Hi - This site provides countries as geojson, kml etc: http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/areas/O02.html
Dan 2013/9/28 Severin MENARD <[email protected]>: > 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) >>> * 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> >>> >>> 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> >>> * 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) 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 >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
