# Local Chapters & Communities Congress 2021

6th November 12:00 – 15:00 (Etc/UTC)

## Event Feedback & Follow Ups
- where to post recordings
- what went well?
- what would we change?

## Event web site

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/Local_Chapters_Congress/2021

## Calendar

https://osmcal.org/event/823/

## Agenda

https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-main-track-9qlq?lang=en

| Time | Facilitator | Session |
| ----- | -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| 12:00 | Maggie | Welcome to the Congress |
| 12:10 | Everyone | Meet & Greet |
| 12:45 | Jonathan (host) + Local chapters | Around the World Session |
| 13:30 | Break | Break |
| 13:45 | Jonathan | New OSM Welcome Tool Demonstration |
| 14:00 | Each table has a facilitator | Open Topics / Tables |
| 14:30 | Each table has a facilitator | Open Topics / Tables |
| 15:00 | TBD | Closing & Thank Yous |

### Around the World Session 40 min/ 8 spaces
1. Eugene, Philippines 5 ✔ confirmed
1. Jez, UK 5
1. Jorge, Portugal 5 ✔ confirmed
1. Anisa, Italy 5 ✔ confirmed
1. Maggie, US 5 ✔ confirmed
1. Janet, Tanzania 5 ✔ confirmed
1. East/South Africa David Luswata ✔ confirmed
1. Asia Pacific - Mikko Tamura ✔ confirmed
1. Jonathan, Belgium 5 ✔ confirmed

### Open topics / Tables

First 30 minutes
* Open Mapping Hubs- Mikko Tamura for Asia- Pacific (AP), David Luswata for East and Southern Africa (ESA)
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-open-mapping-hubs-9qlq?lang=en
* Welcoming newcomers & "Workshop" on how to add your region (Jonathan)
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-welcoming-tool-9qlq?lang=en
* OSMF Microgrants
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-osmf-microgrants-9qlq?lang=en
* OSM in Government (Maggie)
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-osm-governments-9qlq?lang=en

Second 30 minutes
* Best practices around doing paid work for local chapters (Eugene/Joost)
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-paid-work-9qlq?lang=en
* Spreading the word about OSM
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-promoting-osm-9qlq?lang=en
* Community Building Playbook (Ruben)
* Pad: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/lccc21-community-building-playbook-9qlq?lang=en

### Test - November 1 - Maggie to create airmeet link

## Promotion activities

* Message past participants
* Mailing lists, community channels, social media

## TO DO

* update wiki
* Email everyone who registered - Maggie
* what to include: https://www.airmeet.com/hub/mobile-app/, how to use airmeet, invite for around the world, suggest chrome browser, schedule, table topics, be ready to talk!, meeting link, link to local time
* Final Around the World list: Geoffrey Uganda, Jonathan Belgium, Eugene Philippines, Jez UK, Maggie US, Anisa Italy, India? Geochicas? Jorge
* Promote the event more
* Create framapads for notes / and sign in (Eugene)

# Minutes from the LCCC

# OpenStreetMap Local Chapters and Communities Congress 2021

## Attendance

*Add your name and country or region!*

1. Eugene Alvin Villar, Philippines
1. Besfort Guri, Kosovo
1. Maggie Cawley, United States
1. Pete Masters, UK
1. David Luswata, Uganda
1. Can Ünen, Turkey
1. Nicole, Hamburg, Germany
1. Fazle Rabbi, Bangladesh
1. Arnalie Vicario, US / Philippines
1. Jonathan Beliën, Belgium
1. Claire Halleux, DRC
1. Atikur Rahman, Bangladesh
1. Omar Vega, Peru
1. Michał Brzozowski, Poland
1. Lorenzo Stucchi, Italy
1. Abdurahman AL Furjani, Libya
1. Rob Nickerson, UK
1. Janet Chapman Crowd2Map Tanzania
1. Sawan Shariar, Bangladesh
1. Elaine, Kenya
1. Rosa Colacicco, Italy
1. Hiroshi Miura, Japan
1. Daliah, Austria
1. Joost Schouppe, Belgium
1. Mario Frasca, Panama
1. Anisa Kuci, Italy
1. Jorge Gustavo Rocha
1. Jez Nicholson, UK
1. Imre Samu, Hungary
1. Tasauf A Baki Billah, Bangladesh
1. Samaila Alio, Niger
1. Miquel, Spain
1. Kelvin, India
1. Martino Scaglione, Italy
1. Mikko Tamura, Philippines
1. Muzirian, India
1. Devanshu, India
1. Mikel Maron, United States
1. Feye Andal, Philippines
1. Vetah MOHAMED EL MOCTAR, Mauritania
1. Laura Mugeha, Kenya
1. Daniel, Russia
1. Saliou Abdou, Bénin
1. Victor N.Sunday, Nigeria
1. Danil, Serbia
1. Andres Gomez, Colombia
1. Seralia, Panama
1. Ssekitoleko, Uganda
1. Rubén Martín, Spain
1. Socio, Bangladesh
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# Notes

## Around the World Session

### Philippines (Eugene)

Presentation: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zcoHC8IK-8McMFAKUCWgQ721XGRUhCp-Be0oB6SltKU](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zcoHC8IK-8McMFAKUCWgQ721XGRUhCp-Be0oB6SltKU)

- Pista Ng Mapa (Nov 2021)

* Website: [https://pistangmapa.github.io/2021/](https://pistangmapa.github.io/2021/)
* Hopefully in person again in 2022
- Asia Pacific Open Mapping Hub

* National Dialogues sessions \& Booster Grant collaboration with the hub
- 9 YM chapters in PH

* Training sessions and mapathons for students and the public
UP NOah website and portal powered by OSM via MapBox

OSMaPaaralan (OSM schools map) [https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/397904](https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/397904)

* Uses maproulette to make the schoolls dataset comprehensive on OSM (mapped >39k schools!)
* Phase II started
* OSM now has best db of schools in the PH

### United Kingdom (Jez)

Data projects

- New data layer included into iD and JOSM - cadastral parcels for the UK)

* UK doesn't have an open cadastrre, but cadasstral parcels are now available to use - means mapping from aerial imagery can be aligned properly. Massive imporvement in the ability to map with 'pinpoint' accuracy.
- Addresses copyright of the Post Office. Groups have tried to jailbreak address data and make it usable, but failed. OSM is going to succeed. Using open build data tricks - cadastral data and crowdsourcing. OSM is the dripping tap (keeps going and will succeed)

### Portugal (Jorge)

1- Community building: everyone is now on a Telegram channel: collateral impact of COVID-19 pandemic

2- Documentation: the OSM wiki is the place to write good practices, ongoing projects, etc. The wiki is now quite complete and updated for Portugal

3- Partnerships: National Statistics Agency opened the addresses list. A major effort is going on to update OSM with the addresses. INE is willing to receive the feedback from the OSM.

4- Partnerships: Municipality of Águeda adopt a workflow that updates OSM

5- Partnerships: Next week we will have a joint meeting (Portugal and Spain) with our National Mapping Agencies to talk about collaboration

### Italy (Anisa)

- IT community very active in mapping

- lots of different groups, either regional or specific groups interdependently organizing activities

* regional groups, youthmappers chapters
- Priotising infrastruicture for the community:

* developed and updated the tasking manager (IT): [https://osmit-tm4.wmcloud.org/](https://osmit-tm4.wmcloud.org/)
* OSM extracts for Italy [https://osmit-estratti.wmcloud.org/](https://osmit-estratti.wmcloud.org/)
* Working on a OSM Italy website to put all these tools in one place
- Priorities for next year in terms of infastructure:

* OSMAnd? OSMCha new functionalities requested by the community
- Newborn group dedicated to D\&I in the IT community (open for anyone) to develop a more welcoming community

- Different thematic groups evolving in the iT community to focus on different parts of OSM (just like the WG of OSMF but on a national level)

-Convention/agreements between Wikimedia Italy and institutions: CAI (National Alpine Club) or AIGAE (National Association for Environmental Hiking Guides)

In 2022, hosting in Florence the international FOSS4G! And MAYBE SotM too :)

### United States (Maggie)

Programs:

- 30daysofOSM - new theme every day and prizes available...

- Map for Impact

* First partner was Kaboom! mapping playgrounds and play spaces in Philly
- Open Historical map first project under XXX scheme

Committees and WGs

- gov committee Fostering awareness of OSM th gov agencies)

* open domain map (pilot project mapping railroad tunnels)
- Trails WG (trails on recreational land)

* National park staff and trail mappers collaboration [[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United\_States/Trail\_Access\_Project](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United\_States/Trail\_Access\_Project)]
Virtual events (40 mappy hours in the last 18 mths), including:

- TeachOSM mapalongs (2x per month)

- Geo-Ladies Nights

SotM US (April 2022) in Tucson, Arizona!

### Tanzania (Janet)

Multiple communities:

- crowd2map, OMDTZ, YouthMapper chapters x 16

OMDTZ community microgrants have funded seven microgrants and communities (supported by Open Mapping Hub E\&S Africa)

Events:

6 yr birthday for crowd2map [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crowd2map-is-6-join-us-to-learn-more-about-mapping-projects-in-tanzania-tickets-179219308777](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crowd2map-is-6-join-us-to-learn-more-about-mapping-projects-in-tanzania-tickets-179219308777) (lots of interesting speakers - addressing in TZ, schools mapping, nutrition, FGM, Gender based violence, )

crowd2map internship programme

- YMs interns supporting crowd2map - if people want to organise / deliver a session for the interns, please get in touch

Looking forward SotM Africa

- OMDTZ presenting AI-assisted road mapping

- Resilience Academy presentions

- Herry (from FGM safe house presenting work with Nottingham Uni (UK) on location of health centres, FGM risk....

- Janet presenting impact of mapping on FGM see

+ many other (couldn't keep up with the notes) - see [http://2021.stateofthemap.africa/](http://2021.stateofthemap.africa/)

[https://crowd2map.org/what-we-do/](https://crowd2map.org/what-we-do/)

[https://www.slideshare.net/jachapman82/openstreetmap-communities-in-tanzania-november-2021](https://www.slideshare.net/jachapman82/openstreetmap-communities-in-tanzania-november-2021)

[https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?organisation=Tanzania%20Development%20Trust](https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?organisation=Tanzania%20Development%20Trust)

[https://join.slack.com/t/crowd2map/shared\_invite/zt-q04pcgqp-oiICJUFnp61Czn5vguV\_Ig](https://join.slack.com/t/crowd2map/shared\_invite/zt-q04pcgqp-oiICJUFnp61Czn5vguV\_Ig)

[https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-fao-uses-google-earth-engine-apps-to-measure-land-degradation-tickets-202383252757](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-fao-uses-google-earth-engine-apps-to-measure-land-degradation-tickets-202383252757)

### Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa (David)

OSM Uganda

- made up of over 100 members (43% women)

- many students

31 active members (members involved in community events and mapping for over 30 days)

- New Cities project (remote mapping, field mapping, drone capture, 3d modelling)

Open Mapping Hub East and Southern Africa

- objective to inspire a movement of OSM contributors across regions

- Open Mapping Grants programme

- OSM monthly mapathons organised by the OSM Africa community - this month it's at SotM hosted by OSM Ghana

- Everyone welcome at SotM Africa!

### Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific (Mikko)

Focus: Create a sustainable OSM ecosystem in the regiopn and support OSM communities in the region

Programmes:

- She Leads anbd She Inspires programme (women's leadership programme) - still places available - takes place in December : She Leads and She Inspires bit.ly/shelsheip

- Map and Chat hour bit.ly/map\_and\_chat\_hour\_reg - next one is Nov 26 - people from acrss the region meet, map, chat about OSM, play game and there are prizes

# OSM Welcome Tool (Jonathan)

New tool created by OSM Belgium following commitment from the 2020 LCCC

Links: [https://welcome.osm.be/](https://welcome.osm.be/)

Contributing: [https://github.com/osmbe/osm-welcome-tool/blob/2.x/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/osmbe/osm-welcome-tool/blob/2.x/CONTRIBUTING.md)

Intro: [https://hackmd.io/8YDzPVaaTH6kKdWYxqpTOg?view](https://hackmd.io/8YDzPVaaTH6kKdWYxqpTOg?view)

Hosted on the OSM BE server

You just specificy your area of interest

You get stats for users and get a list of new mappers...

In Belgium the community doesn lots of welcoming together!

- shows a user's name, first changeset and editor and language (?)

Once you choose a user, you can adapt a welcome message (includes useful links) and send!

## **Unique Mappers Network, Nigeria(Victor N. Sunday)**

-registered NGO for OpenStreetMap community in Nigeria

-Focused with open mapping and community engagement webinar

-drivers youth empowerment in higher institutions in Nigeria mentoring and coordiinating teams

-drives women empowerment for open data and Geosptaila skill

drives citizen science project using OpenStreetMap

Engages interns to drive open mapping

currently mapping food vulnerable communities/LGA's in Nigeria as part of Citizen Science Project

drives capacity development for Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition in Nigeria

Drives GeoforAll Lab for inclusive community empowerment

drives Flying Lab for community drone mapping

Engages academic research and teaching using OpenStreetMap

contributed 668,000 edits since start-up in 2017 and 464,000 so far in 2021

drives operational capacity in 36 states of Nigeria and universities

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/unique-mappers-network-umt-269a6520a/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/unique-mappers-network-umt-269a6520a/)

[https://scistarter.org/mapathon-for-vulnerable-flood-disaster-communiti-1](https://scistarter.org/mapathon-for-vulnerable-flood-disaster-communiti-1)

#

## Mapping conversations

### OpenStreetMap Welcome Tool

You can add an area that is as big as your country or just your city. It really depends on how big you want to go!

You can find your country's flag here: [https://getemoji.com/](https://getemoji.com/)

You can also add any translations that are not yet in the tool.

### Microgrants table

(attending Eugene, Abdurahman, Pete, Rob)

- Hoping for a new microgrant programme in 2022 (dependent on funding)

* - MG committee to be asked to make recommendations by the board
- Idea of corporate funding for MG programmes (tangible reporting on where the money went)

* - lacking a fundraising framework
- Idea that better public celebration of MG projects might mean that more OSM community members value and support the initiative

* - for Rob (OSM UK), this is too much admin on top of current commitments
* - Anisa (OSM Italy) discusses how it's a different situation in Italy as there are some paid resources / time to do admin and communications

### Open Mapping Hubs Table

Attendees: Ribin, David, Arnalie, Sawan, Mikko, Can, Fazle, Jez, Miquel, Atik, Ruben, Elaine, Andres,

Notes:

Ribin: how do communities communicate online? which channels to use? open source? privacy?

Arnalie: depending what channels are accessible for the communities

Fazle: in Bangladesh, opensource is not accessible

Mikko: depending really, sometimes the platform is inaccessible because it is not userfriendly

Ribin: it looks like we are having 2 groups because of the divide (pro privacy and what is accessible)

Can: In Turkey, it's improving and many people are learning about OSM. Preferred way of communication is changing and varying. Multiple channels can work esp for async collaboration

Arnalie: Community channels: [https://openstreetmap.community/](https://openstreetmap.community/)

Jez: in UK, some is resistant to change and trying new channels/tools. instead of worrying how many people are not participating, but how many people have been put off. more prefer mailing list

Ribin: Mailing list in Bangladesh, lesser responses. A challenge for us, not a lot of people check their email. We are trying multiple platforms just to see and check

David: Uganda and OSM Africa, we push for opensource tools but most of comms still happening in what people use eg whatsapp. Mailing list not used. What the community uses and most comfortable with

Fazle: looking into bridges and bots to make sure one thing goes to all platform. 😪 but I really hope that people would move to more privacy focused alternative

Mikko: Engaging newbie after a mapathon is challenging...

Can: Generally newbies (university student groups etc.) prefer Whatsapp mostly, and people already part of the FOSS communities might be preferring something else completely, and not have Whatsapp installed.

Bridges can work in a way to make these... ...groups meet. At the expense of privacy a bit maybe. But...

Arnalie: try [https://matrix.to/](https://matrix.to/)

Ruben: Asynchronous, forum-type - Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/](https://www.discourse.org/)

Jez: The USA Slack channel seems to work quite well....lots of participants, lots of conversations

Janet remote mappers use Slack, mappers inside Tanzania use WhatsApp mostly, some overlap but connectivity is an issue in rural Tanzania.

### Community Building Playbook Table

Attendees: Ruben, Nicole, Arnalie, Can, Michal Abdurahman, Elaine, Fazle, Saliou, Ribin, Sawan, Vetah

Slides: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WLNYOFY1xIqd1pADQRhYLeGQkEm1SIttjz-i7agUXvo/edit#slide=id.p](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WLNYOFY1xIqd1pADQRhYLeGQkEm1SIttjz-i7agUXvo/edit#slide=id.p)

Notes:

Humanitarian Open Mapping Community WG Forum: bit.ly/communitywgforum

* Spanish webinar: [https://bit.ly/ComunidadNov8](https://bit.ly/ComunidadNov8)
recorded English session: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoL2BmYI46s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoL2BmYI46s)

Board: [https://jamboard.google.com/d/1iawqVqPCE6a5KFb\_MtAp-77CDiexF9HLv1bVocKY4mY/viewer?f=0](https://jamboard.google.com/d/1iawqVqPCE6a5KFb\_MtAp-77CDiexF9HLv1bVocKY4mY/viewer?f=0)

Themes:

1. Identifying local community issues

* Creating a safe space to map - eg lagging complaints
* 2. Attracting and engaging students
* 3. Connecting contributors motivation to mapping
* 4. Training
Continue the conversation here: [https://loomio.hotosm.org/d/kIZ1C4GP/building-an-openstreetmap-community-guide-playbook](https://loomio.hotosm.org/d/kIZ1C4GP/building-an-openstreetmap-community-guide-playbook)

### OSM and paid work

- Vocal segment of community doesn't want the Foundation to become big, like Wikimedia Foundation

- Italy, Belgium, and Germany local chapters have larger organisations (Wikimedia Italia, Open Knowledge Belgium, FOSSGIS e.V.), this is still a problem around having a larger organisation

- Wikimedia Italia is paying for work such as training, software development, etc.

- OSMUK is has a Talent Board

- OSM Italia coordinates work among OSM volunteers

- OSMBE also has something similar to OSMUK. Third party organisations also approach Open Knowledge Belgium to contract them for work.

- A company has approached OSMUK. Maybe the Foundation can do a lot of this coordination work.

### OSM and government

- The gov committee in the US started as very much education and sharing and is now turning into collaboration.

* - Monthly meetings with ~ 50 people
* - during work hours, regular meeting time, regular speakers, very open (opt in and invite your friends / colleagues)
* -
- In DRC the national geographic data platform has been pretty inactive. So, data is first created in OSM but then the license issue gets really complicated...

- In 2012 the DRC platform adopted odbl so it's compatible with OSM, but there is no public domain policy in DRC and so it's hard to get data back into institutions. Block is that they cannot merge with other internal data without sharing it and that's not feasible

- There were working groups around gov and institutional data needs / use but it came to an end. Hoping to revive it soon...

- In the US institutions have data sharing / public domain policies so it isn't so down to personal motivation and energy (it's more built in / standardised than in DRC).

- OSM US / gov collabs...

* - one came from a problem (trail mapping) and Maggie proposed a WG on that problem
* - Public domain came through a lot of dialogue around what data gaps could be addressed through OSM - someone in the group started building a stack to support the project - grown organically from there - project meets a professional need and now there is a sub group that have a stake in the project
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## Event Feedback \& Follow Ups

- where should we post recordings

- what went well?

- what would we change?

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