Questions & Answers - Building mapping communities in rural Tanzania – challenges, successes and lessons learnt

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  1. (Due to technical issues with my hardware I am filing this even before I attended the session) What happens when oral or local tradition differs from a national naming convention or even databases or when different languages collide in spelling or even the whole name? For example, we know from India, that spelling of geographic names differs between Hindi und Bengali, which is resolved by the India Geographical Survey by standardizing geographic names only in English language. And, does the collecting of names by mobile on the field lead into a later process of finding standard names in official GIS systems? Thank you, Matthias (German Wikipedia user Matthiasb).
  2. Very useful project, Janet and well done! What do you think are the importance of the map to the community? Is it about using it to lobby for development or for visibiliity to the world and for potential investments in the area? It seems to me that, in terms of map usage, the villagers probably know where everything is located but perhaps not outsiders. Thanks for showing the video showing reasons why they need maps! Great work! My questions are answered by the video and many thanks!
  3. What an incredible project!! Amazing work and thank you for sharing :) Especially love the emphasis on the lives of girls and that you are highlighting the challenges of equipment and access to wifi even in the local universities. Already on your website and looking forward to learning more about and from your project. Anni (Mansueto Institute at the University of Chicago)
  4. Very inspirational! Does your group use Tasking Manager for setting up mapping tasks and projects?
    1. https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?organisation=Tanzania%20Development%20Trust
  5. Do you welcome remote mappers from other areas to help with your projects? -Greg_Rose
    1. Yes, absolutely!

The video restart in track 1 ? :)

  • This was a different lightning talk happening at the same time :)

The video at the point it dropped is here https://youtu.be/wdl1WA_GvAU?t=1168 And from the begining is here https://youtu.be/wdl1WA_GvAU And for our Slack Channel https://join.slack.com/t/crowd2map/shared_invite/zt-dhhcwlkg-ROTlhoST1Rsz9Edhm67hsw

 https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?organisation=Tanzania%20Development%20Trust