Hi Lukasz, It also depends on what the data use is. For example Natural Earth is aimed at cartographers, so it is a good resource for making maps. If you wish to use the information for navigation another source would be better.
For HOT specifically though the COD license varies and the government providing it can pick the license (someone correct me if this is inaccurate). So usually it is not something HOT can use. -Kate On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > Lukasz > > The problem of such data availibity and quality arises every time we start a > project in a country. > > OCHA's CODs data is usefull but not alway complete. Also, quality varies > from one country to the other. Also, the license is not compatible with > OdbL OSM license. > > There are other sources like NGA, and again with varying quality. See > http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm > > Geolocation is often approximative. Such data have to be examined carefully > and corrected before importing into OSM. > > > Pierre > > ________________________________ > De : Lukasz Kruk <[email protected]> > À : [email protected] > Envoyé le : Vendredi 5 octobre 2012 10h35 > Objet : [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes > > Dear HOTsters (HOTties?), > > That's my first post here, so I presume that a short introduction is in > order? I'm a recent graduate of MSc in Geospatial Technologies, during which > I was fortunate enough to have a number of humanitarian issues used as case > studies for GIS applications. Currently I'm leading the IT Team at one of > Geneva's IM-oriented humanitarian NGOs. > > I'd like to start my participation here with a question - probably something > fairly well known to those in humanitarian aid world, but fairly new to me: > data availability and the approach to the problem by those who > (theoretically?) have the power to make a difference. I know that the topic > is enough for a book or few, so I'll try to use a specific example: what do > you think about OCHA's CODs and FODs: > > http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/ > > is this data actually useful, complete, high-quality? Is the availability of > it any help when data is actually needed? Is there any benefit for having > for example elevation data in there, if it's no higher resolution than SRTM? > What about free data provided by http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ while a > lot of countries don't have any data assigned on COD/FOD page? All and any > thoughts and comments are welcome. > > I hope that this question makes sense here (I'm sorry if it doesn't!), and > will be grateful for any feedback. > > best, > > > -- > pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg > Łukasz Kruk > http://lukaszkruk.com > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
