Hello, thank you again for helping to improve the map of Uganda ! Some improvements you can make::
1. Please use Maxar imagery instead of Bing, Bing is 10 years old, Maxar about 1 year. So many of the buildings you mapped are no longer there or moved. When you use Maxar, please don't forget to align the imagery with the existing roads before you start mapping.
Size is OK this time, good job !
Thank you and keep on mapping ! Gr. Bert Araali

Hello, thank you again for helping to improve the map of Uganda ! Some improvements you can make::
1. Please use Maxar imagery instead of Bing, Bing is 10 years old, Maxar about 1 year. So many of the buildings you mapped are no longer there or moved. When you use Maxar, please don't forget to align the imagery with the existing roads before you start mapping.
2. You mapped the buildings about double their actual size. Please correct and try to be more accurate. If we want to add details later other mappers would have to redo all your work.
3. Please resolve warnings when uploading. There are 2 buildings on top of a road.
Thank you and keep on mapping ! Gr. Bert Araali

Hello, thank you for helping to improve the map of Uganda ! You made a good effort but I kindly request you to make some improvements:
1. Please use Maxar imagery instead of Bing, Bing is 10 years old, Maxar about 1 year. So many of the buildings you mapped are no longer there or moved. When you use Maxar, please don't forget to align the imagery with the existing roads before you start mapping.
2. You mapped the buildings about double their actual size. Please correct and try to be more accurate. If we want to add details later other mappers would have to redo all your work.
3. Please resolve warnings when uploading. There is a building on top of a road.
Don't be discouraged, we all make these mistakes when we start. In case you need more help you can always ask me. Thank you and keep on mapping ! Gr. Bert Araali

Hello, thanks for improving Uganda's map. Maybe next time consider using Maxar Imagery, it is much more recent (up to 1 year) where Bing imagery is up to 10 years old. Don't forget to align your imagery before starting to map. Enjoy !

Well noticed Yusuf, the building was mssing. Thanks for improving Uganda's map !

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Hi again, you have drawn some buildings on a road, see the warning. You need to either adjust the building position or the road, buildings can't be in the middle of a road. Feel free to contact me if you need any help. Greetings, Bert Araali

Hi again, you have drawn a building on a road, see the warning. You need to either adjust the building position or the road, buildings can't be in the middle of a road. Feel free to contact me if you need any help. Greetings, Bert Araali

Hi, always happy to see some new mappers becoming active in Uganda. You are doing great, but did you consider to use Maxar imagery instead of bing ? Bing is quite outdated (up to mostly 10 years old), Maxar is much more recent. Also always try to align your imagery with existing roads f.i. , in Uganda sateelite imagery can be offset by up to 10m. If you have any questions or need help, please feel free to ask. Greetings, Bert Araali

Great, well done. It's always good to provide a copy of those communications in the talk group (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-africa), they also exist for other countries (osm.wiki/Mailing_lists). Telegram is not OSM's preferred communication channel, a lot of community members don't use it, same like facebook and twitter. Or you could provide more details on your organised editing wiki page about which communities you contacted and when, just to avoid this kind of confusion. MapUganda surely represents a large community (is not a local chapter) in Uganda. You might get in touch with others through telegram, OSM RDC (Democratic Republic of Congo) also uses it but many others don't. Always willing to help, greetings, Bert Araali.

We have WikiProject Uganda. On all related pages all the contacts and contact channels are listed. We also have talk-ug. We have the user pages per country... . I agree communication to the broader OSM community, outside of HOTOSM, has been problematic, but they are there. Let me take a look at the community pages and your diary Andy, didn't do that so far. See how I can help to improve it with consent of the community.

I was reading all of that carefully Andy. But do you find that sufficient? Are they affiliated with other interests or just a group of local enthusiasts ? Also to be fair - the changes they have done so far (most about 4 months ago) seem to be of good quality and so far don't violate our local tagging guidelines. But I am worried about some statements they make like checking the accuracy of already mapped roads with GPS information they so far don't share with the community. Also they want to engage local teams to check ground truth, but as far as my contacts go they have not done that yet, at least not in Uganda. Do they have local community members who create new accounts to work in this group ? I don't know, I have not contacted the broader community here but surely will do in the coming days.

Yep, except Bolt004. So what does this mean ? That after providing the requested links 3 days ago now the group is growing rapidly disregarding... ? How big is this going to grow. Who creates these accounts ? Is there a problem adding the information when the accounts are created ?

Sorry Andy, I was a bit sloppy, the numbers consists of 3 numbers, so it's Bolt004, Bolt007, Bolt012, Bolt013, Bolt014, Bolt015, Bolt016, Bolt022 and Bolt023. They are listed on their Organised Edit wiki page. I didn't search if there are more, just checked those. Sorry for the confusion.

I see only very few updated profiles. Of the 23 currently created the following still show no link: Bolt0004, Bolt0007, Bolt0012, Bolt0013, Bolt0014, Bolt0015, Bolt0016, Bolt0022 and Bolt0023. So it's to bold to say all, 9 out of 23 are not. Regarding to your Organised Editing Guidelines you state you always contact the local communities or an active community member before starting your activities. However I have not seen any of that in Uganda, no trace on talk-ug of any attempt. As a very active community member in Uganda I already have concerns regarding proper imagery alignment and our specific road classification. Also I have noticed some unclear comments on changesets by your own members, f.i. changeset/92881255. So when and how are you going to improve this since you are very active in mapping changes recently ? In Uganda your activities are of growing worries and concern to the local community.

True, copy paste mistake. Corrected it. Thanks for the help.

OK thanks so much ! Will check out the deep history add on. Can be very useful.

Hello mueschel, seen you changed some of the boundaries I recently added. Was there a problem ? Please share what you changed since I can't figure it out from the changeset. Try to avoid for coming borders since they are many. Greetings.

Thank you for restoring Lake Victoria. Will take a look at the boundary issue. Can you inform okwii that they should not revert or restore ? He's quite new so probaly doesn't know what to do now.

OK rab, see it now on lowest zoom level, thanks so much !