John,
I am not sure what you are trying to say, but to help you understand
“Microgrants” I can explain some of them to you.
I am helping the WAMM (West African Motorbike Mappers) who are in Sierra Leone.
The lead for this was Ivan Gayton from Medicins sans Frontieres and Rupert Alan
(A regular
A useful guide to running your Mapathon can be found here
http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/mapathon/
There is no hard and fast rule to running a successful Mapathon. As I point
out, each Mapathon will evolve at it’s own pace and in it’s own direction
dependent the expertise of the people
I have to say that I too am very unhappy about these “automatic “ messages
being sent out in my name. I have got 6 of them in my messages at this very
moment from other validators. They bear no resemblance to the kind of message I
would send and they are very “patronising”, believing that all
I think that the problem lies partly with the routing itself.
While the mind set is about Western type infrastructure expecting a road to and
through every village, this does not apply in other parts of the world.
In many parts there is no fixed rule that there WILL BE a road to every
Hi kretzer, Russ, Eric, Harry,
I always find it encouraging that others are noting that areas have been mapped
for humanitarian purposes. If it had not been mapped like this there would have
been no mapping there at all (or very limited) and none of you would have been
commenting about any of
Please remember when mapping in heavy trees like this one of the main means of
transport is along major rivers. You need to zoom in and follow the river to
spot the small communities that live in close proximity to that river. We
should also be mapping the major rivers as they are in many cases
Thank you Sandy for posting that question.
Please do not add anything on OpenStreetMap itself as that node will appear as
a random spot in the middle of nowhere and have no relevance.
When you find a square has nothing to map what you do is go back to the Tasking
Manager. Above the green
