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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Team Archievement Award

For outstanding archievement in mapping, providing data or bringing the OpenStreetMap community together. Awarded to commercial companies, non-profits, government organizations and volunteer groups.

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Crowd2Map
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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Ramani Huria Team
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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OSM Kosovo
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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Ca reste ouvert
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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