[HOT] Kenyan or African OSM community?

[Harry Wood]

During the Mali mapping work a wiki page was created:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/North_Africa_Tagging

Originally a 'Mali tagging' page was planned, but I suggested generalising more. I guess the process of spotting things in aerial imagery in rural North Africa will be very similar to east africa.

...but also pretty similar to south africa, and actually pretty similar to rural india. Not sure how to organise that actually. Maybe "subtropical" regions all have a lot in common. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klimagürtel-der-erde.png

Aside from that scoping question, I'd say the page could be improved to be more like mapping cheatsheet with actual images for easy reference.

Harry
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> The topic of tagging features specific to African context, good one. Actually really relevant right now, as Map Kibera does more work on sanitation mapping. Why don't we just have that discussion here on this list for now? Can you explain more what kinds of features you've been mapping, and how you've been tagging them? Are you doing remote mapping, or based in Kenya?

>>There are several elements that are special to mapping in African countries, like roads, huts, enclosures etc. and I'd like some feedback on how to map some of those.