State of the Map conference

Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams
Published 14 Sep 2020

Map parties created a place for map enthusiasts to socialize and share information on the latest mapping technologies, and resulted in a strong open-source mapping community. Attending map parties was a way to learn from peers while generating data under the ethos of open-source principles and practices. In 2007 OpenStreetMap held its first “State of the Map” conference, which has since become one of the main gatherings for the open-source map community.16 Recently at this conference the Red Cross, USAID, and a number of other humanitarian organizations demonstrated techniques for building data for disaster relief using OpenStreetMap tools. For example, the Red Cross developed OpenMapKit, a tool that allows its staff to collect data in remote areas where limited internet and cell networks make accessing and uploading data to OpenStreetMap's database difficult.

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