[HOT] looking for OSM data to put on my GPS

Samuel Paul Alce alcesamuelpaul at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 20:41:00 BST 2012


Hello all,
            Where can i find data OSM for USA or DC to put in my GPS Garmin
device?

2012/10/12 Lukasz Kruk <lukasz.kruk at gmail.com>

> Thank you all for your answers, a couple of genuinely useful points for me
> here.
>
> cheers!
>
> On 9 October 2012 13:00, <hot-request at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:08:09 +0800
>> From: Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com>
>> To: Pierre B?land <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr>
>> Cc: "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>, Lukasz Kruk
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>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes
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>> Hi Lukasz,
>>
>> It also depends on what the data use is. For example Natural Earth is
>> aimed at cartographers, so it is a good resource for making maps. If
>> you wish to use the information for navigation another source would be
>> better.
>>
>> For HOT specifically though the COD license varies and the government
>> providing it can pick the license (someone correct me if this is
>> inaccurate). So usually it is not something HOT can use.
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Pierre B?land <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr>
>> wrote:
>> > Lukasz
>> >
>> > The problem of such data availibity and quality arises every time we
>> start a
>> > project in a country.
>> >
>> > OCHA's CODs  data is usefull but not alway complete. Also, quality
>> varies
>> > from one country to the other.  Also, the license is not compatible with
>> > OdbL OSM license.
>> >
>> > There are other sources like NGA, and again with varying quality.  See
>> > http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
>> >
>> > Geolocation is often approximative. Such data have to be examined
>> carefully
>> > and corrected before importing into OSM.
>> >
>> >
>> > Pierre
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > De : Lukasz Kruk <lukasz.kruk at gmail.com>
>> > ? : hot at openstreetmap.org
>> > Envoy? le : Vendredi 5 octobre 2012 10h35
>>
>> > Objet : [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes
>> >
>> > Dear HOTsters (HOTties?),
>> >
>> > That's my first post here, so I presume that a short introduction is in
>> > order? I'm a recent graduate of MSc in Geospatial Technologies, during
>> which
>> > I was fortunate enough to have a number of humanitarian issues used as
>> case
>> > studies for GIS applications. Currently I'm leading the IT Team at one
>> of
>> > Geneva's IM-oriented humanitarian NGOs.
>> >
>> > I'd like to start my participation here with a question - probably
>> something
>> > fairly well known to those in humanitarian aid world, but fairly new to
>> me:
>> > data availability and the approach to the problem by those who
>> > (theoretically?) have the power to make a difference. I know that the
>> topic
>> > is enough for a book or few, so I'll try to use a specific example:
>> what do
>> > you think about OCHA's CODs and FODs:
>> >
>> > http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/
>> >
>> > is this data actually useful, complete, high-quality? Is the
>> availability of
>> > it any help when data is actually needed? Is there any benefit for
>> having
>> > for example elevation data in there, if it's no higher resolution than
>> SRTM?
>> > What about free data provided by http://www.naturalearthdata.com/while a
>> > lot of countries don't have any data assigned on COD/FOD page? All and
>> any
>> > thoughts and comments are welcome.
>> >
>> > I hope that this question makes sense here (I'm sorry if it doesn't!),
>> and
>> > will be grateful for any feedback.
>> >
>> > best,
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg
>> > ?ukasz Kruk
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:19:06 +0200
>> From: Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
>> To: Lukasz Kruk <lukasz.kruk at gmail.com>
>> Cc: hot at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes
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>> Hi Lukasz,
>> Some ideas :
>>
>> 1. One source of data is the freedom of information request, formal
>> and informal. if you ask local agencies and companies for data you
>> often will get it.
>> 2. I never heard about COD, but it reminds me of http://www.data.gov/
>> there is an open source app ckan that people are using.
>> hope that helps.
>> mike
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Lukasz Kruk <lukasz.kruk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear HOTsters (HOTties?),
>> >
>> > That's my first post here, so I presume that a short introduction is in
>> > order? I'm a recent graduate of MSc in Geospatial Technologies, during
>> which
>> > I was fortunate enough to have a number of humanitarian issues used as
>> case
>> > studies for GIS applications. Currently I'm leading the IT Team at one
>> of
>> > Geneva's IM-oriented humanitarian NGOs.
>> >
>> > I'd like to start my participation here with a question - probably
>> something
>> > fairly well known to those in humanitarian aid world, but fairly new to
>> me:
>> > data availability and the approach to the problem by those who
>> > (theoretically?) have the power to make a difference. I know that the
>> topic
>> > is enough for a book or few, so I'll try to use a specific example:
>> what do
>> > you think about OCHA's CODs and FODs:
>> >
>> > http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/
>> >
>> > is this data actually useful, complete, high-quality? Is the
>> availability of
>> > it any help when data is actually needed? Is there any benefit for
>> having
>> > for example elevation data in there, if it's no higher resolution than
>> SRTM?
>> > What about free data provided by http://www.naturalearthdata.com/while a
>> > lot of countries don't have any data assigned on COD/FOD page? All and
>> any
>> > thoughts and comments are welcome.
>> >
>> > I hope that this question makes sense here (I'm sorry if it doesn't!),
>> and
>> > will be grateful for any feedback.
>> >
>> > best,
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg
>> > ?ukasz Kruk
>> > http://lukaszkruk.com
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