[talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Liz
While most of OSM contributors are students and poor, some OSM contributors, especially here, are not... 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

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread John Smith
--- 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

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Greg Harper
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

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Liz
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