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Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping Party at UCL

As part of the induction week for the new cohort of the MSc in GIS here at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, I organised a OpenStreetMap Mapping Party. OSM mapping is not only a fun activity that gets the students out of the classroom and getting to know each other, but also [...]

OpenStreetMap – Where’s the Search?

Roughly 70% of visitors who open an account do not go on to make a single edit to OpenStreetMap. Why do the majority of people interested in editing OSM fail to add data? Is the user experience not good enough? What are some specific issues that stop contributions? These are some of the questions that I, together with Dr Kate [...]