<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Harry Wood extended his tool with a filter showing what is going on related to mapping schools in Uganda:<br><br><a href="http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/schools/rankings.php?filter=uganda">http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/schools/rankings.php?filter=uganda</a><br><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-04 21:59 GMT+01:00 Douglas Ssebaggala <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:douglas@mappingday.com" target="_blank">douglas@mappingday.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi Rafael,<br>
<br>
Sorry for the sloppy response: partly because some of the Ugandan (local) OSM community members get extended breaks over the festive season in December.<br>
<br>
It's quite an elaborated process, thanks for the effort. I think it's a possible great idea to have the OSM Community in Kampala take part in this.<br>
<br>
we might perhaps plan a series of sessions in Kampala to trace some of the educational facilities' nodes, maybe with the involvement/guidance of members from UBOS and the Ministry of Education to spice-up the process, aiming for sustainability.<br>
<br>
I will contact some of the above parties and get back to you as soon as there's a response, but We should also have more responses from other community members in the next couple of days.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
Quoting Rafael Avila Coya <<a href="mailto:ravilacoya@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravilacoya@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi, Geoffrey:<br>
<br>
I will start from the end:<br>
<br>
It's not only useful to get the local OSM community involved; it's the<br>
most important.<br>
<br>
What I mean is that it will always be much better to rely on local<br>
people with local knowledge than in a Spanish guy like me who, although<br>
trying to do my best, I've never been in Uganda before (although I have<br>
been in quite a number of African countries, similar to Uganda, and<br>
mapped a lot in many other). I'd wish to visit Uganda soon, by the way ;)<br>
<br>
Yes. Educational facilities in big cities like Kampala are very<br>
difficult to double check against imagery. It would be really nice if<br>
mappers from Kampala would like to check the UBOS nodes inside Kampala,<br>
so we can import most of the nodes there, and with the highest quality.<br>
In that case, we could even divide the import, leaving the Kampala nodes<br>
for local mappers to import and check on the ground. Everything is possible!<br>
<br>
Normally, in previous similar imports, we asked for school road access<br>
tracing, for adding facilities buildings and to add the village name if<br>
not present. But this time the number of nodes is very big (24,587), so<br>
I thought it would be better to first focus only in importing the nodes,<br>
and then, afterwards, add more info. Road access and buildings is one<br>
type, but using the school info to add village names to the map will be<br>
a very important step forward, specially for those "black" areas of the<br>
map that you talk about.<br>
<br>
The quality of the health facilities is not good enough in what respect<br>
to geolocation, so we will need a different approach to get the most of<br>
that dataset.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Rafael.<br>
<br>
On 03/01/16 16:03, Geoffrey Kateregga wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Rafael,<br>
<br>
It is good news that UBOS has released such a huge set of data for<br>
OpenStreetMap, a similar kind of task was done before here [1] and it<br>
shows continued commitment by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics to open up<br>
its data. A lot of places are still black on the map and adding schools<br>
and health centers will be a huge step forward to make the map more<br>
detailed especially after adding access roads and names of places.<br>
<br>
About the education facilities import, I think it will be easy to<br>
correct location of nodes for schools in remote areas but it may be a<br>
little bit tricky for schools in urban centers as some are very small to<br>
be easily identified using aerial imagery.<br>
<br>
It will also be useful to get volunteers from the local OSM community to<br>
contribute when the tasks are activated, the local knowledge we have in<br>
districts where we come from will be very useful.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Geoffrey.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Uganda_Import" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Uganda_Import</a><br>
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Hi list:<br>
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The Uganda Bureau Of Statistics (UBOS) [1] has released two datasets,<br>
one with 24,587 education facilities (nodes), and a second one with<br>
3,667 health facilities (nodes), for import into OpenStreetMap [2]. HOT<br>
[3] is willing to help importing those datasets into OpenStreetMap.<br>
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The idea would be to manually import those nodes through the HOT Tasking<br>
Manager [4], in a similar way as it's been done many times already in<br>
different areas of the world, the first being several UNICEF datasets<br>
for Central African Republic back in 2012 [5].<br>
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As both datasets are different, the two imports would be independent of<br>
each other. So in this email we ask for comments about the education<br>
facilities import.<br>
<br>
An import wiki has been produced [6], that can of course be modified<br>
during the discussion process. Another more practical wiki will be<br>
written these days explaining the import workflow that every volunteer<br>
will have to follow. See this one (health facilities in Borno State,<br>
Nigeria) as an example: [7]<br>
<br>
One remark: 24,587 nodes is a very big number, so I would suggest that<br>
in this case we skip tracing the access highways for each facility, as<br>
that would make the process very lengthy. Those access roads (and also<br>
the facilities buildings) could (optionally) be traced after the import,<br>
using the OSM regular account (imports have to be done using a dedicated<br>
OSM account). The already mentioned wiki and hackpad still include the<br>
mapping of access ways and facilities buildings, but that can be<br>
eliminated.<br>
<br>
Once we get a consensus, we would proceed to the imports list as the<br>
last step before starting the import.<br>
<br>
I've CC'ed Paul Uithol who is coordinating the whole job, and Tyler<br>
Radford, HOT's Executive Director.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Rafael Avila Coya (OSM user: edvac).<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.ubos.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ubos.org</a><br>
[2]<br>
<a href="https://hackpad.com/Uganda-Bureau-of-Statistics-Health-and-Education-facilities-import-hjoRNhGzDjj" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hackpad.com/Uganda-Bureau-of-Statistics-Health-and-Education-facilities-import-hjoRNhGzDjj</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://hotosm.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hotosm.org</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://tasks.hotosm.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tasks.hotosm.org</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_UNICEF_workflow" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_UNICEF_workflow</a><br>
[6]<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda/Import_Uganda_Bureau_Of_Statistics_Education_Facilities" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda/Import_Uganda_Bureau_Of_Statistics_Education_Facilities</a><br>
[7]<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Nigeria_eHealth_Borno_Health_Facilities_Workflow" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Nigeria_eHealth_Borno_Health_Facilities_Workflow</a><br>
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