Great work Robert - look forward to seeing the finished upload.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Matt Amos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zerebubuth@gmail.com">zerebubuth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">hi robert,<br>
<br>
this is really cool! great to see that africover is willing to donate this data.<br>
<br>
one thing thats worth pointing out, just in case you hadn't seen it<br>
already; the OSM server will be down from the 17th possibly until the<br>
20th for an upgrade to the API. hopefully this will not inconvenience<br>
you, as most of the OSM tools and clients are ready for the upgrade.<br>
<br>
this page contains more information -<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information</a><br>
and we're all happy to help if there are any problems.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
matt<br>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Robert Soden <<a href="mailto:robert.soden@gmail.com">robert.soden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> Over the last few months, I've been in contact with FAO's Africover<br>
> program: <a href="http://www.africover.org/" target="_blank">http://www.africover.org/</a> . Africover maintains shapefiles<br>
> containing rivers, roads, towns, and admin boundaries for a number of<br>
> countries that we would like add to the OSM dataset. While they<br>
> normally do not release data under an OSM-acceptable license, they have<br>
> granted us permission to add their data to Open Street Map.<br>
> Over the next few weeks, we will be working on importing data for<br>
> Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda. We'll be working slowly in<br>
> order to ensure accuracy and integrity of the OSM dataset. Please feel<br>
> free to get in touch if you are interested in learning more about our<br>
> progress, but we will also be posting status reports on the project wiki<br>
> pages.<br>
> Africover also maintains datasets for<br>
> Burundi, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. We may work on<br>
> these over the longer-term, and would be happy to collaborate with other<br>
> folks on this.<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Robert Soden<br>
> <a href="mailto:robert@developmentseed.org">robert@developmentseed.org</a><br>
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