Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Mali

2019-07-01 Thread Nikhil VJ
Hi, I hope making the subject line match the earlier threads brings this email under that thread rather than a separate one. Apologies if that happens. I'm not very involved in organising, am also a beginner (user:Answerquest ). Just slipping in a

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Mali

2019-06-30 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 2019-06-30 19:12, john whelan wrote: > The first major concern is "Working for a mapping project with Apple." the concern here is paid mappers and the quality of their work. To be fair to the Apple-paid guys, one of them did a beautiful job with waterways. I haven't looked at other

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Mali

2019-06-30 Thread Pierre Béland via HOT
John some answers about your concerns We have our own difficulties in countries like Canada to recruit contributors. Not surpsingly, for  African communities with more difficult economic conditions, they have poor, unstable internet access and less time to contribute.   Problems are multiple in

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] Mali

2019-06-30 Thread john whelan
I think the concerns are more to do with how do we clean it up. The first major concern is "Working for a mapping project with Apple." the concern here is paid mappers and the quality of their work. The second is there are a fair number of imports of varying quality. Most schools I suspect are