Hi all, I'll write a blog post about this early next week, but I wanted to give you all a heads up in advance.
It's great to see that people have been putting time in to the jobs on the Tasking Manager. It's amazing how quickly people are completing the areas that have been put up. Thanks again to everyone that's been taking part. And, of course, I've added three more tasks to the manager :^) The second part of our activation is now also in progress (or will be soon, at least), that is the georeferencing of place names provided by UN OCHA. These names were originally sourced from census data, but cannot be found on a map; which is what we've been asked to help with. I've taken the original file and split it into more manageable chunks: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B2vyPA1RC5ZULW9ZcDNDWnhJcXc/edit?usp=sharing Now we need to work out how best to georeference these. An initial thought I had is that many of these places may already exist in OSM; I was planning to grep through a database extract and see how much matches already, but don't have a suitable extract to work with. An extract is certainly on the to-do list. This is also an area that we could use help with from Arabic speakers or the Syrian diaspora. We're having various conversations with people about this, but if anyone has any ideas on how to progress with this side of the project, please let us know. Thanks as ever and all best, Joseph
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