Thanks Dan I am just figuring out that Hrvoje actually needs boundaries with a + 1 km buffer what needs to be done with Geodal or within QGIS.
Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
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