On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
> I had a little foray into QGIS just now to see if I could do > this. Starting from naturalearth boundaries data > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/ > I used QGIS to do a buffer and simplify, saving back to shapefile. That > then opens into JOSM quite nicely using the "OpenData" plugin. > Saved to .osm it looks like this: > > http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.osm.zip > (buffers looking good) > I tried saving it to .poly using the 'poly' plugin > > http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.poly > ...but that's all the polygons munged together. What's needed is separate > files named by country > The Dissolve function (Vector> Geoprocessing tools) can be used in QGIS for this purpose I think > > So almost there, but do we need to manually go through the country > ways/relations one by one splitting them to layers in JOSM then saving them > separate poly files? Probably wouldn't take that long actually, but a bit > tedious > > Harry > > ________________________________ > From: Severin MENARD <severin.men...@gmail.com> > To: Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> > Cc: Hrvoje Bogner <hbog...@gmail.com>; "hot@openstreetmap.org" < > hot@openstreetmap.org> > Sent: Saturday, 28 September 2013, 13:39 > Subject: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Request to add Central African Republic among the > available countries in OSMAND > > > > Thanks Dan > I am just figuring out that Hrvoje actually needs boundaries with a + 1 km > buffer what needs to be done with Geodal or within QGIS. > > > Sincerely, > > Severin > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Dan S <danstowell+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi - > > > >This site provides countries as geojson, kml etc: > >http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/areas/O02.html > > > >Dan > > > > > >2013/9/28 Severin MENARD <severin.men...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Hi Hrvoye, > >> > >> Thank you very much for the proposition to add all the African countries > >> once for all. I did not find the time to find poly files so far and > actually > >> I would like to ask the HOT community if someone knows such files > already > >> exist somewhere, rather than creating new ones from scratch. > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> > >> Severin > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Hrvoje Bogner <hbog...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Severin > >>> > >>> I received your mail while on vacation, when I got back there were a > lot > >>> of things to do at work and in private life so this mail slipped down > in the > >>> list. > >>> At a quick glance some of the countries are already available through > >>> application. > >>> My plan is to get OSMAND to include ALL of the countries in the world. > >>> Africa was the starting point because it had only few of them > available. > >>> I can add the missing ones as soon as i get some free time to create > >>> appropriate boundary. > >>> OSMAND team asked not to create to much overlap with countries so I use > >>> max 1km offset from country border and simplify it as much as possible. > >>> > >>> If you want you can help and create *.poly files for missing countries. > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> Hrvoje > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 12.08.2013 00:57, Severin MENARD wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Dear Hrvoje, > >>>> > >>>> Thank you very much for having added Mali, Chad and Burundi to the > list > >>>> of countries to download in OSMAND. > >>>> Would it be possible to add a few African countries again? > >>>> > >>>> * Sudan, where Khartoum is currently hit by large floods > >>>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Sudan_floods) > >>>> * Central African Republic where the situation, if not broadcasted > is > >>>> > >>>> becoming totally dramatic. We have a request from MSF Spain (cced) > >>>> that would make a great use of it in the field. The crisis in > >>>> Central African Republic is not mediatised at all, but the > >>>> population is facing some real issues, including hunger now (see > >>>> this article > >>>> > >>>> < > http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/07/09/la-penurie-alimentaire-menace-la-centrafrique_3445128_3212.html > > > >>>> > >>>> from Le Monde that you can easily read with an online translation) > >>>> * Togo, where we have an ongoing field mission, as part of the EOF > >>>> project > >>>> <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/espace_osm_francophone_0> > >>>> * Cameroon, where a very dynamic community is working > >>>> * Malawi, where the mapping possibilities could rise soon > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Beyond this, it would be great if all the African countries could be > >>>> added in the future. > >>>> If ever we can help eg by providing the boundaries in any format, > please > >>>> just ask. > >>>> > >>>> Sincerely, > >>>> > >>>> Severin > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Message: 3 > >>>> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:09:09 +0100 > >>>> From: hbogner <hbog...@gmail.com <mailto:hbog...@gmail.com>> > >>>> To: hot@openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot@openstreetmap.org> > >>>> > >>>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mali now available in Osmand, any more needed? > >>>> Message-ID: <kiad4h$5g5$1...@ger.gmane.org > >>>> <mailto:1...@ger.gmane.org>> > >>>> > >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >>>> > >>>> Hi Severin > >>>> > >>>> Didn't had time to work on this, bunch of deadlines at work so > had to > >>>> put aside everything else. Will try to do it in next few days. > >>>> Sorry > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Hrvoje > >>>> > >>>> On 03/13/2013 11:46 PM, Severin MENARD wrote: > >>>> > Dear Hrvoje, > >>>> > > >>>> > Thanks for the proposition to create new offline data downloads > >>>> for > >>>> > OsmAnd. I would suggest to also add Kenya, Chad and Burundi, > as we > >>>> > deployed there through the DG ECHO funded Eurosha project > >>>> > (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0) and trained > a > >>>> lot of > >>>> > organizations of different kinds (local authorities, gov, UN, > >>>> Ngos, > >>>> > academics, OS community, civil society...) on OSM. The people > >>>> having a > >>>> > smartphone there would really like to have the OsmAnd data for > >>>> their > >>>> > country that I could show them on my device, but 343 Mo for all > >>>> Africa > >>>> > is quite huge for them to download considering the connection > >>>> there is > >>>> > often slow. Tomorrow is even a large feedbackl presentation in > >>>> front of > >>>> > 100-200 stakeholders here in N'Djamena, then 2 days of open > source > >>>> > softs, and a lot of techy people would really like have OSM > data > >>>> on > >>>> > their Android smartphone. > >>>> > > >>>> > Sincerely, > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > Severin > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> HOT mailing list > >> HOT@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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