Mapping Challenges Updates October 2023

By The National Map Corps

Thank you so much TNMCorps volunteers for helping us quickly check off these mapping challenges! Since our July newsletter, we have finished up ambulances, hospitals, and police stations without an edit history in New Mexico, and now we’ve moved on to schools with no edit history in Utah.

FINISHED

Ambulances with No Edit History in NM

Great job knocking out those no-edit-history ambulance points in New Mexico! Check out the link above for summary stats.

Hospitals and Police Stations with No Edit History in NM

Not known to back down from a challenge, TNMCorps volunteers also tackled the double-feature no-edit-history hospital and schools challenge in New Mexico! Check out the link above for summary stats.

TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Ambulances with No Edit History in NM (09/15/23) SUMMARY STATS — *TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: A map of all the ambulance points in NM that volunteers edited during this challenge.*

TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: Hospitals and Law Enforcement with No Edit History in NM (08/09/23) SUMMARY STATS — *TNMCorps Mapping Challenge: A map of all the hospitals and law enforcement points in NM that volunteers edited during this challenge.*

CURRENT

Schools with No Edit History in UT

In keeping with our recent trend, we are currently only running one challenge to update all those no-edit-history school points in Utah. Check out the link above for tips and tricks on editing schools, 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.

Although the official challenges are finished, 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 A completed challenge doesn’t mean there isn’t any more work to be done, so if you stumble upon any missing or outdated features, feel free to make any necessary updates.

Current Progress

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

WHAT	WHERE	WHEN	LENGTH (DAYS)	# OF UNIQUE POINTS	# OF VOLUNTEERS
Schools	UT	9/21/23 – present	(in progress)	(in progress)	(in progress)
Ambulances	NM	8/17/23 – 9/15/23	29	33	6
Hospitals / Police Stations	NM	7/6/23 – 8/9/23	31	94	8

Table 1. A table showing all the challenges that have been completed and/or released since our last newsletter (July 2023). 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:

KayAshleigh just completed their 5th challenge!
superlemur has participated in 65 challenges!
163geo has participated in over 65 challenges!

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