<div dir="ltr">Hi Severin, <div><br></div><div>To answer some of your questions..</div><div><br></div><div>- The TM jobs should be set up later this week</div><div>- They will cover the bulk of the country. The center of Lesotho is mostly mountainous so there will likely be very few settlements to be mapped, but there will be rivers, streams & roads. The rivers & streams are important due to flooding / drought risks that exist in Lesotho. </div>
<div>- Its possible I will create relations to set up the TM jobs, have to see what works best (relations or manual) as the rural task will be large, but there will be several urban areas (under the second TM job) that may intersect. To give you an idea, I've been playing with uMap to put a rough outline together of where we want to map <a href="http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/lesotho-mapathon_11639#8/-29.681/29.073">http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/lesotho-mapathon_11639#8/-29.681/29.073</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Over the last 2 weeks, we have been reaching out to many, many individuals and groups. </div><div>- Every regional OSM mailing list recieved an email asking for support. There have been responses but mostly single mappers saying they will join in on the 25th. In addition, we started with 3 groups hosting mapathons (Ireland, Lesotho & Germany) and in recent days we have added 3 more, one in Poland, another in the US and most importantly, a 2nd event in Lesotho itself on the opposite side of the country</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Some diary posts outlining the event / plans etc</div><div><br></div><div>- Identified and contacted over 20 NGO's involved in working in Lesotho in some capacity, some (MSF) have come back saying they will host their own mapathon, some others (Help Lesotho) are looking for guidance so I've tried steering them to local mappers </div>
<div><br></div><div>- There are 3 of us spamming twitter on a daily basis which has resulted in the numbers growing for the Irish event especially</div><div><br></div><div>- Reached out to open data groups, and one prominent member of that community, Jason Hare, is organising his own event and has promised to start tweeting to his followers to get started on their own event - @jasonmhare. the Irish open data community have also been communicating about the event for us. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div>- I've spoken with Derrick Rethans and he has agreed to make one of his awesome videos for us. This will be VERY important when Irish OSM members (Fingal Council staff) travel to Lesotho again next year as it will be used, along with other evidence, to show the power of what OSM can do to officials and locals alike</div>
<div><br></div><div>- We've had contact from a consultancy firm here in Ireland which is involved with the Highland Development Agency in Lesotho. They have a lot of data on the highland areas, and are currently investigating inhouse to see if the data can be released to us (we will do our own due diligence on the data if given the approval). Its likely we will pull them into the mapathon event in Dublin also</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure I am forgetting things, but that should give you an idea of where we are at the moment. We're also starting to see a bump in the numbers currently mapping Lesotho based on the publicity though I'm aware this will die down once the 25th comes and goes. <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>One area where we want to gain more traction is with the larger regional OSM groups e.g. Germany, France, Italy, USA, Russia etc etc, so if anyone here are members of those communities I would ask you to publicise this event to your local members. We are currently estimating just short of 100 people will be mapping on the day. The target, however optimistic, is to push that figure to 250. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Lastly, does anyone know who I would talk to about getting tweets sent from the @openstreetmap account. It would be of benefit to be able to reach out to its 25,000 followers</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div>
<div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div>OSM - DaCor</div><div>Tiwtter - @dacor_ie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Severin Menard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:severin.menard@gmail.com" target="_blank">severin.menard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Dave,<br><br></div>Please keep up updated especially when the TM jobs are ready. Will they really cover the whole country? They will be relation-based TM jobs?<br>
<br>Apart the worlwide, online community, is there any other specific group or universities that would be interested to participate to such a Mapathon? <br>
<br></div>Sincerely,<br><br>Severin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Dave Corley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davecorley@gmail.com" target="_blank">davecorley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">First off, apologies for cross posting, trying to spread the word to as large an audience as possible. </span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">tl;dr, a group of Irish OpenStreetMap members are organising a mapathon on 25th July to map large sections of Lesotho and we are looking for individuals or groups to participate from around the world. Presently we have 3 groups participating from Lesotho, Ireland, & Germany. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">We will be using the HOT tasking manager to coordinate 2 large tasks</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">- Rural - identify and map the outline of settlements, the major routes to and from these settlements and any major features (rivers, lakes etc)</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">- Urban - Trace building outlines and complete road networks</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">A bit of background....</span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></div><div><div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">In conjunction with Action Ireland Trust [1], a number of Irish OSM members from Fingal County Council [2] traveled to Lesotho for a number of weeks in 2013 and then again early in 2014 to assist and train district planners in utilising OSM data. This was done in agreement with the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftainship and the Chief Physical Planner of Lesotho. The trip culminated in an historic memorandum of understanding between Lesotho and Fingal County Council [3]</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">Another group are planning to travel in early 2015 with the following objectives as part of their visit:</span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">- Create an OSM community in Lesotho by engaging with local communities and providing training and guidance on surveying and updating OSM</span><br>
</div><div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">- Create a basemap of the country for use by all</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">- Create an evidence base for decision makers</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">- Create an awakeness of Urban Design</span></font></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">Further details can be found on the wiki page [4]</span><br>
</div><div><div style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><p style="margin:6px 0px">Thanks, <br>
</p></div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">Dave (DaCor)</span> </div><div><br></div><div>
[1] - <a href="http://actionirelandtrust.ie/" target="_blank">http://actionirelandtrust.ie/</a></div><div>[2] - <a href="http://www.fingalcoco.ie/" target="_blank">http://www.fingalcoco.ie/</a></div><div>[3] - <span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px"><a href="http://www.corr.ie/blog/4567078398/Fingal-County-Council-sign-historic-agreement-with-Lesotho-Government/7628289" target="_blank">http://www.corr.ie/blog/4567078398/Fingal-County-Council-sign-historic-agreement-with-Lesotho-Government/7628289</a> </span></div>
<div><font color="#141823" face="Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.31999969482422px">[4] - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lesotho_Mapathon" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lesotho_Mapathon</a></span><br>
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