This document summarizes Public Lab Mongolia's community mapping programs and their efforts to promote open data in Mongolia. It discusses their mapathon program that trains local mappers to map settlements, infrastructure, and points of interest onto OpenStreetMap. It notes that much of rural Mongolia remains unmapped and validations are lacking. It also describes their Covid-19 community mapping program that collected data on health sites and essential services, and their ongoing C2M2 Ulaanbaatar project that aims to map health services to create a portal and vulnerability analysis.

1. “Нээлттэй эх үүсвэр
бүхий газрын зураг
(OSM)-ийн хэрэглээ,
гамшгийн үед иргэдийн
оролцоотой яаралтай
газрын зураг хөгжүүлэх
боломжууд”
Public Lab Mongolia
Erdenetsogt Sumiyasuren,
Executive Director

2. PUBLIC LAB MONGOLIA
Cultivate healthy environment and resilient
communities through open data
Core programs:
• Mapathon
• Youth education
• Community science

3. Mapathon
program
• Build network of local
mappers
• Promote OSM and use of
geodata
• Support data-based
decision-making

4. Mongolia briefly on
OSM
Settlements
• Urban – partially mapped, need update
• Semi urban – partially mapped
• Rural – mostly unmapped

6. Mapathon
Program:2020
Trainings & Mapathons: 15
Total number of participants:
145 144.100
5600 km
Project Manage: 22
Total edits:
1.564.500

7. OSM
Mongolia
community
• Largely beginners
• Young people,
university students
• GIS sector
professionals
• Not enough
validators

8. Covid-19 Community Mapper Program-2020
Public Lab Mongolia

9. Covid-19 Community Mapper Program-2020
Data Collection: Health sites Data collection: Essential Services
Survey123
Open Street Map
https://arcg.is/H5i99
https://health-services-in-mongolia-
2cdarkhan.opendata.arcgis.com/

10. Covid-19 Community
Mapper Program

11. Community Mapper
Program-2021
1. Community Mappers Mapathon– guideline
a. Logistics
i. Every two weeks
ii. Schedule regular day & time with community mappers - Tsogtoo
iii.Each mapathon will take place for 2-2.5 hours
iv.Registration link before each mapathon
v. Each community mapper will bring 5 new volunteers
b. Incentives
i. Internet data allocate after each mapathon
1. 5,000 phone credit
ii. Coupon – sent as gift/store credit from E-Mart etc.,
1. Each coupon 10,000 MNT
2. Sent every 3 months
iii.Best 3 mappers award at the end of 21 mapathons
1. Select 3 top mappers
2. Double their coupon earnings
c. Mapathon day
i. 5 min introduction about the place
1. Why mapping, known for, Interesting facts, other info
ii. For each mapathon, leading community mapper will bring up to 5 new people
iii.Attribute information from the local people

12. Challenges
• Base map is outdated and blurry in rural settlements
• OSM community fairly young and inexperienced
• Validation lacking

13. C2M2
Ulaanbaatar
project
Public Lab Mongolia

14. Project objectives
• Health service data
• Health service platform
• Vulnerability analysis

15. Data sets
• Health services
• Including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories etc.,
• Population/demographic
• Infrastructure and base data
• Ger area public services access

16. Health site portal, Mobile app; iOS &Android

17. Civil Society and Open Data Mapathon -
Open Data Day Event March 6th!
Agenda
9:00am - Introductions and Welcome
9:10am - 9:30am: Open mapping - Discussion & Training
Public Lab Mongolia
 What is OSM, why is it important, what can we do with this kind of data?
 The Ger District in UB, what information should we map and why?
9:40am: Training Session
 How to do open mapping from your home!
10:20am - 12:00pm: Mapping session
 Live assistance Q&A for participants
 Participants share experiences
12:00pm - 13:30pm: Discussion sessions
[Structure: why was it needed, how it was done (observations & challenges), what results (now & future)?]
 Environmental data: Breathe Mongolia – air quality data (10 min)
 Tracking public money flow: The Asia Foundation – LDF mapping (10 min)
 Data for equal development: GerHUB – transport or other? (10 min)
 Open discussion & call for collaboration (for creating open data)
o Invite participants to join in series of mapathon events
Consolidate open data resources in Mongolia https://opendataday.org/

18. Contact us:
www.publiclabmongolia.org
Erdenetsogt.s@publiclabmongolia.org
Thank you!​