[HOT] MSF data shred to OSM
John Whelan
jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 21:54:36 UTC 2021
An alternative way of working might be to map in OSM first then share to
MSF. You are aware you can create files for OSMAND without creating
something in OSM first?
Cheerio John
Roxana NAZARIE wrote on 8/6/2021 7:49 AM:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I’m writing to you concerning the best way for MSF and for OSM
> community to share MSF data to OSM.
>
> As MSF is a high consumer of volunteered geographic information as
> well as GIS data shared on different humanitarian platforms, we’ve
> been working lately on defining an internal Data Sharing Policy for
> what we call “non-sensitive geospatial data”, so that at our turn we
> share the data we collect/produce with the geospatial community. The
> “non-sensitive geospatial data” refers to Populatedplaces, Roads,
> Buildings with no classification, Bridges, Water surfaces and Water
> points. Eventhough a dataset coming from a field mission might be
> considered at a first sight a “non-sensitive geospatial data”, before
> sharing it to OSM we need to have the local mission approval – which
> is an .xls file that we keep internally.
>
> Last year we had a rush request from the field to upload to OSM a
> dataset with buildings extracted from imagery (by one of our units),
> so that the GIS Officer in the field could see them as background in
> OsmAnd, and thus ease the data collection in the field in the context
> of a Mosquito indoor spraying campaign - instead of having to manually
> upload the dataset on each mobile device. In the end the project was
> cancelled in the field, but we wanted to pursue with the data sharing,
> and we launched an import process. We realized soon that passing
> through all the steps of an import (especially the Community buy-in,
> Wiki page and the Import review) is a time consuming process, and it
> doesn’t prove at all to be as operational as we would need in a rush
> context.
>
> Our conclusion was that for us it would be *more straightforward to
> share data as an edit process*, with the help of advanced editors.
>
> The approach we would like to have is:
>
> -Have the mission approval for the datasets we want to share
>
> -Check the data we want to share against the existing OSM data
>
> -Do the necessary geometry corrections
>
> -Convert the GIS attributes to osm tags
>
> -Generate the .osm files
>
> -Add them in JOSM > edit accordingly > Push the data to OSM (using
> individual accounts, and source data as “MSF”, or using an MSF account)
>
> This process can take 2-3 days max, instead of an import process which
> might take at least 1-2 weeks.
>
> We have now on-pending to share data for Nigeria, Madagascar and
> Sudan. It would be very helpful to define the best way to do it so
> that the process is clear and straightforward for everyone involved.
>
> Many thanks for your advice,
>
> Roxana
>
> Roxana Nazarie
>
> *GIS Data Manager | GIS Centre*
>
> Médecins Sans Frontières
>
> Email: roxana.nazarie at geneva.msf.org
> <mailto:roxana.nazarie at geneva.msf.org> | Web:https://geo.msf.org/home
>
>
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