Dear all,

With this post I have the pleasure to share with you that the Missing Maps initiative has a brand new website!

👉http://www.missingmaps.org

The site has been renewed with a fresh design and you can now explore upcoming mapping events, read stories on our blog, and more!

I’ve always loved the old website, which was launched with the foundation of the Missing Maps in 2014, it however started to gradually break down with a lot of functionalities becoming rather non-functionalities.

Thanks to this renewal process:

• we have a completely fresh design!
• you can find out what projects Missing Maps member organisations could use help with,
• you can (again!) explore upcoming Missing Maps events - they are pulled in via OSMCal,
• we can post (again!) new stories on our blog - read for sure the newest post we made!
• you can browse learning materials and different ways to get involved,
• and more!

Feel free to explore our new website and let us know if you have any thoughts or find any bugs. You could leave a comment in response to this diary or directly submit an issue via GitHub.

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In the light of two very interesting blog posts, one of Erica Hagen from Ground Truth and one of [Gwilym Eades] (http://place-memes.blogspot.de/2015/05/the-hubris-of-proactive-disaster-mapping.html) lecturer geography in the Royal Holloway University of London, in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake; I would like to share with you some of my thoughts.

Types of mapping activities

First of all I would like to share with you a table which I created and showed last year during GeOng in France, at the Missing Maps launch in London and at the HOT summit in Washington. Every time this table lead to interesting discussions afterwards.

The table shows the existence of four different ways of OpenStreetMap-mapping:

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