<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9782971011"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="">Hi Simon</span></div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Small devices either GPS or smatphones can do the job.</div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Etrex GPS are still bought for the various training
missions organized. At the same time, we see a progress of smarphones among the small devices. <br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">With HOT, either for Training sessions
like in Lubumbushi this spring, or for teams in context of humanitarian emergencies, we have a few reports that this is useful. At the same time, the progress is slow because the humanitarians are often not techies, have other matters to take care and the Packages (ie. Appl, specific menus for humanitarians, documentation, downloading imagery) not yet adapted to their context.<br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">With the various functionalities of the smarphones applications (ie. audio notes, notes, pictures, POI's edit), I think that in the long term they offer quite a potential of bringing new contributors.</div><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><span class="yiv9782971011" style=""></span><div
class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv9782971011" style="">If you look at the wiki page for the Ebola Outbrreak, we assure to provide download services updated daily for both GPS and OSMAnd Android.</span></div>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response#Offline_Navigation_on_Small_Devices <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">It would be interesting to study to which extent these various GPS and smarphones are used.<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><div class="yiv9782971011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">To
progress with this, we need to adapt to the various groups contributing
with such devices.<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"></div><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><div class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"></span><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"></div> <div class="yiv9782971011" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"> <div class="yiv9782971011" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv9782971011" dir="ltr" style=""> <hr class="yiv9782971011" style="" size="1"> <font class="yiv9782971011" style="" face="Arial" size="2"> <b class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Simon Poole
<simon@poole.ch><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"> <b class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="font-weight:bold;">À :</span></b> osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"> <b class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="font-weight:bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Samedi 9 août 2014 13h43<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"> <b class="yiv9782971011" style=""><span class="yiv9782971011" style="font-weight:bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Osmf-talk] Tanzania<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv9782971011yqt8134264146" id="yiv9782971011yqtfd30792"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"> </div></font><div class="yiv9782971011yqt8134264146" id="yiv9782971011yqtfd59502"> </div></div><div class="yiv9782971011yqt8134264146" id="yiv9782971011yqtfd95517"> <div class="yiv9782971011" style=""><br class="yiv9782971011"
style="" clear="none">Slightly off topic, but it is something that I've been wanting to ask<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">for a while: when we are talking about using devices in developing<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">countries to collect geo data, is a GPS still the device of choice, and<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">not low-end smart phones? I'm aware that the GPS devices naturally might<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">be provided by /borrowed from a third party.<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">Simon<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none"><div class="yiv9782971011" id="yiv9782971011yqtfd60211" style=""><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">Am 09.08.2014
18:41, schrieb Mark Iliffe:<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> Hi Andy,<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> I spend a lot of time in Tanzania and have done a bit of mapping there, one of my experiences has been the lack of current resources (like learnOSM) in Swahili. I’ll have a chat with my colleagues about this as there will be (soon I hope!) more OSM mapping in Tanzania.<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> Best,<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> Mark<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> On 9 Aug 2014, at 15:58, Andy Mabbett <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9782971011" style="" ymailto="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank"
href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">> <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> I have
met someone from the Tanzania Development Trust, who has asked<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> for teaching resources for new OSM editors and data reusers, which<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> they can pass on to colleagues in that country.<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> What would you recommend? Do we have any active mappers or OSM<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> advocates in that country?<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>><br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> -- <br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> Andy Mabbett<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> @pigsonthewing<br class="yiv9782971011" style="" clear="none">>> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9782971011" style="" target="_blank"
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