[OSGeo Africa] Zambian gazeteer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> On 07 Dec 2015, at 18:22, Lending <lendingcd at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You website looks great, I will be happy to share my data once it gets accurate enough, there are 2000 health clinics in Zambia so it would be a useful addition, I am also trying to get the University of Zambia interested in helping out after the holidays. Thanks also for the link, I will check it out

Sounds great - I look forward to hearing from you!

Regards

Tim

> 
> all the best
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> On 6 Dec 2015, at 15:46, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bob
>>> On 06 Dec 2015, at 21:42, Lending <lendingcd at yahoo.co.uk <mailto:lendingcd at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> hi,
>>> 
>>> I am new to this list so i would just like to introduce myself. i am also doing a small project where i am mapping Zambian health clinics. I have started here
>>> 
>>> https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/chitambo-clinics_60291#9/-12.9189/30.7082 <https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/chitambo-clinics_60291#9/-12.9189/30.7082>
>> 
>> Nice! - Maybe you will be interested in the project we are busy working on to create a canonical map of health sites around the world - there is a beta version http://staging.healthsites.io <http://staging.healthsites.io/>. It will be great to collaborate with you if you are interested.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Could anyone direct me to a good source of free village and town name data as the data i have from diva-gis is not accurate enough.
>>> 
>> 
>> There is always http://geonames.org <http://geonames.org/> - though OSM folks don’t usually like it because the licensing is unclear. It does have a very good database of place names (and a public API) though.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>>> thanks in advance
>>> 
>>> bob
>>> 
>>> 
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