[Talk-ug] Uganda Bureau Of Statistics Education facilities import

[Rafael Avila Coya]

Hi list:

The Uganda Bureau Of Statistics (UBOS) [1] has released two datasets,
one with 24,587 education facilities (nodes), and a second one with
3,667 health facilities (nodes), for import into OpenStreetMap [2]. HOT
[3] is willing to help importing those datasets into OpenStreetMap.

The idea would be to manually import those nodes through the HOT Tasking
Manager [4], in a similar way as it's been done many times already in
different areas of the world, the first being several UNICEF datasets
for Central African Republic back in 2012 [5].

As both datasets are different, the two imports would be independent of
each other. So in this email we ask for comments about the education
facilities import.

An import wiki has been produced [6], that can of course be modified
during the discussion process. Another more practical wiki will be
written these days explaining the import workflow that every volunteer
will have to follow. See this one (health facilities in Borno State,
Nigeria) as an example: [7]

One remark: 24,587 nodes is a very big number, so I would suggest that
in this case we skip tracing the access highways for each facility, as
that would make the process very lengthy. Those access roads (and also
the facilities buildings) could (optionally) be traced after the import,
using the OSM regular account (imports have to be done using a dedicated
OSM account). The already mentioned wiki and hackpad still include the
mapping of access ways and facilities buildings, but that can be eliminated.

Once we get a consensus, we would proceed to the imports list as the
last step before starting the import.

I've CC'ed Paul Uithol who is coordinating the whole job, and Tyler
Radford, HOT's Executive Director.

Cheers,

Rafael Avila Coya (OSM user: edvac).

[1] http://www.ubos.org
[2]
https://hackpad.com/Uganda-Bureau-of-Statistics-Health-and-Education-facilities-import-hjoRNhGzDjj
[3] https://hotosm.org
[4] https://tasks.hotosm.org
[5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_CAR_UNICEF_workflow
[6]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda/Import_Uganda_Bureau_Of_Statistics_Education_Facilities
[7]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Nigeria_eHealth_Borno_Health_Facilities_Workflow