Microgrants/Microgrants 2020/Proposal/Capacity Building for OSM Data Improvement and Community Outreach in Turkey

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Capacity Building for OSM Data Improvement and Community Outreach in Turkey
Yer Çizenler is aiming to increase its capacity in terms of hardware provided to its core team in order to improve recycling & waste management and accessibility data of Istanbul, Turkey on OSM, and to its volunteer team in order to increase the amount of OSM-related documentation in Turkish.
start-date2020-07-01
end-date2021-07-01
budget (Euro)€4800
grant_typeOrganization:

Yer Çizenler Herkes İçin Haritacılık Derneği

Yer Çizenler Mapping for Everyone Association
location(s)Istanbul, TR
granteeunen
contact(s)• can.unen@gmail.com• can.unen@yercizenler.org
organization (if applicable)• yercizenler.org


About your Mapping Community

Tell us a little bit about your mapping community at the moment, some examples of details to include are below, but please provide us with any information you think is relevant. Please write 100-200 words
We are Yer Çizenler, a local NGO based in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in July 2017 with a mission to use open geospatial data and tools in humanitarian mapping and contribute to the development of a stronger OSM community in Turkey.  

Since the establishment of our NGO, we have contributed to the digitization of more than 200,000 buildings, 20,000 POIs, 60,000km of road segments on Openstreetmap and more than 2,000km of Mapillary coverage through numerous projects, mapathons, and workshops with the community.

We are an active part of the Turkish OpenStreetMap community, with our network of members, volunteers, partners and followers including local and national NGOs, professional chambers, academia, university student clubs and geospatial firms.

Our goal is to improve the quality of OSM data for Turkey so that it can be used by organizations and individuals in social or environmental contexts, and also for disaster management and preparedness efforts in the future. We are contributing to OSM with our core team of mappers, and we are leading translation and documentation tasks with the support of our volunteers who have successfully provided Turkish translation support to HOT’s newly released Tasking Manager v.4, and providing weekly Turkish translations of WeeklyOSM.

What do you need the grant money for?

We want to understand what you plan to buy, how much you plan to buy, and why this will help you to scale your community mapping efforts. There are two tables for you to fill in your response, and you may add more rows as needed. Some examples are in the table for your reference. You are welcome to use a different format in your response, but please make sure to include these details.

We need the microgrant budget to increase Yer Çizenler’s capacity to support its core team and actively contributing volunteers with improved hardware. Our current computers, which were already modest and low-spec at the time of their purchase back in 2017, are struggling to work with large datasets on JOSM and QGIS or to work swiftly and effectively with additional tools like the Mapillary plugin.

With the microgrant, we are aiming to purchase higher-spec laptops for the use of our core mapping team, and also upgrade our existing inventory with the addition of SSD and RAM units to be repurposed and temporarily assigned to our volunteers or event participants without a laptop of their own for them to handle tasks like basic editing and word processing.

We also want to commission Yer Çizenler swag with the microgrant such as logo mugs, logo t-shirts and tote bags to share with our dedicated volunteer team of six as a token of appreciation for their valuable support.

Budget breakdown

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Item What do you plan to

spend the money on?

Expected cost per

unit (in Euros)

Quantity you plan to buy /

subscription length

Expected total

cost (in Euros)

Why is it needed? (Please give as

much detail as possible.)

1.HARDWARE
1.1 Mid to high-range laptop 750 5 3750 The laptops are needed for the use of the core mapping team of

Yer Çizenler, where edits on larger datasets using third party

plug-ins would be possible.

1.2 256GB SSD 80 5 400 Needed to upgrade the existing computers used by the core mapping

team, which will be repurposed for the use of the translation team

and event participants.

1.3 8 GB DDR4 RAM 50 5 250 Needed to upgrade the existing computers used by the core mapping

team, which will be repurposed for the use of the translation team

and event participants.

2.LOGO SWAG FOR THE VOLUNTEERS
2.1 T-Shirt 7 25 175 Yer Çizenler and OSMF logo t-shirts, to be given away to current and future

Yer Çizenler volunteers.

2.2 Ceramic Mug 4.5 25 112.5 Yer Çizenler and OSMF logo ceramic mugs, to be given away to current and

future Yer Çizenler volunteers.

2.3 Tote Bag 4.5 25 112.5 Yer Çizenler and OSMF logo tote bags, to be given away to current and future

Yer Çizenler volunteers.

TOTAL: 4800

If you receive a grant, what do you aim to achieve?

It is recommended that this supports mission of the OSM Foundation and your local community. Please provide us with any information you think is relevant including the metrics you expect to achieve. Please write 100-200 words.

Renewal of our team’s laptops would enable us to be faster and more effective while working with large datasets, and additional tools like the Mapillary plugin. With the increased capacity, we are planning to focus on the improvement of waste management and recycling datasets, mainly in Istanbul where we will perform data collection via Mapillary, and also on other regions of Turkey where Mapillary imagery is available. Our edits through street-level imagery will not be limited with waste management, as we also aim to populate accessibility data of services and amenities in OSM as well. We plan to focus on these datasets during our mapathons and workshops, engaging the local mapping community as well with our environmental and accessibility mapping efforts.

Being able to temporarily provide the upgraded devices and give away the logo swag to our volunteers within the Turkish OSM Community would increase the motivation and dedication to support Yer Çizenler’s translation and documentation efforts. By the end of the microgrant period, we are aiming to add new members to our volunteer team and provide Turkish translations of websites such as LearnOSM, and tools like JOSM, and share with the Turkish OSM community.

Moreover, when it’s possible to organize face-to-face events again, the upgraded devices will also be temporarily provided to participants without their own laptops, enabling us to widen our mapping audience.

Do you receive funding from any other sources at the moment?

If you receive funding from other organisations currently, please state how much this is, whether the donations are regular or one off, and how these funds have been raised. Please write no more than 300 words. If you have any sources of co-funding for this grant application, please provide details. Examples of this might be if you have any partners who would be willing to match grant funding if you receive it, or if your project has existing funding. Please provide as much detail as possible.

We are currently receiving funding from Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team for the operational costs of the organization (office space rent, bills, legal costs, printing, web hosting etc.) amounting to $1035/month, and personnel support of 5 mappers from GeoPerformans (funded by Kaart via Humanitarian OpenStreetMap) for improvement of the Greece road network data in OSM.

We have received cameras from Mapillary in August 2019, as part of Mapillary Camera Grant program to support our imagery collection and data enhancement activities in Turkey.

Yer Çizenler’s community activities (mapathons, workshops, seminars, etc.), local and regional OSM edits in Turkey, and documentation/translation efforts -that will benefit from the OSMF microgrant- are not funded by the organizations mentioned above.


Is there anything you would like OSMF to support you with?

If there is anything which you would like OSMF to support you with in order to strengthen your project, please let us know. For example, this could include building relationships with OSM communities, sourcing updated imagery for mapping projects, or guidance on how to use some of the tools we have created. We want to do our best to support OSM communities, so please let us know what you need. Please write no more than 150 words.


Declaration

By submitting this form to the OpenStreetMap Foundation, you certify the information contained in this application is correct, and that if you are awarded a grant, you will use it only for the purposes described above. You will provide written documentation and receipts for all of your expenses to the OSM Foundation to demonstrate this. You understand that the decisions made by the OSM Foundation Microgrants committee are final.

By submitting this form to the OpenStreetMap Foundation, I, unen, certify the information contained in this application is correct, and that if we are awarded a grant, we will use it only for the purposes described above. We will provide written documentation and receipts for all of our expenses to the OSM Foundation to demonstrate this. We understand that the decisions made by the OSM Foundation Microgrants committee are final.

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • Nesim "The continuation of the Yer Çizenler association's activities is very important for Turkey OSM map."
  • Lack of having OSM documentation in Turkish is one of the biggest barriers to grow mapping community in Turkey. According to EF English Proficiency Index, it is ranked on 79 out of 100 countries/regions. Yercizenler has a key role to grow OSM community and also translating OSM related documentation to Turkish to provide inclusion of mappers who are not able to involve OSM due to language barrier. Yercizenler team has translated HOT Tasking Manager v.4 to Turkish to reach out more mappers. Yercizenler has an active role to grow OSM community and raise awareness of using OpenStreetMap in Turkey. I have collaborated and worked directly with Yercizenler on street-level imagery collection in Turkey for enriching OpenStreetMap and validation in Turkey. I vouch Yercizenler’s mapping and documentation translation effort and I believe this capacity building proposal is going to ramp up Yercizenler’s activity. Therefore, I endorse Yercizenler for this proposal scale up their community outreach and documentation translation effort by receiving OSMF's microgrant. ( Said Turksever, Mapillary)