<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">Hi everyone,</span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class="">This is Andrew from the Apple team. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;" class="">I recently posted a lot of new MapRoulette challenges for mapping unmapped towns in various countries throughout the continent. </span><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">It was created using data from Pascal Neis’s Unmapped Places site (<a href="https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/unmapped" class="">https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/unmapped</a>) which shows towns, villages and hamlets that don’t have residential or unclassified roads nearby. Here is what I’ve created so far, let me know if there are any other countries you’d be interested in and I can post them.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">DR Congo:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13529" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13529</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Ethiopia:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13526" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13526</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Ghana:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13527" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13527</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Nigeria: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13528" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13528</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">South Africa: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/12452" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/12452</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Tanzania:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/12458" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/12458</a><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Uganda:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13611" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13611</a></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;" class="">West Africa:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13524" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/13524</a></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">There’s a full list of all the unmapped places challenges I've posted here: <a href="https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/39262" class="">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/39262</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><span class="">In MapRoulette you can either pick a random task to fix or click on a specific one. If you want to do tasks around a certain location, such as somewhere you are familiar with, you can click on one from the map view, and then click "Next task: Nearby" when you finish it.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">In addition, we recently created a JOSM paint style that is aimed at making mapping easier and finding errors quickly. It has lots of built in checks for geometry and tagging problems for roads and other features. It’s an updated version of the paint style we shared at State of the Map Africa in 2017. </span><font face="Helvetica-Light" class="">Here is where you can download it and instructions: </font><a href="https://github.com/osmlab/applepaintstyles" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">https://github.com/osmlab/applepaintstyles</a></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">I hope this is useful! Let me know if you have any feedback.</span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;"><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light;">Andrew</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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