[Talk-ug] Uganda Bureau Of Statistics Education facilities import
Jo
winfixit at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 17:17:10 UTC 2016
Hi,
Harry Wood extended his tool with a filter showing what is going on related
to mapping schools in Uganda:
http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/diffreader/schools/rankings.php?filter=uganda
Polyglot
2016-01-04 21:59 GMT+01:00 Douglas Ssebaggala <douglas at mappingday.com>:
>
> 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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>>> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:00:53 +0100
>>> From: Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com
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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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