Since 2019, the collective has coordinated the systematic cartographic documentation of feminist mobilizations on and around March 8. The Atlas 8M is now a transregional, multilingual, community-built archive documenting 3,183 georeferenced actions across 63 countries and 10 thematic categories, with all datasets maintained openly on GitHub.
Five years of community mapping have also generated five years of methodological questions. How do you document mobilizations at global scale without centralizing control? How do you sustain contributor participation across languages and time zones? How do you make the data legible and useful beyond the immediate collective?
Geochicas is currently iterating on two open tools to address these questions. 8m-global-mapper is a Python pipeline for automated collection of 8M actions from public web sources, using multilingual keyword configuration, geocoding, and export to uMap-compatible CSV. atlas-8m-dashboard is an interactive Plotly dashboard deployed via GitHub Pages that visualizes the full 2019–2025 dataset with filters by year, country, and theme. Both are active works in progress and open to community contribution. This talk reflects on what five years of feminist open mapping look like in practice, the infrastructure built, the decisions made, and the questions still open. Attendees are invited to contribute data, code, translations, or local knowledge, and to help build the infrastructure that makes feminist spatial memory visible and persistent.