Everybody is invited to help out with Kosovo and Albania.

I know that there are alot of new people working on Haiti,
and if that project is saturated and you are looking for something to do to help out, please help out the people in the balkans.

We have been getting a lot of raw data and there is so much work to do.

We have 10 million gps+ points that need to be traced (from Logistic Plus a delivery company)

http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints2 http://www.archive.org/details/GpsDataFromKosovoDatapoints3

We have The entire Streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iMMAP, Information Management & Mine Action Programs iMMAP http://www.immap.org/index.php )

http://www.archive.org/details/Kosova_Road_Data_from_iMMAP http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-delivery-of-road-data-for-kosovo.html

We have Highres maps of Prishtina with every building , parcel and street on it from the town. http://www.archive.org/details/PrishtinaStreetsOSM

And we have lots of clean up to do, validation, removing of duplicates. We have also the problem of naming of the streets etc.

For Albania we also have the GNS names I have converted, We have the street network from DLR in vector format. I have imported only the Shkoder region.

Here are the street data files from DLR:
http://www.archive.org/details/OpenstreetmapAlbaniaRoadDataFromDeutschenZentrumsFrLuft-Und

Here are the GNS Names from Albania :
http://www.archive.org/details/OpenstreetmapAlbania

and we have lots of high resolution photos that need to be traced.
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2010/Albania/181_en.html

I am posting links to them here, but all of these are documented in my diary somewhere, if you are are interested and cannot find them, let me know. Most of the data is posted on archive.org just look. Or just ask me.

Now we have a team in Kosovo that is working on mapping, They are doing a great job but many of them are new.

Also, I don't want to forget to thank drlizau who was the mapper of Kosovo before I even started. She has been online helping the kosovars get started,
she has donated GPS devices and been a great help!

There is so much work that we would need another 10 people working on it !

So if anyone has time and wants to help, all help is welcome!

Here are the wikiprojects, I will add all the links there
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Kosovo
osm.wiki/WikiProject_Shkoder

Thanks!
Mike