It has been three days we returned from Thimphu, Bhutan and I have already started missing the country and the people there. People are very helpful, friendly and motivated. We were invited by Thimphu Thromde through Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team from a project funded by World Bank. Our main aim in Thimphu was to establish a foundation for OpenStreetMap community in Bhutan. We trained people from various background, government officers, non government officers and also students. We saw almost 81 enthusiastic citizens of Bhutan emerged in the world of OpenStreetMap. They were sensitized, trained and became mappers during our 3 weeks of stay in Thimphu. We had 4 days long training from 9 to 5 in the evening and they stayed there motivated and excited to gain the ability of map and show the identity of their local place. We also trained the participants some basic vector analysis and map creation methodology in QGIS (an open source GIS tool). This helped in better understanding for them about the whole GIS system (data creation to data analysis and output). You can see their activities OSM Bhutan facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/osmbhutan/ I hope that they continue to map and foster this OpenStreetMap community to whole of Bhutan.

We represent the OSM community in Nepal and we are working on a project which include mapping kiln that produce bricks in our capital city. Pollution especially air pollution has been a main issue for quite some time in Kathmandu, capital in Nepal. According to Environmental Pollution Index 2014 published by Yale University, Nepal ranked second last after Bangladesh in terms of air quality and its effect to human health http://www.cen.org.np/uploaded/AQ%20Status%20and%20Managment%20in%20KV_Maya%20Factsheet%205.pdf and toxic chemicals such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from combustion in brick kilns and diesel vehicles (MOEST, 2005) adds to it. We need to map the data related to brick kilns and keep it open (upload to osm) for analysis of the data for possible actions. There is an existing tag man_made = kiln and product = bricks but it is not rendered in openstreetmap site. There are 98 users of the tag man_made = kiln according http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=kiln

We want these to be visible in the openstreetmap so how can this feature can be rendered in the map?