[Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone. As you are probably aware HOT has been working to map the areas affected by Ebola in west Africa and to help humanitarian organizations better use OSM data in their efforts there. Because OSM has the best dataset of settlements (towns

Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 63, Issue 25

2014-09-24 Thread Severin Menard
Hi Andrew, I agree taht pairing the OSM Ids will be the most simple and robust solution. Regarding the Pcodes methodology, seems an old method (that was used eg in Haiti) has been abandonned (or you did not mention it), whas is really fortunate: concatenate admin level IDs (every admin level havin

Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 63, Issue 25

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, the method of including the various admin level distric pcodes in the settlement pcode was discussed by the group when they were generating them, but they decided against it for exactly the reason you stated, boundaries change over time. Regardi

Re: [Imports] Ottawa Bike Parking Import

2014-09-24 Thread Elliott Plack
Clark, Quick tip, always reply all to these list emails so it goes back into the list. Definitely use the PNG! I'll license it as CC0. For approval we should wait a few days for others to comment. Also we'll want to check if there's any existing data that would be duplicated. I can do the impor

Re: [Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-09-24 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Hi Andrew: As I see, this pcodes seem the same as the unmil:id we are adding to the nodes of the ongoing Liberia UNMIL place nodes import. Wouldn't it be then a good idea to change the unmil:id=* tag to pcode=* tag? Cheers, Rafael. El 25/09/2014 01:56, "Andrew Buck" escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't think the unmil id in that file is actually a pcode, I think that is just their own internal identifier in the database. I was told that pcodes hadn't yet been generated for the place names for these countries so that is what I am going on. I

Re: [Imports] Adding pcodes to villages in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

2014-09-24 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
Ah! I see. Cheers, Rafael El 25/09/2014 09:46, "Andrew Buck" escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I don't think the unmil id in that file is actually a pcode, I think > that is just their own internal identifier in the database. I was > told that pcodes hadn't yet been