[Talk-africa] Africa Missing Roads Project

[Geoffrey Kateregga]

Hello Courtney,

Thanks for reaching out, please consider joining and reaching out to the
OSM Africa Telegram group here https://t.me/osmafrica
You are most likely to get more feedback there.

Kind regards,
Geoffrey

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:39 PM Claire Halleux <claire.halleux at hotosm.org>
wrote:

> Hello Courtney,
>
> My understanding is that your MapRoulette challenge focuses on some
> specific countries in Africa.
> Have you tried communicating this information to the communities / country
> mailing lists potentially affected or directly interested?
>
> Regarding the road classification, many contributors in these countries
> would rather use the following guidelines:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa (as many countries
> are still missing in the international equivalence page)
>
> Is TomTom also working in other African countries, such as DR Congo for
> instance?
>
> Regards,
> Claire (OSM DRC)
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 10:52 PM OSM <OSM at tomtom.com> wrote:
>
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>> Hello OSM Africa,
>>
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>>
>> This is Courtney from TomTom. Data analysis done by TomTom indicates some
>> missing roads or tracks in Africa, as determined by comparison to TomTom’s
>> own map vs OSM. We have identified approximately 50k tasks in MapRoulette
>> that have not been worked since we posted the challenge about a year ago.
>>
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>>
>> MapRoulette is a tool that lets you go through potential issues one by
>> one and either correct them or indicate they are not a problem. Here is the
>> guidance that is included in the MapRoulette challenge description:
>>
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>> If you are adding a road in a country where you have not mapped before,
>> please first have a look at the OSM wiki
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway:International_equivalence> to
>> confirm the highway class to use. Please add the road if you can verify
>> that it exists from aerial imagery sources.
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>> Here is the project link:  https://maproulette.org/challenge/13426/
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>> Our editing team will start to work on some of these issues, and we
>> welcome your feedback on our progress.
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>> Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Courtney <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Courtiney>
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>>
>> TomTom Editing/Activities
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/TomTom>
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