Organised Editing/Activities/CartONG

Created in 2006 and based in Chambéry, CartONG is a French NGO specialized in the full range of Information Management expertise. CartONG’s main mission is to put data at the service of humanitarian, development and social action projects. We promote the sharing of data, tools and methods and methodologies usable and accessible to all and are committed to working in a spirit of collaboration and partnership for a sustainable impact.

To find out more about CartONG and follow our newest activities, visit our website or our dedicated OsmWiki page.

Contact information and contribution tracking on OSM

For any question on CartONG's activities around OpenStreetMap, in particular on an Organized Editing activity and/or if you try to contact a specific contributor linked to us and don't get a fast answer, please email us at missingmaps[at]cartong[dot]org.

CartONG uses the changeset comments #CartONG and #missingmaps in order to trace our projects.

Training materials and tools

CartONG holds remote sessions twice a week, these sessions are an opportunity to train new volunteers in remote mapping and editing tools in OSM.

CartONG has also produced its own training documentation (only available in French for now but soon in English).

For mapathons we mainly use the HOT Tasking Manager. Beginners start with iD editor but we encourage and train our volunteers in using JOSM by organizing regular JOSM training sessions.

Training material : OpenStreetMap Toolbox

Data quality control

In the past years, CartONG has built a team of experienced contributors. We meet during remote validation sessions once a week in order to verify the quality of the contributions produced during the mapathons. These sessions help improve the quality and consistency of OSM data whenever necessary.

CartONG has also added an extra step to the data contribution and validation process. Once the validation is 100% completed, we proceed to an overall validation of the entire mapping area. This additional step allows us to homogenize the data & tagging and to better organize the different elements that have been mapped, in particular the road and hydrographic networks.

Remote Training and Validation sessions take place on a regular basis. Join us on Mondays from 6 to 8pm (UTC+1) for mapathon and on Thursdays from 10 to 12am (UTC+1) for validation sessions. You are welcome to join any time, feel free to register directly on our Eventbrite page or to contact us at missingmaps[at]cartong[dot]org

Activity overview

Ongoing

Only the activities linked with OSM organized editing, i.e. editing the OSM database, are listed. Most of our projects also include a capacity building component, as well as data analysis (map edition, webdmap development), and often awareness raising on open data and collaboration. To find out about these components, please check the links in the "Additional information" columns.

Year	Project / Activation campaign	Country	Partner / Donor	Project page or number	Date	Status	Type	Additional information / Report
2024	Project support for development ( public health )	Bosnia-Herzegovina	POTENTIEL 3.0	#16318	14/03/2024	Ongoing	Remote mapping	Project page on the Tasking Manager
2024-2018	Refugee site mapping	Multiple	UNHCR	Refugee-displaced Site Mapping for UNHCR		Cf. page	Remote mapping Field data collection Import	News on CartONG's website about Ethiopia activation (2020) Storymap on the Ethiopia activation (2019) News on CartONG's website about Republic of Congo activation (2018)

Past projects

Year	Project / Activation campaign	Country	Partner / Donor	Project page or number	Date	Status	Type	Additional information / Report
2023	Support OSM communities projects	Togo, Bénin, Madagascar	OSM communities	#14926 #14549 #14547#14546 #14536#14586 #14562 #14528 #14527		Completed	Remote mapping
2022	Resilience and Food Security program support in Morombe District	Madagascar	SIF	#12043 #11997 #11995 #11928 #11914 #11908	12/2021 01/2022	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection Integration of field data
2022	Mapping support of Jacmel and Bainet valley houssing improvment project	Haiti	Habitat Cité	#11978		Completed	Remote mapping Integration of field data
2022	Mapping support of a rural development project in the Debre Tabor region	Ethiopia	Avec Ethiopie	#12055		Completed	Remote mapping Integration of field data
2022	Mapping support of Grande Plaine water and sanitation project	Haiti	CEFREPADE and AOG	#12086		Completed	Remote mapping Integration of field data
2021	Mapping support for economic and toursim development projects	Lebanon	CSI	#11816		Completed	Remote mapping
2021	Mapping for sustainable development goals	Niger	AESCD/RAEDD	#10645	09/04/2021	Completed	Remote mapping Integration of field data
2021	Refugee site mapping	Lebanon	SEED	#10359	01/03/2021	Completed	Remote mapping
2021-2022	Mapping of villages in Tajikistan for Climate Change Adaptation	Tajikistan	Little Earth / GIZ	Participatory mapping in Tajikistan		Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection	Little Earth on HOT TM
2020-	Resilience and Food Security program support in Morombe District	Madagascar	SIF	#8784	08/06/2020	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection
2020	Refugee site mapping - Myanmar	Myanmar	Solidarités International & UNHCR	#8305 #8304		Completed	Remote mapping
2020	Environmental assesment support in Lome	Togo	MapATI / AMI CartONG bénévoles	#7905		Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection
2020	Water supply project support in Douala	Cameroon	Hydrauliques Sans Frontières	#7717		Completed	Remote mapping
				#7374
2019	Implementation of Healthsites.io platform in Senegal and data collaborative	Senegal	Healthsites.io - OSM-SN - Geomatica / PATH	Global Healthsites Mapping Project		Completed	Field data collection
2019	Urban improvement project support in Saint Laurent du Maroni informal settlement	French Guyane	MaroniLab / EPFAM	#6760		Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection
				#6499
2019-	Urban rehabilitation program assesment support in Tunisia	Tunisia	ARRU / AFD	#7902 - Intilaka - Tozeur	09/02/2020	Completed	Remote mapping	News on CartONG's website
				#7903 - Essouassia-Barid - Nefza	08/02/2020
				#7904 - Le Sers	07/02/2020
2018-2019	Prevention of natural disaster and child trafficking projet support in Karnali region	Nepal	Karya	#6054		Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection	uMap produced during the project
				#6055
				#6056
				#5504
				#3787
				#4285
2019	Mapping unsafe places based on gender in Jérémie	Haiti	Care Haiti / UN Women	#5795		Completed	Remote mapping
2019	WASH project support in Myanmar	Myanmar	Solidarités International	#5665			Remote mapping
2019	Urban improvement project support in Boassa precarious settlement	Burkina Faso	Yaam Solidarités	Cartographie des quartiers non lotis de Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso	01/03/2019	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection
					09/01/2019
2018-	Water, sanitation and waste management project support in Dessalines	Haiti	Pays de Savoie Solidaires	#7953	17/02/2020	Completed	Remote mapping
				#7718	16/01/2020
2018-	Flora & fauna assesment support in Rombo Wildlife Conservancy	Kenya	Rombo Wildlife Conservancy	#5268	01/09/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
2019	Implementation of Healthsites.io platform in Senegal and data collaborative	Senegal	Healthsites.io - OSM-SN - Geomatica / PATH	Global Healthsites Mapping Project	26/07/2019	Completed	Field data collection	News on CartONG's website
2019	Urban improvement project support in Saint Laurent du Maroni informal settlement	French Guyane	MaroniLab / EPFAM	#6760	15/09/2019	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection	News on CartONG's website
				#6499	01/09/2019	Completed
2018-2019	Prevention of natural disaster and child trafficking projet support in Karnali region	Nepal	Karya	#6054	24/05/2019	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection	uMap produced during the project
				#6055	24/05/2019	Completed
				#6056	24/05/2019	Completed
				#5504	18/11/2018	Completed
				#3787	01/01/2018	Completed
				#4285	01/01/2018	Completed
2019	Mapping unsafe places based on gender in Jérémie	Haiti	Care Haiti / UN Women	#5795	04/03/2019	Completed	Remote mapping	News on CartONG's website
2019	WASH project support in Myanmar	Myanmar	Solidarités International	#5665	11/01/2019	Completed	Remote mapping
2018	Mapping Health infrastucture access in Kalémie	DRC	Ministère de la Santé Publique RDC / GPSDD	#5636	19/12/2018	Completed	Remote mapping Field data collection	News on CartONG's website
2018	Agricultural and Livelyhood support in Guano District	Equator	Ecosur	#5527	13/12/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
2018	Disaster Risk reduction support	Madagascar	Humanity & Inclusion	#4822	05/07/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
				#4750			Remote mapping
2018	Refugee site mapping - Bangladesh refugee crisis	Bangladesh	Intercluster Bangladesh, Solidarités International, MSF	Activation page (Rohingya Crisis)		Cf. page	Remote mapping	News on CartONG's website about the support to MSF
2018	Heritage protection support in Dessalines	Haiti	Pays de Savoie Solidaires	#4025	01/01/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
				#4442	01/01/2018	Completed
2018	Health access improvment support in Akonolinga	Cameroon	CIRES	#4416 - Ville de Akonolinga	01/05/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
				#4417 - District de Akonolinga	01/05/2018	Completed
2018	Disaster risk reduction support	Madagascar	PHF	WikiProject Madagascar/DRRVatomandry		Cf. page	Remote mapping Field data collection	News on CartONG's website
2018	Economic Development support in Ambaja (Diego Suarez)	Madagascar		#4438	01/05/2018	Completed	Remote mapping
2018	Seismic hazard and toxic waste mapping support in Balken region	Kirghizistan	MSF - Switzerland	#4255	01/05/2018	Completed	Remote mapping

List of LE/GIZ projects (to move to dedicated page once created):

01/12/2020	#9935 - Cartographie de Sharora au Tajikistan	Active	Mapping of villages in Tajikistan
20/10/2020	#9585 - Cartographie de villages - Tajikistan	Active	Mapping of villages in Tajikistan

Achievements