Sharon Omoja

Every day hundreds of people sign up for OpenStreetMap. We have several active OpenStreetMap communities, communities that are struggling to sustain themselves and at the same time, there are countries with no existing OpenStreetMap communities despite having contributors from those countries. This idea of a community playbook is to act as a guide for persons interested in starting up an OSM community and sustaining OSM communities with lessons drawn from existing communities. The community playbook is based on 4 themes; Identifying local community issues, attracting and engaging students, Connecting contributors motivation to mapping and Training

Other people: Geoffrey Kateregga

Having made your first edits with JOSM, there are a couple of tips and tricks to learn to make your daily mapping life in this JOSM easier. JOSM, considered an advanced mappers tool, is an easy-to-use OSM software that makes mapping in OSM easier and more interesting using plugins and various mapping tools.

This workshop aims to introduce those with JOSM for beginners skills to advanced editing techniques in JOSM. We will provide help with your first steps to plugins and mapping tools on JOSM,, introduce tips and tricks working with complex shapes, background imageries settings, to do list plugin among others. If you’re a newbie to OSM, I encourage you to go through ID for beginners and advanced ID tutorials first before this workshop. This will give you the chance to compare ID and JOSM during the workshop and get to appreciate JOSM and the techniques you will learn from it. All workshop attendees are required to download the latest version of JOSM prior to joining the workshop. See https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download for an installation and troubleshooting guide. In addition, please install these plugins: buildings_tools, todo, utilsplugin2. See https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Preferences/Plugins for how to add plugins. Don’t forget a mouse.

Other people: Michael Heißmeier