[OSM-talk] Smartphone mapping in Africa

[john whelan]

We can do a fair bit of remote mapping but at the end of the day it works
better with local input.

There are some smartphones in Africa but often internet access is expensive
and poor.

What is available?

Osmand is not too bad but I note it's power demands are growing on the
OSMand mailing list.

I think we need some way to make small areas of Africa available in a
compressed format that can be unpacked on a smartphone with limited
storage.  We need software that is lightweight or can be side loaded to
avoid overloading an internet connection and the software needs some basic
functionality such as being able to add or edit tags on nodes or ways.  It
needs to be able to work offline and we need to get those changes home.

I don't think the ability to draw in highways is essential but being able
to paste a preset building outline might be nice.

If possible it needs to display the local region and by local I mean say
twenty kilometre square.

Local language support would be nice.

Thoughts on what is available or what could be built?

I seem to recall some schools have very basic computers?

Thanks John
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