[Talk-ug] Proposed Import of 4381 Huts in Northern Uganda

Jonny Huck jonnyhuck at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 20:02:09 UTC 2018


Hello all,

This is my first attempt at a bulk import to OSM.

A MSc student in the Mapping: Culture and GIScience Research Group
<https://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/research/groups/mcgis/> at the
University of Manchester has manually digitised a set of *4,381* huts in
northern Uganda as part of a machine learning project to help us to
identify huts (this was the training set). We would like to donate this
dataset to OSM, and if approved will likely do so via JOSM - I will
undertake this work myself. The dataset is currently a shapefile.

The dataset was manually digitised from a imagery donated by Digital Globe
<https://www.digitalglobe.com/> * because* there was no OSM content in the
area covered by the imagery, meaning that there should be no conflation /
duplication issues.

We are trying to improve the map in northern Uganda as part of our work to
provide prosthetic limbs to victims of Major Limb Loss (MLL) following the
1986-2005 conflict with the LRA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army>, and have
held a series
of mapathons in support of this <http://huckathon.org/>.
The Wiki Page for the import (currently just containing the above
information) is located here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Northern_Uganda_Huts_Import

If you have any comments or require any further information, please do let
me know.

Thanks very much,

-- 
Dr Jonny Huck
Lecturer in Geographical Information Science
Mapping: Culture and GIScience Research Group
Department of Geography
The University of Manchester (UK)
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