Anisa Kuci

Wikimedia Italia, the Italian OpenStreetMap Local Chapter of the OSM Foundation, presents its activities, online infrastructure developed to support OpenStreetMap in Italy and the Italian community. The talk will share the experience, situations and factors that have influenced agreat collaboration with the local contributors and institutions during the last years.

The presentation will go through different areas of the Local Chapter’s activities. The recently updated infrastructure, composed by the Tasking Manager and the OSM extracts for Italy. Those tools are available and used by the Italian OSM community. Moreover, the official new Italian OSM website, the OSM licences tracking process and other tools developed to support the community will be presented. Other experiences that will be shared are the collaborations with local institutions, with the scope of strengthening local communities and increase the data in OSM. The keys to success are the volunteer coordinators. They are a point of contact important to establishing collaborations with individuals and institutions throughout the national territory

This presentation will be an overview of two different services, the Tasking Manager and the OpenStreetMap – OSM extracts for Italy, that have been lately updated and adapted for the Italian OSM community by Wikimedia Italia, the Italian OSM Local Chapter.
The Tasking Manager is an Open Source tool that facilitates collaborative mapping in OSM, very important for the worldwide OSM community.
This talk includes a tour through the Italian version of the Tasking Manager that has been made available for the Italian community of mappers, while explaining how it works and its importance.
OSM extracts is a service that allows anyone that’s interested to download extracted data of Italy from the OSM database either for the whole country or for each region, province or municipality in different formats.