[Imports] Proposed import of 4381 huts in Northern Uganda

[Jonathan Huck]

Hello all,

This is my first attempt at a bulk import to OSM.

A MSc student in the Mapping: Culture and GIScience Research Group<https://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/research/groups/mcgis/> at the University of Manchester has manually digitised a set of 4,381 huts in northern Uganda as part of a machine learning project to help us to identify huts (this was the training set). We would like to donate this dataset to OSM, and if approved will likely do so via JOSM - I will undertake this work myself. The dataset is currently a shapefile.

The dataset was manually digitised from a imagery donated by Digital Globe<https://www.digitalglobe.com/>  becausethere was no OSM content in the area covered by the imagery, meaning that there should be no conflation / duplication issues.

We are trying to improve the map in northern Uganda as part of our work to provide prosthetic limbs to victims of Major Limb Loss (MLL) following the 1986-2005 conflict with the LRA<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army>, and have held a series of mapathons in support of this<http://huckathon.org/>.

The Wiki Page for the import (currently just containing the above information) is located here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Northern_Uganda_Huts_Import

If you have any comments or require any further information, please do let me know.

Thanks very much,


Thanks,

Jonny.

Dr Jonny Huck
Lecturer in Geographical Information Science
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