[Talk-ht] Mapping Request: Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Helpneeded!

Sat Feb 6 13:15:29 GMT 2010

Consider this carried out, 95% is actually imported, but there is room
for 

Improvement, as both studios and towers are all labeled "tower:
communication" for the moment, and

a lot of accents got lost in the import. There are also a few doubles.

Gert

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Van: talk-ht-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-ht-bounces at openstreetmap.org] Namens Sandra Sudhoff
Verzonden: donderdag 4 februari 2010 16:49
Aan: talk-ht at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Talk-ht] Mapping Request: Mapping Radio and TV Stations
_ Helpneeded!

Hi,

to give more details, the data is hosted in Google Spreadsheets and the
skin (+ link) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.cartong.org/Files_for_public_download/Radio%20Stations%20Hait
i.kmz 

We are of course still updating; we mapped everything we could get hold
of, but some of the stations are misplaced still and of course the
attributes (operational etc ) are updated as soon as we get news. The
list is now around about 230 stations, I do not think it will get much
bigger, but we already noticed that some stations we had initally in
there, actually ended up being the same and had just name changed etc;
so just to give you an idea that the data is still in flow.

Let me know the best way how to feed the data to you, I can export as
CSV, which will be static then, though, but it butchers up the encoding
when I do that; unless anyone can give me a pointer how to avoid to do
that? Best of course would be if there could be feeding from the kml.

Cheers

Sandra

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_maron at yahoo.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:18 AM
	To: Sandra Sudhoff; talk-ht at openstreetmap.org
	Subject: Mapping Request: Mapping Radio and TV Stations _ Help
needed!

	We've gotten confirmation from Sandra that we can import radio
and tv station locations into OSM.
	Need to coordinate with Sandra to import the data, and keep it
up to date and their db is updated.
	Can anyone stand up for this?

	Thanks
	Mikel

	== Mikel Maron ==
	http://mapkibera.org/
	+254 (0) 724899738
	mikel at osmfoundation.org 

	----- Forwarded Message ----
	From: Sandra Sudhoff <s_sudhoff at cartong.org>
	To: David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>; Jeffrey Ollie
<jeff at ocjtech.us>
	Cc: karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch; Mikel Maron
<mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
	Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 10:37:41 AM
	Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping
Radio and TV Stations _ Help needed!]]

	Guys,

	IMS told me to go ahead and share the data, let me know what the
best
	way is, especially as it is still in the process of being
updated.
	We host it in Google Spreadsheet.

	Cheers
	Sandra

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Sandra Sudhoff [mailto:s_sudhoff at cartong.org] 
	Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:57 AM
	To: 'David Fawcett'; 'Jeffrey Ollie'
	Cc: 'karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch'; 'Mikel Maron'
	Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping
Radio and TV
	Stations _ Help needed!]]

	Sorry guys, 

	I have not forgotten about your request to integrate the data to
OSM. I
	have re-send the request to autorise to Internews but have not
received
	a response so far. However, as I have been informed by IMS, the
	organisation we compile the data for who are on the ground by
now, there
	will be a meeting with the mappers + internews on the ground;
therefore
	I hope I have a response soon.

	The good side of this, I have sent all questionable positions
(many, as
	the Geocoding in the country side is not as advanced as in PaP)
to IMS
	in the field and hope that while waiting for internews response
we can
	clean up/adjust our positional errors. 

	Thank you for your patience.

	Regards
	Sandra

	-----Original Message-----
	From: David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawcett at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:50 PM
	To: Jeffrey Ollie
	Cc: karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch; Sandra Sudhoff;
talk at openstreetmap.org
	Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Fwd: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Mapping
Radio and TV
	Stations _ Help needed!]]

	Towers are also present in many of the unclassified DMA maps
too.

	On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jeffrey Ollie
<jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
	> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Karl Guggisberg 
	> <karl.guggisberg at guggis.ch> wrote:
	>>
	>> Be careful with this list, we don't have the OK to import it
into the

	>> OSM database yet. Sandra is currently investigating.
	>
	> In the case of radio & TV stations, are we looking for the
locations 
	> of the transmitters or the locations of the studios?  Finding 
	> transmitters isn't that hard for remote mappers if you have
good 
	> enough satellite imagery but finding the studios would be
difficult.
	>
	> Also, in the future can we find a format that will be easier
for 
	> people that don't have Google Earth to use?
	>
	> --
	> Jeff Ollie
	>
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