WikiProject Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in Africa and mapping is still in very early stage. Please join the team! :-)
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Things that are done
- Freetown now has a very good map. Probably the most complete available from any source.
- The peninsular road is complete from GPS survey.
Goals
If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress. And then get on with it :-)
- Freetown - Map the capital city based on the available Yahoo satelitte image
- English names (tagged as int_name for places and streets)
- Establish contact to local people who can support tagging of street names
- Get additional material for mapping such as additional satelitte images or GPX tracks from people who live in or travelled to Sierra Leone (if you have such files and don't want or know how to map it yourself, please send it to Waldrenner
Participants
- Waldrenner just set up this project and started some mapping
- Dave Stanley is a regular visitor and has added to Freetown and other areas.
Sources
- Sierra Leone in Wikipedia is a good starting point for additional information on the country itself
- Some maps of Sierra Leone, districts and cities. See also the link in menue Library > Geographic Data > Planning Maps >...
- Voyagemap.com shows MS Virtual Earth images with city and village names
- VMap1 vector data from Mapability.com - data seems to be from 1996 and most WikiProjects refuse an upload of the VMAP data due to low accuracy. Could maybe serve as a starting point for offline mapping? No idea yet how to convert the data to OSM.
Places
Some of the major towns are
- Freetown, Wikipedia (local), (8.48,-13.26, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Makeni, Wikipedia (local), (8.88,-12.05, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Bo, Wikipedia (local), (7.97,-11.74, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Kenema, Wikipedia (local), (7.88,-11.19, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Koindu, Wikipedia (local), (8.38,-10.41, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Lunsar, Wikipedia (local), (8.69,-12.55, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Taiama, Wikipedia (local), (8.20,-12.06, OSM, T@H, Freeway, Bugs, Compare, g, mq, mm, ve, what?)
- Magburaka
- Kabala
- Lunsar
- Port Loko
further links: Category: Cities, towns and villages in Sierra Leone in Wikipedia
