as an organization

Contribute geospatial data or imagery for tracing

Why?

Open your data to a global audience. Benefit from more eyes on your data to keep it up to date.

How?

• Contact the local OSM chapter

• Learn about licensing for OSM

• Find out how to add different datasets

• Process and preparation - get inspired by how others interact with the community (West Midlands, Milan, Seattle)

Organize a mapathon

It feels good to do good. Show your employees, members and customers how easy it is go get involved in open mapping.

⏰ Before

• Find a cause that matters to your organization or the occasion. It could be a new cause or an existing project (Nepal earthquake 2015, Mapping to end Malaria 2016, Mapping for Ebola 2014).

• Organize a venue, date and time - the rule is: there must be 🍕🍕🍕 for the mappers. Make sure venue has enough power outlets and stable Wifi.

• Invite mappers. People should bring a laptop with mouse and a modern browser.

• Invite the local OSM community to help with training.

• Set up the HOT Tasking Manager to spread the load efficiently.

🎉 On the day

• Share information on the cause and how open mapping contributes.

• Get people to sign up.

• Give a short intro to using OpenStreetMap and the Tasking Manager.

• Get mapping! There should be some experienced mappers to walk around and answer questions.

💌 After

Keep the communication going on what the added map data helped to achieve.