Bologna/DIGITARCH Summer School

On September 14-15, 2023 the lessons and hands-on session about OpenStreetMap for the DIGITARCH Summer School took place at University of Bologna in collaboration with Wikimedia Italia.

Location of the 2-days short course on OpenStreetMap at the University of Bologna - San Giovanni in Monte building

Mission and goals

The short course aims to provide some hands-on training in open and collaborative mapping to contribute to the general diffusion of open data in the geospatial field. This will be achieved by engaging DIGITARCH's students in some practical laboratory sessions in OpenStreetMap and its related tools.

Instructor

• Federica Gaspari (tars4815)

Program

Thursday, September 14th

Morning (9.30-12.30) [Slides]

• Introduction to OpenStreetMap
• OpenStreetMap primitives
• Collaborative mapping methods
• First steps in the OpenStreetMap community

Afternoon (14:30-17:30) [Slides]

• Getting started with mapping
• WMI Tasking Manager
• Mapping buildings
• 3D component in OSM (extra) [Slides (ITA)]
• Checking personal contributions

Friday, September 15th

Morning (9.30-12.30) [Slides]

• Collaborative mapping tools
• Humanitarian mapping
• OpenStreetMap data usage
• Mobile applications for mapping
  • Vespucci
  • Go Map!!
  • OsmAnd
  • Maps.me
  • EveryDoor
  • Mapillary
  • Kartaview

Afternoon (14:30-17:30)

• Downloading OSM data
• Creating a simple interactive map with uMap
• Example of mobile mapping with EveryDoor (extra) [Guide & Tutorial]

Participants and contributions

Project team on WMI Tasking Manager

• MSchilla - Contributions
• Enrico Ravanetti - Contributions
• EmsMonts - Contributions
• GKally - Contributions
• BettaBit - Contributions
• AsiAlessio97 - Contributions

Homeworks and Statistics

Tracking of #DIGITARCH23Mappers edits in the past 30 days: hdyc-osm

1st Homework

Mapping at least 25 buildings on project 98 of the WMI Tasking Manger: Mappatura borghi

2nd Homework

Creating a simple uMap interactive web map with two layers: one showing the venue of the DIGITARCH Summer School and the other one showing the position of historical features mapped in a given city (e.g. Bologna). The second layer should include data downloaded with OverpassTurbo and should include at least 3 objects in whose description an image from Wikimedia Commons is present. Map example