Hi all,
HOT, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will begin a
new project in Uganda starting in January. This is an exciting project
which focuses on mapping access to financial services with the objective of
increasing coverage of these services, enabling poor people to becom
Steven and Martin,
Thanks for all the material and ideas. This has certainly gotten me to
think about the project I have proposed on a much deeper level. There are
several secondary benefits to HOT that have helped me along. I've become
better at public speaking, organization, management, acquirin
Busy week for me so haven’t had time to read in detail, but wanted to briefly
say that I now think that the “secondary benefits” of HOT participation are
likely of some importance; social experiences, self image, working for a good
cause, etc. This is important to consider because in contrast to
Hi,
I agree that smaller squares are generally a better idea - something
that an experienced mapper will finish in 10 minutes will generally take
a whole mapathon for someone new.
But - couple of notes of caution;
Highways & other longer features. For a straight road, you place a node
at e
Picking up on Jim Smith's comments about splitting tiles, I agree with the
idea of splitting tiles where the task is for buildings only - but if
highways of any form are the target for the task, I think splitting makes
it less easy. I find that for full size areas I often need to go into an
adjace
