[Talk-ht] Fw: [CrisisMappers] Haiti: road obstruction locations

2010-02-02 Thread Mikel Maron
Passing along this fairly urgent request for road obstruction data. * How complete is OSM data on road obstructions, based on latest available imagery? * Can anyone set up an extract on this feature type? (or general way to extract any feature type) * The thread on CrisisMappers has more info on

[Talk-ht] PAHO Medical Facilities

2010-02-02 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I converted the PAHO medical facilities data into OSM format. http://github.com/wonderchook/PAHO_to_OSM. I also included the rules file. If anyone needs files in another format or anything let me know. I chunked it up into 26 files so people could work on it. The tags associated with e

Re: [Talk-ht] Please, please attribute your sources

2010-02-02 Thread Margie Roswell
David, thanks very much for the mention of my new little Potlatch video! viewership's been slight... Hopefully eventually OSM-ers will find it. Feel free to tweet, retweet, etc. I spent way too many days manually entering all those refugee camp tags. Even asked the leaders in the CrisisCamp OSM r

[Talk-ht] Duplicate and Radius search

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, I wanted to let you know that I have scripts to look for duplicates within a radius and check for name changes that I wrote for Kosovo using the gns data. http://groups.google.com/group/free-software-conference/browse_thread/thread/4c0fa0c930f6b9bf I can modify that for haiti as well...

Re: [Talk-ht] Please, please attribute your sources

2010-02-02 Thread David Fawcett
David, Thanks for the reminder to the list. I have been in the same exact situation while trying to improve the streets data. Based on the DMA topos, you know what the name was ~15 years ago, but it could have changed. Is the existing name in OSM based on UN or local data, or did the mapper jus

[Talk-ht] Please, please attribute your sources

2010-02-02 Thread David Ellams
Hi folks Just a quick plea - please, please attribute your sources when mapping in Haiti, as elsewhere. I have recently been doing a little work on updating the remaining missing street names in Port-au-Prince, and I have discovered many apparent errors in the process, and corrected these once I

[Talk-ht] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Minimum Common Operational (GIS) Datasets posted on Haiti.OneReponse.info

2010-02-02 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi there- The common core operational dataset from the United Nations (Inter-Agency-Standing-Committee) for consideration in ensuring that the osm project is still closely tied to the field operational needs and the reference data sets used by GISers on the ground from main NGOs and UN Agencies.

Re: [Talk-ht] Talk-ht Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
spective.org/haiti-health-facilities/. >>>>  This represents a combination of many efforts over the past two weeks. >>>> >>>>  Of particular note is the unique identifier HealthC_ID which is based >>>> on the Minist?re de la San

Re: [Talk-ht] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]]

2010-02-02 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I do not recommend importing that list directly. There are lots and lots of duplicates. Matching up the IDs will be interesting to say the least with all the of the duplicates. One of my colleagues started making a cleaned up list yesterday, but needs to continue to work on it today. I

Re: [Talk-ht] Talk-ht Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
t;> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Jean-Guilhem >>>>> (knowing JOSM, but no automatic import tool (yet ?)) >>>>> (jgc on irc #osm, #flossk) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Message original

Re: [Talk-ht] Talk-ht Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
nts a combination of many efforts over the past two weeks. >>>> >>>>  Of particular note is the unique identifier HealthC_ID which is based >>>> on the Minist?re de la Sant? Publique et de la Population (MSPP) of >>>> Haiti ident

Re: [Talk-ht] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]]

2010-02-02 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Humanitarian_Data_Model_1.6_.28these_will_be_mapped_to_OSM_tagging.29 is the more stable I'll get it updated with the recent attributes and values from the Shana - PAHO release and what I did not finish entering in the wiki yeserday. In

Re: [Talk-ht] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]]

2010-02-02 Thread Karl Guggisberg
Hi, here's another OSM file generated from the Health Facilities Master list http://www.guggis.ch/haiti/HaitiHealthFacilities_Master.osm It includes more attributes than the list posted earlier. **Do not import this file automatically, though**. We should first agree on the set of OSM tags to

Re: [Talk-ht] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]]

2010-02-02 Thread nicolas chavent
Jean Guilhem and all. Just got back on-line: all the people who worked on the Health Facility themes want this thematic layer in osm as compehrensive in the most timely manner both: - (i) in terms of coverage of geo features: this is addressed by the data conflation work Kate Chapman and others in

[Talk-ht] perl script to convert the hospitals

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I have tried to post the script and the results to the list, but they are too big. the script is here : http://pastebin.com/d448840de the results are here : http://filebin.ca/bvpspw/HaitiHealthFacilities_Master2.osm Attached is an OSM file that includes only the name and the healthid. If you wan

[Talk-ht] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]]

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Nicolas, Can't we rely on healthC_ID for later incorporation of other tags (which are mostly empty for now) ? Isn't it a kind of emergency in itself to have the points, with precise location, name, and unambiguous ID in the OSM data base ? For use on the ground ? "Any groups tracking healt

Re: [Talk-ht] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]

2010-02-02 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi there Thanks Jean Guilhem for forwarding this post on this fundamental asset, before embarking into any bulk upload and exposing ourselves to double risk of duplication and data losses , we shall hear back from Kate Chapman who had been involved in the work of the group making this resource ava

[Talk-ht] [Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Haiti Health Facilities Master List]

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi, Could someone help automatically importing this list into OSM ? (At least X, Y, name, healthC_ID, for 1267 points) I could help to do some cleaning up with the points that might already be present in OSM. Thanks, Jean-Guilhem (knowing JOSM, but no automatic import tool (yet ?)) (jgc on i