And the first TM is created! http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/456
Small suggestion, start mapping in the north, we will need these the fastest! 2014-03-19 23:23 GMT+01:00 Jorieke Vyncke <jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com>: > Hi all! > > A little message straight out of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of > Congo. I arrived yesterday to support the MSF team (Docters Without > Borders) in their awsome OpenStreetMap mapping week! > > And for this we can really use the remote support of the rest of the HOT > OpenStreetMap world! Yes, by this I also mean the places where the > temperature is a little bit less than here ;-) > > A few weeks ago we had a great mapping party in Berlin, and now almost the > whole roadnetwork of Lubumbashi is mapped. By going on the field today with > the biggest fieldpapers you can image, we however need sometimes more > detailed information! > > For this purpose the creation of two TM is in preparation. One of a part > of the city which is really croweded, with a lot of people, with small > streets, which are not yet mapped as detailled as possible on > OpenStreetMap. So for this taks it will be important to really map in > detail. The buildings, the bigger streets, the smaller alleys ... > The other TM will be a zone where we will go tomorrow (This means in 8 > hours!) with some MSF staff, but more important about 10 geography students > of the local university. We now have field papers of what is existing now, > what is the road network. It would however be good to have a liltle more > info on this neighbourhood. In that way we well be able to orient us soo > much better. Big buildings, or other places you think this might be a > hospital, or a school... in that way we even can use it already tomorrow! > > Curious to see what we will see here tomorrow in the morning! :-) > > And for sure I will come back to you later, because this week in > Lubumbashi just started! > > All the best and mappy night! > > Jorieke >
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