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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 18, 2021, 17:31 by jwhelan0112@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"><div>We can do a fair bit of remote mapping but at the end of the day it works better with local input.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are some smartphones in Africa but often internet access is expensive and poor.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What is available?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Osmand is not too bad but I note it's power demands are growing on the OSMand mailing list.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Android:<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go</a>!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">iOS:<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map</a>!!<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I think we need some way to make small areas of Africa available in a compressed format that can be unpacked on a smartphone with limited storage. We need software that is lightweight or can be side loaded to avoid overloading an internet connection and the software needs some basic functionality such as being able to add or edit tags on nodes or ways. It needs to be able to work offline and we need to get those changes home.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think the ability to draw in highways is essential but being able to paste a preset building outline might be nice.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If possible it needs to display the local region and by local I mean say twenty kilometre square.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Local language support would be nice.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts on what is available or what could be built?<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Vespucci fulfills your requirements from what I see.<br></div><div dir="auto">Not sure about OSM Go!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">StreetComplete has offline capability but not via file unpacked on a smartphone.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Both Vespucci and StreetComplete have limitations - in short with Vespuuci<br></div><div dir="auto">people complain about too complex interface, with StreetComplete it<br></div><div dir="auto">is extremely limiting (detail can be added to existing objects, no mapping<br></div><div dir="auto">of new objects).<br></div> </body>
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