To all mailing list members. Jeremy Morely (University of Nottingham) and I (Peter Mooney, NUI Maynooth, Ireland) are organising a workshop on Crowdsourcing and National Mapping in Nottingham, UK in January 2012. We would be delighted if you would consider attending and contributing. Details are included below.
Apologies in advance for any cross-posting of this message that might have already occured. AGILE and EuroSDR are funding pilot project research. The projects are to be carried out through university student internships in the summers of 2012 and 2013 with funding of €1800 per internship (unless further funded by project partners). The intention is that the projects will pair a national mapping or cadastre agency (NMCA) with an academic partner(s). In order to set an agenda for the internships and to award at least three projects for the 2012 round of internships, the project organizers, Jeremy Morley (Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham) and Dr. Peter Mooney (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) invite participants from across Europe to a project development workshop to be hosted at the University of Nottingham on 19th & 20th January 2012. This practically focused, 1.5 day workshop will start with scene-setting presentations on the rise of crowd-sourced geographic information before inviting participants to group together to discuss the challenges of using crowd-sourced data in a national mapping context, and to develop project plans. The event will culminate with a presentation of these plans from which the top ideas will be selected for funding. We hope that this will be a stimulating and discursive event, with the scene setting introduction coming from principle researchers from the academic, NMCA and commercial sectors. We are aiming for a workshop size of 40 – 50 participants. Workshop costs are £60 for NMCA/industry representatives, £40 for academics, and £20 for students (limited to 15 available places). A hosted dinner on Thursday 19th is also available for an additional £30. The Registration Page is at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/eventsarticles/crowd-sourcing-in-national-mapping.aspx The PDF version of the Flyer: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/documents/crowdsourcingworkshopflyer.pdf Dr. Peter Mooney, Geotechnologies Research, Department of Computer Science National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Ireland Email: [email protected] http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.3839&lon=-6.60043&zoom=17&layers=M Dr. Jeremy Morley Theme Leader, Geospatial Science, Nottingham Geospatial Institute, Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG14 5BQ, United Kingdom. Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs/ Twitter: jeremy_morley Tel.: +44/0 115 84 68411 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
