<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Thanks, I'm sending Jessica an email....<br><div><br>
"Hard to know where to start. One big issue with election monitoring is
polling place locations, and those are not always easy to come by. Here
in Kenya, NDI is having a hell of a time pulling those together. This
is the kind of work the OSM community specializes in ... identifying
data sets, working on getting data released, importing it into OSM,
doing custom data feeds and rendering as needed; or if the data can't
be released from official sources, just doing it anyway! Almost every
country in the world has an OSM community, and connected directly with
them to update the map is a great idea. Trainings/mapping parties can
be organized with communities interested in collecting more data.<br>
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On the Ushahidi side, OSM is an option, but not the default. I think it
would be great to see some guidance on how to choose a base map layer
... how to compare the current covereage, and how to judge if
organizing to improve OSM would be a good idea. I know Melissa Tully
has just completed and published various guides, perhaps one on mapping
would be interesting to collaborate on."<br><br><br>
</div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://mapkibera.org/">http://mapkibera.org/</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti</a></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> SteveC <steve@asklater.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "talk@openstreetmap.org" <talk@openstreetmap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, June 4, 2010 2:09:48 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSM-talk] Fwd: OpenStreetMap featured on Ushahidi/Uchaguzi site<br></font><br>
<div>Anyone help?<br><br>Yours &c.<div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Jessica Heinzelman <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jheinzelman@ushahidi.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jheinzelman@ushahidi.com">jheinzelman@ushahidi.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> June 4, 2010 4:27:11 MDT<br><b>To:</b> SteveC <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: OpenStreetMap featured on Ushahidi/Uchaguzi site</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Please do! Thanks!<br><br>Jessica<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:58 PM, SteveC <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:steve@asklater.com"></a><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:steve@asklater.com"
target="_blank" href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
can I forward on this email to people who can help?<br>
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Jessica Heinzelman wrote:<br>
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> Dear Steve,<br>
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> I am writing from Ushahidi. As you might know, we are frequently being used for election monitoring projects around the world and are launching a toolbox site (Uchaguzi, meaning "vote" in Swahili) to help organizations understand the many option they have in designing their projects.<br>
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> We are featuring OpenStreetMap on this site:<br>
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> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/23/openstreetmap/">http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/23/openstreetmap/</a><br>
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> We would love to hear from you about what else you think would be helpful to include on this page! Please leave a comment OR if there are more substantial things that should be added to the content itself, please let me know and I will see that it gets uploaded to the site.<br>
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> Please confirm that you got this message whether or not you choose to add to the site.<br>
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> Many thanks!<br>
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> Jessica<br>
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> --<br>
> Jessica Heinzelman<br>
> Ushahidi, Inc. Intern<br>
> M.A. Candidate, The Fletcher School '11<br>
> U.S. Cell: +1 (415) 533-4630<br>
> Kenya: +254 711238017<br>
> Skype: genericaddress79<br>
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</div></div>have fun,<br>
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Steve Coast / <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stevecoast.com"></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stevecoast.com">stevecoast.com</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jessica Heinzelman<br>Ushahidi, Inc. Intern <br>M.A. Candidate, The Fletcher School '11<br>U.S. Cell: +1 (415) 533-4630<br>Kenya: +254 711238017<br>Skype: genericaddress79<br>
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