[Talk-ug] East Africa in the OSM Wiki

Jotam JoMiBe at gmx.de
Fri May 29 18:57:13 UTC 2015


Thanks, Douglas, for appreciating (and for the thumbs). :-)
I would love to see more people contributing to this article on the wiki.
Let's put Africa on the map! :-)

All the best,
Jotam


Am 29.05.2015 um 20:04 schrieb Douglas Ssebaggala:> 
> Thumbs up.
> 
> Great initiative, we should definitely chip in at some point on this. Our neighbours in
> Kenya (Copied), TZ and other East African countries might have some input too on this.
> 
> Another similar initiative is at
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_African_National_Parks_and_Reserves
> 
> Quoting Jotam <JoMiBe at gmx.de>:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to let you know that I started writing a guide for mapping  and tagging in East
>> Africa in the OSM wiki. Up to now, there were no  guidelines whatsoever.
>>
>> I would appreciate any contribution you could make. You might want  to think of anything
>> that would be of particular interest for  mapping in Africa. For example, I'm planning to
>> include a section on  how to tag water-boreholes and -pumps.
>>
>> You can find the guidelines here: 
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/East_Africa_Tagging_Guidelines
>>
>> Thanks everyone and be blessed
>> Jotam
>>
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