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im sorry buddy, but GPS is currently forbidden in egypt, for national
security manners

GPS should work there anyway, but there are restrictions on
selling/using these devices now

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@nichtich.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I found that the coverage of Alexandria in OpenStreetMap is very poor:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.2004&lon=29.9025&zoom=14&layers=B00FTF
>
> compare to this map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map1-alex.jpg
>
> How about mapping Alexandria for OpenStreetMap? Does anyone bring his
> GPS device?
>
> Greetings
> Jakob
>
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Bring your GPS with you and use it, it is not sold legally in Egypt
but I know many people (including myself) who use it, even the iPhone
triangulation is working here in Egypt.

Hamdy

On 2008-07-15, Ahmed Koraiem <amkoraiem@gmail.com> wrote:
> im sorry buddy, but GPS is currently forbidden in egypt, for national
> security manners
>
> GPS should work there anyway, but there are restrictions on
> selling/using these devices now
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@nichtich.de> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I found that the coverage of Alexandria in OpenStreetMap is very poor:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.2004&lon=29.9025&zoom=14&layers=B00FTF
>>
>> compare to this map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map1-alex.jpg
>>
>> How about mapping Alexandria for OpenStreetMap? Does anyone bring his
>> GPS device?
>>
>> Greetings
>> Jakob
>>
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you just said the right thing

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Hamdy Khalil <hamdy.khalil@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bring your GPS with you and use it, it is not sold legally in Egypt
> but I know many people (including myself) who use it, even the iPhone
> triangulation is working here in Egypt.
>
> Hamdy
>
> On 2008-07-15, Ahmed Koraiem <amkoraiem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> im sorry buddy, but GPS is currently forbidden in egypt, for national
>> security manners
>>
>> GPS should work there anyway, but there are restrictions on
>> selling/using these devices now
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@nichtich.de> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I found that the coverage of Alexandria in OpenStreetMap is very poor:
>>>
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.2004&lon=29.9025&zoom=14&layers=B00FTF
>>>
>>> compare to this map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map1-alex.jpg
>>>
>>> How about mapping Alexandria for OpenStreetMap? Does anyone bring his
>>> GPS device?
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>> Jakob
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Wikimania-l mailing list
>>> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>>>
>>
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