Who's "we" exactly? Is there a coordination place on the osm.wiki? I'd like to participate - for example caring for rivers of Eritrea... Do I have to join Africover User System first? I joined there but now I have to answer some questions before I am able to receive their data:
> Before we can process your request, please provide us with more details > regarding your organisation activities, as well as a more in-depth > description of your proposed use of the Africover data. >If you intend using the data for research purposes at University,please > provide us with an official letter/email from your researchsupervisor or > your Head of Department. >If you belong to a private organisation, please refer your request > directly to the country's National Focal Point Institution > ([email protected]). More detailed contact information is available > on our website. >We apologize for this inconvenience but we are not authorised to provide > private organisations with data, without prior approval from the country. Roman > Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:36:20 -0400 > From: Robert Soden <[email protected]> > Subject: [OSM-talk] Roads/Rails Shapefile Import for Tanzania, Uganda, > DRC, Rwanda > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > 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
