OpenStreetMap Community by Jorieke Vyncke

But are we really alone behindour computers?

I love mapping!

crowd – sourcing

passive active

http://osmstats.neis-one.org/

http://osmstats.neis-one.org/

How are OSM-peopleconnected with eachother?

www.osm.org

A variety of mailing lists: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/mailman/listinfo/

Mailinglists, IRC & Forum

IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org/

forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/

OpenStreetMap Wiki

Belgian home page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Belgium

Twitter@osm_be

Facebook groupOpenStreetMap België/Belgique/Belgium

Websitewww.osm.be

And it doesn’t stop in the digital world…

Mapping parties

Mapathons

State of the Map

Meetup’s

Events and conferences

Workshops

Hangouts

http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/

OSM Belgian Meetup Group

How is the community organizing itself?

Discussion on motor roads

Discussion on crane rails

HOT Tasking Manager

http://tasks.hotosm.org/

What are the advantages of having a mapping community?

Community

Is helping eachother in the mapping process

Community

Facilitates the mapping bydeveloping tools and creating the

right environment

Community

Is exchanging and sharingknowledge with others

Community

Improves the data quality

Community

Makes you able to handle bigger challanges

(eg. Ebola Actavion HumanitarianOpenStreetMap Team)

Community

Leads to continuousimprovement

Community

Makes mapping more fun!

Local community

Improves tremendously the detail of the data

Aerial imagery of Goré, Chad

Goré, Chad on Google Maps

Goré, Chad on OpenStreetMap

Aerial imagery of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Lubumbashi, DRC on Google Maps

Lubumbashi, DRC on OpenStreetMap

How can we scale up ourcommunity even more?

The bigger the community, the more diverse views,

the better OpenStreetMap!

For this, we need to ask ourselves, what motivates people?

http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphkc/

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!

So I still love mapping…

… but even more in our worldwide mapping community!

A mapper is never alone!

Jorieke VynckeHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team