I was scanning down through the wiki and the ones I would have thought of are already covered. I think the next step with that is to group them, or categorise them and make them into a mind map or something. I’m not offering to do that, but really that is an overwhelming level of suggestions that would take a long time to deal with individually.

I think this is amazing, how you manage to overcome adversity to get on with your mapping and learning. There are some people who don’t have these challenges, who get distracted easily and leave little trace of themselves in the map. I think they should all read your diary entry and think about their priorities - and be inspired to be as efficient as you are.

What apps were you using when you were here?

Very happy to assist you in these endeavours. The UK border is an issue that has been high on rhetoric and low on fact. Mostly this is because the event hasnt happened yet, and in the way it is happening nobody can make a solid preparatory intervention. What we will establish here is a living record of an open border, as in very detailed mapping of the main crossings and the infrastructure in place like signage, observation, surveillance, checkpoints, and traffic management.

There is a way to play games and map, try out an app called streetcomplete. ;)

Well done in your diary post.

I agree, there should be a health warning for the way imagery is rectified, especially because sat images provided by Bing for example have new iterations (without warning too), and fluctuating quality.

You are a superb mapper in your own right Montsy. You could beat off the higher node counts in a lot of other countries. Keep up your activity and try to learn how to map the types of things you saw in Milano.

Hi Did you ask for feedback? Like what was the core of the successful proposed talks? Was it that they were closer to the conference theme, or was it that yours wasn’t easy to link to other things?

DeBigC

You are simply awesome Tshedy, you are obsessed :), but in the best way possible. Whether you win this or not you are the best mapper I know simply because you are very accurate and very good at showing others the need for that diligence.

I like it and I want to test it out. Your post is a great intro for me. Thanks!

OSM seems to me to always hook two types of mappers. One group are location focused, and another are “thing” focused, or if I say it another way thematic.

Good to see the tool now cater for both. Can’t wait to start hopping around fixing stuff.

Thank you for this contribution. I enjoyed reading what you said. Is that you hiding in the back?

There is a very different land holding system in the Kingdom to what we are used to (Anglo Saxon influences). Basically all land is held by the King, his trustees being Government where there is no settlement and Chieftains in villages. Protection of the environment is sadly not on the radar for either party. Creating reserves is a bi-product of that. That is why phase two of #MapLesotho will need a big focus on forestry and woodlands. Let’s debate the details… how to trace and how to tag.. At a later stage. For the moment let’s record the hinterlands as accurately as possible so that we can un paralyse Government and the Ministry for Forestry and Land reclamation in seeing the conserving role they can have.

Superb stuff Tshey! !

He ain’t all that :) http://osmfight.neis-one.org/?u1=A-lex-W&u2=DeBigC

Nice work Lekoro. Do you think this tool or keepright is better? What is the advantage of this one?

This is great, the big Mosquito problem does need waterways done in the greatest detail possible.

Just to be clear here… #MapLesotho is a crowdsource, trying to build a base-map of a country out of nothing (there was nothing in 2013). Because 800 people have been involved the interpretations of the hot task instructions differ. There are thousands of errors like the ones shown. The majority of mapping in Lesotho (as shown by Martin Dittus) is done by a very consistent core of <10% of mappers… who are the backbone and consistent influences. There is a phase of work after this one which will address the problems,.. in due course. Geofabrick tools will help, of course a certain level of human intervention is needed too, and validation is what allows us find the problems like the ones above.

Absolutely every single effort to assist #MapLesotho is warmly welcomed. If mappers wish to map other than the task instructions on HOTOSM that’s cool. That principle applies to whether they want to map single noded buildings and allow others draw the building shape, or wish to start harveasting Mapillary to tag buildings. What is needed by the “use cases” developed are details of precise distances between buildings, and the promimity of these buildings to roads, rivers and powerlines.

These suggestions are seriously good ones, and thanks again for them, please help out with validating the three large tasks that remain. Please show up the problem and what you think is the solution. Main point: don’t be afraid to say what you think is efficient, but understand that others may have different priorities.

Really cool, your edits were quite visible after the 1st, so nice discovery for me since I got back from vacation. We (in Ireland) are gathering at the Lesotho embassy on Saturday 30th August 12-5pm for another session. Trying to figure out if we should try to finish the urban task or do something major with the rural. The rural could be cracked quickly if everyone focussed on the intricacies of mountain stream hydrology. Look out for our Australian expert on such things OSM User dallob! He’s a geological hydrologist, ..ahem… to give him his full title.

Sure you’ll get a bit better than porridge. The event is Fingal’s first ever crowdsource and we are studying it to at least understand the trade off, open more data.. have more credibility in calling in a crowdsource.

We also need to add Mohlakeng which is just to the south east of Maseru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohlakeng,_Lesotho