Oğuzhan Er
Oguz was born and raised in Istanbul and brings five years of experience in the mapping industry and a Bachelor in Geomatics Engineering from Kocaeli University. He is responsible for Communication & Volunteer Management in Yer Çizenler. He gives workshops on free spatial data to university clubs, local governments and NGO's. He leads a group of translators who aim to create Turkish documentation of OpenStreetMap related tools and the lead editor of the Turkish edition of a newsletter called WeeklyOSM. He is also volunteering for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team communications working group.
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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.