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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m writing to you concerning the best way for MSF and for OSM community to share MSF data to OSM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Populated</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> places,
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Roads, Buildings with no classification, Bridges, Water surfaces
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">and </span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Water points. Eventhough a dataset coming from a field mission might be considered at a first sight a
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“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.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our conclusion was that for us it would be
<b>more straightforward to share data as an edit process</b>, with the help of advanced editors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The approach we would like to have is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Have the mission approval for the datasets we want to share</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Check the data we want to share against the existing OSM data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Do the necessary geometry corrections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Convert the GIS attributes to osm tags<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Generate the .osm files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Add them in JOSM > edit accordingly > Push the data to OSM (using individual accounts, and source data as “MSF”, or using an MSF account)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This process can take 2-3 days max, instead of an import process which might take at least 1-2 weeks.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Many thanks for your advice,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Roxana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Roxana Nazarie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR">GIS Data Manager | GIS Centre</span></b><span lang="FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Médecins Sans Frontières</span><span lang="FR-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:black">Email</span><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D">: </span><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="mailto:roxana.nazarie@geneva.msf.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">roxana.nazarie@geneva.msf.org</span></a>
<span style="color:#1F497D">| </span><span style="color:black">Web:</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></span><a href="https://geo.msf.org/home"><span lang="FR-CH" style="color:#0563C1">https://geo.msf.org/home</span></a>
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