<div dir="ltr">Hello Courtney, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for reaching out, please consider joining and reaching out to the OSM Africa Telegram group here <a href="https://t.me/osmafrica">https://t.me/osmafrica</a></div><div>You are most likely to get more feedback there.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Geoffrey</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:39 PM Claire Halleux <<a href="mailto:claire.halleux@hotosm.org">claire.halleux@hotosm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Courtney,<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div>My understanding is that your MapRoulette challenge focuses on some specific countries in Africa.<div>Have you tried communicating this information to the communities / country mailing lists potentially affected or directly interested?</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding the road classification, many contributors in these countries would rather use the following guidelines: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa</a> (as many countries are still missing in the international equivalence page)</div><div><br></div><div>Is TomTom also working in other African countries, such as DR Congo for instance?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Claire (OSM DRC)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:52 PM OSM <<a href="mailto:OSM@tomtom.com" target="_blank">OSM@tomtom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">This is Courtney from TomTom. Data analysis done by TomTom indicates some missing roads or tracks in Africa, as determined by comparison to TomTom’s own map vs OSM. We have identified
approximately 50k tasks in MapRoulette that have not been worked since we posted the challenge about a year ago.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">MapRoulette is a tool that lets you go through potential issues one by one and either correct them or indicate they are not a problem. Here is the guidance that is included in the MapRoulette
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If you are adding a road in a country where you have not mapped before, please first have a look at the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">OSM
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Here is the project link: <span> </span><a href="https://maproulette.org/challenge/13426/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/challenge/13426/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Our editing team will start to work on some of these issues, and we welcome your feedback on our progress.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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