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How I used OSM data to visualize gender disparity in street names for all of Brazil. The result shows how women are underrepresented in street names in the country, and raises questions on who is chosen to be commemorated in street names. Using OSM road data and a database of gender popularity for names, I created a map visualization to show gender disparity in street names in Brazil. Streets name...

The talk will focus on the Turkish law egulating the acquisition, collection, dissemination and trading of spatial data falling within the responsibility matrix of Turkish National Geographic Information System, effective since February 20, 2020. With the law, acquisition, collection, dissemination and trading of spatial data which is defined within the National Spatial Data Responsibility Matrix...

This talk with survey the bright and dark history of companies and professional involvement in OpenStreetMap, lay out the challenges that we face now, and chart steps forward to figuring this out together. I want to reset the vision of the position of companies in OSM, starting by connecting back in time to when it was all more fluid in our community. Only later did some draw a sharp distinction b...

Current presentation aspires to contribute to an overall assessment of the OSM map in Athens, Greece. The OSM content is assessed in terms of completeness and precision. Various official mapping sources and ground truth data are employed in order to measure the current state of the map. Current research aspires to contribute to the assessment of the OSM map in Athens, Greece in terms of completene...

When people come to OpenStreetMap for the first time, their expectations are sometimes at odds with what the OpenStreetMap community is doing. If you have been puzzled by an OSMer telling you that OpenStreetMap is not a map, that openstreetmap.org is not aiming to compete with Google Maps, or by their stubborn refusal to remove a private trail from the map, then this talk is for you. It will expla...

We built open-source infrastructure that allows the community to integrate open data reviews of POI into the OpenStreetMap ecosystem. This enables any application or website to make use of a reviews layer, and to benefit from the shared data pool that is created by a combined user base of participating applications. We built it to ensure that people all over the world can freely share their insigh...

Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is an international team focused on humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. Since 2010, the organization has managed activations to attend multiple events such as understanding hazards, public health, refugee response, among others. However, when we think about organizing large-scale efforts it can be complex, due to the necessary l...

Le Togo, l’un des plus petits pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest abrite depuis 2013 une communauté OpenStreetMap. OSM Togo a mise en œuvre de nombreux projets mais a connu également des difficultés. Cette présentation a pour objectif de faire un aperçu sur la vie de la communauté OpenStreetMap Togo. OpenStreetMap (OSM) considered as the wikipedia of cartography is a Collaborative Mapping Project which e...

This talk will present the results of a survey done on the State of the OpenStreetMap, the unique challenges and success of OSM in Africa and how the different communities are working together to grow the map and the community on the continent. The global State of the Map conference is taking place in Africa for the very first time, and it is a great opportunity to light a torch into the state of...

Mobile mapping is the process of collecting geospatial data from a mobile vehicle using a 360º camera, laser scanner, GPS/IMU positioning system, and other sensors. Mobile mapping is a time and cost-effective way to conduct asset inventory, monitor road infrastructure, and map street furniture. However, the high cost of acquiring mobile mapping equipment, such as professional 360° cameras and lase...

What are the perspectives and challenges around the new wealth of building data in OpenStreetMap? OpenStreetMap (OSM) is constantly expanding into emerging fields, particularly around building datasets. Through its participatory character, OSM provides an incomplete, but global coverage of buildings, nowadays already outnumbering roads. Their distribution and properties are the best indicator to p...

Crowd2Map Tanzania is a volunteer run crowdsourced project that has been mapping rural Tanzania since 2015. This talk will give an overview of some of the lessons learnt, particularly in building mapping communities in remote rural areas with first time smartphone users. Since 2015, we have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap with the help of over 12500 v...

Lightning Talk session. ## Kenya Covid-19 Tracker *Zacharia Muindi* Map Kibera has launched the Kenya COVID-19 Tracker Ushahidi Instance to document geospatial data, map out resources and services being offered to the community in response to Covid-19 and track cases across Kenya. The project will improve OSM basemaps in Kibera and other informal settlements of Nairobi to allow visualisation of cu...

This talk is based on the experiences I faced while working with the public sector on mapping and try to identify some of the impacts that made and answering 3 questions which arise: * How much Money should I spend? * How much Accuracy do I need? * How much Human Involvement? In this talk, I will be explaining experiences faced while working on some of the major projects in public sector related t...

Separation of features by their importance is a core technique in cartography. But what happens if features of the same feature class (e.g. train stations) have a varying importance? A manual cartographer can choose the important features based on other knowledge. Howerver, rule based cartography which is dominating in the OpenStreetMap environment cannot work this way. A computer programme render...

The talk is to basically share the experience of working with Imports of Health Facilities in India (OpenGovernmentData). We planned to go briefly through the background of Open GovernmentData and the countries following the OGD, along with the compatibility of OdBL for the datasets they provide to the public. The main purpose of the import is to provide accessible data of accurate health care inf...

This talk will present an evaluation of different OSM routing software and its impact on the journey. Several popular OSM routing software results will be evaluated on its route-cost (distance and or time) and different modes of transportation (from walking to motor-vehicle). Additional evaluation on the ground will also evaluate which route is a good (or bad) one and what may cause this impact. T...

Last year, HOT collaborated with OSM Liberia and iLab Liberia to complete the mapping and perform quality assurance in four counties in Liberia. The objective of this program is to update OpenStreetMap data to assist with a Social Registry data collection in four counties in Liberia: Bomi, Bong, Nimba and Maryland. Buildings and roads are the entities to map for this program. The Government of Lib...

Drone technology is an evolving industry used in multi-disciplinary fields ranging from agriculture, marine conservation to real estate and films. There’s so much potential and possibilities on what drones could help people making work faster and more efficient. In mapping, aerial imagery uploaded to Open Aerial Map can be used as basemap for OSM editing. Example cases are in Batad Rice Terraces,...

OSM Foundation board chairperson Allan Mustard offers his personal assessment of challenges facing OSM and how he thinks the community and the OSM Foundation Board could deal with them. OSM Foundation board chairperson Allan Mustard offers his personal assessment of challenges facing OSM and how he thinks the community and the OSM Foundation Board could deal with them. about this event: https://20...

Welcome to SotM 2020! Some words about how the virtual SotM will run. about this event: https://pretalx.com/sotm2020/talk/AXAUHX/

Über Förderung und Gefährdung von Open Source Projekten Den aktuellen Angriff der Trump-Regierung auf den Open Technology Fund in den USA nehmen wir zum Anlass, uns hier vor Ort einmal umzuschauen: welche Förderungen gibt es, und warum sind sie wichtig für offene Technologie-Projekte? Ist freies Internet auch für den humanitären Kontext ein Thema? Wir freuen uns auf ein spannendes Gespräch über di...

Während mensch in Berlin mittlerweile schon genau hinschauen muss um zu sehen, dass wir in Zeiten einer Pandemie leben, ist die Lage an den europäischen Außengrenzen ernst: Im zentralen Mittelmeer und auf den griechischen Inseln herrscht humanitärer Notstand. Das war bereits vor Corona der Fall, mit Corona hat sich die Lage verschärft und trotz Lockerungen, auch dort vor Ort, bessert sich die huma...

Am Dienstag, den 2. Juni 2020 um 10:30 wurde in Berlin der neue Grundrechte-Report vorgestellt. In seinen 39 Beiträgen zeigt der alternative Verfassungsschutzbericht erneut auf, wie Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Behörden, aber auch Gerichte und Privatunternehmen die demokratischen und freiheitlichen Grundlangen unserer Gesellschaft gefährden. about this event: http://www.grundrechte-report.de/2020/...

Schon vor der Covid-19 Pandemie hatten viele Länder Probleme, ihre Schulden zu begleichen. Horrende Zinszahlungen haben die Staatshaushalte vieler Länder ausgehöhlt: Sie zahlen mehr an ihre Investoren, als sie für ihre Gesundheitssysteme ausgeben. In diesem Debate! widmen wir uns den globalen Finanzströmen, den Auswirkungen von vorangegangenen globalen Finanzkrisen auf Gender-(Un-) Gerechtigkeit,...