Hi friends, ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Fran Boon" <[email protected]> > To: "Truong Anh. Tuan" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:11:01 PM > Subject: Re: [Asiasource2-participants] Applications Open for SahanaCamp > Vietnam 2nd - 5th November 2010 > > >> >> Did you have any luck tracking down Location information? > >> >> - e.g. turning the Wikipedia page into a CSV for me to import? > >> > I have no ideas about this. What do you mean here? > >> > (maybe a stupid question :) ) > >> See my mail fwd here: > >> >Please tell me if you see anything I can do. > >> Gathering Location information would be great - ideally full admin > >> boundaries (probably in shapefile format), but the location > >> hierarchy > >> would be fine if not. > >> I see that Wikipedia has at least the L1 data & some of the L2s: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam#Subdivisions > >> Would be great to get this into a spreadsheet if we can't get the > >> admin boundaries. > >> I can then import into the Sahana instance. > > It has not made sense to me yet :( > > However, I will try to log into the system to study more. > > I can see that you may not be a GIS person to understand the admin > boundaries/shapefiles part - perhaps you have a friend who is whom you > could ask for help? Maybe someone working in a Geography department at > college? > > For the simple hierarchy, I will make a start on the CSV to show you > what I mean...
Sahana localization team want volunteers who may know GIS to join into the team to localize Sahana. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to join with us. About Sahana: Sahana is a FOSS project to build a Disaster Management System (which so helpful for the flood happened in the Middle recently) Kind regards, Tuan
Locations Hierarchy.ods
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