I am a PUPSJ student who became a MapaTime participant through CWTS. I never once heard of mapping before it was announced to us. I have used online maps before but I never wondered how it was built or how the information are acquired. Through our mapping sessions, I was able to help somehow through inputting info and modifying features and more. I learnt how important mapping is. And, it was also fun.

This mapping is new to me because I just used google map as a guide but I never knew that I can also do mapping by myself. My experience in doing mappings are very helpful for me and also for the others because I learned new things about how am i going to map the places with the proper guidance of the facilitators and by the use of this mapping I can help others. The things that I learned from mapatime and from facilitators can contribute to guide me and also the others. I hope it will continue because it is very helpful for us to know that we can also do mappings and not just using map apps as a guide.

I entered the first session without any background knowledge about mapping. I became interested the moment i knew what mapping is all about. I never had any experiences in volunteering, and knowing that mapping can help people even without personally interacting with them, is really nice. There are lots of new things that I’ve learned each session that i know I can use to help others. I am grateful for having this opportunity, for being able to learn something new and contribute my time for this activity.

     As a student, and taking up the subject CWTS as Accountancy Students. It is necessarily all about how we cope in the community or socialize. And I'm here in the subject requirement which is Mapping and I am excited because I love to  or see remember some streets. And in every schedule in our mapping I learned a different mapping procedure,style. And it is for the benefit of the organization specially in the Philippines. To map the other place in our county especially in the corner side of every places in the Philippines and the other provincial side of our country. And as a mapper we need to be persistent, patience and hardworking.
  Thank you!

being a participants of this activity is great opportunities for us, students who learned lots of new things that is useful and could help others. We learned to map places, schools, building even streets and etc. that could useful for emergencies. and also i learned the importance of this activities, on why we need this to learned this mapping thing. we just not learned from it but also we enjoyed the activities that we’ve done. i’m really thankful for the opportunities that are given on us to be part of this mapping activity/program. :)))

As an accountancy student taking the subject CWTS, I have realised the importance of knowing how to map. At first, I thought mapping would be “we’re going to different places” but I was wrong. I have learned so much. I am happy because I know just by the use of computer I have helped many mappers through mapping those buildings, correcting the roads, and recently mapping the schools. I can say that I have contributed to our community. I must say, thank you for giving us the opportunity to do this kind of activity. Such a wonderful experience.

I am one of the participants of MapaTime. I had fun doing it because i know that in this simple way i can contribute to the community. At first i thought that it is just a waste of time but as the days go by i learn the deeper meaning of mapping. Knowing that I can help in the community makes me feel so overwhelmed.

Maybe it's been a month since we started our class in our cwts class, specifically in mapping. To be honest when our first meeting, I do not have any idea of what we will do in mapping, basically zero knowledge but eventually I have learned a lot of things. I have learned that even if you are not literally going outside of the community you can still volunteer and help other people like doing some mapping. Our class in mapping was really helpful in terms of teaching us on how to be productive or useful. I surely appreciate the significance of every meeting that we attended. In a short span of time, I am really grateful that even if in small way I contributed in the community.

At first I thought it would be boring but I was mistaken. The mapping we have been doing for the past few months will be of help when the time comes yet we don’t really think of it as that because we enjoyed the activity. Through mapping I learned that there is more to CWTS that the seminars we had in the first semester of this school year. that even in simple ways we can be useful to our community. overall, the experience was great, I just wish that the images were clearer so that it’d be much more easier to map buildings and the likes.

I am a student of PUP San Juan taking up CWTS. I didn’t expect that in my program BSA (Bachelor of Science in Accountancy) I would have a subject that is not applicable on my course and it is Mapping. Actually at first I don’t care about this subject because it’s just wasting my time however when I already started it I don’t know that it is in the computer and I felt grate because I like working in a computer because it’s more efficient. Mapping is the only interesting subject because from this subject I learned that even though I don’t have power or money to help others especially in an emergency time I could help them in a simple just like this in mapping. Also This mapping is just an easy activity for me and it is a great experience for me and it also can be my stress reliever. So I want to thank you my professor for bringing up this subject.

The Unique Mappers 13th - 17th of December 2019, carried out a mapping project in Umu Ezike community in Enugu state. Particularly on Ogrute hill that produces Mushroom natural during rainy season for the community.

And now Europe:

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Here are a couple more maps from the geography textbook, now uploaded to Wikipedia, this time of Asia as seen in 1916:

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During a recent visit to the American Midwest, Ann and I browsed an antique shop where I found a copy of Tarr & McMurry’s 1916 edition of “New Introductory Geography”, a textbook, for five dollars. Since it is long out of copyright I have begun scanning some of the lovely color plates and have posted two of Africa to Wikipedia.

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If you traveled to Vietnam, you may have heard about Huế - a city located in the Central coast of Vietnam. It served as our national capital during the Nguyễn Dynasty (between 1802 and 1945). Despite its short existence, the city is blessed with invaluable heritage sites : Huế Imperial City and royal mausoleums scattering throughout the city area and surrounding villages.

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Hi, I am very glad that I come to know about open street map project due to my participation of CSIAP By World Bank. And special thanks to Mr. Sudakharan who is providing detailed information and training about OSM.

Here we are on the cusp of 2020. OSMF has elected a new board. Congratulations. But, now we have an all male, all northern/western board for a global open map, open source, and open data community & project.

Over the past years, I have stated quietly (posts, events, face-to-face conversations) that there is a power imbalance. Change happens in governance, I thought, so I ran and lead on both the HOT and OSMF boards to try to address some of this. Passive responses to the issues of gender imbalance, inclusion and diversity of governance have received the following types of responses:

1. It is up to the ‘community.’
2. It is up to the working groups.
3. Prove that there are issues. I don’t see any issues.

Leading up to this last election, I talked with many people to ask them to run. Women would not do so due to toxic environment, power imbalances, reputation targeting, and emotionally draining conversations. This was also the same case cited by leaders from the global majority (sometimes called the global south). People from Asia and Africa told me - the culture of governance in OSM/OSMF is not professional and would not be productive. Simply put - communication is hard in OSM and we need to recognize this.

The gender diversity of the membership a few years ago is about 10 - 12% (I reviewed and hand coded/searched this data from the Membership working group.) Kate Chapman and I wrote about OSM community to cite these gap and outline the ‘community of communities.’ [1] We tried on the volunteer board to talk about this in the sea of all the other priorities. With allies on the diversity mailing list, we’ve hosted sessions about experiences and needs at State of the Map.

What is an open organization?

Being “open” is more than the code or the data. It is about the community around it.

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I’ve been a Wikimedian since 2002 and an OSM mapper since 2007. While there are certainly a lot of differences between the two projects, I believe that there is much more in common between Wikimedia and OSM especially since OSM was directly inspired by Wikipedia (people usually introduce OSM as the “Wikipedia of maps”) and because they both came out of the free knowledge and open data movement (Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons and OSM was originally licensed under CC too before switching to ODbL). I therefore support and contribute to efforts for the two communities to understand each other and collaborate with each other. And I am not alone: there are a lot of Wikimedian/OSM contributors like me.

Over the past decade, I’ve given a lot of presentations, talks, trainings, and workshops on how to contribute to and make use of Wikimedia projects (like Wikipedia) and OSM but it was during Wikimania 2014 that I was first able to give a half-hour presentation about both projects and showing how the Wikimedia and OSM communities benefit from and collaborate with each other. (See the session page and my presentation slides.) Since then, I’ve given several talks about essentially the same topic in various Wikimedia and OSM events and you can see an overview of them on the Wikimedia Meta site.

State of the Map 2019 and WikidataCon 2019

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Emojis are only a fingertip away on your iPhone… it was only a matter of time until they show up on OSM as well. The following query finds all those emojis - worldwide: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/l6r

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