‘Visible women’: Feminist mappers bridge data gap in urban design

The lack of women mappers is part of a bigger problem facing the tech industry, where women are underrepresented, said Solis. — Reuters

BOGOTA: When Miriam Gonzalez started contributing data to the world's biggest crowdsourced map from her Mexico City home five years ago, she found herself part of a rare and odd group of volunteers.

As she got to know some of the other contributors through an online discussion group, it became clear that of the 1.4 million people globally adding information to OpenStreetMap (OSM), known as "the Wikipedia of maps", most are men.