Africover/DEPHA
Africover (africover.org) and DELPHA (depha.org) are UN agencies that maintain collections of public domain GIS base layer data for a number of countries in Africa. We have been granted special permission to import these layers into OSM. We are primarily interested in their road and river layers.
Current Status
We began importing data during the week of April 20th 2009. We encountered a number of problems with the new API similar to those reported on the OSM-Talk listserv that we are currently working to correct. Once the layers below marked *in progress* are completed and verified, we can think about moving onto the rest.
| Layer | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Burundi Roads | Africover | DONE |
| Burundi Rivers | Africover | |
| DRC Roads | Africover | DONE |
| DRC Rivers | Africover | |
| Egypt Roads | Africover | In Progress |
| Egypt Rivers | Africover | |
| Eritrea Roads | Africover | |
| Eritrea Roads | DEPHA | |
| Eritrea Rivers | Africover | |
| Ethiopia Roads | DEPHA | In Progress (User: DEPHA Import AddisMap) |
| Ethiopia Rivers | DEPHA | |
| Ethiopia Rails | DEPHA | |
| Kenya Roads | Africover | In Progress |
| Kenya Rivers | Africover | |
| Kenya Rails | DEPHA | |
| Rwanda Roads | Africover | DONE |
| Rwanda Rivers | Africover | |
| Somalia Roads | DEPHA | |
| Sudan Roads | Africover | DONE |
| Sudan Rivers | Africover | |
| Sudan Rails | Africover | |
| Tanzania Roads | Africover | DONE |
| Tanzania Rivers | Africover | |
| Uganda Roads | DEPHA | |
| Uganda Rivers | DEPHA |
Future Plans
As show above, there are still a number of potentially useful layers that could be imported. Since announcing the project, we have received emails and messages from several members of the OSM community interested in taking part in this import. Once the first batch of data is successfully imported and QA'd, we can work with those who are interested to finish the importing remaining data made available by Africover and DEPHA.