Hello everyone, thank you so much for meeting us on Saturday, we had Julien, Mishari, and Stephan from the community join us along with the teams from Grab and TomTom.
It was a wonderful discussion with some great insights from everyone, here’s a quick summary:
- TomTom and Grab shared the work they have been doing and have done in the past with the community, the presentation included tools such as Roadrunner, ImproveOSM dumps, DayLight map for missing roads and more.
- We discussed the road classification gap and we already have a forum thread running on the same.
- Challenges like access and barriers
- Having resources like GPS traces/missing roads more easily available via iD or JOSM editor layers
- The need to learn more about the upcoming tools such as StreetComplete to help aid new mappers to contribute to OSM and how organizations like Grab & TomTom can help spread the word and share knowledge
- Shared more about educative programs such as GeoStars, which can be a good starter for someone who is new to OSM
- Having more support and contribution to Mapillary and KartaView to aid mapping
- Bringing in more corporates such as Meta to this conversation and making this meetup a quarterly session
It was not all serious conversation, we also had a fun set of questions, that allowed us to learn more about each other, thanks to the TomTom team.
I have tried my best to capture a summary, please feel free to add more (in case I missed adding these points). Thank you again for joining, see you at the next meet-up!
PS: Apologies, I had to remove most of the reference links, as the platform doesn’t allow a new user to add more than 2 links in a single post