<p dir="ltr">Hi Janet, </p>
<p dir="ltr">While I know it is possible to do such things with those apps, I wouldn't know how. But it helps asking around. Or posting on their issue trackers as suggested. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Same goes for querying data provided by Osmand and <a href="http://maps.me">maps.me</a> editors. Must be possible, but not trivial. I think the best way would be to create an rss feed of relevant changesets (hard) , loading those in an online spreadsheet (easy) , and marking them as checked when you had a look (very easy). </p>
<p dir="ltr">I think my friends in Bolivia would like to have such a thing too. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Joost </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Op 20-apr.-2016 11:05 schreef <<a href="mailto:j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org">j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="auto">Dear Joost</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks very much for that. It would be fantastic to create an African or even Swahili Maps.me with relevant tags, as I think this is definitely a great way to get people on the ground mapping. </p>
<p dir="auto">I'm currently writing this on my phone on a bus in Kakonko, and can't check out the links yet, but do you know if there is a way in osm to bring up all the points in an area that have been added via Maps.me as often you're mapping onto a blank page so points are unlikely to correspond exactly to a building, but could be corrected in osm with reference to the satellite image.. </p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks <br>
Janet <br><br><br></p>
<p dir="auto">From: joost schouppe<br>
Sent: Wednesday 20 April 09:45<br>
Subject: Re: [HOT] Maps.Me in Tanzania<br>
To: <a href="mailto:j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org" target="_blank">j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org</a><br></p>
<p dir="auto">Hi,</p>
<p dir="auto">Their help section does not state an exact update frequency [1], but it seems to be somewhere between a couple of times a year and every few weeks. However, on this page, you can see the creation date of the file being pushed now [2] (25th of March right now).<br></p>
<p dir="auto">They have gone open source with the code [3], so theoretically it should be possible to make a Maps.me with African presets.<br></p>
<p dir="auto">Of course, if you need full flexibility, Osmand is probably better out of the box.<br></p>
<p dir="auto">Considering the risk of making duplicate entries: in case of doubt, always make a note instead of a POI. But even with updated maps, I'm seeing a lot of duplicate entries by newbie mappers with <a href="http://maps.me" target="_blank">maps.me</a>. I don't really mind, as they seem to be bending the curve [4] of the OSM-world in general. <br></p>
<p dir="auto">1: <a href="http://maps.me/en/help#mapdata" target="_blank">http://maps.me/en/help#mapdata</a></p>
<p dir="auto">2: <a href="http://direct.mapswithme.com/direct/latest/" target="_blank">http://direct.mapswithme.com/direct/latest/</a></p>
<p dir="auto">3: <a href="https://github.com/mapsme" target="_blank">https://github.com/mapsme</a></p>
<p dir="auto">4: <a href="https://twitter.com/osm_be/status/722101255779323904" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/osm_be/status/722101255779323904</a><br><br></p>
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