Pamoya

Hey Ugandan OSMers-

I hope this email finds you all as well as possible in Uganda.

I revamped the OSM WikiProject Uganda wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda to host
information and data sets of relevance for supporting the on-going relief efforts in NE Uganda on the model of the current OSM-supported disaster responses in Haiti http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti and Chile http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake .

Great if you can articulate your efforts in mapping Uganda to this crisis response by taking stoke of this wiki and re-using what you'll find worthy re-using, and growing it in the way you will find most appropriate with your project, or taking from it to the collaborative platform you are using to this end

I'd be extremely interested in hearing from you on the Uganda GIS data landscape as portrayed in this wiki and the additional data sets you would recommend

I have a specific request for you, the past humanitarian response to flooding in North Uganda (Oct/ Nov 2007) highlighted a data base of relevance for any base map project in the form of a Roads data set layer property of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and passed to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in sept 2007. Extremely grateful if this could be investigated at your end with the key question of the re-usability of this data set within the OSM project (fitness for data imports & compatibility with OSM data licensing CC-SA allowing commercial use)

I look fwd hearing back from you and interacting with you

Best
Nicolas.

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Nicolas Chavent
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti
Mobile (FRA): +33 6 75 14 29 70
Email: nicolas [dot] chavent [at] gmail [dot] com
Skype: c_nicolas