About me

I have been an OpenStreetMap user on #MapLesotho from 7th February 2015 trained by three beardies, Ciarán Staunton, Dave Corley and Colin Broderick. Thanks to them Lesotho has equipped mappers making a huge difference to their country.

Becoming a maker

Ever since I joined I made it a habit of mapping at least once every week, then got more hooked to an extend that I mapped for an hour everyday. The mapping tool I use is JOSM because it can work offline I only need to be online to upload. In Lesotho internet is not accessible for most of us and so JOSM is an ideal tool. I contributed in most of the tasks in #MapLesotho, and made sure tiles were changing from white to gold then green.

My future with OSM

This year February there was yet another training and I moved to the next level. How do i use the data?. We were divided into three groups and I was in an analysis team with Mpaleng Oliphant, Refiloe Semethe, Seitebatso Mohlahatsa and Tšolo Khoanyane. We were trained on how to use the data we have using QGIS by Colin. Here we create different Scenarios that help us find answers to questions that might arise from different ministries, departments or stakeholders etc.

I might be a user of the data but that also helped me realise what’s missing in mapping and currently working on the quality of the map.