I wish to add some nuance to Frederik's opinion:
On 12/05/2020 07:06, Frederik Ramm wrote:
The scarce resource in this project are still mappers, not consumers.
as far as my experience goes, in most places where I've been the scarce
resource is people on the spot: __local__ mappers with access to the
internet and some motivation to share knowledge.
an other rare factor is the ability to talk cross-communities. you might
not notice it here in this group, or in the Telegram group, because the
participants are all from the same community, while there are others,
quite different from what you meet here. there's people who will require
"speak my language (please), because I don't understand yours" (and this
will be said in whichever language), and the language barrier is the
least of the problems, because you may well read/write Spanish, or
English, but I've witnessed Americans and Europeans speaking the same
language, but not managing to focus on the issue, because —if you ask
me— some irrelevant but fundamental formal error.
let's leave the above aside for a moment.
I do not know how to motivate local mappers. people simply do not share
knowledge if there's not a short term payback, I'm guessing here, but
maybe they fear losing the exclusivity of the information, I don't
know. bus drivers were happy to keep a phone in their car to let me
record the route, but I've approached tourist operators, asking for
"where's that petroglyph", or "would you record how you walk to the
waterfall", to no avail, during a couple of months in a touristic area
in Panama. "strategically" touristic. just check who's been mapping
the area of Santa Fe, Veraguas, Panama, how many local people. and how
many GPS traces are available. it's not just 'mappers' which are
scarce, it's the whole idea of sharing information which should be
worked upon.
and who knows the cross-community ability would help.
Mario Frasca
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