[Imports] Import of Waterpoints in Tanzania

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Joachim,

I read your post and I'm dealing with a similar problem. I'm working for 
the dutch red cross and want to upload road data for Malawi. 
Unfortunately this is even more complex data because roads never overlap 
exactly and linestrings are chopped in pieces to make attribute tags 
match. (like paved/unpaved parts)

I'm thinking about dealing with just the bridges first, to start a bit 
easy. We will use some GIS tools to do the matching and selections and 
then plan to use josm to "upload".

License requirements from osm are quite high in relation to the Malawi 
government communication. So far we have a whatsapp confirmation :) but 
we are working on getting something more official. Hopefully a website.

Kind regards,
Raymond

PS Do you by any chance live in or near The Netherlands? In that case we 
might work together for a day to figure things out.


On 23-08-17 00:39, Joachim Van Edom wrote:
> Thanks for the brief reply,
> 
> *maybe the Terms and conditions of the opendata.go.tz 
> <http://opendata.go.tz> can help clarifying the terms of usage for the 
> data. http://opendata.go.tz/en/pages/kanuni-na-masharti
> 
> *as i read the wiki I am familiar with how OSM works, uploading is just 
> the term used in the wiki for it. We are working on a way to prevent 
> adding already existing waterpoints. As there are ways to extract 
> information from OSM and convert them into other data formats  it must 
> be possible to compare both data bases and delete existing waterpoints 
> from the list of the ones that we want to add. But if anybody is willing 
> to help us out on this one feel free to contact me or join 
> https://crowd2map.slack.com/
> 
> *I just saw the post on the swedish road name import with the link to 
> the wiki 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Digitransit/Helsinki_region_Swedish_road_names_import 
> this might be a good guide. I was thinking on using the ruby script to 
> convert the csv to osm. Depending on the possible tags we want to use, 
> the csv data will be altered before so only the tags wanted and accepted 
> will be used.
> 
> *Janet Chapman from https://crowd2map.wordpress.com/ is in contact with 
> the Tanzanian community / OSM Africa to clarify the needs to determine 
> what could be added.
> 
> I would be happy if someone is willing to help us out on this topic or 
> wants to contribute in whatever way possible: advise, hints or even by 
> criticizing the way we want to do this.
> 
> best regards
> Joachim
> 
> 
> 2017-08-22 23:45 GMT+02:00 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org 
> <mailto:frederik at remote.org>>:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     On 08/19/2017 01:31 PM, Joachim Van Edom wrote:
>     > the Tanzania Development trust, would like to import Waterpoint data to OSM
>     > The data is delivered by the tanzanian open governemt data
>     > http://opendata.go.tz/dataset/hali-halisi-ya-vitoa-maji-kwa-mikoa-yote-tanzania/resource/69435132-f49b-44ca-aa5b-0d4f3d068b7f
>     <http://opendata.go.tz/dataset/hali-halisi-ya-vitoa-maji-kwa-mikoa-yote-tanzania/resource/69435132-f49b-44ca-aa5b-0d4f3d068b7f>
>     > If it is OK I would do this. I will divide the data in small parts, like
>     > per Region and than upload them.
>     > Further more there are people on the ground who canvalifdate the data.
>     >
>     > Please let me know if you need more information, or if there are things
>     > to be solved before uploading the data
> 
>     It's pretty much the same bullet points as always:
> 
>     * Web site says "license not specified". This means it defaults to "all
>     rights reserved" even if the URL is "opendata.go.tz
>     <http://opendata.go.tz>" - needs to be
>     clarified.
> 
>     * You don't just "upload" such data to OSM, you integrate with what's
>     already there. You don't want to upload a water point where one exists
>     already, or where another incompatible feature exists.
> 
>     * Please explain - ideally, on a Wiki page - what tags exactly you wish
>     to create on OSM and how you will determine the contents of each.
> 
>     Bye
>     Frederik
> 
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