This post has the goal of sharing my experiences and perceptions about the State of the Map 2018, that was hosted in Milan, Italy, in September 2018, as also some keynotes about my brief talk (Lightning talk – just 5 minutes) that I had the opportunity to give there.

This was my first SotM, not the first Global one, the first SotM event that I had the opportunity to participate! It was incredible to be able to debut in this kind of meeting, participate in one of this scale. The opportunity to do it arrived with a scholarship that I received from OpenStreetMap Foundation, that allowed me to travel from Colombia to Italy and stay in Milan during the days of the event. When I arrived at the SotM, I started to meet other scholars, and, taking advantage of the inspiring Arnalie’s post about inclusivity. I found excellent the effort they made to bring people from different countries and continents, and also from different backgrounds, to the event. It is normal that in an event there is more representation of people from neighboring countries, but regarding the scholars, we had a grand representation of different (and also distant) countries.

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Esta publicación tiene el objetivo de compartir mis experiencias y percepciones sobre el State of the Map 2018, que se celebró en Milán, Italia, en septiembre de 2018, como también algunas ideas claves sobre mi breve charla (Lightning talk, solo 5 minutos) que tuve la oportunidad de realizar.

Este fue mi primer SotM, no el primero evento global, ¡el primero de todos los SotM en el que tuve la oportunidad de participar! Fue increíble poder debutar en este tipo de evento a esta escala. La oportunidad de hacerlo llegó con una beca que recibí de OpenStreetMap Foundation, que me permitió viajar desde Colombia a Italia y permanecer en Milán durante los días del evento. Cuando llegué al SotM, comencé a conocer a otros becados y, aprovechando e inspirándome en la publicación de [Arnalie] (osm.org/user/arnalielsewhere/diary/44574) sobre la inclusión, me pareció excelente el esfuerzo que hicieron para traer personas de diferentes países y continentes, y también de diferentes recorridos al evento. Es normal que en un evento haya más representación de personas de países vecinos, pero con respecto a nosotros becados, tuvimos una gran representación de diferentes (y distantes también) países.

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I would like to post on OSM’s blog today, March 8, International Women’s Day, a work coordinated by me using the OSM mapping methodology and tools.

The project was a pilot project was born in 2015 through the initiative of a group of volunteers of the NGO TECHO, in order to respond to the demand made by some of the people of León Island (a community that is in a situation of informality and subnormality. Due to the characteristics of informality and subnormality presented by the settlement, they were identified as the underlying problem entails the lack of all public services. Due to its informality, León Island does not appear in any urban planning system in the city of Cartagena, neither in the IGAC cadastre system nor in the MIDAS platform. Based on this previous analysis, it was decided to cover the issue that the community of León Island is not in any cartographic system. The pilot project thus emerges with the main objective of identifying, locating and geo-referencing; Not only the informal settlement of Leon Island as a whole, but also every street and housing present, conforming this component as an input to the phase of community development. Other objectives of the project were to involve community settlers as a participatory mechanism; Integrate housing (as spatial elements) with data from the Household Characterization Survey (ECH) within a Geographic Information System (GIS); Raise the profile of the community, including its history, describing access to public services and its infrastructure; And finally share the map, data and results generated with the same community and the general public through an online platform.

More about the pilot project you can find here: http://mapcartagena.wixsite.com/map-cartagena

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