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Mapping Challenges Updates April 2022

Quarterly mapping challenges updates and summary statistics: Challenges remain strong as volunteers complete three challenges and TNMCorps opens three more. See the updates below for where we’ve been and where we’re headed.  

City/Town Halls 

We’re most of the way through our mission to revisit some of the earlier states that participated in city halls challenges. Volunteers recently completed challenges for New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania City/Town Halls and Georgia and South Carolina City/Town Halls. We also just launched a new challenge for city/town halls in Arkansas (see Table 1). According to the map in our previous Mapping Challenges Updates article (January 2022), that leaves only Alabama.   

Map of the United States showing future city hall challenge states and incorporated places with a population greater than 500
Map of the United States showing future city hall challenge states and incorporated places with a population greater than 500 without a city hall.
Points With No Edit History

Once this endeavor wraps, our plan is to shift challenges from city halls to focusing more on points with no edit history. Of course, there’s no need to wait for a mapping challenge to begin editing these no-edit-history points. If you’d like to edit these sooner rather than later, see the article in this quarterly newsletter for more on where these points are located along with what feature types they cover.   

 

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
City / Town Halls AR  4/7/22 – present (in progress (in progress (in progress
Fire Stations TX / OK 3/10/22 - present (in progress) (in progress) (in progress)
City / Town Halls GA, SC  3/3/22 – 4/7/22  35  329 
City / Town Halls  NY, NJ, PA  12/23/21 – 3/3/22  70 901 10
Fire Stations OH, KY, IN  12/16/21 – 3/10/22   84 2458 26

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