Mapping Challenges Updates April 2023

By The National Map Corps

We hope you’ve been enjoying your time poking around the Northwest, because we’ll be sticking around there for a while! We’ve completed two challenges in Washington and Oregon since we published our January newsletter – fire stations and schools with no edit history. Our current challenge is focused on ambulance points with no edit history.

Ambulances with No Edit History in WA and OR

We are currently only running one challenge to update all those no-edit-history ambulance points in Washington and Oregon. Check out the link above for tips and tricks on editing ambulances, and the newsletter article titled Yellow Points with No Edit History?? (July 2021) for more on where these points are located and how to identify them.

*TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Ambulances with No Edit History in Washington and Oregon (04/21/2023)*

Schools and Fire Stations with No Edit History in WA and OR

We’ve only run and completed two challenges since publishing our January 2023 newsletter, however, these were no small feats! During these challenges, TNMCorps volunteers edited over 1500 fire station points, and over 3000 school points. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to get this data updated! And remember that you’re always welcome to continue editing in those areas! A completed challenge doesn’t mean there isn’t any more work to be done, so if you stumble upon any missing or outdated school or fire station features, feel free to make any necessary updates.

TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Fire Stations with No Edit History in WA and OR (02/16/23) SUMMARY STATS — *TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: A map of all the fire stations in WA and OR that volunteers edited during this challenge.*

TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Schools with No Edit History in WA and OR (04/20/23) SUMMARY STATS — *TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: A map of all the schools in WA and OR that volunteers edited during this challenge.*

Current Progress

The table below shows challenges completed since our last newsletter was released as well as new challenges:

WHAT	WHERE	WHEN	LENGTH (DAYS)	# OF UNIQUE POINTS	# OF VOLUNTEERS
Ambulances	WA, OR	4/20/23 – present	(in progress)	(in progress)	(in progress)
Schools	WA, OR	2/24/23 – 4/20/23	55	3813	17
Fire Stations	WA, OR	1/12/23 – 2/16/23	36	1516	19

Table 1. A table showing all the challenges that have been completed and/or released since our last newsletter (January 2022). All challenge updates are listed on our website under Resources > Mapping Challenges.

Stellar Volunteers!

Last, but certainly not least, we have some stellar volunteer mapping challenge milestones to applaud!

williams101748 just completed their 5th challenge!
ktomansager has participated in 25 challenges!
HGeisler has participated in 30 challenges!

Thanks again for your hard work and dedication to The National Map Corps!