Jorieke Vyncke on the OSM-Community during the OpenStreetMap break-out session at Open Belgium 2015.

1. But are we really alone behind
our computers?
I love mapping!

2. crowd – sourcing
passive active

3. http://osmstats.neis-one.org/

4. http://osmstats.neis-one.org/

5. How are OSM-people
connected with eachother?

6. www.osm.org

7. A variety of mailing lists: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/mailman/listinfo/
Mailinglists, IRC & Forum
IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org/
forum: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/

8. OpenStreetMap Wiki
Belgian home page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Belgium

9. Twitter
@osm_be
Facebook group
OpenStreetMap België/Belgique/Belgium
Website
www.osm.be

10. And it doesn’t stop in the
digital world…

11. Mapping parties
Mapathons
State of the Map
Meetup’s
Events and conferences
Workshops
Hangouts

12. http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/
OSM Belgian Meetup Group

13. How is the community
organizing itself?

14. Discussion on motor roads

15. Discussion on crane rails

16. HOT Tasking Manager
http://tasks.hotosm.org/

18. What are the advantages of
having a mapping community?

19. Community
Is helping eachother in the
mapping process

20. Community
Facilitates the mapping by
developing tools and creating the
right environment

21. Community
Is exchanging and sharing
knowledge with others

22. Community
Improves the data quality

23. Community
Makes you able to handle
bigger challanges
(eg. Ebola Actavion Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team)

24. Community
Leads to continuous
improvement

25. Community
Makes mapping more fun!

26. Local community
Improves tremendously the
detail of the data

27. Aerial imagery of Goré, Chad

28. Goré, Chad on Google Maps

29. Goré, Chad on OpenStreetMap

30. Aerial imagery of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

31. Lubumbashi, DRC on Google Maps

32. Lubumbashi, DRC on OpenStreetMap

33. How can we scale up our
community even more?

34. The bigger the community,
the more diverse views,
the better OpenStreetMap!

35. For this,
we need to ask ourselves, what motivates people?
http://lanyrd.com/2013/sotm/scphkc/

38. Possible strategies to motivate
more people
• Project based mapping
• (Diversity-friendly) social events: mapping indoor and outdoor with
other people
• Reducing the complexity of learning OSM mapping
• More user-friendly, intuitive, efficient tools and better
documentation for data contribution
• Education and training
• Positive feedback & rewards for editing
• Awareness raising towards different groups
• Creation of demonstrators to showcase the values of OSM (make it
close to people’s everyday lives!)
• Peer support and community networks (eg. more profile options)
• Make OSM fun and cool!

39. So I still love mapping…

40. … but even more in our world
wide mapping community!

46. A mapper is never alone!
Jorieke Vyncke
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team