Hi Lukasz, Some ideas : 1. One source of data is the freedom of information request, formal and informal. if you ask local agencies and companies for data you often will get it. 2. I never heard about COD, but it reminds me of http://www.data.gov/ there is an open source app ckan that people are using. hope that helps. mike
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Lukasz Kruk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
