Dear OSM community, I am from Zimbabwe and I’m working with the Local Authority in Kariba Town (a small town in the West of the country). The Local Authority would like to launch an app reliant on OSM data. The app is for reporting local issues and users will geolocate issues before submitting a form. Zimbabwe does not have a great street address system and most streets in Kariba are not officially named. Most houses do not have street numbers or street names/addresses. However, all houses have got what is known as a “Stand Number” which is given to the property owner when they purchase their property.
The local authority has good GIS capabilities and has been creating GIS layers for points of interest and building footprints with useful attributes such as the stand number. I am helping them to investigate the possibility of uploading a shapefile of all property boundaries with stand number attributes to OSM. This will greatly improve the geocoding possibilities for Kariba residents. I am following the steps laid out in the Import Guidelines - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines. I would like to inform the imports mailing list of our intentions and I look forward to your comments and advice about this proposed import. Thanks so much, Jason
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