Nice! Is the alternative route longer or shorter than your usual path?

Great! Through fieldpaper mapping, we can groundtruth what is actually existing. 😃

Thanks for sharing this!

Congratulations to the successful #SotM2018 event! It was my first time attending an international one and it was amazing! Thank you for all your efforts! :) Also, congrats on the new job!

Thank you for sharing your experiences about engaging and working with the youth, Natalia! These are all noted :)

Love this, Montshy. Glad to have met you! See you soon! :)

Congrats dear! :)

Hi Celine. I appreciate your synthesis and conclusion. Hope to see more of this and participate in diversity talks! :)

Thanks for sharing! Will definitely try this out!

@Austin Zhu, it was nice meeting you too :) see you again! :)

@Heather Leson, Thanks to you, too! It’s because of people like you who encouraged me to look at things on a wider perspective. Thank you for inspiring! :)

@Kateregga1 Hey Geoffrey! Thank you for the comment. You have summarized my Milan experience through the last two sentences of your comment. And I learned (and ran! haha) a lot from you too! See you soon buddy! :)

@alexkemp Thank you for noticing! It’s fixed now :)

@imagico Thank you for sharing your post and views. I highly admire you for stating the facts. You are right about the geographic/cultural diversity. The conference venue and it’s accessibility is a huge factor for the target and prospect delegates. Due to its proximity, the organizers may have predicted that the attendees will most likely come from Europe and neighboring countries. Due also to the cost of travel, I believe the OSMF and other organizations who gave travel grants exerted an effort to give equal opportunities and did a great job to include people (like me) who don’t have that much means. :)

Truly, we can say that there’s an imbalance or unequal representation in the conference and OSM community. This is why we should continue to promote and encourage participation to improve the numbers.

If there are more men than women, or more Europeans than Africans, that means there is an imbalance or unequal participation. It doesn’t equate to discrimination. Discrimination is one of the “barriers” that cause this imbalance. OSM, as an “open” community, shall promote inclusiveness by eliminating these.

I meant “State of the Map International 2020 in Africa!” Haha :D

State of the Map International in 2020! :D <3

Nice to meet you, Austin! This is insightful! :)

Astig! Maraming salamat sa pagbabahagi ng iyong karanasan at pagsusulat nito sa wikang Pilipino. :)

Amazing! Congrats to you and GOwin! :D