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An app developer in Botswana I've been in contact with has made the
first app made in Botswana that uses OSM, Kabby Cab for the
entrepreneurial Kabby system (independent mini buses) in Gaborone
and he's working on expanding it into an app for ordering taxis and
more. As anyone knows getting something like this off the ground
requires willing participation from everyone else, but now they have
the tools to start working towards it.<br>
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The app is at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keneilwe.kabbycab">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keneilwe.kabbycab</a><br>
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I'll let your insight work on finding out the beneficiaries of such
locally made apps for local services.<br>
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Astounding to have to argue for better maps, simply astonishing. As
for the "blank slate is the only way to get dedicated mapping
community" then we are doing great aren't we? 10 years old and we
have millions of small active mapping communities... or do we.<br>
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Building infrastructure happens in many places, not just for map
data but also in all the meta data around that data, workflows,
feedback and more. All things that are being worked on in various
ways and many of which are designed to give people better feedback
and encourage them to contribute more. The blank slate has had a
decade and its done well in many areas, but I for one don't see it
as feasible to give it another two decades to see if the theory,
based on gut feeling, works in the rest of the map.<br>
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--JBJ<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Þann 14.6.2015 18:36, skrifaði Bryce
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:12 AM,
Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <span dir="ltr"><<a
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target="_blank">joi@betra.is</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Who said
anything about Westerners? Projects like mapping entire
Botswana and Lesotho is not for HOT issues, acute
distress. It is for making it easier for the local
economies to grow, to use maps like the Western world does
to great effect.<br>
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<div>Do you -- or anyone -- have any evidence at all as to
who <i>reads</i> and <i>uses</i> the OSM maps in these
areas?<br>
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<div>Is there any evidence at all it's "local" people. Or
is it all western aid agencies?<br>
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<div>Are the OSM maps even in a format that local people or
local businesspeople find useful? <br>
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