Project name: Guidelines for mapping of wetlands and floodzones. Case study of Lower Sinu river basin in Caribean region of Colombia

Description

The goal of the project is to test the mapping case study to build a document with guidelines for mapping in this areas. It comes from the experience of the “Water telling stories” Social Movement, a root social initiative of near 47 communities, grassroots organizations from 5 municipalities around the ecosystem of the Lower Sinu River Basin, located in the north coastal side of the Cordoba Department, in the Caribean region of Colombia. As part of the technical support team of the movement, Iḿ leading the mapping project for this area.

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I used the jamboard to put one the difficulties from my side:

“I can’t find allies for my legacy project from my OSM local and regional Community. I need people to help me to identify the needs of mapping wetlands and flood areas.”

I’m working with one volunteer from Youth mappers in Colombia who is interested in help to this mapping project. As I said in my diary entry, previously I had lead one mapping session to invite people to join our tasking manager mapping task to map Bajo Sinu “Lower Sinu River basin”.

In my action plan I have:

Month	Activity	Time
AUGUST	Create a Diary entry	1th
	Create and follow up a Communities thread for the project	1th
SEPTEMBER	Study and create a list of tags related to the guideline project (Needing expert help from biology or some natural sciences area experts): https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/wetland#overview	10th
	Finish the project draft	10th
	Make a video	20th
	Make a presentation	20th
	Organize a mapping workshop to validate the HOT mapping tasking manager project and receive feedback for the guideline draft	25th
OCTOBER	Create an advanced draft of the guidelines	10th
	Create some videos showing some of the tags more used to map wetlands	20th
	Organize another mapping activity	25th
	Socialize the guideline document	28th

Note: SEPTEMBER: (We have the opportunity to focus on validating embankments objects because in the region will be held on september 28th a meeting with institutions. The Court has ordered from 1999 that the major of the municipalities take actions to destroy manmade embankments, but these orders hasn’t been accomplished. This year the Court ordered again to the institutions to take actions and send reports of this orders to the court. So we have the opportunity to give the map of embankments that we and other volunteers have mapped in the area.

This is the Overpass Turbo search for this objetcts: man_made=embankment : https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1zq7

Alert:: Al least one of the mapped embankments isn’t in the map. Maybe one user deleted it. We have a copy of it in our WMS Server:

https://redhumus.org:8443/geoserver/web/?1

Also you can check the social cartography in our Geonetwork server (Click on “Agua contando historias” Map and see the mapped embankments in green. We need to unify these sources and remap the deleted ones on OSM:

https://redhumus.org:8443/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home