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

Severin MENARD severin.menard at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 16:40:56 UTC 2013 

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
The Dissolve function (Vector> Geoprocessing tools) can be used in QGIS for
this purpose I think


>
> 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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