Anders, Thanks for the tips and outreach. I will follow up with you. Chad, Thanks for the tip, looks interesting!
Martin, Claire, I go to (or help organize) most of the mapathons at IPIS :) The volunteer organisation I'm talking to now has a different focus, though I do see them potentially working together later. 2018-02-21 20:48 GMT+01:00 Chad Blevins <cblev...@usaid.gov>: > 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 <(202)%20712-0464> > > External GeoCenter Website <http://geocenterplus.digitaldevelopment.org> > Internal GeoCenter Website > <https://sites.google.com/a/usaid.gov/usaidgeocenter/home> > > > -- 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/>
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