[HOT] Introducing osmstories.org

[David Saeger]

Greetings HOT,

I'm David Saeger with USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives, Data
Analysis Team. With geography awareness week fast approaching I wanted to
to introduce a project me and a few of my colleagues have been working on.

Its pretty easy to come across a blog post about an OSM mapping party or
field data collection. The narratives describing how OSM data is used to
solve problems or bring communities together are much more difficult to
come across. Often they exist as a one off blog-post or in some agencies
CMS.  Recognizing that *to some* the value of OSM is evidenced by its
application we built OSM stories as a place for these narratives can live.

OSM Stories feature a collection of case studies and lessons learned from
government, multilateral and non-profit institutions who use and contribute
to OSM in their official line of work. We invite you to take a look or
submit a case study of your own, and we hope you’ll learn something from
our experiences using OSM to shape policy and strengthen field projects.

You can find OSM stories here:
http://osmstories.org/
or linked in the osmgeoweek website:
http://osmgeoweek.org/

OSMStories.org is maintained by the OSM Institutions community of practice,
whose members include USAID, MapGive, Peace Corps, HOT OSM, Etalab, MSF,
George Mason University,  Missing Maps, and American Red Cross.

If you have an interesting story to tell about how your organization uses
OSM we would love to capture that narrative. Please post an issue to the
projects Github page here: https://github.com/osmlab/basket

Here are some other places to look for case studies: Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team Projects (https://hotosm.org/projects/ongoing) and
MapGive Stories (http://mapgive.state.gov/stories/) and MapGive Events (
http://mapgive.state.gov/events/)

Thanks!

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*David Saeger*
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