Thank you all for your answers, a couple of genuinely useful points for me here.
cheers! On 9 October 2012 13:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send HOT mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of HOT digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Free data for humanitarian purposes (Kate Chapman) > 2. Re: Free data for humanitarian purposes (Mike Dupont) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:08:09 +0800 > From: Kate Chapman <[email protected]> > To: Pierre B?land <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Lukasz Kruk > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes > Message-ID: > <CAGn7mOrs87=q-ZDZfjevE49LUtKJgRT= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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 B?land <[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]> > > ? : [email protected] > > Envoy? 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 > > ?ukasz 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:19:06 +0200 > From: Mike Dupont <[email protected]> > To: Lukasz Kruk <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HOT] Free data for humanitarian purposes > Message-ID: > <CAF0qKV2CEYsDSQ86rWKjbUD= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 > > 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 > > ?ukasz 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 > > > End of HOT Digest, Vol 32, Issue 7 > ********************************** > -- pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg Łukasz Kruk http://lukaszkruk.com
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