Martin, this is great feedback, thank you! I’ll share with the community managers in HOT and also add an addendum to the post on the HOT blog post on this…

Just FYI, this was also presented by me on Ruben’s behalf at State of the Map Eu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9X7hkHTGDw

Nice list of random things to remembe ;). And good to meet you…

Inspiring stuff, Ronald!

Raquel, obrigado por esse registro no diário! E por você ter incluído as referências. Gosto da maneira como você apresenta o valor do mapeamento aberto no trabalho humanitário/resposta… (Peço desculpas se este comentário soar estranho - traduzido via DeepL)

Love it. I really miss in-person mapathons. Also, did you see the ohsome contribution statistics - a nice correlation between the date of your mapathon a big spike in mapper numbers on the Libya projects in general ;) https://stats.now.ohsome.org/dashboard#hashtags=libyafloods2023&start=2023-09-14T18:00:00.000Z&end=2023-10-02T06:24:15.000Z&interval=P1D

Wow, this is really a labour of love. Thanks for sharing… Can I ask a question? You said motivation came and went… Was that because of the task ahead of you in the mapping or just other life stuff? (I ask as some of the neighbourhoods are really tricky dense buildings and I find them hard to map for long)

Nice diary! Thanks for sharing… Would be great to see the map! ;)

Hi HBanu, thanks for sharing. Your image links seem to be broken, though…

Really great to hear! Thanks for sharing… :)

Thanks for sharing with such clarity, Heather…. And, for all the work that you and the HOT GWG do!

Great work - well done! Love uMap :)

Nice logo :)

Hice un traduccion a ingles tambien en mi diary. Espero que esta bien. Por favor me advisas si me equivoco con algo! @pedrito1414/diary/402056

Gracias por este diary! Lo disfrute muchisimo y me inspiró…

I love this! Thanks for sharing the ‘how to’ :D

Hey qeef, thanks for this post. I really enjoyed it… I am in a similar position to the one you were in, but in the Missing maps London community ‘core team’.

We have never returned to physical spaces after covid (partly because we gained so many lovely community members who are not from the UK or London and would therefore lose access), but we have tried to address the important lack of pub chat that online events bring as part of our social infrastructure.

What we now have is a regular monthly mapathon (first Tuesday of the month - find them here) - these are for anyone who wants to come, learn, improve or just map in a social environment.

But, we also have a mid-month mapathon (every third Tuesday of the month). This is a space for the core community team plus other interested folks, where we also do mapping - often more challenging projects - but there is no expectation that anyone needs “teaching”. i.e if you are coming, you need a good grasp of JOSM already…

This space is amazing and the chat flows back and forward whilst we map and covers all sorts of topics (related to OSM, community, humanitarian work of course, but also far beyond).

I think this is not only a space where we get to relax, exchange and sustain ourselves as ‘core team’ members, but also invite new community leaders to come and introduce themselves, get to know the gang, get more involved if they’d like to (or not)…

Was really nice to read your diary this morning as we had a lovely mid-month mapathon last night and I was just thinking about how important that group of people and that community space are for me. Thanks for the timing :D

Thanks for sharing these blog posts, Neelima. Maybe keep an eye on the #careers channel on the HOT slack, as well…

Great quotes. I identify strongly with the Benjamin Franklin one!

Thanks for sharing this, Alexander!