[HOT] NE Uganda Landslide/ Flood response: link to OSM WikiProject Uganda wiki

[nicolas chavent]

Hey Ugandan OSMers-

I hope this email finds you all as well as possible in Uganda.

I revamped the OSM WikiProject Uganda
wiki<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda>to host
information and data sets of relevance for supporting the on-going
relief efforts in NE Uganda on the model of the current OSM-supported
disaster responses in
Haiti<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti>and
Chile <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake>.
Great if you can articulate your efforts in mapping Uganda to this crisis
response by taking stoke of this wiki and re-using what you'll find worthy
re-using, and growing it in the way you will find most appropriate with your
project, or taking from it to the collaborative platform you are using to
this end

I'd be extremely interested in hearing from you on the Uganda GIS data
landscape as portrayed in this wiki and the additional data sets you would
recommend

I have a specific request for you, the past humanitarian response to
flooding in North Uganda (Oct/ Nov 2007) highlighted a data base of
relevance for any base map project in the form of a Roads data set layer
property of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and passed to the UN
World Food Programme (WFP) in sept 2007. Extremely grateful if this could be
investigated at your end with the key question of the re-usability of this
data set within the OSM project (fitness for data imports & compatibility
with OSM data licensing CC-SA allowing commercial use)

I look fwd hearing back from you and interacting with you
Best
Nicolas.

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Nicolas Chavent
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti
Mobile (FRA): +33 6 75 14 29 70
Email: nicolas.chavent at gmail.com
Skype: c_nicolas
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