[HOT] WRI forest tracks import in Congo Basin

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Sorry:

On my last email, [4] = https://flic.kr/p/r8D1xD

Rafael.

On 10/02/15 22:06, Jorieke Vyncke wrote:
> Hi Rafael, John,
> 
> We got this data opened during the Eurosha project after a nice 
> collaboration with Pascal Douard of the WRI.
> 
> For CAR we decided to set up a TM immediatly because indeed there
> is no local community and it is some of the few existing data for
> that country. For Cameroon we let this to the local OSM community
> to decide what to do with it, because the quality of the data is
> not that tremendous and there is already a lot of data on osm.
> 
> Altough the workflow on the wiki is maybe a little bit outdated,
> all info should be in there. But for more info you of course can
> ask.
> 
> Best greetings,
> 
> Jorieke
> 
> Op 9-feb.-2015 19:31 schreef "Rafael Avila Coya"
> <ravilacoya at gmail.com <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com>>:
> 
> Hi, John:
> 
> On 09/02/15 17:33, john whelan wrote:
>> Just a comment having done a fair bit of HOT mapping in Cameroon 
>> I'm quite interested in this project.  However my written French
>> is a little rusty and in some ways I feel a bit isolated from the
>> OSM mappers in Cameroon and a few mappers on the ground to tag
>> would help enormously.
> 
> I will contact the Cameroon OSM community for this.
> 
>> Also a few GPS traces on the majors roads would help.  Most
>> roads are fine but cloud cover meant that there are gaps to say
>> the least.
> 
> GPS traces will definitely help. In Gabon Digital Globe lowres
> imagery is misaligned by easily 200 m. Interesting too, we have now
> Mapbox images in some areas, with no clouds in areas where bing
> has.
> 
> 
>> I note that there are a number of existing roads in OSM that
>> look like imports that did not seem to align with the high
>> resolution satellite imagery.
> 
> I noted them too. Some are from WRI, maybe imported from before
> the imports guidelines.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rafael.
> 
> 
>> Cheerio John
> 
>> On 9 February 2015 at 10:32, Rafael Avila Coya 
>> <ravilacoya at gmail.com <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com>
> <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com <mailto:ravilacoya at gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list:
> 
>> This is a call for comments on an import of WRI data for 6 
>> countries in the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea,
>> Central African Rep. (CAR), Gabon, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) and
>> Republic of Congo). It seems that only Cameroon and, maybe, DRC
>> have a local community, so that's why I ask for advice here
>> before going to the imports list. This same email will be sent to
>> talk-cm and talk-cm (Cameroon), talk-cd (DRC) and talk-cf (CAR),
>> so sorry for duplicities.
> 
>> All import is explained in a wiki [1] (with links to the
>> original files, importing files and scripts), and the actual
>> (manual) import workflow explained in another wiki [2].
> 
>> Import will be done using one HOT TM job for each country, and
>> will be validated afterwards by a group of volunteers, who will
>> add more tracks and other (yet to be decided) features.
> 
>> Any feedback is highly welcome.
> 
>> Cheers,
> 
>> Rafael.
> 
>> [1]
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads
>
> 
> 
> [2]
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_WRI_Congo_Basin_Forestry_Roads_Workflow
>
> 
> 
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