[Diversity-talk] Idea: Quarterly Projects for a traditionally underrepresented topic(s)/groups?

[Paul Norman]

On 3/26/2018 1:24 PM, Rory McCann wrote:
> Any ideas for topics?

Some ideas

- Regional languages. Is there a regional language you speak? Make sure 
that you're adding it to the map when objects have a name in that 
language. Unfortunately, this isn't great for a global project because 
not everyone can do it.

- Traditionally "blue-collar" areas. It's fairly well known that these 
are underrepresented in OSM, and there's a lot of mapping that can be 
done remotely. Something I've worked on has been mapping industrial 
parks. For these, a basic mapping would be buildings, industrial area 
names, building numbers, landuse, and service roads on them. Many 
industrial parks have places to eat to serve the workers around them and 
these are important to map too. There's lots more that could be mapped, 
but this would be a good start.

- Wheelchair access has lots of resources, but isn't underrepresented in 
OSM mapping.