Botswana is a sparsely populated country, with only 2 million inhabitants occupying 581 thousand km², a density of 3 people per km². The Kalahari desert takes up 70% of the very flat Botswana which is also very dry. According to Transparency International, Botswana is the least corrupt country in Africa and ranks similarly close to Portugal and South Korea.

Mapping Botswana is still in early stages. Almost no gps- tracks exist for this region. The BING imagery from 2013 is very good, with few exceptions where it is missing or cloud cover intrudes.

The present map: Mapnik rendering:

A Facebook page for the project, administered by User:Stalfur.

Updates of changes posted on Twitter @MappingBotswana

Taskboards (Trello, free tasking manager)

List of places lacking imagery in Bing/Priorities#Botswana.



Towns and villages

Central District

Ghanzi

Kgalagadi

Kgatleng

Kweneng

North East

North West

South East

Southern

Sources

Fortunately, even the lowres Yahoo imagery gives at least some hints about the rivers, mayor roads and city outlines.

A good datasource might be GEOnet Names Server and the VMAP0 maps. The later is probably unnecessary since its accuracy isn't very good and at least some of the overland routes are allready there.

Great tool to check for bugs.