[Talk-africa] Northern Zambia data import

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hi Lauren,

Thanks for the notification and looking forward to it.

Best,

- Enock
UMaT, Tarkwa
enockseth.github.io

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Lauren Jacobson <lauren at developmentseed.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to introduce myself and propose a new import in northern Zambia to
> the mailing list, and open up it up for feedback. My name is Lauren
> Jacobson and I am a Developer at Development Seed in Washington, DC.
>
> Over the past couple of years, Akros Global Health collected the locations
> of over 268,000 buildings in Zambia through their mSpray indoor malaria
> prevention program. We at Development Seed have been working with Akros and
> USAID to process the data, and prepare it for import into OSM. This import
> will add a significant amount of data to OSM in northern Zambia.
>
> We've done the initial work to prep the data, check with existing data in
> OSM, and outline our workflow for how we'll conduct the import. Until now
> we've been working with the small group of collaborators at Akros, USAID,
> Ona, and Development Seed. We want circulate the proposal and plan to get
> additional feedback before we conduct the import.
>
> *Import Plan*
>
> The plan is to have the import conducted by the Development Seed team. We
> identified no overlaps with existing buildings or roads in OSM and plan to
> conduct the import via JOSM. Our full plan is outlined in the wiki.
>
>   - Proposal and plan:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Northern_Zambia_Buildings_Import
>   - Issues, code, and data:
> https://github.com/developmentseed/zambia-buildings-import
>
> We would appreciate any feedback before we conduct the import. Please feel
> free to contact me or open an issue on Github if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
> Lauren
>
> --
>
> Lauren Jacobson
> Development Seed
> @lauren_cjay
>
>
>
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