[HOT] Import of Tanga Building Footprints

[Antidius Kawamala]

Hello community,
The subject of this message is to inform the HOT community
of an import prepared by Living lab initiative as part of a project to scale up the Open Street Mapping project, Missing Maps Initiative by combining data obtained from manual digitization from the latest satellite image 2019 In Tanga region.

This import consists of more than 500 hundred thousand footprints of buildings located in all over the Tanga region.

A wiki page with details of the proposed import is available
here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tanga_Building_Footprints_Import<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tanga_Building_Footprints_Import>
Tanga Building Footprints Import - OpenStreetMap Wiki<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tanga_Building_Footprints_Import>
This is a plan for the addition of building footprint data for Tanga City, Tanzania.The import is currently going through the Import Guidelines steps, and it should be soon an ongoing crowdsourced task.
wiki.openstreetmap.org

Experienced OSM contributors who would be interested in participating in
this import will be welcome.

A similar message regarding this import was shared on the OSM
local OSM Community and WhatsApp group for OSM Tanzania to gather feedbacks.

Don't hesitate to share your comments, questions, or problems
related to this import before it begins.

Regards



Antidius Kawamala
GIS Specialist and Researcher (dLab)
M: +255769806836
Founder of RootGIS<https://rootgis.wordpress.com/>
Skype: Antidius Kawamala | Twitter: @Antidius36
P.O. Box 33335 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | College of ICT, UDSM- Kijitonyama campus | dLab <https://dlab.or.tz/>
[cid:6d5d3050-a6f7-4f3e-8313-c68249bd1dbe]


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/attachments/20210607/7e2366a1/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Outlook-urdjw4zb.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 18136 bytes
Desc: Outlook-urdjw4zb.jpg
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/attachments/20210607/7e2366a1/attachment.jpg>