[HOT] MapLesotho Phase 2

[Arun Ganesh]

This is so great to hear about the building of a local mapping community.
Congrats to everyone!

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <
blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Ciarán Staunton
> <ciaran.staunton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to just let everyone here know that #MapLesotho has now got a
> > complete basemap.
>
> Congrats to everyone who helped make that a reality!
>
> >
> > Now the #MapLesotho story moves on. The flocking and sustaining effects
> of
> > mappers here on hotosm creates a sense of purpose. Lesotho now has an
> > indigenous  mapping community of 10 regular mappers and 70 others who
> > participate when they can. They are big enough now to sustain 11 tasks
> and
> > are mapping all June in a relay fashion starting today in Quthing and
> going
> > around eleven venues in Lesotho clockwise until the 30th.
>
> Wow, all of this is awesome!
>
> > Lesotho is a disaster preparedness mapping project. It doesn't need your
> > urgent attention. All the same stop on by the tasks - 1941 today - to
> take a
> > tile or validate.
>
> There is no greater pleasure in HOTOSM for me than taking an hour or
> two and doing #MapLesoto tiles when you or Dave mention it. I
> encourage everyone to take some time and join with the people, remote
> and local, of #MapLesotho on the projects Ciarán and Dave post about.
> It is a real opportunity to be a part of this incredible, successful,
> long running community building and mapping project. Everyone who is
> part of the HOT Community for longer than 6 months probably has some
> #MapLesoto tiles in their Tasking Manager history :) Lets all go get a
> few more and if you have not mapped any #MapLesotho tiles yet, now is
> your chance!
>
> Best wishes,
> Blake
>
> > they like to see the support. There will be a blog post each day on the
> > wordpress from whoever is holding the mapathons.
> >
> >
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Arun Ganesh
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