Great work Robert - look forward to seeing the finished upload. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Matt Amos <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi robert, > > this is really cool! great to see that africover is willing to donate this > data. > > one thing thats worth pointing out, just in case you hadn't seen it > already; the OSM server will be down from the 17th possibly until the > 20th for an upgrade to the API. hopefully this will not inconvenience > you, as most of the OSM tools and clients are ready for the upgrade. > > this page contains more information - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6/Information > and we're all happy to help if there are any problems. > > cheers, > > matt > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Robert Soden <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > Over the last few months, I've been in contact with FAO's Africover > > program: http://www.africover.org/ . Africover maintains shapefiles > > containing rivers, roads, towns, and admin boundaries for a number of > > countries that we would like add to the OSM dataset. While they > > normally do not release data under an OSM-acceptable license, they have > > granted us permission to add their data to Open Street Map. > > Over the next few weeks, we will be working on importing data for > > Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda. We'll be working slowly in > > order to ensure accuracy and integrity of the OSM dataset. Please feel > > free to get in touch if you are interested in learning more about our > > progress, but we will also be posting status reports on the project wiki > > pages. > > Africover also maintains datasets for > > Burundi, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. We may work on > > these over the longer-term, and would be happy to collaborate with other > > folks on this. > > Cheers, > > Robert Soden > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b
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