[HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by the rebels

[Claire Halleux]

Hi Pierre,

In February, I met Dr Terry Brncic, the Regional Coordinator for Central
Africa of the World Resources Institute.
WRI and DIAF, their main partner in DRC, have been contributing to the RGC
for several years.

We had a nice talk together about the potential of sharing again their data
through OSM this time (they were correcting and improving RGC data on their
side => supposed to be under ODbL as well). It was suggested to import them
into OSM for completing the missing parts of the network and improving the
geometry where high-resolution imagery would be available with many more
editors. She agreed on the idea.
We are still in the process of acquiring their last data update but, as we
should meet again in the coming week, it might not take long. I had asked
for a sample of data in order to describe the attributes transfer needed
but didn't get it yet.

Importing those data won't be easy with all the existing roads in the
database, and attributes to be kept. We'll probably have to split the
datasets into small parts to be integrated little a little, comparing and
getting the best of the available data.

This is great news to hear that they agreed also in sharing this type of
data for other countries as well. Thanks Jorieke for your information too!

I will keep you informed once we get those datasets for DRC, in order to
set up a common methodology.

Best,

Claire


2013/3/25 Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr>

>
> Hi Jorieke
>
> This is very interesting to have the possibility to collaborate with
> people on the ground and use eventually imports to have a better map. In
> the context of humanitarian activations, it is important to work in a
> coordinate manner and discuss before such imports are done.
>
> First, we have to be careful and before importing any data into OSM, we
> have to follow a strict procedure to assure that the data is published with
> a license compatible with ODbL. We have to know the original producer of
> the data, how it was collected, and evaluate how good is the
> georeferencing. We also have to validate if the license is compatible.
> Do you have any information about that?
>
> I coordinate the current activation in DR Congo with Claire Halleux. I would
> like to look at the data that is contained in these files and see how it
> can help us for the DRC Activation before anything is setup with these fi
> les.
>
> Could you please send me a copy of this data?
>
>
> Pierre
>
>    ------------------------------
> *De :* Jorieke Vyncke <jorieke.vyncke at gmail.com>
> *À :* hot at openstreetmap.org; pdouard at wri.org
> *Envoyé le :* Lundi 25 mars 2013 12h53
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Central African Republic: Bangui taken over today by
> the rebels
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Here a message from (a part) of the Eurosha-team who was working till the
> end of December in the Central-African Republic, and had to move because of
> the security situation. We are really glad to see your activity on the
> current crisis in the Central-African Republic.
>
> At this moment we are working in Cameroon, for Cameroon, but of course
> also for the CAR! Last week we obtained the permission to use the data of
> the World Recourse Institute (WRI) for the CAR and the DRC. This data
> (localities, road network, etc) can be very useful for the humanitarian
> actors on the field at this moment. For this reason we are now busy with
> setting up as soon as possible the importation process. And it is in this
> we need some help of you guys.
>
> Because we don’t really like the massive data importations as this would
> conflict with the existing data and could get very messy, we propose a
> crowd-sourced way to verify and import the data using the tasking manager.
> We have converted the existing shapefiles to OSM-XML format already and
> have setup a service that can serve the data into JOSM as follows:
>
> http://www.osmsharp.com:815/data/16748/10966/15/matrix.osm
>
> The data served is just a test area; the real converted data will be there
> soon. A request like this will return only data inside the requested tile.
> Any existing OSM file can very quickly be served on the site this way.
>
> We think it would be a very efficient and nice way to process and convert
> the data into OSM using the tasking manager if we could add a field or link
> to it that could load the data from the above url straight into JOSM or
> provide it as a download link in the task itself.
>
> Using this method all the humanitarian-relevant data can be converted and
> imported very quickly. But this means we need help from somebody to modify
> the tasking manager just a little bit to make this possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> The EUROSHA TEAM
>
>
>
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