Hi Bouke, Yes please :) - even if you've already digitised a GPS trace, it's useful for us to have GPS traces in the database to help with alignment etc.
Dan 2015-01-14 20:25 GMT+00:00 Bouke Pieter Ottow <boukepie...@gmail.com>: > Hi John, Blake and list, > > I have somewhere on my computer still some traces of my visit to Masai Mara > (Kenya) and Nyungwe Forest (Rwanda). Would this be interesting to use? > Although I already digitized the last one mentioned. > > Regards, > Bouke Pieter > > On Wed Jan 14 2015 at 6:50:25 PM Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> Congrats on kicking off the Projects! >> >> Do you or anyone on the list have any idea how we can get in contact >> with "adventure tourism" or "eco tourism" people (consumers or vendors)? >> >> Companies that offer eco or adventure tourism rely on these areas >> staying protected so they have an incentive to help us with on the >> ground with gps traces or gps cooridinates for PoI's. >> >> Not to mention they would get credit as the source for helping collect >> this data in OSM. >> >> And the same thing for consumers who go on eco/adventure tourism, they >> have an incentive help keep these areas protected and would probably >> love to help contribute to these projects in some way and have on the >> ground experience. >> >> How can we get our message out to these places and people? >> >> Websites? Facebook groups? Travel industry trade organizations? >> >> If people can identify people/places/organizations I am glad to start >> spreading the word, but my limited tries so far have not realized any >> results. >> >> Or are you already working with companies or groups? >> >> cheers, >> Blake >> >> >> >> On 1/14/2015 5:48 PM, John White wrote: >> > Hi All >> > I am please to announce that work has begun on Mapping Africa's >> > Protected Areas. The first two National Parks selected for mapping >> > are Serengeti National Park (Task 834 >> > <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/834>) and Niokolo-Koba National Park >> > (Task 721 <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/721>). >> > >> > As many of you are aware, Africa's National Parks, Nature Reserves and >> > Game Reserves are an important and sustainable sources of foreign >> > currency, jobs and upliftment in many countries on the African >> > continent. Your assistance in mapping protected areas will help support >> > tourism activity and therefore the surrounding communities. >> > >> > For more information on the list of reserves to be mapped, please visit: >> > Our WikiProject >> > >> > <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_African_National_Parks_and_Reserves> >> > Our Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/mappingprotectedareas> >> > >> > Regards >> > John White >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > HOT mailing list >> > HOT@openstreetmap.org >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot