Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor (students can ignore this) that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the ground and provide some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers and any other sort of help. While this is very laudable, when ever I start pondering about this I keep coming back to how under mapped Australia is. It's quite frustrating, a lot of those countries have people willing and able, but lack the technology to do something about it, and we lack in people that are willing and able. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly mentoring the mapper to assit with getting the edits right. Won't be sending any equipment, but are happy to assist in this way. 2009/7/12 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com --- On Sun, 12/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor (students can ignore this) that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the ground and provide some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers and any other sort of help. While this is very laudable, when ever I start pondering about this I keep coming back to how under mapped Australia is. It's quite frustrating, a lot of those countries have people willing and able, but lack the technology to do something about it, and we lack in people that are willing and able. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Greg Harper wrote: Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly mentoring the mapper to assit with getting the edits right. Won't be sending any equipment, but are happy to assist in this way. Sounds great - mentoring is very worthwhile. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
