (enumerators, tablets, etc.) needed to execute the pilot household census exercise. The AI-generated building footprints dataset itself was created by Microsoft in 2018 and given their continued interest in supporting the thriving OSM ecosystem, HOT is facilitating the import of a subset of buildings in a specified AOI that will directly benefit local data end-users, including the UBOS. More information on how these AI-generated buildings were created can be found at [1] & [2]. This dataset is licensed under Microsoft under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Process</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In terms of the actual process, as described earlier in this note, our team started the import process using RapID and the MapwithAI plug-in in JOSM, but later switched to an offline process where data would be cleaned and then uploaded to OSM through JOSM as this method was more easily adopted by the team. Wiki documentation for this import was developed and published [3], detailing the metadata and workflows executed to import the building footprints into OSM.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On 23 June 2020, these import guidelines were shared with the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">talk-ug mailing list </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to gather feedback and/or resistance to the activity from the local community. As of today (7 July) we have not received any objections or resistance to the import.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Next Steps</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With the import halted and having shared the import guidelines with the local OSM mailing list in Uganda, we are now sharing the import guidelines with the global import mailing list. Once again, our team genuinely apologizes for violating the import guidelines that are in place. We welcome comments/feedback from this community about the steps we have since taken thus far to ensure we’re being compliant with the formal process and are keen to forge the way forward that’s accepted by its members. </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My best,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deogratius Kiggudde</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OSM username: kiggudde</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] </span><a href="https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2019-09/microsoft-releases-18M-building-footprints-in-uganda-and-tanzania-to-enable-ai-assisted-mapping" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2019-09/microsoft-releases-18M-building-footprints-in-uganda-and-tanzania-to-enable-ai-assisted-mapping</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </span><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/Uganda-Tanzania-Building-Footprints" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/microsoft/Uganda-Tanzania-Building-Footprints</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3]</span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=WikiProject_Uganda/Microsoft_building_imports_for_UBOS_pilot_census_preparation&redirect=no" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda Microsoft_building_imports_for_UBOS_pilot_census_preparation</span></a></p><div><br></div>-- </div>