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But are we really alone behindour computers?
I love mapping!
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crowd – sourcing
passive active
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http://osmstats.neis-one.org/
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http://osmstats.neis-one.org/
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How are OSM-peopleconnected with eachother?
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A variety of mailing lists: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/mailman/listinfo/
Mailinglists, IRC & Forum
IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org/
forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/
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OpenStreetMap Wiki
Belgian home page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Belgium
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Twitter@osm_be
Facebook groupOpenStreetMap België/Belgique/Belgium
Websitewww.osm.be
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And it doesn’t stop in the digital world…
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Mapping parties
Mapathons
State of the Map
Meetup’s
Events and conferences
Workshops
Hangouts
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http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/
OSM Belgian Meetup Group
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How is the community organizing itself?
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Discussion on motor roads
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Discussion on crane rails
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HOT Tasking Manager
http://tasks.hotosm.org/
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What are the advantages of having a mapping community?
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Community
Is helping eachother in the mapping process
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Community
Facilitates the mapping bydeveloping tools and creating the
right environment
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Community
Is exchanging and sharingknowledge with others
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Community
Improves the data quality
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Community
Makes you able to handle bigger challanges
(eg. Ebola Actavion HumanitarianOpenStreetMap Team)
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Community
Leads to continuousimprovement
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Community
Makes mapping more fun!
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Local community
Improves tremendously the detail of the data
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Aerial imagery of Goré, Chad
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Goré, Chad on Google Maps
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Goré, Chad on OpenStreetMap
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Aerial imagery of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
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Lubumbashi, DRC on Google Maps
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Lubumbashi, DRC on OpenStreetMap
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How can we scale up ourcommunity even more?
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The bigger the community, the more diverse views,
the better OpenStreetMap!
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For this, we need to ask ourselves, what motivates people?
http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphkc/
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Possible strategies to motivatemore people
• Project based mapping• (Diversity-friendly) social events: mapping indoor and outdoor with
other people• Reducing the complexity of learning OSM mapping• More user-friendly, intuitive, efficient tools and better
documentation for data contribution• Education and training• Positive feedback & rewards for editing• Awareness raising towards different groups• Creation of demonstrators to showcase the values of OSM (make it
close to people’s everyday lives!)• Peer support and community networks (eg. more profile options)• Make OSM fun and cool!
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So I still love mapping…
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… but even more in our worldwide mapping community!
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A mapper is never alone!
Jorieke VynckeHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team