State of the Map Africa 2021

From mid-2020 to 2021, a number of mappers in both Uganda and the DRC joined a participatory buildings footprint import. The data was produced by Ecopia based on an imagery mosaic provided by Maxar and contained more than 6.6 millions building footprints. During this session, we’ll explain what worked well and less well and what we learned from the process of integrating this data into the OpenStreetMap database.

The OSM wiki is a core part of OpenStreetMap. It serves as a reference and a precious container for OSM documentation, tagging and history of community decisions.
However as described in a previous edition of the State of the Map Africa, there is a significative gap in contextualization of the content in non Western countries and in other languages than English.
Therefore this bilingual workshop proposed by OSM DRC local chapter aims to provide some tips and allow participants to start with their first OSM wiki edits.