[Talk-ug] Uganda Bureau Of Statistics Education facilities import
Rafael Avila Coya
ravilacoya at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 03:39:12 UTC 2016
Nice!
Also, this overpass query shows the UBOS edu facilities imported so far
(only nodes): http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/dXy
Cheers,
Rafael.
On 24/01/16 18:17, Jo wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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