[Talk-do] help needed with some Dom Rep OSM data

[Ed Freyfogle]

thanks for your help Yacine,I appreciate it. I have found a volunteer to go
forward with the project

2016-12-19 21:04 GMT+01:00 Yacine Khelladi <yacine at yacine.net>:

>
> Hi
> Would the ONE administrative boundiaries shape files help? I think I have
> them somewhere as part of theDR DevCa's hackaton sources.
> Yacine
>
>
> Ed Freyfogle wrote on 19-Dec-16 12:10 PM:
>
>> Hola,
>>
>> apologies I do not really speak much Spanish so I will have to write in
>> English.
>> I am looking to pay someone to help me add / clean up some data to OSM in
>> Dominican Republic
>>
>> My name is Ed, OSM id 'freyfogle'
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/freyfogle
>>
>> I have a client who would like me to build him a geocoder for Dominican
>> Republic, but the data in OSM is not great. Specifically I see all 31
>> provinces
>> + 1 national district are in OSM with boundaries.
>>
>> An example if Barahona
>> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=159675971
>>
>> but the next level down there is not much. Cities, villages, towns are
>> all just
>> nodes with admin level 15 (and thus no boundaries).
>>
>> - does boundary data exist and can it be added to OSM?
>> - is anyone on this list interested in helping us with this project?
>>
>> We do not have a massive budget, but happy to spend it on local expert
>> help.
>> Please contact me if you are able to help us and I will go into more
>> detail
>>
>> many thanks for your attention
>> Ed
>>
>> - separately from that, would anyone be interested in doing an interview
>> on our
>> blog about the OSM community in Dominican Republic?
>>
>> Here's an example interview we did about Cuba:
>> http://blog.opencagedata.com/post/144469399468/country-profi
>> le-openstreetmap-in-cuba
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