Michael Montani
Michael works as UN Mappers Community Coordinator at the United Nations Global Service Centre, supporting the crowdsourcing activities of UN Maps, a programme to deliver geospatial products and capabilities to UN Peacekeeping missions worldwide. He is an OSM contributor since 2016 and he helped build many communities everywhere, especially in Africa, Europe and Asia. Previously he co-founded the first European chapter of YouthMappers and was awarded of the 2018 YouthMappers Research Fellowship. He has a MSc in Geoinformatics Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Michael Montani
Sessions
This training session will show how to get started with JOSM editor from the very first steps after installation to some plugins and advanced features which makes it different from iD Editor.
The session will go through the following topics:
- Initial settings after JOSM download
- Basic editing modes in JOSM, how to change imagery, align it to the data, etc.
- How to download plugins in JOSM to enhance its functionalities
- Usage of plugins: utils, buildings, open_data, FastDraw, ToDo, revert. Some of these plugins are to map better and faster, while others are to perform validation of data
- JOSM queries to selected OSM data (very useful for validation)
The ideal participant to the session is a mapper that has some knowledge of OSM editing, always used iD editor and would like to get some exposure to JOSM to be able to perform some advanced mapping, or just explore it further. If that is you, do not hesitate to participate!
It is necessary for participants to bring their own laptop and mouse with JOSM already downloaded, possibly to the latest tested version which can be found here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download.
The UN Maps Programme, an initiative from the Department of Operational Support at the United Nations, provides topographic maps, operational geo-information, search and navigation tools, and imagery and street-level base maps to peacekeeping and humanitarian actors in UN mission areas. UN Maps has established a community of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data contributors called UN Mappers. The UN Mappers community is a collective of open mapping enthusiasts dedicated to building accurate and crowd-worked geospatial data to support peacekeeping and humanitarian missions on the ground.
The session aims to provide updates about the UN Maps programme and the UN Mappers community. In addition, we aim to share co-created and adopted initiatives that we are currently exploring in community building and sustainability, such as the UN Mappers Ambassadors and Chapters, and to discuss lessons learned and challenges.