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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Greatness in Mapping Award

For significant contributions to the map data, or exemplary mapping: micro-mapping, clean-up, mapping towns from scratch, proper imports.

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Mohammed Mumuni Nandjo
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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Felis Pimeja
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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Samwel Kyando.
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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Alexey Klyanin
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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Mbabani Allan, HOT Uganda
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.
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Sergey Astakhov
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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literan
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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Vascom
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
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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Mikko Tamura
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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Abdoulaye DIALLO
OSM Guinea Member, OSM enthusiast, Mapillary contributor and a world citizen

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David Garcia
He maps the OSM world everyday in the Philippines and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
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Libor Bednarik
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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SSEKITOLEKO
Mapper, validator,he has trained several people to map with OpenStreetMap.
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contrapunctus
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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