The OpenStreetMap US team welcomes our latest organizational member, the American Geographical Society (AGS).
“AGS convenes a diverse global community of innovators, thinkers, and practitioners to create and curate geographical knowledge, and advance geographic science and technologies to address society’s challenges and opportunities… Most notably AGS’s commitment to our fall symposium Geography 2050 and our TeenMaptivists Initiative are great examples of our work.”
“AGS utilizes OSM for their TeenMaptivists Initiative, which introduces high-school students to the power of open mapping, and its impact on communities both locally, and globally. Currently, our network includes 15 high schools across the U.S., which have worked together to add over 311,000 points to OpenStreetMap throughout the 2024 - 2025 academic year. We highly value the opportunity to partner with OSM US to continue our mission of building the next generation of geographic leaders.”
, Chief Executive Officer, American Geographical Society
OpenStreetMap US Organizational Memberships reinforce the tools and programming the OSM community relies on, and we are grateful for AGS’s investment in these shared initiatives. The AGS TeenMaptivist teachers work closely with the TeachOSM program here at OSM US; many educators coordinate their students’ mapping efforts using the TeachOSM Tasking Manager, which enables teams of mappers to break down large mapping tasks by geographic area. Likewise, OSM US is currently working with educators through our Education Working Group to inform the development of the OSM Classroom, a dedicated tech stack to facilitate training, validating, and grading of student mappers. The OSM Classroom will rely heavily on the existing infrastructure of the TeachOSM Tasking Manager as well as OSMCha, an OSM US Charter Project.
OSM US is excited to forge this new partnership with AGS. Welcome, American Geographical Society!
OpenStreetMap US is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization advancing geospatial data democracy in the United States by catalyzing collaborative action around OpenStreetMap among individuals, government agencies, nonprofits, corporations, and academia. Interested in organizational membership? Email membership@openstreetmap.us.
