[HOT] Fwd: Request to add Central African Republic among the available countries in OSMAND
Harry Wood
mail at harrywood.co.uk
Sun Sep 29 00:16:47 UTC 2013
I had a little foray into QGIS just now to see if I could do this. Starting from naturalearth boundaries data
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
I used QGIS to do a buffer and simplify, saving back to shapefile. That then opens into JOSM quite nicely using the "OpenData" plugin.
Saved to .osm it looks like this:
http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.osm.zip
(buffers looking good)
I tried saving it to .poly using the 'poly' plugin
http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.poly
...but that's all the polygons munged together. What's needed is separate files named by country
So almost there, but do we need to manually go through the country ways/relations one by one splitting them to layers in JOSM then saving them separate poly files? Probably wouldn't take that long actually, but a bit tedious
Harry
________________________________
From: Severin MENARD <severin.menard at gmail.com>
To: Dan S <danstowell+osm at gmail.com>
Cc: Hrvoje Bogner <hbogner at gmail.com>; "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Saturday, 28 September 2013, 13:39
Subject: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Request to add Central African Republic among the available countries in OSMAND
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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