Motivation

Such a beautiful project: a cross line between technology and human development. An engineer's approach to help people to manage better his resources and create a better world.

We are going to try to correlate micro-migrations between work-hours (we should estimate this window time) and movil and fix phone calls in order to manage roads projection more efficiently.

Deadlines

• October 31, 2012: Deadline for registration and submission of applications. Orange and the Chairman of the Committee evaluate the candidate applications on a regular basis. Orange's anonymous datasets are made accessible to the selected teams.
• January 31, 2013: Deadline for submission of project.

Project homepage

• D4D Challenge
• Paper. Data for Development: the D4D Challenge on Mobile Phone Data

SIG Free software

Download uDig to manage geographical layers from http://udig.refractions.net/

CartoDB (not free!!)

Maps creation and visualization tool. It's possible to import SHP zipped files into tables for building maps. More info available at CartoDB and pricing here

Shapefile (ESRI format) manager

• pyshp 1.1.4 Python library to create polygon, polylines, points, etc ... Integrated in our service.

Geographical layers (vectors)

It is available into "geo_layers" folder the next datasets:

• civ_gc_adg.zip: Land Cover (download from http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?currTab=simple&id=37177)
• rails.zip: Lines with Rails lines (download from http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/es/country-region/c%C3%B4te-divoire)
• route.zip: Road route lines (download from http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/es/country-region/c%C3%B4te-divoire)
• CDI-level_1_SHP.zip: Regions (9) - Latitude & Longitude Coordinates (downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/africa/Cote%20d%60Ivoire/index.php)
• CDI_admin_SHP.zip: Departments (59) - Latitude & Longitude Coordinates (downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/africa/Cote%20d%60Ivoire/index.php)
• {59} Xxx_SHP.zip: A map for each department, enumerating their inner sub-prefectures (230, TBC with D4D datasets) (downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/africa/Cote%20d%60Ivoire/index.php)
• CIV_wat.zip: Rivers, canals, and lakes. Seperate files for line and area features (download from http://www.diva-gis.org/gData)

First step with uDig

This step should be performed for each geographical resource

• Open uDig.app
• File > New Project (Choose the name to save your project)
• Layer > Add > Select "Files" > Select your file with .shp extension (e.g.: RESEAU_ROUTIER.shp)

Do not forget

... to enjoy this project :) !!!