Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-17 Thread Frederic Moine
Dear Ahasan, Base on experience I had with office of statistic in Pakistan, and recently when we conduced a census in Haiti (2011.2012) with the national office of statistic. We decided to use polygon as it was more useful for the survey team to use the map in the field and correct it. To

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-09 Thread Denis Carriere
Hey Ahasanul, Here's an example of a project that was created during an OpenData hackathon in Canada at CODE [1]. http://ecotrust-canada.github.io/hypochondriapp/ It shows you regional wide statistical data from a country using boundary files, you could replicate this type of application for

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-09 Thread Ahasanul Hoque
wow!!! its an amazing app Denis. Thank you very much for the links. I have decided that we will go for point data for households. Take care Ahasan On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Denis Carriere carriere.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Ahasanul, Here's an example of a project that was created

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-08 Thread john whelan
In Canada a lot of addresses have been imported from CANVEC, generally the corner house is numbered with the street name and a way that renders in a dotted line joins the numbered houses. Certainly in Ottawa. In OSMAND you can search for a street then it will give you a list of numbers that have

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-07 Thread john whelan
Personal view only, there are no standards in OSM so both are acceptable. HOT has guidelines but they are guidelines and given the mixture of people mapping there is not the same consistency as you might get from civil servants mapping to standards. Is there any reason why you can't add them as

[HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-07 Thread Ahasanul Hoque
Hello dear Mappers, Hope you all are doing great. I need a kind suggestion from you guyz. Last week I facilitated a OSM training at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) which is the is the only national Statistical institution responsible for collecting, compiling and disseminating statistical

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-07 Thread Denis Carriere
Hey Ahasan, The best way to sync your census data with OSM would be to have similar administrative boundaries, they are typically stored as Multipolygons. There is tons of documentation on how to create accurate boundaries [1]. Any national wide census should start with defining every boundary

Re: [HOT] Suggestion needed: Household level OSM in Bangladesh

2015-03-07 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Ahasan, Mapping the buildings as points is not problem. Often I think we are mapping the building outlines because it looks more visually appealing on a map than anything else. Best, -Kate On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Ahasanul Hoque hoque.aha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello dear Mappers,