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Your OSM activities

For example:

  • What brought you to OSM and why are you still part of it now?
  • What is your OSM user name?
  • What mapping contributions have you made in the last year?
  • What non-mapping contributions do you make to OpenStreetMap and why you think those are important.
    • Social meet-ups? Local Chapters? Working Groups? Have you ever run anything yourself?
    • Have you written anything about OpenStreetMap in blogs, mailing lists, newspapers? Please provide links if you can.
    • Do you contribute as a software developer?
    • Have you attended board meetings as a guest?

Sub-question 3: What mapping contributions have you made in the last year?

If not otherwise marked, table compiled from https://www.hdyc.neis-one.org as of 30.10.2022. Compiled by community members.

Mapping activity and contributions of board candidates. For non-mapping contributions (sub-question 4), please read the answers.
Daniela Waltersdorfer J. Arnalie Vicario Włodzimierz Bartczak Ariel Kadouri Victor N.Sunday * Christian Shadrack Sarah Hoffmann Logan McGovern Arun Ganesh Mateusz Konieczny Craig Allan
Username wiki Dw2515 arnalielsewhere Cristoffs akadouri vicksun Christian Shad lonvia LoganMcGovern PlaneMad Mateusz Konieczny cRaIgalLAn
Username osm DW2515 arnalielsewhere Cristoffs akadouri vicksun christian shadrack lonvia WarpathPeacock PlaneMad Mateusz Konieczny cRaIgalLAn
National./Resid. PE US PH PH&US PL PL US US NG NG DRC DRC DE DE US US IN US PL PL SA SA
Registered 2015-04-27 2015-04-24 2017-10-07 2016-11-03 2015-08-24 2017-03-13 2008-02-07 2019-04-15 2005-12-26 2013-08-23 2010-08-26
Type Casual Mapper

(Rarely Active)

Great Mapper

(Regularly Active)

Super Mapper

(Highly Active)

Great Mapper

(Highly Active)

Casual Mapper

(Active)

Casual Mapper

(Regularly Active)

Great Mapper

(Very Active)

Legendary Mapper

(Highly Active)

Legendary Mapper

(Highly Active)

Fantastic Mapper

(Mega Active)

Heavy Mapper

(Highly Active)

days/change sets

last year

6 / 14 16 / 69 250 / 4,664 213 / 1,220 23 / 294 35 / 71 105 / 427 182 / 2,097 174 / 818 344 / 6,689 231 / 1,018
Mapping days 26 142 604 474 134 146 1,111 779 2,882 2,399 1,133
Map changes 2,577 206,299 8,510,196 82,640 82,805 180,401 303,956 907,955 3,873,586 1,219,907 1,365,587
OSM Forum
OSM Wiki
Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified Created Modified
Nodes 1,982 96 158,590 2,885 6,774,469 263,753 56,120 6,921 67,666 442 142,779 3,287 117,218 70,716 478,619 190,567 2,566,820 460,776 104,100 174,726 1,160,495 90,597
Ways 329 61 40,190 4,067 1,261,305 77,318 14,338 3,749 13,859 106 28,241 748 17,134 44,179 90,518 86,158 195,023 236,437 21,589 167,133 45,562 24,257
Relations 1 0 1 0 59 454 23 28 3 1 16 2 1,303 2,656 174 1,372 946 5,878 378 5,694 239 330
Graphics

from hdyc as of 30.10.2022

DW2515.jpg Arnalielsewhere.jpg Cristoffs.jpg Akadouri.jpg Vicky.jpg Christian shadrack.jpg Lonvia.jpg Warpath.jpg PlaneMad.jpg Mateusz.jpg Data Craig.jpg

*Candidate's membership makes him not eligible for this election. Announcement on osmf-talk, which is the mailing list for OSM Foundation members.

Daniela Waltersdorfer J. - Q01 Your OSM activities

I was first exposed to OSM in Miami when I attended a Code for Miami Meetup and there was a task for HOT. One of the leads of Code for Miami, Ernie, spoke passionately about OSM. I decided to join the table he was at and mapped away that night. I believe it was sometime that same year that I attended my first ever State of the Map US. You can learn more about my involvement with OSM US here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DW2515. I have helped lead Maptime Miami and then after moving to the Boston area, Maptime Boston. While in Miami, I helped lead a tutorial on how to map for OSM for YALI Scholars through Florida International University. For the past two years I have been in the OSM US Board, where I helped draft and launch our Code of Conduct. I am not a Software Developer, and if I'm honest sometimes I feel like a "fraud" for not being as technical as some of our OSM peers. I believe, however, that OSM is far more than the technical and scripting components. We have to understand and engage communities all around us to better understand and complete our map.

As far as attending OSMF Meetings, I have attended some as the representative for OSM US. Here are two blog posts I authored/co-authored: https://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/10/dw-at-sotmus/ ; https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2019/02/12/potential-for-openstreetmap-to-seize-the-curb.html?fbclid=IwAR3fj6xd1dXBZ8Rekr42hX3Hm20jZ0GqSczmmwIhYOG5dRmrhRuukU3ycZ0 I have presented at a few State of the Map US.

Arnalie Vicario - Q01 Your OSM activities

You can read more about me, my background and OSM journey in my OSM Profile and short bio in my manifesto.

Why am I still part of OSM now? I am still here contributing (in mapping, working groups, community engagement and advocating for diversity and inclusion) in Openstreetmap because the rest is still unmapped.

Recent mapping contributions: I mainly map women and children POIs whenever I travel and have the time to map [1][2]. I also contribute to urgent disaster activation projects via HOT Tasking Manager.

Non-mapping contributions: I try to be active, support and advocate for the Openstreetmap PH community, Geoladies Philippines [3] and Ministry of Mapping [4], as well as build networks and collaborate with other mappy communities within and outside of my region (Asia) e.g. through the HOT Community Working Group [5] and Geochicas [6]. I joined SotM WG [7] and LCCWG Moderation Subcommittee [8] in early 2021, then LCCWG [9] in late 2021; all of which my main contribution is communicating and helping promote WG events and activities.

In my role as Online Community Engagement Lead at HOT: I advocate and amplify community voices and activities with high humanitarian, disaster and environmental vulnerabilities such as my country, the Philippines.

Włodzimierz Bartczak - Q01 Your OSM activities

I map primarily in Poland. I took a very active part in completing building outlines last year, introducing AED locations, updating address points, and fixing fixme marked objects, and Osmose errors.

Occasionally I find myself mapping HOT projects with a special focus on those organized by UN Mappers.([10])

As part of promoting the OSM project, I am also involved in conducting OSM editing training for university students. Among others, I have conducted such classes at the University of Lodz, Cracow Pedagogical University and Warsaw University of Technology.

Since 2019, I have been a co-organizer of the undergraduate thesis writing program at the University of Lodz based on OSM data, thanks to which students complete and update map data in the Lodz region. At this university I also give open lectures and workshops on editing OSM every year as part of GiSDay.

Together with the Pedagogical University of Cracow, this year I organized the Cartographic Training Ground (you can read more about it:[11])

I also run together with colleagues from OSMP the OpenAedMap project as Project Manager and I am a OSMP Discord server admin.

Sometimes I happen to write something about OSM, you can read it in My OSM Diary

Ariel Kadouri - Q01 Your OSM activities

You can find me editing OpenStreetMap as akadouri. My first edit was in 2016, during a geography class when I was required to make about 10 edits to learn what OpenStreetMap was about. I only edited sporadically after that, the city I lived in (Seattle) had all its buildings imported and I wasn't confident editing much else.

I thought of OSM as a basemap, I knew there were other things you could tag but I didn't know how to interact with that data. One day I wanted to find tennis courts with lights, something that wasn't supported by other mapping apps. I learned how to build that query in Overpass Turbo and started surveying the tennis courts in the area.

More recently, I helped revive the New York City meetup. Together we've worked on initiatives like the Flushing Sidewalk Task, Pool Mapping and are working through the sidewalks and kerbs throughout New York City. Our goal is to complete enough of the pedestrian network to allow accessible routing. I've presented OSM work at other local events like NYC Open Data Week.

This past summer I presented the progress of our sidewalk work at State of the Map 2022.

I've attended this past board meeting, the first half of the local chapters congress before heading to the local event, online OSM-US mappy hours, etc. I won't claim to be a regular at all these events, but I am trying to be more involved.

Victor N.Sunday - Q01 Your OSM activities

Christian Shadrack - Q01 Your OSM activities

First of all it was curiosity that led me to start with OSM and get into it, then it was the need to look for easier to acquire tools for map production needs.
The first reason to stay connected with OSM is the multi-cultural character with several nationalities and several languages. OSM has allowed me to increase the number of friends and today thanks to OSM I have many big/small brothers and sisters across Africa and around the world.

OSM offers the means to easily produce GIS data and especially OSM offers the means to work with more or less updated images. This is a great asset for anyone working with GIS data. The quality of the images on the platform is very nice.

My OSM user name is "christian shadrack"

During this year I participated in all mapathons organized by OSM Africa and I was designated as an official interpreter. Since the beginning of this year, I have participated in 11 projects across Africa.
I was the one who implemented OSMDRC newsletter, our monthly newsletter for OSM DRC, in which we talked about OSM events in Kinshasa and in the country, but above all it was an opportunity with this newsletter for the contributors to express themselves with their OSM actions in the community.

Sarah Hoffmann - Q01 Your OSM activities

I'm lonvia on OSM. I came to the project in 2008 because mapping is such a wonderful excuse to go outside and discover places I ordinarily might not have considered visiting. I've done a lot of my mapping while hiking. I've been less active in the last years. Mostly I've fixed the occasional error I discover while using OSM maps. When I feel like armchair mapping, I like to pick some errors from Nominatim QA.

When not mapping, I do a lot of software development for OSM. I'm maintainer for Nominatim, osm2pgsql, waymarkedtrails.org and a couple of other projects. I'm part of the OSMF sysadmin team where I'm responsible for the Nominatim servers. I regularly visit and speak at State of the Map conferences. I've been on the programme committee for SOTM in the last years. I was a founding member of the Swiss OSM association and I'm a regular Stammtisch visitor. I lurk on mailing lists, the forum and IRC, although I rarely feel the need to actively intervene. I've listened into a handful of board meetings in the last two years. I hope I have been able to collect diverse impressions of the OSM community and bring that into board work.

Logan McGovern - Q01 Your OSM activities

What brought you to OSM and why are you still part of it now?

I attended a career fair in 2018. My current employer Kaart was advertising open GIS Technician positions at the fair. Because I am from a rural area of the United States whose largest job industries are healthcare, teaching, and natural resources seeing jobs being advertised by a tech company was a welcome surprise. More specifically, they told me the GIS technicians they hired would be making contributions to an obscure database called OpenStreetMap. I had never heard of OSM before that point. At the start, I applied because I needed employment. Shortly after, I grew to love my job and all things OpenStreetMap. I love the international character of the project, and I am a better person for it. Through ground surveys, I have met people rich and poor and I have been exposed to people of every lifestyle, religion, and creed. Most importantly, I credit OpenStreetMap for motivating me to learn Portuguese and my Brasileira girlfriend. She enriches my life every day. Furthermore in a typical week, I am blessed to work alongside people from so many countries across the world. It is one of the most rewarding qualities you could ask for with a hobby or job.

What is your OSM user name?

WarpathPeacock. The story that inspired my username: I got chased, completely unprovoked I will add, by an extremely mean and slightly terrifying peacock in Malaysia. It quickly became a favorite story for my coworkers. For awhile after the incident, they had a bit of fun at my expense by making poor (but funny) imitations of a peacock screeching whenever they they passed by my desk at the office. I was in Malaysia conducting a ground survey for OSM data collection and acquiring ground imagery of the streets.

What mapping contributions have you made in the last year?

My contributions are largely targeted edits aimed at improving the integrity of OSM road network data. Classifications, missing data, and accurate access tagging are all priorities. You will see that I have contributed edits to possibly half of the countries in Latin America, but more of my energy and time was given to Ecuador and Peru this year. Eastern Europe is similar. I have edited in many countries, but you will see the majority of my edits are concentrated in Greece and Cyprus. Cyprus is a country I was specifically responsible for with regards to data contributions. My edits are very widespread in Asia, with less of a focus on any particular country. Specific projects included my participation in a ground survey for the Manila and Angeles metropolitan area in the Philippines. I'm pretty certain that I have made anywhere between 50,000 to 80,000 edits in the last year. Between May and August, my contributions declined because I was assigned managerial responsibilities for a team of editors during a transitionary period. I was happy for this opportunity. I appreciate my coworkers.

What non-mapping contributions do you make to OpenStreetMap and why you think those are important.

I am on the moderation committee for the OSM and OSMF mailing lists (I have recused myself from moderation duties for the duration of this campaign). I think this contribution of mine is important because the members of the moderation team are establishing standards and protocols which might influence official practices in other OSM discussion forums. I am happy with the minimal intervention of the moderation committee. The lists have been criticized in the past for a perceived hostility to newer members of the OSM community. I think this is an unfair charge. The participants of the OSM and OSMF mailings lists are a collection of strong personalities. They are are often the public champions of various proposals and ideas and many are subject-matter experts in areas ranging from legal to technical. The majority are also long-time members of the community, and many helped lay the foundations of OSM in its infancy. Now, rejection from a list or public rebuke is necessary when forum participants engage in vulgar behavior including abusive ad hominem, doxxing, or engaging in racist and sexist stereotypes. However, their is no mandate for moderators to intervene because someone receives a little pushback from a more experienced member of the community who has has seen an idea or proposal fail firsthand in the past.

Social meet-ups? Local Chapters? Working Groups? Have you ever run anything yourself?

I have organized and facilitated mapathons for my coworkers to contribute to Humanitarian OpenStreetMap projects. I was the assistant manager of a team of approximately 25 corporate editors. In this period, I helped successfully manage this team during an emotionally taxing transitionary period. I have worked through all of HOT's training material in order to gain the certification to act in the capacity of 'activation lead' for disaster mapping projects. I have not yet acted in this capacity independently.

Have you written anything about OpenStreetMap in blogs, mailing lists, newspapers? Please provide links if you can

No, regrettably I have not.

Do you contribute as a software developer?

I do not.

Have you attended board meetings as a guest?

I have not, but it is my consistent habit to read the meeting minutes. The meetings tend to coincide with mid-morning in my time-zone and the busiest time of my work day.

Arun Ganesh - Q01 Your OSM activities

What brought you to OSM and why are you still part of it now?

During my college days in India in 2008, travelling by public transport to explore the city was a constant struggle due to the lack of publicly available information of bus routes in my city of 5 million people. After learning about the OSM project, it looked like the ideal place to crowdsource this kind of information from my own travels. After starting an OSM wiki page outlining the idea, was able to lead a small community of volunteers to build the actual website which became a popular service in the city and the earliest OSM map based app in India. This convinced me that citizen created maps can respond to the needs of the public much faster than any commercial map can.

In the last 14 years, seeing the growth of OSM powered applications and the community around it has only strengthened my belief in the project and keeps me contributing to it till now.

What is your OSM user name?

My username is PlaneMad which has its roots during my earlier internet years active in many flight simulator forums.

What mapping contributions have you made in the last year?

Have mostly been an armchair mapper tracing lot of natural features and heritage features like forts and monuments in India.

What non-mapping contributions do you make to OpenStreetMap and why you think those are important.

Have been fairly active in the OSM India telegram group to provide support to anyone trying to to contribute and use OSM data. Have also developed the latest OSM India homepage to satisfy local regulations regarding depiction of boundaries and have created resources to help data consumers in India around the problem. This has led to more Indian websites adopting the use of an OSM basemap.

Of my several OSM talks, the most notable may be my keynote at SoTM 2017 which covered my work at Mapbox to hire and train a dedicated data team with Maning and Rubén to contribute to OSM which set the bar for other commercial mapping teams to follow. The Mapbox mapping guides we published continue to remain one of the best resources for learning to use JOSM.

Social meet-ups? Local Chapters? Working Groups? Have you ever run anything yourself?

Back in India, had organized regular mapping parties and talks with school students whenever there was an opportunity to engage with youth and citizen groups. Since moving to United States 3 years ago during the pandemic, there have been no social events that I have organised.

While I have not directly written about OSM in newspapers, my mapping activities with OSM with various others in the India community has resulted some local press coverage for OSM that mention me.

Do you contribute as a software developer?

With my limited web development skills have leveraged the OSM ecosystem for several time critical projects, more notable of which was crowdsourcing a search for a missing paraglider in the Himalayas using imagery and tasking manager and co developing a tool to crowdsource flooded streets in Chennai.

During my time in the Mapbox data team, my role influenced the interface design of osmcha and changeset-map to visualize data changes.

Have you attended board meetings as a guest?

No.

Mateusz Konieczny - Q01 Your OSM activities

Storm water drain and exit of Młynówka Królewska mapped in my first edit in 2013

In my mapping, I am especially proud of locally surveyed changes, but I have also made some bot edits and remote edits fixing some clear issues or using aerial imagery.

You can look at my edits from Mateusz Konieczny account. In all my OpenStreetMap activities I just use my name.

I was working on improving StreetComplete and hopefully, it made it a bit easier to contribute to OpenStreetMap for regular people who want to help without spending massive effort on it.

An offshoot of that was a review of files on OSM Wiki by their copyright status which is an annoying and boring activity. Sadly it was needed as some files were clear copyright violations. Sometimes it was easily fixable as files were just reuploads of openly licensed files - but with mandatory attribution being skipped. In some cases, uploaders responded. In some cases situation is not entirely clear. Either way, with over 22 000 problematic files - help is welcomed

I also have some minor contributions to iD presets, JOSM and some other editors - sometimes in form of code, sometimes in form of translations.

I have also some significant activity on OpenStreetMap Wiki where I am trying to help documenting tagging schemes used by OpenStreetMap mappers and help in designing new ones (one of the later questions will link some examples).

I participated in some discussions on the new forum, old forum, some mailing lists, Discord servers and so on.

I have attended some public board meetings as a guest.

I also had more or less successful attempts in getting various organisations using OSM-based maps to credit OpenStreetMap.

I also worked on some projects using OpenStreetMap data - some commercial run by other people, some own like laser-cut maps as decoration for gifts for friends and family.

Craig Allan - Q01 Your OSM activities

What brought you to OSM and why are you still part of it now?

I found OSM by good fortune in some random Saturday afternoon web surfing, and I liked it so much that I am still here, twelve years and over a million mouse clicks later. You'll find my contributions under the userid cRaIgalLAn. I am a frequent mapper, mostly in Africa. You can look up my mapping activity on Pascal Neis's site - Pascal classifies me as a "Heavy Mapper (Highly Active)".

OpenStreetMap is a global movement, which gathers all of us together around the one map. It is not only about mapping. Mapping is of course important. But non-mapping contributions are the very important glue that binds the movement, holds communities together, keeps the servers running and raises the funds to pay the bills.

My non-mapping contributions include:

  • I was on the local team for the global OSM conference "State of the Map" held in Cape Town. You can see me listed HERE
  • I also assisted the Microgrants programme by acting as members representative and monitoring the process. The report I wrote is HERE.
  • I have reviewed and commented on several Local Chapter applications in some detail.
  • I have attended many OSMF Board meetings over the years and I always follow the minutes.
  • I am active on social media - mostly on the osmf-talk mailing list, where I always try to contribute positively - not flame.
  • I am a contributor on the Discord community groups.
  • I spread the word and encourage GIS users, academics and project implementers to use OSM for their specific purposes.

Social meet-ups? Local Chapters? Working Groups? Have you ever run anything yourself?

I don't know of any OSM in-person meetings ever held in my local region and my country isn't a Local Chapter so no to attending meetings. I volunteered on the SOTM in Cape Town, but COVID unexpectedly arrived and killed the in-person aspect of the conference so I wasn't there in person. I have not organised any meet-up events myself.

Have you written anything about OpenStreetMap in blogs, mailing lists, newspapers? Please provide links if you can.

I write fairly often in the internal mailing list for OSMF members, and have made a few tweets on osm matters, but I don't write in any external media.

Do you contribute as a software developer?

I do not. My coding experience is mostly in databases and website development. The coding languages I know well aren't used much in the OSM development environment. OSM mainly uses Java, Ruby, C++ and some Perl. The OSM DB was originally MySQL, which I know, but it was moved to PostgreSQL/PostGIS which I have not used. OSM Operations people use scripting languages and Chef.

Have you attended board meetings as a guest?

I have, maybe a dozen times in the last few years since they have been open. I also make sure I read the minutes of all meetings to keep up with Board thinking.


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