OSM Awards 2020

This year, we are again presenting the OpenStreetMap Awards! Seven nominees will receive an award in seven categories at the State of the Map 2020 conference. This is a community award: you decide who the nominees are, before you vote for them.

Selecting Nominees: The awards committees are working on filtering the list of nominees to four or five for each category, using your submissions and votes. The voting will open on the 1st of June.

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Expanding the Community Award

For efforts in expanding the community. Not only geographically, but also in diversity, into humanitarian sector or government.

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Prince Kwame Odame
Kwame became part of OSM community in 2016 as a youthmapper. He is now the standing pillar of the very active UCC youthmappers chapter in Ghana. As a Regional YouthMappers Ambassador for Ghana, he has trained a lot of people and has helped established 4 new YouthMappers chapters across the country. His desire to improve upon the quality of OSM data has won him the admiration of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team who selected him as part of the top 10 validators for 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is not only his contributions and creation of chapters that makes him best fit for this award, he also led various students’ groups in using open sources platforms in solving local challenges related to agriculture and food sustainability. Some partners for such projects include the USAID Soybean Innovation Lab as well as the Africa Rising Project on sustainable agriculture in Northern Ghana. Kwame is a leader, a teacher and a mentor. I think he deserves this award more than anyone
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Valery Trubin
Valery Trubin is member of Russian community with great work for promoting OSM in Russia. He makes many interviews related to OSM, he regulary makes Russian translations of WeeklyOSM on Habr and submits interesting news to that blog. He also organized many mapping events that made our map better.
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Enock Seth Nyamador
Enock started the OpenStreetMap Ghana community, UMaT YouthMappers and supported UCC YouthMappers (one of the very active chapters in the world) as well as the University of Ghana YouthMappers. He has provided support to several other YouthMappers in the country and has tremendously helped expand the OSM community in Ghana.

Enock is one of the founding brains behind OpenStreetMap Africa and State of the Map Africa.
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Nikolai Parukhin
Nikolai Parukhin is a member of the Russian OSM community, who maps a lot and for a long time, not only in his hometown of Arkhangelsk, but also throughout Russia. In addition, he translated most of the OSM-related applications, services, and sites into Russian.
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Nikolay Petrov
Nikolai Petrov is a member of the Russian OSM community, who recently made a website openrecyclemap.ru, which you can use to find a container for separate garbage collection, as well as add your own. Currently, the project has been translated into 5 languages.
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trolleway
troleway is an active member of the Russian OSM community, who writes a lot of different tools, makes presentations, and is also incredibly active in shooting street panoramas with a 360-camera, which helps make the map better.
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Rebecca Firth
Rebecca co-designed and led the Women Connect Challenge project on behalf of HOT, which is one of the first major, multi-country projects on gender and OpenStreetMap. The project engaged local community members, leaders, and advocates in Peru, Tanzania, Zambia, and across the global YouthMappers community to champion gender-inclusive and responsive programming.

The project:
Trained a total of 741 individuals (48% female) in open mapping technologies including OpenStreetMap, Maps.Me, Mapillary, and KoboCollect
Contributed a total of 5,157,587 edits to OpenStreetMap
Completed the global YouthMappers challenge, engaging 620 youth globally to contribute 1,373,648 data points across Tanzania and Peru, and sponsored 6 students to attend an international conference to present on their contributions. Additionally, we engaged 563 university students in Tanzania through mapathons.
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Rachel Levine
Rachel is the current American Red Cross Missing Maps project coordinator. She was introduced to OSM in 2012 at what might have been the first ever American Red Cross mapathon. Since than she has tirelessly introduced 100s of new mappers in the US and globally in to OSM, has organised multiple OSMgeoweeks, etc. If you have a question about how to organise a good mapathon for beginner mappers and how to make sure they keep mapping, she is the go to person!
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Heather Leson
For her continuous effort of building the OpenStreetMap community. From outreach on conferences, to being board member - first of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and later for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. For her continuous effort to bringing in different views, creating a welcoming environment for newcomers and bringing and keeping gender and diversity within OSM high on the agenda.
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Abdullah Abdulrhman
For his impressive translation of JOSM in Arabic, by himself (this is usually a years-long task involving many contributors). Arabic was the the most spoken missing language in JOSM. According to Wikipedia, Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world.
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Antidius B. Kawamala
Antidius is the graduate student from Ardhi University, founder and CEO of FOSS4G Tanzania also the founder of Geospatial boot camp event hosted sessionally in Tanzania
he has outstanding power of community expanding capabilities and here are his works:

1. on April 4 2020 he hosted a bootcamp on Geospatial with the name “Geospatial BootCamp” for the case of community expanding and Networking capabilities encouraging open data and open source also this boot camp has to be hosted monthly or even four times a year for the purpose of community expanding and attracting more people to open steet map

2. On the very day there was introduction to FOSS4G Tanzania, this was all done to expand the activities and policy of open data sharing and open source emphasis.

3. He has done numerous trainings on GIS at CoICT and different organizations, on encouraging open data and open sharing through out the training and boot camps

4.hes has produced many of traingin material on open steet map, tools and data popular one being the QGIS shortcuts published in his twitter account @Antidius36
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Saikat Maiti
He is one of known face from OSM India community. Particioated in most of the Mapathon which is conducted by HOT or some other NGOs.
His contribution toward OSM is tremendous.