I had not taken OSM seriously until I began to need info and wanted to correct current map information in my locality. But I only edit maps here whenever I am in the mood or when I have time. In the early part of my mapping on osm, a great part of that was dedicated to correcting info on places that I am very familiar with.
My being female of the species has not really concerned me until I read an article today regarding the small percentage of women among mappers. In the listed members of WikiProject Philippines, I could see that I am only 1 of about 4 female names among 49 contributors. This made me edit Preferences on my wikipage. I clicked on “She edits wiki pages” on the question, “How do you prefer to be described?”
Let me emphasize another fact.
I belong to an indigenous community.
I am a full-blooded indigenous person.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/who-maps-the-world/555272/
Discussion
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 on 22 March 2018 at 17:06
Always good to get more mappers from more backgrounds.
BTW we have a mailing list for discussion of diversity issues in OSM if you’d like to join: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/diversity-talk
Comment from GOwin on 23 March 2018 at 06:50
Thank you for sharing, HaonHiAki.
It would have been nice to have you in yesterday’s MapaBabae event: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/GOwin/diary/43553
Keep on mapping!
Comment from amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 on 23 March 2018 at 08:39
There’s also a GeoChicas group https://twitter.com/GeochicasOSM/