[OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson <joi at betra.is>
wrote:

Who said anything about Westerners? Projects like mapping entire Botswana
> and Lesotho is not for HOT issues, acute distress. It is for making it
> easier for the local economies to grow, to use maps like the Western world
> does to great effect.
>

Do you -- or anyone -- have any evidence at all as to who *reads* and *uses*
the OSM maps in these areas?
Is there any evidence at all it's "local" people.  Or is it all western aid
agencies?

Are the OSM maps even in a format that local people or local businesspeople
find useful?
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