Humanitarian Mapper Badge Challenge

Description: The Humanitarian Mapper badge recognizes people who go above and beyond basic mapping by participating in development or crisis response projects on OpenStreetMap.

Assessment Type: PEER - any peer can review the work and vote. The badge will be issued with 3 YES votes.

Assessment Details:

OpenStreetMap.org is essentially a Wikipedia site for maps. OpenStreetMap benefits from real-time collaboration from thousands of global volunteers, and it is easy to join. Shortly after disasters, various sources release a flurry of old and new data, including satellite images, which can be added to OpenStreetMap. In longer-term development work, organizations such as MapKibera use OpenStreetMap to shed light on communities left blank on official city maps.

If you haven't completed the OpenStreetMapper Badge, you should do that before continuing.

Your core tasks are:

1. Register with OpenStreetMap and create a username. On your user page, accessible at this link , change your editor to Potlatch 2.
2. On OpenStreetMap.org, gain familiarity with the map and how to make edits to points, roads, and tags.
3. Join the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team mailing list at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot to find out about ongoing projects
4. Select a Current project from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team page, read about the information needed and what satellite imagery you should use, and make constructive edits towards that cause
5. Edit a point to have a "P2PU" tag and your P2PU username in the Advanced tags section. This will help us connect your account here with the one on OpenStreetMap. Tell us which point was tagged.
6. Submit a link to your OpenStreetMap edit history. Fill in the blank in the following link with your OpenStreetMap username http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/____/edits
7. Describe why you chose this project, and how your edits contribute to its needs. Cite needs and goals on the project's wiki page.

Assessment Rubric:

Work qualifies if it is for a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) project, linked on their wiki page, their website and blog, or e-mail list as an OpenStreetMap project involving the community and focusing on a very specific region or purpose. "Map Country X" would not qualify, but "Sanitation Mapping in Kibera" or "Map Haiti Earthquake Damage" would.

NOTE for those assessing the submitted work. Please compare the work to the rubric above and vote YES if the submitted work meets the requirements (and leave a comment to justify your vote) or NO if the submitted work does not meet the rubric requirements (and leave a comment of constructive feedback on how to improve the work)

CC-BY-SA JavaScript Basic Badge used as template4.5.6.