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## 📖 History

_How was FMTM born ?_
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### How was FMTM born?

It started as Ivan's idea to build FMTM (Ivan Gayton is Senior Humanitarian Advisor at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) which then became a collaborative project with the efforts of Ivan , Rob Savoye who is Senior Technical Lead at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and many other members from HOT as well as volunteers interested in the project.
HOT uses ODK heavily, but most of the data never makes it into OSM because all the data processing is manual and slow, so it doesn't get done.<img align="right" width="300px" src="https://github.com/hotosm/osm-fieldwork/assets/97789856/afc791c7-6cc9-4496-aa93-ab02733f30b8"/>
Ivan Gayton(Senior Humanitarian Advisor at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) heard about what Rob was working on and goes "That's the missing piece I needed!". He'd been wanting to build FMTM for years, but lacked the ability to process the data.A [webinar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLKRZpbtrc&ab_channel=HumanitarianOpenStreetMapTeam) then took place in September 2022 that showcased the high interest from the community and the need for collaborative field mapping that really kicked off the starting point for building the Field Mapping Tasking Manager. It was Ivan who got HOT interested enough to direct some resources to his idea, so FMTM was born.
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