[HOT] Protecting girls at risk of FGM in Tanzania by mapping their villages - International Womens' Day event

[Gertrude Hope]

Hi Jô and Polygot,

Wow this is really brilliant! I am inspired and will definitely try it out.
The method really makes work easy.

Gertrude
On Mar 7, 2016 10:38 PM, "Jo" <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, to make things easier I added another column to that spreadsheet. It
> contains a formula and with a bit of hocus pocus this becomes a clickable
> link.
>
> Now if you have JOSM running AND remote control is enabled AND an edit
> layer is open, a node will appear near a school in Tanzania, like magic.
> That node has all the tags, that are present in the spreadsheet. The names
> of the region, ward and district are converted from ALL CAPS to Init Caps.
> I'm wondering if it would make sense to also add addr:country=TZ.
>
> There are 14769 schools in that spreadsheet though, so Blake is right when
> he says a page needs to be created to describe this import, which is what
> it is, of course. The first question will, of course be: what is the source
> of this data? Is that source compatible with OSM's license? Or did we get
> explicit permission to import this data? If we didn't then we have the risk
> that all our hard labour gets redacted (removed) from the database once
> again.
>
> A succesful import of 24000 schools is happening in Uganda. It took
> several weeks to get it approved and we're almost done with it now. This is
> because a dedicated team worked on them though. It takes a while to get up
> to speed, as it's quite different from what we usually do, and you are
> supposed to use a dedicated import account username_import.
>
> Polyglot
>
> 2016-03-07 15:26 GMT+01:00 Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>:
>
>> This is a valuable project to support. Is it possible to add a source for
>> the data in the spreadsheet?
>>
>>
>>
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