User:JaakkoH/Institutional Mapping projects

While the core and bulk of OpenStreetMap contributions continue to be of voluntary and uncoordinated nature there is an increasing amount of "institutional mapping activity" in OSM. A number of benefits could be seen in listing/catalogueing these projects and some key information about them. This page is an attempt to do just that.

The reasons for doing this could be for example:

• understanding of how the data has been created
• helping to create community
• making data quality assurance an easier task
• making it easier to understand different mapping activities
• making it easier to contact mappers that have participated in given project(s)

We would need to come up with a standard (simple) set of information that would make sense to gather from various (and why not all) "institutional" mapping projects.

Things to list:

• Name of the project
• Geographic scope
• Duration
• Human resources of the project (and ideally also their contact information if the mappers want to share that)

- list of OSM usernames that participated in the project

- who designed, managed, mapped the project

• Financial resources of the project
• Financier / development partner
• Links to project pages / documents
• Some stats (embedded or linked)