How about asking your team to pick the gps coords of the features to be mapped. It will make the process much simpler. On Dec 19, 2013 7:38 PM, "sdufour" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andrew, > > > > Thanks a lot for your answer !! > > > > First of all, sorry because I haven't mentioned the name of my > organization : MSF (Doctors Without Borders). Second of all, it is not an > urgent request, it is more a less a first try with OSM. On a long term > process, the objective will be to map the District of Rutshuru but for now > we are focused on Goma and its area in order to see how it could help us to > improve our interventions. > > > > We can legally and ethically share the datas we have (list of health > centers or hospitals). As I said one of the teams (the coordination) is > based in Goma and go time to time on the field to collect new info. > > > > I think we are going to start working on it, your help when you'll have > more time is more than welcomed. > > > > Stéphanie > > > > > > > > > > > Message du 19/12/13 17:01 > > De : "Andrew Buck" > > A : [email protected] > > Copie à : > > Objet : Re: [HOT] MAPPING GOMA/DRC > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Stéphanie, > > > > It is possible we may be able to help out with your work in Goma, but > > you have to keep in mind that our resources are already spread a bit > > thin with the response to typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the > > ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic as well. The crisis > > in DRC has been something we have been targeting though so we can > > certainly help out, but don't expect a full scale response right away. > > > > Regarding your request, if you have a list of health facilities that > > may be possible to integrate into OSM but there are two issues that > > occur: one legal, the other technical. > > > > - From the legal side, we need to know what license your list is under. > > If it is data your organization created yourself then you can easily > > give us permission to bring it into OSM. If it is not your data > > though we would need to find out what the source of the data is, and > > whether they would allow its import into our database. > > > > On the tecnical side, depending on the structure and format of you > > list it could range from very easy to bring in the data, to impossible > > if we do not have good addressing information to locate the > > facilities. You have to keep in mind that our remote mappers work > > mostly from imagery so we can help out some but may not be able to > > definitively locate things. Having your ground teams who can verify > > things should help with this a lot though. The technical aspects, > > however, are secondary to the licensing issue, if we can't use the > > data due to copyright issues than the point is moot and our > > collaboration with you will just have to basically ignore the list; we > > can still offer assistance but the help must necessarily take a > > different form in this case. > > > > - -AndrewBuck > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSsxgOAAoJEK7RwIfxHSXbKwkP/3TskbTBa51WNSzar9cgZPqN > > EuizytiIQDrtUO/AMVSE5rTVSWetOaiEn+me0i3tjk85nd4z4bBdWam0ZOBZHFr1 > > vHgIbOfLc2LXT2KS8vYzdrNHLt5+gdv3oRQ4S7aMJ0Wk+mXuzPNxcBC5uMefpgN6 > > VwSCjpcTUbTsOsfYB5De32Pj+21RduGKV0RX6Sjz+GYopArRu9KvTIYk5MzbMSG5 > > 9CprEnMfJ3WtXMAD/u5EFijglTOIUNgCR6VXwNoOR2BvtEE4eKPMvZ5N9OxzlX8F > > 8DlAZcuU/AinvpVQBSdjkHx4Oh3xHRL9gSphCD41toYxSm4bYtMghvRfhe6GJ5LU > > 73W89teBRdWP7t4tqxU6mWn4CbuA9c8yO7HUxkrN2iI2mthj90Ep1UxtSn1UlOvu > > Yiv+VNrXn6vs9SRXxyRVSUsxGn78MyCaZ1HXGW8IJGQ/zj0A1CnSZ2f3EVtfEfMl > > WpXuRXhU3TaY3yDONfRnh5cHHIYINDwpT9RIBcZSAUx/JPPSsePfvhpO1pjNb+nb > > Vkl1ba/GnknjdpNcgZsZHplbB/SLobXW/KphpMmGsDBkBB4loEHrU4PcaOlqeTMt > > LNuFV75bUu6+iFziH2mcS6VyrIw8jlePwSl5zXprtaOGTJRH2tO+nXldxV3nft5s > > AGnOzy4ukffONfxm00B5 > > =LuxP > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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