[HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, We have a request to help MapAction to help create a detailed place names database of Iraq in conjunction with Translators without Borders. I'm looking for a volunteer who could help with the following: 1. Extraction of all place names, including English, Arabic and Kurdish names into a

[HOT] Kaduna State eHealth Africa Roads import

2014-08-18 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: eHealth Africa has released a set of data for Kaduna State. They are 3 files: one for roads, another of water lines (streams and rivers) and the last one for water bodies (riverbanks, lakes, wetlands, etc.). The file for roads covers more

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Thanks for all the offers of help. I should have been a bit more clear on the technical skills required for this. - Be able to extract specific name data out of the OSM database for various types of place names (villages, populated places, etc) - As a later step potentially be able to

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Fran Boon
On 18 August 2014 18:11, Kate Chapman kate.chap...@hotosm.org wrote: We have a request to help MapAction to help create a detailed place names database of Iraq in conjunction with Translators without Borders. I'm looking for a volunteer who could help with the following: 1. Extraction of all

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Andrew Buck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nice work so far Fran; one thing I would add though is that you should include the OSM id of the object and whether it is a node, way, or relation (can omit this of course if they are all for nodes only. An additional thing to include would be the

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Fran Boon
On 18 August 2014 20:34, Andrew Buck andrew.r.b...@gmail.com wrote: Nice work so far Fran; one thing I would add though is that you should include the OSM id of the object and whether it is a node, way, or relation (can omit this of course if they are all for nodes only. An additional thing

Re: [HOT] Volunteer to Assist in Extracting Iraq Placenames

2014-08-18 Thread Rafael Avila Coya
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I think you should make the automated tool check if the version has changed, for each node/way/relation, since you extracted the data. Cheers, Rafael. On 18/08/14 22:25, Fran Boon wrote: On 18 August 2014 20:34, Andrew Buck