OSM Awards 2020

Yohan is the main uMap developer https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/ - https://github.com/umap-project/umap
He has done a lot of work on uMap and continue his effort to maintain and enhance uMap. BTW, he is doing bug triaging, bug fixing, implement new features, build and release new version and so on! Thank a lot for all your work Yohan!
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Blake has been missing, it seems to me. He was a stalwart in the early days, and saved my bacon as a rookie. Having steady senior figures you can rely on is important for institutional trust. It is a 'lifetime contribution award' that he needs really. Anyway, that's my two pennies.

Nandjo became part of OSM community in 2016 as a youthmapper. He is now a validator and OSM waiver member. He is part of all the achievements the very active UCC youthmappers chapter in Ghana has made. He was one the most contributor to UCC youthmappers chapter in winning the first two rounds of Clinton Malaria Elimination Mapping Challenge, 2017. He desires to improve upon the quality of OSM data. It is not only his contributions that makes him best fit for this award, he also led various students’ groups in using open sources platforms in solving local challenges. I think he deserves this award more than anyone
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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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Crowd2Map Tanzania is an entirely volunteer mapping project putting rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, over 13000 volunteers worldwide have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings remotely and supporting over 2000 on the ground in Tanzania. With minimal budget and no staff we have so far added over 4.4 million buildings and trained community mappers in 26 areas of Tanzania. We have also helped set up Youthmapper chapters in 9 different universities in Tanzania and given training to many different community groups. The majority of our mappers were new to OSM when they joined and so we give them immediate feedback on their first mapping in our very active Slack group with over 4400 members. We have also organised many webinars, conferences, events and online quizzes to improve our mapping.

A major focus area is helping activists and the police use maps to rescue girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation. To this end we have set up digital activists in 87 villages in Serengeti to map their villages.
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ToniE is contributing to OSM since 2007 and is lately very active in enhancing the quality of public transport mapping. He created the tool PTNA https://ptna.openstreetmap.de that both captures the completeness of PT mapping and analyses the issues with the mapping. Currently he focuses on the practical exploitation of GTSF data.
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Ivan Chashkin aka Cupivan is a member of the Russian OSM community, who has made quite a lot of different validators. They are used for various cartographic operations in Russia. For example, a validator for building entrances is used for an annual campaign to map these entrances. It is constantly expanding the list of its services.
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Alexander Petrov aka Felis Pimeja is a member of the Russian OSM community who has been mapping for many years. He always draws everything in great detail, and OSM pays great attention to 3D mapping of buildings. In addition, it sometimes records training videos and helps beginners improve their mapping skills.
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The Ramani Huria team began their work back in 2015 by mapping the most flood-affected city in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam. Ramani Huria is a community-based mapping project that began in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, training university students and local community members to create highly accurate maps of the most flood-prone areas of the city.

As the maps have taken shape – their benefits have multiplied and their potential magnified, now serving as foundational tools for development within all socio-economic spheres beyond flood resilience.
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Hawa has a background in Geography and Environment studies but through working with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and OpenMap Development Tanzania (OMDTZ) she has grown as a writer. She is enthusiastic and loves what she does; has written lots of inspiring articles and blogs on the major humanitarian projects done by HOT and OMDTZ.

I believe more people can learn from her work and she has potential to influence anyone with the passion of writing!
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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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He make great mapping works.. He contributed a lot of different projects,made a lot of map changeset with high quality.
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«Ça reste ouvert» ("It stays open") is a tool to avoid unsuccessful movement around your home during lockdown. and thus limit the risk of contagion. This collaborative web map allows you to easily share open, closed or reopened places in your neighborhood.
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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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The Kosovo OSM Community achieves what mappers elsewhere dream of. In their whole country, the map is detailled and widely used: The city of Pristina has adopted OSM for its tourist maps, taxi drivers use OSM-based apps and even foreign diplomats in Kosovo contribute to OSM and use it to navigate. The local government uses it for census surveyors and for its Covid-19 response.

The community has organised frequent mapping sessions for beginners, even continuing to introduce teenagers to OpenStreetMap over videoconference during the Covid-19 lockdown.

To spread and grow OSM, the Kosovo community organised the first State of the Map South East Europe in Prizren in October 2019. This regional conference welcomed people from all over the world and was such a success that many attendees hope that a future global SotM will take place there.
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TheFive has created a content management system called "OSMBC" - OSM blog collector - and has been managing it on its own for years. This tool allows the weeklyOSM team to publish the different editions in currently 10 languages week by week almost simultaneously.
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They developed an easy mapping interface for open shops during Covid-19 crises. And a map of open shops during Covid-19 crises. Started in France, later expanded to Germany and Switzerland. Team https://www.bleibtoffen.org/ueber.html
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Wambacher is part of the German OSM community but contributes internationally by looking after and maintaining state borders. He also has offered a website for downloading border shape files and maintains German PLZ relations. He also publicates the OSM software list. And many more ....
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Alexander Zeynalov is a member of the Russian OSM community, who is the inconspicuous person who is responsible for the servers of the Russian community, supports various services and constantly repairs them. His work is not visible at first glance, but without it - nowhere. In addition, it supports a service with regular extractcs of CIS countries and Russian regions in PBF format.
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Alexey Klyanin is a member of the Russian OSM community, who recently made a cool paper map of the southern Urals (mountains in Russia) on the OSM database. But earlier, he drew this mountain range in detail in OSM and spent a lot of time on it.
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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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Supervisor mapping and surveying of Nakamiro Channel area, Kampala Uganda.
Responsibilities:
1. Sourcing of volunteers for mapping.
2. Coordination between local area, leaders, volunteer mappers and other relevant stake holders.
3. Data cleaning and visualisation
4. Work shops on use of relevant mapping tools such as JOSM, OMK, ODK among others.

Sergey Astakhov is a member of the Russian OSM community, who not only maps a lot, but also regularly takes orthophotographs on a copter (especially in Saint Petersburg), which he then freely shares with the community.
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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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literan is a member of the Russian OSM community, which has been tirelessly drawing a map of Moscow for many years and has achieved great success in this. It is also the world's leader in the number of closed notes. Always actively helps newcomers and does not allow vandalism.
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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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mavl is a member of the Russian OSM community and is active in the OSM Foundation's data working group. He patiently, carefully and politely rolls back all unlicensed edits. He has done a particularly good job recently in Russia, where a lot of supposedly paid cartographers have made a lot of unlicensed edits (preparing for the population census).
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Vascom joined the Russian OSM community a year ago and immediately started actively mapping. At the moment, he collects fresh maps (many different countries) for the mobile app once a week on his own Maps.Me.
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SviMik is an organizer of mass import of buildings in Estonia. It does this incredibly carefully and correctly. Updates data for many years in a row. Not so long ago, he equipped his car with a 360-camera and began shooting thousands of images for Mapillary.
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Participated and contributed to various projects:
1. Lead the LGBTQ+ safe spaces mapping on OpenStreetMap in the Philippines
2. Lead the HIV support facilities mapping for persons living with HIV in the Philippines which is currently through The Red Whistle's #ARVayanihan campaign to direct PLHIV to which facility is nearest to get their ARV meds
3. Co-Created the NCR Quarantine Essentials Map on MapContrib where people can add location of NCOV quarantine essential amenities (water, grocery, atm, clinics)
4. Supported HOT Philippines mapping of buildings and roads through MAPampanga
5. Helped out draw roads, landuse, buildings, places in Mindanao Island Philippines
6. Taught Red Cross Volunteers how to use OSM and map out very remote communities in the country
7. Assist in training and validation of data on OSM
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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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Felix managed the complex, multi-stakeholder project for design, development, and delivery of Tasking Manager 4, the tool that enables coordination and collaboration of thousands of mappers working together in OpenStreetMap for humanitarian and development causes. This is the first version of Tasking Manager to integrate the iD editor and AI/machine learning in a way that assists mappers yet leaves decision making in their hands.
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OSM Guinea Member, OSM enthusiast, Mapillary contributor and a world citizen

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He maps the OSM world everyday in the Philippines and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
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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!

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.

multimedia story "Working with a blindfold"
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For his continuous mapping, having co-created and presided the French local chapter, developing of OSM tools, providing open data and aerial imagery for all France, animating the French community, co-organizing the State of the Map France, making sure OSM attribution is respected on French-speaking websites, maintaining OSM France servers... Christian is promoting OSM everyday, and in every possible way.
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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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For his continuous benevol work developing JOSM core and maintaining many plugins for the past 10 years.
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German OSM tutorial for beginners
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Libor (67) contributes to Missing Maps for 2 hours almost every day, since he cannot get enough sleep in the morning. He does it for 4 years already.
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For his continuous work concerning technical networks (power, water, telecom) in OSM : creating tag proposals, improve wiki documentation, animate discussion in the community, mapping infrastructure in France...
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mapping, dwg work, useful diary entries and forum posts. SomeoneElse is man who helps always.
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Mapper, validator,he has trained several people to map with OpenStreetMap.
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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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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.

Has shown an amazing dedication to mapping the public transport system of Delhi, in large part single-handledly. In doing so has provided extensive feedback on the functionality of Android mapping tools, and addressed issues with mapping public transport where there are many modes not typically seen in European & North American cities.
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