Hi Mikel, That is a great news. A group of students from BUET is about to start a RMG (Ready made Garments) wikipedia.for Bangladesh, with the basic three components in it:
1) Locating the factories on OSM 2) Building a system where workers can post about a factory 3) Building a system where other people can post about about a factory. The postings include small information, photos, videos, and comments. The overall idea is to crowdsource these information (for feature 2 and 3). But for feature 1, active mappers are needed. I am copying this email with some of the students of this project. I think Mr. Nurunnaby Chowdhury can be a very interesting point of contact for them to push this forward. Thanks, Ishtiaque On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote: > Mappers > > tl;dr: If you are a mapper in Bangladesh, or interested in Bangladesh, and > want to help map garment factories in OSM to provide a real comprehensive > transparent picture of what's going on, sign up the OKFN data expedition on > October 18-20. In Bangladesh, contact Nurunnaby Chowdhury < > [email protected]> for information on the local venue. > > Longer: > The Open Knowledge Foundation is organizing its second Data Expedition, > October 18-20, to collect and link data on the global garment supply chain. > Activity promoting *real* transparency has been increasing since the > tragic garment factory accidents earlier this year. Putting together a > comprehensive picture of the sector can hopefully bring greater > accountability and real rights to workers. > > http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/02/data-expedition-garment-factories/ > > Mapping is a crucial part. OpenStreetMap's potential here is to map the > actual geographic context of these factories, and link/export that > geography to databases of customers/brands, ownership, safety records, etc. > We're talking actual physical building foot print, # of floors, type of > building (multipurpose vs single factory, etc). This needs help from both > mappers anywhere, to work through the existing databases and figure out > what needs survey; and folks on the ground, to do survey of at least a node > for factories, which can be associated with a footprint from satellite > imagery. > > To get a sense of the source data for the expedition: New data on 1500 > factories in Bangladesh, which have joined the safety accord was supposed > to be released today. > http://www.industriall-union.org/bangladesh-safety-accord-publishes-unprecedented-wealth-of-factory-data. > OKFN has started the scraping process here: > https://github.com/psychemedia/ScoDa-GarmentsDataExpedition/blob/master/data/accord.csv > > If you are based in Bangladesh and want to get involved, Nurunnaby > Chowdhury <[email protected]> is organizing there. For anyone > anywhere, Anders Pedersen <[email protected]> is organizing > internationally. I would really like to be part of this myself, but will be > offline for family very soon. > > Best! > Mikel > > * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-bd mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bd > > -- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed PhD Student (Fulbright S&T Fellow) Department of Information Science Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, US. web: https://sites.google.com/site/siakallol/
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