Dear Africa OSM community, I am from Zimbabwe and am working with the local Authority in Kariba Town (a small town in the West of the country) to launch an app reliant on OSM data. The app is for reporting local issues and users will geolocate issues before submitting a form. Zimbabwe does not have a great street address system and most streets in Kariba are not officially named. Most houses do not have street numbers or street names/addresses. However, all houses have got what is known as a “Stand Number” which is given to the property owner when they purchase the property.
The local authority would like to upload a shapefile of all property boundaries with stand number attributes. This will greatly improve the geocoding possibilities for Kariba residents. I would like to know if there are other African users out there who have imported similar datasets and have had to deal with non-traditional address data? Thanks so much, Jason
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