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

Sat Sep 28 12:39:40 UTC 2013

Thanks Dan
I am just figuring out that Hrvoje actually needs boundaries with a + 1 km
buffer what needs to be done with Geodal or within QGIS.

Sincerely,

Severin

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> This site provides countries as geojson, kml etc:
> http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/areas/O02.html
>
> Dan
>
>
> 2013/9/28 Severin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>:
> > 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)
> >>>   * 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>>
> >>>
> >>>     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) 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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