I held the first of a series of introductions to OSM today, for my employers members of EWB (Engineers Without Borders).

A great turnout, with 25 people turning up to listen at the head office, and several others tuning in via our video conference system. A great start! Even better, when asked if they wanted to contribute after the presentation, close to everyone was interested. A good promise for future mapathons in the Oslo area and rest of Norway. The presentation was a little bit of everything, since we had only 30 minutes available. We covered topics such as different uses for OSM, where I presented my favorites in terms of mountain biking and historical mapping, and transitioning into humanitarian mapping resources and what we can achieve with very little effort.

Shoutout to Pete Masters and Nick Allen for helping out with some advice and links to good presentations and other material from Missing Maps & HOT, really useful.

Next time we will be addressing actual tasks in the HOT Task Manager, can’t wait to get started.