Grab GeoStar Mapathon 2020 UTM Wan Faheemuddeen

Week 1 (12 April- 19 April) progress mapathon

Weekly Progress (week-1)

Road OSM

  • Create account for open street map under the username of UTMMapathon_Faheem20
  • Registration though google link of GRAB Mapping Party and OSM Username. 
  • Started with identifying hometown area which is at Kampung Pendek, Kota Bharu. 
  • Editing name of familiar residential roads throughout the area. 
  • Getting used to editing and saving the road names at hometown. 

 

Point of interests (POI) 

  • Started with filing of POIs of local shops and mosques within hometown area.
  • Obtain the longitude and latitude through google map.
  • Fill in form with details such as address and name of POI.

 

From the first week of competition, I have learned and getting used to do editing of roads and adding the POI at my hometown. I have improved in terms of speed of doing using the OSM and google forms. However, it is only the beginning of competition. There's still a long journey to go!

Details
Details

Weekly Progress (week-2)

Road OSM

mappathon ranking week 2.JPG 

  • Currently on ranking 21st of grabgeostar20 competition with a total of 112 edits and 3.4km road distance.
  • Did edit of road names at Kampung Gaung, Kampung Kota and Wakaf Che Yeh. 
  • Sources of road names from own knowledge by familiarity of hometown roads and Bing Map for double confirmation. 
  • Slowly expanding areas of Kota Bharu for road editings and POI. 
  • Spends average of 1 hour a day in detail of road editing ensuring the road is digitized and named of true source.
  • Will improve more in terms of numbers of changesets on Week 3.

 

Week 2 still with a slow progress of edited roads. Will try hard by the next two weeks in achieving the target of 1300++ total edits of roads in Kota Bharu in detail. Thank you very much!

Weekly Progress (week-3)

osm week3.jpg

  • Jumped from rank 21st to 9th on the leaderboard.
  • Focused on road naming in areas of Kota Bharu
  • Digitizing of missing roads of rural areas consist of Kota Bharu and Bachok. 
  • Total edits of 803 as recorded. 
  • Did an estimation of 15 POI's at Tendong, Pasir Mas on this week. 
  • Improving progress since week 1. 
  • Will do my best on the final week on mapping Kelantan.

Weekly Progress (week-4)

It is the final week of Grab Mapathon 2020

  • I managed to climb up till rank 7th with total edits of 1522.
  • Focused on map digitizing of missing roads in Pasir Putih and Tumpat disctrict. 
  • Road name inserting with trusted sources from Bing Map
  • Happy with the final results and achieved more than target which was only 1300 edits. leaderboard.JPG

 

It was a splendid event. Good opportunity on contributing for the society on OpenStreetMap. Thank You Dr Hawani and GRAB team for the event!