Said Turksever
Said is Geomatic Engineer and has a Master's degree in Geoinformatics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He is originally from Turkey and now lives in Italy. He is active in building the OpenStreetMap community in Turkey and interested in mapping POIs and its accessibilities.
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Turkish OpenStreetMap Community has constantly been growing with members from various circles in recent years however the community faces various problems such as insufficient OSM documentation and tools in Turkey and lack of learning materials in Turkish. Yercizenler and Youth Season NGOs kicked-off the Open Source Volunteering Programme to tackle community needs to build and enlarge OpenStreetMap Turkey community by training volunteers, translating OpenStreetMap related documentation/tools and mapping 120 unmapped towns in Turkey.