User:Samaila

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This user submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name ilasolthah. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using JOSM. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using iD. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using Potlatch. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using RapiD. Level0 Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using Level0. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using Vespucci. Samaila uses MAPS.ME Samaila uses Organic Maps Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using StreetComplete. Samaila submits data to OpenStreetMap using Every Door. Samaila uses OsmAnd, mobile map viewing & navigation app. Samaila helps the Missing Maps Project by using MapSwipe Samaila takes photos for Mapillary as ilasolthah. Samaila tweets as @ilasolthah fr Cet utilisateur a le français comme langue maternelle. en-2 This user is able to contribute with an intermediate level of English.

About Me

My name is Samaila Alio Mainassara. I'm from Niger in West Africa.

How I discover OSM

In 2013, I saw students walking around with papers and GPS devices and smartphones. Others are section comrades. He spent time moving around the faculty around the objects and sometimes, they are in the computer room of the geography department. They are accompanied by an expatriate lady who trained them. I asked my friends, who gave me details about this map. I was very impressed, because the cartography that we were taught in 2nd year of geography entitled initiation to cartography is based on the Adobe Illustrator 10 software. We were taught to create layers, vertices, polylines and the use of images such as the map of Niger that we follow the limits to reproduce in the form of layers. Our comrades who received this training which we called first promotion encouraged us to teach us and restore the knowledge learned. They received 6 months of training, during which time they set up the Mapping for Niger project.

At the end of their training, they organized a selection test. Among around thirty applications, around ten of us were selected. I was the 11th to be drafted for this test. We underwent rapid training compared to our predecessor, because the volunteer's mission was at an end. At the beginning, I didn't have my own computer, I went to an internet cafe to buy connection time to do the mapping. With iD the connection doesn't work many times and I convinced the manager to install JOSM on a post that I can use regularly. Sometimes, I take advantage of the geography department to contribute. I replicate everything I learned with my trainers and something that allowed me to be ahead of the other recipients.

All my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant anyone the right to use my contributions for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.