Project Updates

DATE	HEADLINE	ADDITIONAL INFO
12/12/19	EXCITING NEWS!! Mapping Challenges are Moving! Please note that, after today's updates (see below), Mapping Challenge updates will no longer be posted on this website. For the most recent information, visit our new website at https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/tnm-corps.	Check out the new Mapping Challenges page for more information.
12/12/19	Challenge for OH/WV Closes! Another Challenge Opens! Topo maps in the West will be updated soon, so we've closed OH/WV and opened another! See our new website for complete details.	Check out the new Mapping Challenges page for more information.
12/12/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Michigan Here is the weekly update for this challenge! See our new website for complete details.	Check out the new Mapping Challenges page for more information.
12/05/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Michigan Here is the weekly update for this challenge! Keep an eye out for another article on city / town halls in this month's newsletter.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
12/05/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here is the weekly update for this challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/27/19	November 2019 Newsletter The November 2019 Newsletter is now available!	Check out the Newsletters page for more information.
11/21/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Michigan Here is the weekly update for this challenge! Keep an eye out for another article on city / town halls in this month's newsletter.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/21/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here is the weekly update for this challenge! Keep an eye out for another article on city / town halls in this month's newsletter.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/14/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Michigan Here is the weekly update for this challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/14/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here is the weekly update for this challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/12/19	Mapping Challenge Results: Cemeteries in Kalamazoo, Calhoun, and Jackson Counties, MI Here are the summary results for this challenge. Thank you to everyone who contributed! Check out the Mapping Challenges page for a time lapse of our volunteer contributions.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/07/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here is the weekly update for this challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/06/19	NEW Mapping Challenge! City/Town Halls in Michigan City/town halls are now being added to upcoming revisions of US Topo maps! Our volunteers have been steadily collecting these structures in the eastern states, however, there is still a lot of work to be done, especially since we started with minimal seed data. Michigan maps will be updated soon so here’s a new challenge for city/town halls in Michigan!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/06/19	Mapping Challenge Results: Schools in Wayne Co, MI Here are the summary results for this challenge. Thank you to everyone who contributed! Check out the Mapping Challenges page for a time lapse of our volunteer contributions.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
11/04/19	FINISHED!! Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, Michigan This challenge is now COMPLETE! Thank you to everyone to participated!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/31/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI Trick-or-Treat! Calling all Standard Editors, Peer Reviewers, and Advanced Editors! We need your help reviewing cemeteries!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/31/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia This challenge is coming along nice and steady! Ohio is especially starting to look nice; points are coming in county-by-county with close to another 100 points added since last week's update!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/28/19	NEW!! Interactive Web Map for the TNMCorps Mapping Challenges! Announcing our new Interactive Challenge Map!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/24/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI Here's the weekly update for this challenge. Only 16 unedited points remain - nice work! We also have 67 points that need to be confirmed by a Peer Reviewer or an Advanced Editor.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/24/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia City/Town Halls continue to come in for this challenge! Nice work! Check out our post from 9/30/19 for possible sources containing a list of cities, villages, and townships for these states.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/24/19	Mapping Challenge CLOSED!! Schools in Wayne County, MI This challenge is now CLOSED! Thank you to all who contributed!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/21/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI Here's the weekly update for this challenge. Only 21 unedited points remain for this challenge! We also have 75 points that need to be confirmed by a Peer Reviewer or an Advanced Editor.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/21/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here's the weekly update for this challenge. Check out our post from 9/30/19 for possible sources containing a list of cities, villages, and townships for these states.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/21/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Schools in Wayne County, MI Here's the weekly update for this challenge. This challenge is close to being finished, but not quite yet! There are still several points that we need your help with!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/10/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI Here's the weekly update for this challenge. Approximately 50 points have been edited since the last update. Nice work!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/10/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia This challenge is coming along nicely with another 150 points added since our last update!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/10/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Schools in Wayne County, MI Here's the weekly update for this challenge. This challenge is close to being finished, but not quite yet! There are still several points that we need your help with!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/03/19	Mapping Challenge Summary Results for the Mid-Atlantic Summary results have been posted for the Mid-Atlantic mapping challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/03/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, MI Our volunteers are certainly getting into the Halloween spirit with several edits already coming in since we launched this challenge a few days ago! Nice work!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/03/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City/Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia It's always exciting to see features coming in for our new challenges! It just goes to show how amazing our volunteers are!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/03/19	Mapping Challenge Update: Schools in Wayne County, MI Calling all Peer Reviewers and Advanced Editors! There are still several red and green points that need updating. Please help us to confirm these points. Our Standard Editors can help, too!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
10/01/19	NEW Lightning Challenge: Cemeteries in Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo Counties, Michigan Here's a "spooktacular" challenge just in time for Halloween! This challenge will focus on cemeteries in the Michigan counties of Calhoun, Jackson, and Kalamazoo.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/30/19	NEW Mapping Challenge: City / Town Halls in Ohio and West Virginia Here's a new mapping challenge for city / town halls, this time in Ohio and West Virginia!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/26/19	Mapping Challenge Update for Wayne Co, MI Updates have been posted for this challenge.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/26/19	FINISHED!! Mapping Challenge for City / Town Hall Structures in the Mid-Atlantic is now complete! This mapping challenge is now complete! Thank you to everyone who contributed!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/25/19	September 2019 Newsletter The September 2019 Newsletter is now available!	Check out the Newsletters page for more information.
9/19/19	Mapping Challenge Updates posted for Wayne Co, MI Schools and Mid-Atlantic City/Town Halls Updates have been posted for both challenges.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/12/19	Mapping Challenge Updates posted for Wayne Co, MI Schools and Mid-Atlantic City/Town Halls Updates have been posted for both challenges.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/05/19	*NEW Lightning* Challenge: Back-to-School in Wayne County, Michigan!** We've launched another lightning challenge, just in time for back-to-school!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/05/19	FINISHED!! Mapping Challenge for City / Town Hall Structures in CO is now complete! This mapping challenge is now complete! Thank you to everyone who contributed!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
9/05/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City / Town Hall Structures in the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, & PA) Points are steadily coming in with another 200 points added since last week. Great job!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
8/29/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City / Town Hall Structures in CO and in the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, & PA) Updates have been posted for both challenges.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
8/28/19	Unwavering Volunteers Achieve High Recognition! Today we recognize two of our unwavering volunteers who recently received top recognition badges! Awatters received the Theodolite Assemblage badge for editing more than 2,000 points, and USGSTaylor is "Flying High" with the Squadron of Biplane Spectators badge, our top recognition badge for those who have edited 6000+ points. As part of their badges, we asked each volunteer if they'd be willing to share their story and why they enjoy volunteering. Here are their stories: Awatters is a Citizen Scientist Making a Difference "USGSTaylor" is Flying High Congrats to both!	Check out TNMCorps's News page for more information.
8/22/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City / Town Hall Structures in CO and in the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, & PA) Updates have been posted for both challenges.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
8/15/19	Mapping Challenge Update: City / Town Hall Structures in CO and the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, & PA) Updates have been posted for both challenges.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
8/9/19	*NEW Mapping Challenge! A Lightning* Challenge for City / Town Hall Structures in Colorado** Our current challenge in the Mid-Atlantic is nearly complete so we wanted to spice things up a bit with a Lightning Challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
8/8/19	Mapping Challenge Update Another 200 points! Keep up the good work! Check out the article titled Ensuring Data Completeness in our July 2019 Newsletter for some tips to help with this challenge.	Check out the Mapping Challenges and Newsletters pages for more information.
7/29/19	July 2019 Newsletter The July 2019 Newsletter is now available!	Check out the Newsletters page for more information.
7/25/19	Mapping Challenge Update Another 200 points! Keep up the good work!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
7/18/19	Mapping Challenge Update Here's the current status of our mapping challenge. All of the major cities are filling in, leaving some of the more trickier townships yet to be collected.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
7/11/19	Mapping Challenge Update More and more points are coming in, so keep up the good work! Don't forget about townships; Town Halls are eligible to be collected under the City / Town Hall feature type and there are several townships throughout these states.	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
7/3/19	Mapping Challenge Update Wishing a safe and happy 4th of July to our volunteers! Don't forget to stop by the TNMCorps web editor between barbecues!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
6/27/19	Mapping Challenge Update	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
6/20/19	Mapping Challenge Update Another 100 points have come in for City / Town Hall structures in the Mid-Atlantic!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
6/13/19	Mapping Challenge Update Points are coming in for City / Town Hall structures in the Mid-Atlantic!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
6/06/19	TNMCorps volunteers are a force that can't be stopped with over 400k points edited! We always knew our volunteers were awesome, but here are the numbers to back that up: Citizen scientists have now contributed 400k+ map points! Nice work on another milestone in the books!	Check out the article for more information.
6/06/19	Mapping Challenge Update Points are coming in for City / Town Hall structures in the Mid-Atlantic!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
5/22/19	May 2019 Newsletter The May 2019 Newsletter is now available!	Check out the Newsletters page for more information.
5/20/19	Mapping Challenge Update - Interactive Web Map Available! The Interactive Web Map for City / Town Halls in PA, NJ, and NY is now available:	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.
5/14/19	New Mapping Challenge! City / Town Halls in PA, NJ, and NY. We've launched a new mapping challenge!	Check out the Mapping Challenges page for more information.