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DESCRIPTION:The Outdoors Group in France has a selfish purpose: help create
  OSM-based maps that we and our fellow outdoors practitioners and professi
 onals can safely use to plan and carry out our favorite activities.  We ar
 e end users\, originally mostly hikers and mountain bikers\, who came to O
 SM to create better maps and who discovered on the way that this will requ
 ire other classes of end users to adopt OSM or at least find their way aro
 und it: route operators\, tourism offices\, land managers\, mountain rescu
 e services\, etc.\n\nThis talk reports on our collective successes and rem
 aining challenges  in turning OSM-based maps into reliable and safe maps f
 or outdoors activities in France and onboarding other end-users. Successes
  include going from zero to 30.000 km of node networks in a few years\, ma
 intaining route continuity above 90% on ~200.000 km of hiking routes\, and
  starting collaborations with a few route operators. The challenges that w
 e report on include better engagement of various categories of end users s
 uch as local institutions and land managers. Analyzing these challenges di
 rects us toward  a few irritants that we need to manage to make OSM more i
 nclusive towards them\; this includes some mapping principles and semantic
  models in OSM\, the need for better tooling for relation management\, and
  perhaps additional governance bodies.\n\nIn addition to reporting on our 
 successes and remaining challenges\, the goal of this talk proposal is als
 o to recruit participants for a BOF session with outdoors mappers and map 
 developers from other countries\, possibly with an actual outdoors mapping
  session in or near Paris
DTSTAMP:20260609T201648Z
LOCATION:La Réunion
SUMMARY:Creating maps for the outdoors community in France: successes and c
 hallenges - StC
URL:https://pretalx.com/sotm2026/talk/QJJS3X/
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