Since seemingly allmost noone maps Niger on Openstreetmap, I started recently. Most of the capital city- "Niamey" is now complete, some of the outskirts remain to be mapped. Niamey has high resolution Yahoo imagery.

Niger is a very interesting country from a general as well as from a OSM- Mapper point of view.
Total area: 1,267,000
about 13 million inhabitants
currently the OSM file for the whole country (bzipped) is at 353.6 KB (Germany for example currently has 610 MB)

See Wikipedia for an introduction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

Also, since about 70 % of the country are desert, pistes and roads are visible even on low resolution Yahoo imagery. So some mapping could be done without gps traces.

To jumpstart the mapping process, I currently think about adding GEOnet Names Server data and VMAP0 road data into the OSM database.
Has anyone any thoughts about an import? Objections?

Either answer here or look at the wikipage:

osm.wiki/WikiProject_Niger