[OSM-talk] Roads/Rails Shapefile Import for Tanzania, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda

[Robert Soden]

Hello,

Over the last few months, I've been in contact with FAO's Africover
program: http://www.africover.org/ .  Africover maintains shapefiles
containing rivers, roads, towns, and admin boundaries for a number of
countries that we would like add to the OSM dataset.  While they
normally do not release data under an OSM-acceptable license, they have
granted us permission to add their data to Open Street Map.

Over the next few weeks, we will be working on importing data for
Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda.  We'll be working slowly in
order to ensure accuracy and integrity of the OSM dataset.   Please feel
free to get in touch if you are interested in learning more about our
progress, but we will also be posting status reports on the project wiki
pages.

Africover also maintains datasets for
Burundi, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan.  We may work on
these over the longer-term, and would be happy to collaborate with other
folks on this.

Cheers,
Robert Soden
robert at developmentseed.org
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