[HOT] mapping mines

[Chad Blevins]

Hi Joost,

I wanted to flag the MAAP project <http://maaproject.org/en/>, that
actively monitors deforestation in the Amazon.  Many reports focus on
illegal mining <http://maaproject.org/en/?s=mining>.

Thanks,
Chad

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Anders Pedersen <
apedersen at resourcegovernance.org> wrote:

> Hi Joost, Russell, all,
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> At Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) we track, collect and
> structure data on mining contracts (resourcecontracts.org) and projects (
> resourceprojects.org). We are also interested in improving the public
> domain access to accurate lat/longs on mines (happy to discuss further) and
> would also be interested in providing input on OSM tagging if useful.
>
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> In the meantime one relatively rich public domain dataset on mine
> locations in Africa is this from the World Bank: https://energydata.info/
> dataset/africa-powermining-projects-database
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>
>
> Best,
> Anders
>
>
>
> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:41 AM
> *To:* Russell Deffner <russell.deffner at hotosm.org>
> *Cc:* HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] mapping mines
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> Sorry for that lack of clarity! They are working on the impacts of
> industrial scale (usually foreign owned) resource mining on local
> communities.
>
> The basic tagging is there, but tags like tailings (apparently that's a
> word especially meant for mine waste) are undocumented and we had a hard
> time finding a proper tag for end of cycle operations (we used a lifecycle
> prefix for now, but that doesn't seem entirely fitting)
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> Op 21 feb. 2018 3:02 a.m. schreef <russell.deffner at hotosm.org>:
>
> Hi Joost,
>
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>
> Do you mean mines, like landmines, or mining for gold kind of mine?  I
> know CartONG where doing de-mining (landmine kind) Mapswipe projects if
> that’s the kind you’re talking.  Don’t know of anyone mapping mining
> operations for resources kind of mining.
>
>
>
> =Russ
>
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> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM
> *To:* HOT <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* [HOT] mapping mines
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
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>
> I was just in contact with an organisation that might be interested in
> mapping mines in the South in OSM, particularly in conflict areas. Are
> there any exisiting efforts I should be aware of?
>
> We were a bit frustrated by the lack of depth of the (documented) tagging,
> it would be interesting to get some experts on the subject to look at how
> we can improve this.
>
>
>
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