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Talk Beginner Talk: CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenStreetMap data: Open Database License (ODbL)

How OpenStreetMap Assists My Weird Lifestyle

Approved
Session Description

The talk will start with a brief introduction to the OpenStreetMap project.

We'll then talk about some of my unusual interests and lifestyle choices (e.g. not buying packaged drinking water, to reduce plastic waste) and how contributing to OpenStreetMap supports those interests and choices (e.g. by adding drinking water dispensers to OpenStreetMap).

We hope to inspire participants to discover similar avenues where OpenStreetMap can help them in their daily lives, so they may take up using OSM and contributing to it.

Finally, we'll conclude by sharing some resources -

  1. OSM-based navigation applications for end-users,

  2. simple editing applications for contributors,

  3. resources for developers to use OSM in their own projects,

  4. ways to join the Indian OSM community and participate in its events.

References

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project
Tutorial about using a FOSS project
Contributing to FOSS
Knowledge Commons (Open Hardware, Open Science, Open Data etc.)
Talk License: Talk: CC BY-SA 4.0; OpenStreetMap data: Open Database License (ODbL)

Speakers

contrapunctus Software Freedom Activist and OpenStreetMap Surveyor | OpenStreetMap India

Kashish (she/her) a.k.a. contrapunctus is a software freedom activist and OpenStreetMap surveyor.

She has been an OpenStreetMap contributor since 2016, motivated by the desire to improve āzād software ("FOSS") and privacy.

She regularly hosts OSM workshops in Delhi and wherever else she happens to go.

contrapunctus
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/

Reviews

Reviewer #1 Approved