- 2024-09-06 –, Online Workshops
- 2024-09-06 –, Amboseli Hall
All times in Africa/Nairobi
The workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate mappers to better understand good practices and useful tools while performing data validation on OSM.
During the session it will be presented how to discover and interact with mappers in the area to be validated, as well as how to use JOSM plugins and web tools as ResultMaps, Osmose, Whodidit and OSMCha to analyze errors and changesets.
Participants are requested to bring their laptops and mouses to practice together. Basic understanding of JOSM is welcome but not necessary
The workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate mappers to better understand good practices, as well as useful tools, while performing data validation on OSM.
We will see:
- Which types of error are most common, and how to best identify them (by using Osmose);
- How to communicate with other mappers while correcting data (OSM changeset comments, messages and forums);
- How to guess the level of expertise of a mapper (ResultMaps, Whosthat);
- How to read changesets and historical OSM data (Whodidit, OSMCha, .osh files);
- Performing validation on JOSM with simple Overpass queries;
Participants are requested to bring their laptops and mouses to practice together. Basic understanding of JOSM is welcome but not necessary. The workshop will be composed by a presentation of the topics and an hands-on session in which participants will practice what they learned on an area with data to be validated.
data, validation, community, quality
Workshop requirements:A laptop with a mouse is required, as well as an OSM account and basic knowledge of OSM. Basic knowledge of JOSM is welcome but not necessary.
Affiliation:United Nations / UN Mappers
An OSM contributor (SeverinGeo) since January 2010, Séverin has been implementing programs to create and support OSM communities in the South, training in OSM and free geomatics, and mapping territories in over 20 countries since 2011, first with HOT and then through the collective that has become Les Libres Géographes, of which he is one of the founders. He has been a member of the UN Mappers Crowdsourcing team since March 2021, in particular in charge of educational activities and content creation for the UN Maps Learning Hub. Volunteering for WeeklyOSM and the OSMF blog.
Michael Montani is a GIS Consultant at the United Nations Global Service Centre, where he coordinates the UN Mappers community, and is a member of the OSMF LCCWG.
Over the years, he trained several hundreds people, from academia to UN and national agencies, on OSM and open-source software, in Africa, Europe and Asia, including areas of conflict.
Previously, he founded the first European chapter of YouthMappers in 2016 and was awarded the 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowship to fight an endemic disease in Senegal using OSM data.