[HOT] Fwd: Request to add Central African Republic among the available countries in OSMAND

[Hrvoje Bogner]

Hi Severin

I received your mail while on vacation, when I got back there were a lot 
of things to do at work and in private life so this mail slipped down in 
the list.
At a quick glance some of the countries are already available through 
application.
My plan is to get OSMAND to include ALL of the countries in the world. 
Africa was the starting point because it had only few of them available.
I can add the missing ones as soon as i get some free time to create 
appropriate boundary.
OSMAND team asked not to create to much overlap with countries so I use 
max 1km offset from country border and simplify it as much as possible.

If you want you can help and create *.poly files for missing countries.

Regards
Hrvoje


On 12.08.2013 00:57, Severin MENARD wrote:
> Dear Hrvoje,
>
> Thank you very much for having added Mali, Chad and Burundi to the list
> of countries to download in OSMAND.
> Would it be possible to add a few African countries again?
>
>   * Sudan, where Khartoum is currently hit by large floods
>     (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Sudan_floods)
>   * Central African Republic where the situation, if not broadcasted is
>     becoming totally dramatic. We have a request from MSF Spain (cced)
>     that would make a great use of it in the field. The crisis in
>     Central African Republic is not mediatised at all, but the
>     population is facing some real issues, including hunger now (see
>     this article
>     <http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/07/09/la-penurie-alimentaire-menace-la-centrafrique_3445128_3212.html>
>     from Le Monde that you can easily read with an online translation)
>   * Togo, where we have an ongoing field mission, as part of the EOF
>     project <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/espace_osm_francophone_0>
>   * Cameroon, where a very dynamic community is working
>   * Malawi, where the mapping possibilities could rise soon
>
> Beyond this, it would be great if all the African countries could be
> added in the future.
> If ever we can help eg by providing the boundaries in any format, please
> just ask.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Severin
>
>
>     Message: 3
>     Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:09:09 +0100
>     From: hbogner <hbogner at gmail.com <mailto:hbogner at gmail.com>>
>     To: hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>
>     Subject: Re: [HOT] Mali now available in Osmand, any more needed?
>     Message-ID: <kiad4h$5g5$1 at ger.gmane.org <mailto:1 at ger.gmane.org>>
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>
>     Hi Severin
>
>     Didn't had time to work on this, bunch of deadlines at work so had to
>     put aside everything else. Will try to do it in next few days.
>     Sorry
>
>     Regards,
>     Hrvoje
>
>     On 03/13/2013 11:46 PM, Severin MENARD wrote:
>      > Dear Hrvoje,
>      >
>      > Thanks for the proposition to create new offline data downloads for
>      > OsmAnd. I would suggest to also add Kenya, Chad and Burundi, as we
>      > deployed there through the DG ECHO funded Eurosha project
>      > (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0) and trained a
>     lot of
>      > organizations of different kinds (local authorities, gov, UN, Ngos,
>      > academics, OS community, civil society...) on OSM. The people
>     having a
>      > smartphone there would really like to have the OsmAnd data for their
>      > country that I could show them on my device, but 343 Mo for all
>     Africa
>      > is quite huge for them to download considering the connection
>     there is
>      > often slow. Tomorrow is even a large feedbackl presentation in
>     front of
>      > 100-200 stakeholders here in N'Djamena, then 2 days of open source
>      > softs, and a lot of techy people would really like have OSM data on
>      > their Android smartphone.
>      >
>      > Sincerely,
>      >
>      >
>      > Severin
>
>