[HOT] Help wanted with xml files.... (Congo mapping)

Pete Masters pedrito1414 at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 27 09:19:17 UTC 2016


A big thanks to Thomas and Laurent for helping me out with this, and to
everyone else who made a suggestion.

HOT rules.

Pete

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Laurent Savaƫte <laurent at where.tf> wrote:

> Hi Pete,
> Happy to give a hand. A few lines of python should do the trick.
> If nobody else has volunteered yet, just email me the files and what you
> need exactly, and I'll get to it right away.
>
> Cheers,
> Laurent
>
>
> On June 24, 2016 9:54:55 PM GMT+06:30, Pete Masters <
> pedrito1414 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, hope you are well...
>>
>> A Congolese water and sanitation guy from MSF in Lubumbashi has been
>> doing a load of mapping using ODK Collect. He was one of the trainees when
>> Bruno and I did data collection training in Lubumbashi in January and I
>> have only just found out he continued with collecting data! This is great
>> news, but we have a problem.
>>
>> While he was collecting the data, the formhub server we were using got
>> hacked. Consequently, I instructed him how to manually back up the
>> completed ODK surveys on to a laptop. So, I now have them - 64 xml files in
>> 64 separate folders.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with merging these xmls and converting them to a
>> spreadsheet or similar? To do it manually is going to take sooooo long....
>>
>> Be great to get them into a format that we could then do the OSM mapping
>> from.... The surveys were of roads, waterpoints and points of interest.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete
>>
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>>
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