[HOT] West Africa Ebola Activation : follow-up

[Rafael Avila Coya]

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Hi, Pierre:

I wonder if you thought about replacing the names on the residential
polygons by a node in their centroid automatically using a script.

I created one for a similar task: the import of place names for
several states in North Nigeria, still a work in progress [1]. For that, I
wrote a script that extracts the names of the places and creates an
osm file with the nodes.

If needed, I can tweak the code to make one for this ebola task.

Cheers,

Rafael.

[1]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Nigeria_eHealth_Africa_Places

On 03/09/14 06:45, Pierre Béland wrote:
> From march to sept. 1,  there are 1,201 OSM contributors who
> edited 6.7 million objects for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
> But reading the news, you understand that we cannot stop there. 
> Humanitarian organizations are operating in a very difficult 
> context and count on our support. We receive constantly messages
> of gratitude, people saying how useful is this information for
> them plus all the export services provided.
> 
> Plus a vast plan of support by the various UN Agencies is presently
> organized. Andrew Buck and I ha today a meeting with GIS staff from
> World Health Organization (WHO), Office for the Coordination of
> Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World food program (WFP). After
> looking at the various possibilities, it has been proposed to use
> OpenStreetMap for the base map of the various agencies.
> 
> In this context, it will be important to revise / complete both 
> administrative boundaries and populated places.
> 
> To plan their intervention, the humanitarian organizations need 
> administrative boundaries at various levels of administration and 
> the Populated place names. We have already revised the  the 
> counties and added district boundaries for the Liberia and are 
> looking at the other countries.
> 
> If any of you have contacts in Sierra Leone or Guinea to try obtain
> administrative boundary files with the appropriate license for OSM,
> this would greatly help.
> 
> For the populated places, we agreed to move any place name which
> is on a residential polygon to a node. This will simplify the 
> synchronization with the databases of our various partners. We are 
> also looking at adding a pcode like we did for Haii in 2010. There 
> are 4,500 place tags on residential polygons to be converted to 
> nodes.
> 
> Plus there are two Task Manager jobs still to be completed to 
> import place names for Liberia and Sierra Leone. These two tasks 
> needs some care and we are asking again for contributors familiar 
> enough with JOSM to contact either me or Andrew. Since these are 
> private jobs restricted to a few persons, you need to provide us 
> you OpenStreetMap account. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/617 
> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/619
> 
> Blake Girardot can also help people to learn this process.
> 
> For those that prefer to do general mapping, digitizing from Bing 
> Imagery, look at the task for Eastern Liberia counties. As the 
> epidemy is still progressing, we will also add task for the 
> north-east Nimba county. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/624
> 
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 
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