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<p><font face="monospace">Hi,</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">It is great and nice to see OpenStreetMap
community in Ghana growing over the years, especially among
students thanks to the YouthMappers associations.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">We all make mistakes and OSM itself is
very forgiving in most cases but some of these mistakes I
believe can and should be avoided.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">The issue is that only few people are
doing the *dirty* job of cleaning and fixing things; it takes
time.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">I am not aware of any data source in
country that can be compared to what we have in OSM (please
share), thanks to so many hardworking and dedicated volunteers
over the years.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">Having been around OSM in Ghana for
sometime, some of us have seen local/remote issues from both
individuals and corporate *organised mapping activities* that we
believe should not happen.</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">In this mail, I echo briefly those from
some YouthMappers mapping activities, over the years myself and
other volunteers have tried to fix/clean issues from
YouthMappers organised activities and still cleaning, also
drawing attention of individual mappers and association leaders
on Good practices[1], use of real changeset comments that are
not only ###hashtags that does not describe which change have
been made, knowing well that time spent complaining could be
used to fix/help mappers responsible instead but not many have
resulted in much change.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="monospace">In order for us to have the map, mappers,
data and community we desire to make a better OpenStreetMap in
Ghana, we all need to treat this only OSM with much care whilst
learning from each other too. There are some recent questionable
contributions around[2] and others that have motivated this mail
(Please don't try to delete them<i> </i>now<i>, </i>these
recent ones might lead to more issues)<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">PS: Confidence in cc, as the YouthMappers
regional ambassador in Ghana[1], I humbly request you can
communicate this better to all YouthMappers associations and
that we all should follow good practices.<br>
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<p><font face="monospace">1.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice</a><br>
2. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/6.3296/-0.5809">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/6.3296/-0.5809</a><br>
3. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youthmappers.org/regional-ambassadors">https://www.youthmappers.org/regional-ambassadors</a><br>
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Best,
-Enock</pre>
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