This is so great to hear about the building of a local mapping community. Congrats to everyone!
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Ciarán Staunton > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted to just let everyone here know that #MapLesotho has now got a > > complete basemap. > > Congrats to everyone who helped make that a reality! > > > > > Now the #MapLesotho story moves on. The flocking and sustaining effects > of > > mappers here on hotosm creates a sense of purpose. Lesotho now has an > > indigenous mapping community of 10 regular mappers and 70 others who > > participate when they can. They are big enough now to sustain 11 tasks > and > > are mapping all June in a relay fashion starting today in Quthing and > going > > around eleven venues in Lesotho clockwise until the 30th. > > Wow, all of this is awesome! > > > Lesotho is a disaster preparedness mapping project. It doesn't need your > > urgent attention. All the same stop on by the tasks - 1941 today - to > take a > > tile or validate. > > There is no greater pleasure in HOTOSM for me than taking an hour or > two and doing #MapLesoto tiles when you or Dave mention it. I > encourage everyone to take some time and join with the people, remote > and local, of #MapLesotho on the projects Ciarán and Dave post about. > It is a real opportunity to be a part of this incredible, successful, > long running community building and mapping project. Everyone who is > part of the HOT Community for longer than 6 months probably has some > #MapLesoto tiles in their Tasking Manager history :) Lets all go get a > few more and if you have not mapped any #MapLesotho tiles yet, now is > your chance! > > Best wishes, > Blake > > > they like to see the support. There will be a blog post each day on the > > wordpress from whoever is holding the mapathons. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HOT mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors > skype: jblakegirardot > HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Arun Ganesh @planemad <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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