Questions & Answers - Lightning Talks I

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Note: these short talks won’t have a live Q&A section. You are welcome to write questions below which the speakers may answer here, or ask them in the social channels.

Please also add relevant URLs here.

Kenya Covid-19 Tracker

  1. Were there any issues in accessing government data?

Mapping Gender issues in Kenya

  1.  Are you aware of MakeoverMonday for visualising gender issues?
    1. (example here https://opfistula.org/an-update-on-our-work-to-visualize-gender-equality/)
  2. Is the data you collect all Open Data?
  3. How about transgender issues too?
  4. Congratulations for the talk!

Where can you dine like a king?

  1. Are there weblinks?

    1. Map of hand-picked restaurants inside or nearby castles of Switzerland: https://umap.openstreetmap.de/de/map/burg-und-schloss-restaurants-der-schweiz_4106
    2. White paper: https://md.coredump.ch/s/H1IQbLzjU#
    3. Slides (extended version): https://www.slideshare.net/StefanKeller/where-can-you-dine-like-a-king
    4. Source code of OSM Data Sync QGIS plugin (WIP): https://gitlab.com/Chilfing/OSMDataSync
    5. QGIS:  https://qgis.org/en/site/

2. Q. Do you see possibilities of using it to improve data review?

    1. A. For data review I recommend another plugin which inspired this plugin, called Go2NextFeature3. Go2NextFeature3 is available as regular plugin. We’ve enhanced this plugin to Go2NextFeature3+ and this is another white paper about data validation:  https://md.coredump.ch/s/rk9r2k69Q#

Nurturing a Ministry of Mapping Website: https://www.ministryofmapping.com/

  1. Sounds like there are some big conflicts under the hood… deletion wars? I hope not! - mapmakerdavid
  2. A community of care-tographers! LAVET! - #mapagmahal hihi

Building the Street View Experience, Lagos, Nigeria

  1. Uh oh: “Google’s “Street View” is a Registered Trademark….”

    1. Thanks for the correction. We will adjust accordingly

What”s new on OSMCha?

GeoLadies PH fb.com/GeoladiesPh https://geoladiesph.github.io/home/

  1. Hope there is also transgender (lgbT) representation.

    1. There is a MapBeks mapping community in the Philippines too, which advocate for LGBTQ+ mapping initiatives. GeoLadies PH also supports MapBeks’ projects.
    2. check out mapbeks’ talk tomorrow at 10:00 UTC! :)
    3. Geoladies and Mapbeks are closely working together to represent the underrepresented <3 (MapBeks)

Fighting FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) with Maps

  1. Hope they round up the bad guys.

    1. Yes, the police have been arresting cutters.  And we are also trying to reeducate the https://hopeforgirlsandwomen.com/re-educating-cutters/

( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_of_the_Map_2020/registration_lightning_talks  has more links .)