Hello all, Namasthe! 🙏 We had an amazing HOT Mapathon on July 21st at Mapbox India office. We had the local OSM community along with folks who were mapping for the first time adding approximately 3000 buildings in Cambodia for Eliminate Malaria task.

The good thing about this event was that most of them knew about OpenStreetMap and very few people were new into mapping activity. At first, we introduced to OpenStreetMap, it’s data model, and good practices one should know while editing and a short demo of editing in iD editor.

Few Photos

Upendra introducing the HOT and it’s objectives

Jinal Foflia helping the participant for mapping

Many of us discussed about ongoing mapping activities in Africa with more emphasis on FGM and Malaria issues and how non profit organisations are utilising the data that people produce to save many lives. Also, we’ve discussed about upcoming State of the Maps in Japan, US and Nepal. Some of the questions they asked are like, how data produced by many people been validated? who will take care of ground truth? and what is the community capacity right now? and so on. Hope we cleared all of them!

We hope to have many more events in the future with the community and help for humanitarian purposes.

Best, Chetan