[Talk-ug] Uganda Bureau Of Statistics Education facilities import
Douglas Ssebaggala
douglas at mappingday.com
Mon Jan 4 20:59:40 UTC 2016
Hi Rafael,
Sorry for the sloppy response: partly because some of the Ugandan
(local) OSM community members get extended breaks over the festive
season in December.
It's quite an elaborated process, thanks for the effort. I think it's
a possible great idea to have the OSM Community in Kampala take part
in this.
we might perhaps plan a series of sessions in Kampala to trace some of
the educational facilities' nodes, maybe with the involvement/guidance
of members from UBOS and the Ministry of Education to spice-up the
process, aiming for sustainability.
I will contact some of the above parties and get back to you as soon
as there's a response, but We should also have more responses from
other community members in the next couple of days.
Thanks.
Quoting Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com>:
> Hi, Geoffrey:
>
> I will start from the end:
>
> It's not only useful to get the local OSM community involved; it's the
> most important.
>
> What I mean is that it will always be much better to rely on local
> people with local knowledge than in a Spanish guy like me who, although
> trying to do my best, I've never been in Uganda before (although I have
> been in quite a number of African countries, similar to Uganda, and
> mapped a lot in many other). I'd wish to visit Uganda soon, by the way ;)
>
> Yes. Educational facilities in big cities like Kampala are very
> difficult to double check against imagery. It would be really nice if
> mappers from Kampala would like to check the UBOS nodes inside Kampala,
> so we can import most of the nodes there, and with the highest quality.
> In that case, we could even divide the import, leaving the Kampala nodes
> for local mappers to import and check on the ground. Everything is possible!
>
> Normally, in previous similar imports, we asked for school road access
> tracing, for adding facilities buildings and to add the village name if
> not present. But this time the number of nodes is very big (24,587), so
> I thought it would be better to first focus only in importing the nodes,
> and then, afterwards, add more info. Road access and buildings is one
> type, but using the school info to add village names to the map will be
> a very important step forward, specially for those "black" areas of the
> map that you talk about.
>
> The quality of the health facilities is not good enough in what respect
> to geolocation, so we will need a different approach to get the most of
> that dataset.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rafael.
>
> On 03/01/16 16:03, Geoffrey Kateregga wrote:
>> Hi Rafael,
>>
>> It is good news that UBOS has released such a huge set of data for
>> OpenStreetMap, a similar kind of task was done before here [1] and it
>> shows continued commitment by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics to open up
>> its data. A lot of places are still black on the map and adding schools
>> and health centers will be a huge step forward to make the map more
>> detailed especially after adding access roads and names of places.
>>
>> About the education facilities import, I think it will be easy to
>> correct location of nodes for schools in remote areas but it may be a
>> little bit tricky for schools in urban centers as some are very small to
>> be easily identified using aerial imagery.
>>
>> It will also be useful to get volunteers from the local OSM community to
>> contribute when the tasks are activated, the local knowledge we have in
>> districts where we come from will be very useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geoffrey.
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Uganda_Import
>>
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>> 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
>>
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