<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Tommy, <div><br></div><div>I am happy for this initiative. I did OpenStreetMapping of roads, rooftops, health centres, swamps and sectional boundaries of Bo City, Sierra Leone between 2012 and 2016. I also did some mapping of the road network in Kenema City. <br><br>I hope you have a national mapping plan which I I’m thinking will be really useful for researchers, planners and the city councils. </div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck with your fundraising </div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Alfred </div><div><br></div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:13, OSM Sierra Leone <<a href="mailto:osmsierraleone@gmail.com">osmsierraleone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Hello</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm Tommy Charles a coordinator at Openstreetmap- Sierra Leone which is a registered Non-Governmental Organization in Sierra Leone. We're are engaged in humanitarian mapping with the application of Openstreetmap and other open data collection and visualization techniques. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Currently, we are working to revive and expand our mapping community but we lack all the prerequisites to do so. These prerequisites include, a permanent venue to hold mapathons, computers, mobile phones and Internet facilities. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Our main goal is to have a community with a strong foundation and structures to execute mapping, community awareness and exposure projects similar to Map Kibera, Open Cities and vulnerability assessments. This will be very essential in a country that experiences disease outbreaks, Landslides and flooding every year </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Against this backdrop we are seeking funds to procure computers, mobile phones and portable internet sources for mapping, data collection, workshops and other beneficial activities . </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With these we'll be able to have a memorandum of understanding with the Geographic Information System- Laboratory at Fourah Bay College in order to use the Laboratory as a permanent location to hold mapathons, workshops and activities of our community. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We are kindly pleading for your donations in order to achieve this goal. Please do so by checking out our donation page through the link below <span style="font-family:sans-serif">where you'll find our donation link. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMTDsierraleone&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNGw4IMZjNz6-q54KXhOts1100cuwA" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FMTDsierraleone&sa=D&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNGw4IMZjNz6-q54KXhOts1100cuwA</a> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Our community will appreciate your kind efforts whether big or small to keep it alive and sustainable to continue its humanitarian course.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto">Tommy Charles </div><div dir="auto">Coordinator </div></div>
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