Thank you both for your support. Hopefully, I will be with my colleagues biologists in our field mapping ;)

@mycota, really, it is an angiosperm, thank you for your correction.. It is a trap for me, because the leaves are in the shape of needles and I did it very quickly. I’m not so good at terrestrial botany also; as an oceanographer, I know more about algae… Because of you, I will check before the taxonomic information of individuals. For Brazil, the Pl@ntNet (plantnet.org) database has zero records, so, we can not identify with the photo and its AI in the field mapping.

@se_bras, we could pehaps do it in the SotM Latam 2025, but it would be hybrid for me because I can not participate presentially. But it could be with Paul Dassori too because he knows a lot more than I… Really, he is a kind of inspiration for me (as the other tree mapping people from Latin America).

Nice map! Congratulations ;)

Love travel diaries, txs…very interesting ;)

What are we doing now?

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Contrib to this process ;)

Thank you, @arnalielsewhere :)

I was talking about culture… the original culture is muslin and it is not friend to this issues… but you want to sustain that all of this is about the British interference… and, more surprisingly, that OSMF apologizes persecution of minorities… you can do the relation that you want, but if makes sense is another question… The country is independent since 1960 and had free elections since 2011.

@AmyCupcake, before… suaílis cultura…

It is not apologizing anything…. As @o_andras wrote previously:

“There may exist several countries in Africa where it isn’t illegal to be LGBT. However, you’re missing an important detail on how the SotM WG chooses the venue, which is: local groups applying to host it. The SotM didn’t pick Nairobi and then got a group of randos to organize it.”

It is the first time that event is being hosted in Africa…and it is the natural way because african community has realized a great pregress in mapping the continent with OSM and it is increasing day by day.

And the author of the diary ignores that there are rules in these countries, that can not be desrespected… it is about culture, that is very different of the Western culture.

Excellent :)

Congratulations for this initiative! Are these imagens hosted in OpenAerialMap? Another question is if Field Mapping Tasking Manager worked 100% or there was some problem/dificult… Thank you so much.

Olá, Pedro Grata pela documentação, você pode publicar na WeeklyOSM, pois seria útil a outras pessoas. Se você não souber ainda como submeter conteúdo lá, veja o item 1.1-How to submit content to weeklyOSM? em osm.wiki/WeeklyOSM. Tem um sistema de submissão, em que você mesmo edita a “notícia” que sairá no domingo subsequente, de acordo com o calendário da equipe que mantém a WeeklyOSM. Parabéns pelo trabalho!

Merci, Séverin :)

Olá, pedrito1414

I only saw your message today, sorry for the delay! Thank you for your support. Yes, I’m interested in the scientific aspect too (in addition to the humanitarian issue, obviously). In the sense of how data and information are organized and made available in this context of the management for the disaster risk reduction (DRR). Web mapping is my actual research focus and we are developing a methodology for this. Regards.

Prezado Pedro, O projeto OpenOffice tornou-se, na verdade, o ‘Apache OpenOffice’, incorporando o servidor web Apache. Nestes anos, surgiu realmente o LibreOffice, mas não como substituto do OpenOffice (ao contrário do que diz a Wikipedia), mas como uma suíte de escritório adicional. De todo modo, vou acrescentar o LibreOffice no texto, que é o pacote que é oferecido nos repositórios de pacotes que as pessoas procuram para instalação mais simplificada - synaptic, outros… Grata. Veja https://openoffice.apache.org/blog/announcing-apache-openoffice-4-1-15.html e https://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html

• You present… I can not edit my comment… regards.

Hi, Séverin

You presents a very inportant question…

Did you know? I thought that YouthMappers was producing data for Microsoft Buildings or other mapping companies, like TomTom or Kaart (?), because all of they propose to us (in that moment, I was a newbie) was mapping buildings…

They said: “it is because you are newbie, do not understand OSM very well”… OK, but it did not show “WHY” mapping buildings… For example, mapping buildings is important to various temathic mappings, as that focused on “heat islands” in urban areas or on the capacity of soil to absorves water (important in urban studies and DRR). At that moment, I feeled as a cheap worker to big tech corporations…

So, I think your comment is very important, because people deserve to learn to truly map… and it is the spirit of the ‘colaborative mapping’, in other words, a mapping improved by the local people experiences… The known “local spatial knowledgement” in the scientific literature.

Finally, I would to thank you a lot for promoting a reasanable mapping, we are not “software pilots” with you, thank you!!! 💙

Dear mapeadora, Thank you so much. Yes! FOSS is powerful and very important to the public administration too, because of the nature of the public data (public domain). It is worrying to include this type of data in private (not open) repositories. OSM appears to be a solution that meets all these requirements. And Maricá City is our pilot (initial) municipality. So, keep in touch for more news! Cheers from Rio! 🌿

You’re welcome, KAWAMALA 👍

Pedrito1414, I remember this campaign… Always strong engagement… Do you have any material on strategies to improve the engagement of collaborating mappers? Excellent highlights about what went well and what can be improved. The collaborative experience really produces many insights… The issue of consultation in settlements could be the first step towards something more participatory (there are several levels of participation and the “consultative” type is the first level).