Hi Hrvoye, Thank you very much for the proposition to add all the African countries once for all. I did not find the time to find poly files so far and actually I would like to ask the HOT community if someone knows such files already exist somewhere, rather than creating new ones from scratch.
Sincerely, Severin On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Hrvoje Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Severin > > I received your mail while on vacation, when I got back there were a lot > of things to do at work and in private life so this mail slipped down in > the list. > At a quick glance some of the countries are already available through > application. > My plan is to get OSMAND to include ALL of the countries in the world. > Africa was the starting point because it had only few of them available. > I can add the missing ones as soon as i get some free time to create > appropriate boundary. > OSMAND team asked not to create to much overlap with countries so I use > max 1km offset from country border and simplify it as much as possible. > > If you want you can help and create *.poly files for missing countries. > > Regards > Hrvoje > > > > On 12.08.2013 00:57, Severin MENARD wrote: > >> Dear Hrvoje, >> >> Thank you very much for having added Mali, Chad and Burundi to the list >> of countries to download in OSMAND. >> Would it be possible to add a few African countries again? >> >> * Sudan, where Khartoum is currently hit by large floods >> >> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.**org/wiki/2013_Sudan_floods<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Sudan_floods> >> ) >> * Central African Republic where the situation, if not broadcasted is >> >> becoming totally dramatic. We have a request from MSF Spain (cced) >> that would make a great use of it in the field. The crisis in >> Central African Republic is not mediatised at all, but the >> population is facing some real issues, including hunger now (see >> this article >> <http://www.lemonde.fr/**afrique/article/2013/07/09/la-** >> penurie-alimentaire-menace-la-**centrafrique_3445128_3212.html<http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/07/09/la-penurie-alimentaire-menace-la-centrafrique_3445128_3212.html> >> **> >> >> from Le Monde that you can easily read with an online translation) >> * Togo, where we have an ongoing field mission, as part of the EOF >> project <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/**projects/espace_osm_** >> francophone_0<http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/espace_osm_francophone_0> >> > >> * Cameroon, where a very dynamic community is working >> * Malawi, where the mapping possibilities could rise soon >> >> >> Beyond this, it would be great if all the African countries could be >> added in the future. >> If ever we can help eg by providing the boundaries in any format, please >> just ask. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Severin >> >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:09:09 +0100 >> From: hbogner <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mali now available in Osmand, any more needed? >> Message-ID: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Hi Severin >> >> Didn't had time to work on this, bunch of deadlines at work so had to >> put aside everything else. Will try to do it in next few days. >> Sorry >> >> Regards, >> Hrvoje >> >> On 03/13/2013 11:46 PM, Severin MENARD wrote: >> > Dear Hrvoje, >> > >> > Thanks for the proposition to create new offline data downloads for >> > OsmAnd. I would suggest to also add Kenya, Chad and Burundi, as we >> > deployed there through the DG ECHO funded Eurosha project >> > >> (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/**projects/eurosha_0<http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0>) >> and trained a >> lot of >> > organizations of different kinds (local authorities, gov, UN, Ngos, >> > academics, OS community, civil society...) on OSM. The people >> having a >> > smartphone there would really like to have the OsmAnd data for >> their >> > country that I could show them on my device, but 343 Mo for all >> Africa >> > is quite huge for them to download considering the connection >> there is >> > often slow. Tomorrow is even a large feedbackl presentation in >> front of >> > 100-200 stakeholders here in N'Djamena, then 2 days of open source >> > softs, and a lot of techy people would really like have OSM data on >> > their Android smartphone. >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > >> > >> > Severin >> >> >> >
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