Sharon Omoja

Sharon is a GIS Analyst and a Licensed drone pilot who has a strong passion in Geospatial applications in Humanitarian actions with a keen focus on open data and in building inclusive and diverse spaces in the Open Mapping community.

She volunteers as a trainer for OSM Kenya and HOT Training working group, organizing, consolidating training materials and training the global OpenStreetMap community on OpenStreetMap and data validation.


OpenStreetMap username

shazomojah


Sessions

08-19
11:30
60min
JOSM: Beyond Basic Editing
Sharon Omoja, Michael Heißmeier

Having made your first edits with JOSM, there are a couple of tips and tricks to learn to make your daily mapping life in this JOSM easier. JOSM, considered an advanced mappers tool, is an easy-to-use OSM software that makes mapping in OSM easier and more interesting using plugins and various mapping tools.

OSM Basics
Workshops and Loop-Cinema - Room 103
08-20
10:00
20min
Building an OpenStreetMap Community Playbook
Sharon Omoja, Geoffrey Kateregga

Every day hundreds of people sign up for OpenStreetMap. We have several active OpenStreetMap communities, communities that are struggling to sustain themselves and at the same time, there are countries with no existing OpenStreetMap communities despite having contributors from those countries.
This idea of a community playbook is to act as a guide for persons interested in starting up an OSM community and sustaining OSM communities with lessons drawn from existing communities.

The community playbook is based on 4 themes; Identifying local community issues, attracting and engaging students, Connecting contributors motivation to mapping and Training

Community and Foundation
Auditorium B