I am also interested in mining activities in Mozambique for an environmental health research project looking into the effects of poorly regulated mining on health. I think this initiative can be used to generate interesting data to understand the impact of mining activities in general.
*Warm Regards* *Claudios Hakuna* *Research Informatics and Data Science * *Mobile Number +263 774 199 248* *Skype claudios.hakuna* *LinkedIn Claudios Hakuna* On 22 February 2018 at 11:29, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <joost.schou...@gmail.com>: > >> 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 <cblev...@usaid.gov>: >> >>> 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 < >>> apeder...@resourcegovernance.org> 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:joost.schou...@gmail.com] >>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:41 AM >>>> *To:* Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org> >>>> *Cc:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org> >>>> *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 <russell.deff...@hotosm.org>: >>>> >>>> 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:joost.schou...@gmail.com] >>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 10:41 AM >>>> *To:* HOT <hot@openstreetmap.org> >>>> *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 >>>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>>> 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 >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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