[Imports] Uganda Bureau of Statistics educational facilities import

Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo459 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 14:42:30 UTC 2016


Hi,

Very long discussion here. Glad I was able to follow. I've copied Ugandan
OSMer Geoffrey of Mapping Day Uganda[1] guess you might be interested in
this.

Am interested in volunteering for this import.

Best,

1. http://www.mappingday.com

- Enock
UMaT, Tarkwa
enockseth.github.io

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing what I did in these 2 edits:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3925002632/history
>
> would make the import a whole lot slower, as it would entail a lot more
> research (and fiddling with Wikidata), but it would also make the data even
> more useful.
>
> If it were me, I'd add Wikidata items for each of these schools. I can
> write a script that would make the process easier. I'm not sure about
> license issues though. If I drag a node over Bing imagery and upload it to
> Openstreetmap. Can I use those coordinates on Wikidata if I mention the
> source properly? Or are they already ODBL and therefore incompatible. That
> would be really annoying. It would mean I have to make sure to add the
> coordinates to Wikidata first, and only after doing that upload to
> Openstreetmap, but I want to mention the source on Wikidata, so I need a
> reference url to the OSM object...
>
> I think, at least for the schools with WP articles, it makes sense to do
> this. For the others I think it makes sense as well, but it's a lot more
> work. They would all get identifiers that way, which may make later
> conflation easier.
>
> Jo
>
>
>
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