Last week Ruben and I took part in a workshop in Cuzco with Mikel and Erika from MapGive. This Workshop was part of the Cusco Secondary Cities Project. There were four learning processes involved in the workshop;
- Data collection using OpenMapkit, Fieldpaper and Mapillary.
- Addition of the data collected to OpenStreetMap.
- teaching the process of extracting data from OpenstreetMap
- using extracted data in Cuscogeonode and Mapbox.com.
The workshop took place over the weekend from Saturday 22nd to Sunday 23rd of August.There were 20 attendees, mostly environmental engineers, but also architects and systems engineers. It was a diverse group with ages ranging between 20 and 60 years old. These people are all potentially future mappers. We wanted encourage them to be part of the OSM Community in particular OpenStreetMap Cuzco. We also identified some projects from these people.
- Mapping of San Jeronimo, Cuzco by a university professor in partnership with his students.
- Environmental engineers mapping villages where they work.
- Using OSM in territorial planning
Staff and attendees
Mikel opened the workshop by talking about the OpenStreetMap Community, and their projects around the world. Ruben then followed on by discussing specifically the community in Peru. He invited attendees to join the community and use OSM in their environments.
We used OpenMapKit, to use this app during the workshop it was necessary to have buildings in the area we surveyed. So the Mapbox Ayacucho team did some amazing work tracing buildings a couple of hours on Thursday and Saturday.
Buildings before Mapbox's work
Buildings after Mapbox's work
To use OpenMapKit offline, we added some osm data using overpass-turbo.eu and then saved this to Mikel and Erika's cellphones.
On Saturday afternoon, everybody worked in groups collecting data, groups used a cellphone with OpenMapKit and Mapillary, whilst others collected data using the fieldpapers.
On Sunday morning, we had a training session about editing OpenStreetMap using iD. Ruben and I helped teams to add the data they had collected the day before. Mostly these were points of interest, but also some missing buildings. Training was focused on buildings, with the number of levels and types of construction. And some other objects like banks, stadiums, trees and parks.
The last part of the workshop was aimed at extracting OSM data and using it in other tools, Mikel had to leave for his flight so Ruben guided this using Mapzen, Geofabrik, Geojson.io, overpass-turbo and CuscoGeoNode.
Finally we showed how to use this extracted data to make maps quickly with mapbox.com
The Workshop in Cuzco was fruitful, it helped to educate others about the OSM community. We learnt and shared knowledge among those who attended.
The presence of Mapbox was important as much of the communication was in English. We were able to explain more accurately than the translator about the mapping techniques we used with the attendees. We also used our experience of OSM to enthuse and engage those present.