Hi Joost, I wanted to flag the MAAP project <http://maaproject.org/en/>, that actively monitors deforestation in the Amazon. Many reports focus on illegal mining <http://maaproject.org/en/?s=mining>.
Thanks, Chad On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Anders Pedersen < apeder...@resourcegovernance.org> wrote: > Hi Joost, Russell, all, > > > > At Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) we track, collect and > structure data on mining contracts (resourcecontracts.org) and projects ( > resourceprojects.org). We are also interested in improving the public > domain access to accurate lat/longs on mines (happy to discuss further) and > would also be interested in providing input on OSM tagging if useful. > > > > In the meantime one relatively rich public domain dataset on mine > locations in Africa is this from the World Bank: https://energydata.info/ > dataset/africa-powermining-projects-database > > > > Best, > Anders > > > > *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:41 AM > *To:* Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> > *Cc:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org> > *Subject:* Re: [HOT] mapping mines > > > > Sorry for that lack of clarity! They are working on the impacts of > industrial scale (usually foreign owned) resource mining on local > communities. > > The basic tagging is there, but tags like tailings (apparently that's a > word especially meant for mine waste) are undocumented and we had a hard > time finding a proper tag for end of cycle operations (we used a lifecycle > prefix for now, but that doesn't seem entirely fitting) > > > > > > Op 21 feb. 2018 3:02 a.m. schreef <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>: > > Hi Joost, > > > > Do you mean mines, like landmines, or mining for gold kind of mine? I > know CartONG where doing de-mining (landmine kind) Mapswipe projects if > that’s the kind you’re talking. Don’t know of anyone mapping mining > operations for resources kind of mining. > > > > =Russ > > > > *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:joost.schou...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM > *To:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org> > *Subject:* [HOT] mapping mines > > > > Hi, > > > > I was just in contact with an organisation that might be interested in > mapping mines in the South in OSM, particularly in conflict areas. Are > there any exisiting efforts I should be aware of? > > We were a bit frustrated by the lack of depth of the (documented) tagging, > it would be interesting to get some experts on the subject to look at how > we can improve this. > > > > -- > > Joost Schouppe > > OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Chad Blevins* GeoCenter U.S. Global Development Lab USAID 202-712-0464 External GeoCenter Website <http://geocenterplus.digitaldevelopment.org> Internal GeoCenter Website <https://sites.google.com/a/usaid.gov/usaidgeocenter/home>
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