Organised Editing/Activities/Cymru/Wales Community Climate Culture Layer

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Introduction

The project is a practical application/adaptation of community-created humanitarian/public health OpenData mapping methodologies (example: refugee settlement resource allocation: http://u.osmfr.org/m/264100/, and these for Wellbeing/Resilience social inclusion, reality/perception of Community Assets for Wales: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/community-defined-assets-foraging-outdoor-creative_731724#15/51.7472/-3.3822). The project also covers heritage and cultural layers mapping techniques (National Library Mapping Land Voices ), and will serve as a practise-based pilot study for expansion in the UK.

The project aims to create a hybrid practical space for the community rights campaigning in a digitally-inclusive space for Wales, and works towards the building of an OSM community in Wales. The aim is to enable and empower community participants to situate, express, and prioritise knowledge of assets and risks on their own terms, and in their own language.

The project also aims to capacitate academic and professional communities in Wales to leverage the unique advantages of OpenStreetMap Community Mapping in generating innovative community-derived heritage, municipal, demographic and cultural layers: a 'deep-map' of community values in Wales. Whilst creating a national resource for better data-science analysis, enabling increasingly devolved decision-making, the project aims to use OSM as a future-proof platform for sustained community participation, empowerment and capacitation, and as a paradigm for digitising site-specific hyper-local assets as bound-up in addressing, place-naming and belonging traditions celebrated within the welsh national character.

Ynys Mon/The Isle of Anglesey will be used as as a test case. The project will deliver a baseline map against which the Ynys Mon can measure its progress towards a green transition and fulfilment of the Future Generations Act (2015) Wales in a transparent and inclusive way, as well as a model for data collection by Local Authorities across the UK and beyond.

Coordination:

This project is jointly coordinated by Rupert Allan @rupertmaeaglas and Scott Orford @doctorfrost of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data - https://wiserd.ac.uk/)

Proposed Field Intervention

Established participatory community mapping methodologies can help to understand how auto-ethnographies can contribute to a shared map of Green Transitioning on Ynys Mon/Anglesey.

Remote and Field Community Mapping project, aiming to provide geospatial understanding of Public Life, Community Assets, Climate Memory, and Tangible/Intangible heritage within the everyday and traditional place-based practices of communities in Sir Fon, Ceredigion, and Caerfrddyn.

Training of Public Mapping Platform trainers:

Remote-mapping (Tutorial) by local and global community, followed by community interest groups, who are learning, workshopping and applying established field-mapping techniques of StreetComplete(basic) and ODK(advanced) surveying, as increasingly specific/bespoke community profiling data is identified. Housing stock data is the baseline, with heritage, tourism, and green spaces/environment as human-centred themes.

Participants will seek to put site-specific observations into context, resource allocation to Social Inclusion, Cultural Territories, Belonging, and general "Placemaking" themes consequential to the Wellbeing of Future Generations in Wales. It is an intervention to promote the capacity for communities to have a say in their own public health administration, cultural representation, and resource allocation. The primary aim, through the production of Creative Commons in the public domain, is capacity-building.

Organised Remote Mapping: HOT Tasking Manager Hashtags

#cydnerthedd #resilience #GreenWales #hotosm-project-16144 #hotosm-project-16143 #hotosm-project-16141 #hotosm-project-15943

Field Methodology

A key goal of this work is to ensure that communities are engaged in an ongoing and empowering way, to enable the representation of specifically community-derived priorities. The co-creation of survey forms capable of multimedia components (free text/story, Video, Sound Recording and Photograph, and (hopefully) sketch) will be undertaken by community engagement facilitators OFFLINE, with focus on the different layers in mind. This will be iterative and re-iterative, with feedback and co-devising altering and updating bespoke questions and interrogatory frameworks.

Ultimately, agency and authorship of both content and methodology (including tooling) will be engendered within participants, who will start contributing ONLINE and hopefully contribute self-generated Community Mapping campaigns into the future..

Data cleaning will be necessary by WISERD, so that OSM conventions (physical geography) can get uploaded appropriately ("Reality"), and creative/anecdotal/geo-mobile and 'qualitative' ephemeral data can be shown on uMap and QGIS layers ("Perception") in co-curated maps. These will be paper and interactive, to be workshopped and re-workshopped in community focus groups and by individuals watching the growing of the map in online apps they already use daily (Strava, Maps.Me, PokemonGo, AppleMaps, Facebook Marketplace).

Proposed Layers - "Public Map Platform":

a) Social map layers will be co-created with C+YP, an example being a map of where people connect with one another; Maps convening community-gathered multi-sector resources/asset data can be modeled on visualisations such as this: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/map-of-arua-sub-counties-showing-health-centres-sh_264100#10/2.7229/30.9897

b) Cultural map layers will be co-created with C +YP, an example being a map of cultural heritage; this can draw on the Mapping Land Voices project pilot: https://blog.library.wales/mapping-land-voices/, and the Royal Scientific Society "Community-Mapping Climate Memory" project: Organised Editing/Activities/OSMJordan Community-Mapping Climate Memory Al Azraq#Mapping climate memory and well-being in multi-ethnic migrant communities of Al Azraq desert oasis, Jordan.

c) Environmental map layers co-created with C+YP; an example being places that flood; this can use citizen-memory drain and flood-mapping methodologies deployed in other global settings: (e.g. Ggaba: https://opendri.org/uganda-open-mapping-for-resilience-completes-ggaba-parish-pilot/ and Dar Es Salam: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/what-we-learnt-from-mapping-african-megacity-dar-es-salaam/)

d) Census and administrative data map layers built out of existing data sets will be collated & interrogated.

Priorities:

Grant intention: to "Create a customisable model for community engagement in planning for the green transition"

During the last two years, factors like Brexit and COVID have highlighted socio-economic vulnerabilities which were previously hidden in the countries of the UK. Rural areas in Wales have long-standing designations as areas of Multiple Deprivation, and can heavily benefit from Community Development increasingly acknowledged as critical. Developing countries have been the subject of attention from the OpenSource digital revolution, because of the free, sustainable and inclusive participatory methodologies developed. Countries neglected by this, and arguably suffering from disempowerment, community malaise and administrative complacency can arguably be found within the British Isles.

Background

This is part of a green transitions project, bringing together multiple layers of spatial information to give a social, environmental, cultural and economic picture of what is happening in a neighbourhood, area, local authority, region or nation. The map layers will be constantly growing in information and sophistication, reconfigured according to local policy and boundaries. Most importantly they will be developed and monitored with and by a representative cross section of the local community.

OpenStreetMap as a collaborative platform allows for the global network of local communities to help each other in social cohesion, multi-ethnic visibility and social justice projects. This potential ties-in with the longer-term (sustainability, inclusivity, resilience) agenda of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Wales Act. The use of reciprocal international knowledge-sharing allows comparative study and lesson-sharing across cultures.

Comms:

Rachel Hughes

Timeframe:

The timeframe for this project is three to 20 months, with a view to longer-term expansion/scaling.

Initial AOI (Geographical Area of Interest)

Communed Mapio Agor/OpenMapping Ynys Mon: Tasks https://tasks.hotosm.org/manage/projects/15943 https://tasks.hotosm.org/manage/projects/16141 https://tasks.hotosm.org/manage/projects/16143 https://tasks.hotosm.org/manage/projects/16144

Mapping Considerations
  • Please do NOT edit roads remotely without specific reference to coordination referents
  • 2 workflows should be clearly available to the task - one in JOSM and one in iD. NB: It is important to conventionalise across the UK, map in accordance with OSM Cymru and the Valleys context, and most of all, make sure that new mappers in the community can contribute. The use of ID, despite terrace-mapping being slow, will be important.
  • Terraces: Addressing - for International Contributors: Terraces in Wales are ‘artificially-imposed’ terraces, built in an ordered way. The Bing imagery is high quality, and shows long singular built terrace structures. These comprise rows of dwellings and, for this, the mapping conventions of roads and house numbers/names should prevail. The preference on UK houses is an individual polygon per house.
  • Terraces: Tracing/Tagging: All residential buildings need to be digitised, using iD or JOSM, with the tag: 'building=house', then 'house=terraced'. Difference in tile colour/texture (and chimney stacks) should be used as trustworthy indicators of dwelling boundaries.
  • Terraces: For (the very few)areas where a terrace exists separately (named) from the road, refer to http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2020/06/housing-terraces-in-wales-minor.html for context, and proceed with caution.  (‘Store the name of the terrace in addr:housename and the name of the road in addr:street. (This is actually what Royal Mail do in their address file).’)
  • Validation: To be undertaken by WISERD, Project Team, Missing Maps, and requested from OSM UK
Garden Plots/Boundaries

The UK Ordnance Survey cadastral layer (available in iD and JOSM) allows the second pass of mappers to experience the useful tool available in iD and JOSM, where blue lines may be used to trace over. The cover is not comprehensive, rather it is indicative of conventions to be guided-by. This can be seen in a 30 Second Video - Cadastral Layer in iD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_oF5ctTgzaZGlZy0ADzhsHA5akdTOkn9/view?usp=sharing

Open/Communal Areas:

Green Spaces etc are seen to be both assets and risks in certain contexts in Wales, with open air welfare and livelihood enabled, but also the lack of shelter being a risk factor.

Footpaths

Footpaths, bridges, alleyways are important to outdoor access and wellbeing, with current rights of access challenged by proposed changes in Footpath upkeep/access in progress.

Waterways:

Waterways equally are cultural and community assets, and access to these is important to delineate.

Training Materials/Technical:

Tutorials Spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Grg5AXqxE-XGmjCWbaqqT6_RivYGzW2cc-HmnxN1Npg/edit#gid=0

- Mobile Tools:

Kobo Collect, StreetComplete, limited OSMAND, Smartphone video capture: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aCu8RUOlxVlFakM5c20gkgkmEwVaSI_rMqpPcOunIEs/edit?usp=sharing

- Desktop Tools/Plugins:

uMap Offline

ID Editor, JOSM Terracer plugin to be used where necessary on terraced houses: JOSM/Plugins/Terracer

Data Cleaning Workflow

- Link: OSM Uganda Data Cleaning Workflow

Analytics:

Changesets to be seen via OSM Anaytics/OSMCha/OhSOME

Data Model TBC - WISERD


Data Model (Appendix 1): (WISERD)




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