Selene Yang

PhD. candidate

Social Communication program

National University of La Plata, Argentina

@srta_peperina | seleneyang1@protonmail.com

who are we?

OpenStreetMap women's community

¿Openstreetmap?

OpenStreetMap (OSM), is the biggest open geodata initiative and community of the world.

~ 4,500,000 users

~ 6,135,944,634 GPS points

~ 4,465,342,896 nodes

~ 1,000,000 collaborators

@geochicasOSM

why we do it?

  • EMPOWER WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO HAVE MORE PROJECTS LED BY WOMEN AND FOCUSED ON WOMEN.
  • ENLARGE THE OSM WOMEN'S NETWORK.
  • HAVE MORE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN OSM AND TECH ACTIVITIES.
  • CREATE MORE SPACES IN WHICH WE CAN DISCUSS THE ROLE, REPRESENTATION AND PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN.
  • DISCUSS BETTER CODES OF CONDUCT IN THE COMMUNITY THAT APPROPRIATE FOR ALL.
  • CREATE MORE RELEVANT GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR WOMEN

ONLY 3% OF THE OSM COMMUNITY ARE WOMEN

LOTS OF DATA

@geochicasOSM

NOT SO MUCH DIVERSITY IN IT

OUR PROJECTS

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online training spaces for women

geochicas take... sao paulo, lima, dar es salam, detroit, barcelona, madrid, buenos aires

the streets of women

  • The project arises around International Women's Day 2018
  • It is intended to make survey information about passages, streets, avenues, roads that are named after a woman also linking it to Wikipedia to check if there is a biography written about her
 
 

@geochicasOSM

@geochicasOSM

@geochicasOSM

the streets of women

  • Script based on NODE
  • TILE REDUCE library from OSM to create the GEOjson
  • Local name databases from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics instead of external APIs like Genderize
  • Wikidata query to extract 68,445 articles about women

@geochicasOSM

the streets of women

  • Selection of cities we knew and wanted to work with using Planet OSM
  • Filter only the streets of the map
  • Cross-reference from the Spanish names database with the OpenStreetMap database with an 8% margin of error
  • Filter streets by male or female name
  • Manually cleaning any errors (streets named after flowers) and add the Wikipedia sources
  • Generate the last clean data base linked to OpenStreetMap to create the Geojson file (tags and geometries) and the stats file.
  • Upload the three resultant files to our Github
 

Selene Yang

@srta_peperina

https://github.com/geochicasosm/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoChicas

https://geochicas.org

@geochicasosm

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