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

[Severin MENARD]

Hi Hrvoye,

Thank you very much for the proposition to add all the African countries
once for all. I did not find the time to find poly files so far and
actually I would like to ask the HOT community if someone knows such files
already exist somewhere, rather than creating new ones from scratch.

Sincerely,

Severin


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Hrvoje Bogner <hbogner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<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<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<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>>
>>
>>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>>     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<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
>>
>>
>>
>
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