[Imports] Import of 14, 020 United Nations Mission in Liberia place nodes
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Sat Sep 13 15:10:03 UTC 2014
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Rafael,
On 09/13/2014 08:19 AM, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
> The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has received the
> permission to import 14,020 place nodes of the United Nations
> Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to OSM. This import will greatly help
> the humanitarian organizations working in the field to control the
> spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. They need these data
> quite urgently.
An import into OpenStreetMap is something that needs to be carefully
planned and executed with diligence. If there is the slightest
indication that a slow import might endanger even a single human being
then I *strongly* suggest that you devise an alternative way to get
this data out to humanitarian organizations, and not rely on
OpenStreetMap as a publishing mechanism.
My guess is that initial discussion of the proposal will take two
weeks at the very least, perhaps up to four. Carefully checking and
conflating a node will likely take a minute even for the most
experienced mapper, meaning that once you begin, you'll need about 240
person-hours (or, assuming an 8-hour working day, 30 person-days)
until the import is complete.
If you have this time and are willing to invest it - good, go ahead.
If you can foresee that you will be forced to take shortcuts because
the data is required urgently, then cut out OSM and publish the data
directly for those in need of it.
Bye
Frederik
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