Hi Daniel
There's a growing community in Kenya, and several other groups of mappers in
East Africa. Map Kibera is the most active in that part of the world. We've
been talking about setting up a mailing list, but have not yet. There's also a
lot of activity in West Africa right now through the this project
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/espace_osm_francophone_0#english_version.
Other places as well.
The topic of tagging features specific to African context, good one. Actually
really relevant right now, as Map Kibera does more work on sanitation mapping.
Why don't we just have that discussion here on this list for now? Can you
explain more what kinds of features you've been mapping, and how you've been
tagging them? Are you doing remote mapping, or based in Kenya?
Perhaps we can start up a wiki page to capture the features and tags under
discussion.
-Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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> From: Daniel Westergren <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 2:41 PM
>Subject: [HOT] Kenyan or African OSM community?
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>Hi,
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>Being relatively new to mapping with OSM (having done quite a lot of mapping
>with Google Mapmaker, particularly in Kenya), I'm wondering if there is any
>group or community for African or even Kenyan mappers?
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>There are several elements that are special to mapping in African countries,
>like roads, huts, enclosures etc. and I'd like some feedback on how to map
>some of those.
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>Thanks,
>Daniel Westergren
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