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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hello!
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It’s a good question!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> It is possible that some challenges will occasionally show only a few or no tasks, but this is temporary. We will update these challenges as new data becomes
available—simply check back in a few days. I also think there was an accidental delay between when I sent the notification and when they made the challenges live. I did check them just now, and they do now have items.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I also wanted to note that challenge-specific information for proposed fixes and/or tag updates appears within each challenge description.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you,
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Courtney</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>General discussion for South African users <talk-za@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 3:20 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>General discussion for South African users <talk-za@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Africa QC Project<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Courtney, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It sounds great but all of the maproulette challenges are empty. Do you have a date by when it would contain actual items so we can check back in then?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 17:21, OSM <<a href="mailto:OSM@tomtom.com">OSM@tomtom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We used public instances of OSM QC tools such as Atlas and Osmose in addition to internal validation to detect potential map data issues in several African countries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The checks are mainly focused on potential issues that would impact the road network and tags that affect automotive navigation applications.<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We have created five new regional projects in Africa designed to fix these issues. The projects are organized around one rule violation per country for each unique challenge. We hope
this will make the challenges easier for active users in each country to find.<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">We also structured the challenges to align with OSM tagging guidelines.<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Here are the projects:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Central Africa:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaproulette.org%2Fbrowse%2Fprojects%2F45566&data=04%7C01%7Cosm%40tomtom.com%7C69b01e67f08847e4fc4608d94760bcfa%7C374f80267b544a3ab87d328fa26ec10d%7C0%7C0%7C637619304006113967%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=02Rs8uTw7OyD2rJZobUANzfRevzY8qV8JA1Na6Z%2FMAA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45566
Click to follow link."><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45566</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Eastern Africa:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaproulette.org%2Fbrowse%2Fprojects%2F45567&data=04%7C01%7Cosm%40tomtom.com%7C69b01e67f08847e4fc4608d94760bcfa%7C374f80267b544a3ab87d328fa26ec10d%7C0%7C0%7C637619304006123959%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=Vr3OKM74D3aDkZF0j90IB%2BF5S90ozr%2Fl3VBxLw6Gk4w%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45567
Click to follow link."><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45567</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Northern Africa:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaproulette.org%2Fbrowse%2Fprojects%2F45568&data=04%7C01%7Cosm%40tomtom.com%7C69b01e67f08847e4fc4608d94760bcfa%7C374f80267b544a3ab87d328fa26ec10d%7C0%7C0%7C637619304006123959%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=qDX7FluZZznOZnS9EPMlHJ0RPxNkHn9qzsmYnrYraLs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45568
Click to follow link."><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45568</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Southern Africa:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaproulette.org%2Fbrowse%2Fprojects%2F45569&data=04%7C01%7Cosm%40tomtom.com%7C69b01e67f08847e4fc4608d94760bcfa%7C374f80267b544a3ab87d328fa26ec10d%7C0%7C0%7C637619304006133958%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=dfm1%2FnQOc%2FjKIoyA89ue3dhTJa5bAUeVSuDaHHfBa6E%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45569
Click to follow link."><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45569</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Western Africa:<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaproulette.org%2Fbrowse%2Fprojects%2F45570&data=04%7C01%7Cosm%40tomtom.com%7C69b01e67f08847e4fc4608d94760bcfa%7C374f80267b544a3ab87d328fa26ec10d%7C0%7C0%7C637619304006143949%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=EzOcbDqKmb655OvxiFHxsooSw%2BxvTWCKQU0K6ajgIhE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45570
Click to follow link."><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://maproulette.org/browse/projects/45570</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Let me know if you have any questions,<span class="gmail-m-1516603117794360962apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Courtney</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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