tl;dr follow me on snapchat to see what the #MapLesotho folks get up to. Same as my twitter - dacor_ie

Very shortly I will be heading back to Lesotho for 2 weeks with DebigC and RustyB as part of #MapLesotho which is being supported by Action Ireland Trust and Fingal County Council.

This will be the final trip so during our time there, the activities will be much more focused on the long term sustainability of the project. Some of our main goals will be

• Increase the general level of expertise (think: relations etc)
• Data curation (KeepRight, OMSI etc)
• Data analysis (Overpass, QGIS)
• Train the trainer
• Growing the community

We’re also planning a monster Mapillary drive while we’re there so I’ll be including many photos and videos of Lesotho itself. You can see some from last years trip here

We will also have Oscar from Mapillary coming along to give a masterclass or two on using Mapillary.

If you are in anyway curious about what we’re doing, I’m going to be using snapchat a lot while I’m there, in particular, creating ongoing “stories”. These will feature snippets of the training, photos, interviews etc (though Im not sure how well the interviews will work given the limitations of snapchat) but it will also feature some of the downtime and general chats among the #MapLesotho folks. I’ll be talking to a lot of the local mappers and covering some of our trips to govt agencies as we look to get data released for use in OSM.

If there are questions you’d like to see answered, I’ll be taking those also. I have a list of questions myself, but it would be great to hear from others as there will be many things I simply won’t think to ask about.

So yeah, follow me if this interest you :)