Hi Joost, This thread looks interacting. Also had issues mapping some legal mining sites in Ghana recently. Looking forward to working on and seeing a documentation on this as well.
Best, - Enock 2018-02-22 7:08 GMT+00:00 joost schouppe <[email protected]>: > Anders, > Thanks for the tips and outreach. I will follow up with you. > > Chad, > Thanks for the tip, looks interesting! > > Martin, Claire, > I go to (or help organize) most of the mapathons at IPIS :) > The volunteer organisation I'm talking to now has a different focus, > though I do see them potentially working together later. > > 2018-02-21 20:48 GMT+01:00 Chad Blevins <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Joost, >> >> I wanted to flag the MAAP project <http://maaproject.org/en/>, that >> actively monitors deforestation in the Amazon. Many reports focus on >> illegal mining <http://maaproject.org/en/?s=mining>. >> >> Thanks, >> Chad >> >> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Anders Pedersen < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Joost, Russell, all, >>> >>> >>> >>> At Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) we track, collect and >>> structure data on mining contracts (resourcecontracts.org) and projects >>> (resourceprojects.org). We are also interested in improving the public >>> domain access to accurate lat/longs on mines (happy to discuss further) and >>> would also be interested in providing input on OSM tagging if useful. >>> >>> >>> >>> In the meantime one relatively rich public domain dataset on mine >>> locations in Africa is this from the World Bank: >>> https://energydata.info/dataset/africa-powermining-projects-database >>> >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> Anders >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:[email protected]] >>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:41 AM >>> *To:* Russell Deffner <[email protected]> >>> *Cc:* HOT <[email protected]> >>> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] mapping mines >>> >>> >>> >>> Sorry for that lack of clarity! They are working on the impacts of >>> industrial scale (usually foreign owned) resource mining on local >>> communities. >>> >>> The basic tagging is there, but tags like tailings (apparently that's a >>> word especially meant for mine waste) are undocumented and we had a hard >>> time finding a proper tag for end of cycle operations (we used a lifecycle >>> prefix for now, but that doesn't seem entirely fitting) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Op 21 feb. 2018 3:02 a.m. schreef <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hi Joost, >>> >>> >>> >>> Do you mean mines, like landmines, or mining for gold kind of mine? I >>> know CartONG where doing de-mining (landmine kind) Mapswipe projects if >>> that’s the kind you’re talking. Don’t know of anyone mapping mining >>> operations for resources kind of mining. >>> >>> >>> >>> =Russ >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* joost schouppe [mailto:[email protected]] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM >>> *To:* HOT <[email protected]> >>> *Subject:* [HOT] mapping mines >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I was just in contact with an organisation that might be interested in >>> mapping mines in the South in OSM, particularly in conflict areas. Are >>> there any exisiting efforts I should be aware of? >>> >>> We were a bit frustrated by the lack of depth of the (documented) >>> tagging, it would be interesting to get some experts on the subject to look >>> at how we can improve this. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Joost Schouppe >>> >>> OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | >>> Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup >>> <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Chad Blevins* >> GeoCenter >> U.S. Global Development Lab >> USAID >> 202-712-0464 <(202)%20712-0464> >> >> External GeoCenter Website <http://geocenterplus.digitaldevelopment.org> >> Internal GeoCenter Website >> <https://sites.google.com/a/usaid.gov/usaidgeocenter/home> >> >> >> > > > -- > Joost Schouppe > OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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