Hi all,
The Free Software Association (ADIL - Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique Libre au Tchad), a partner of HOT in Chad and of one of the organization most active in the developing of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project in this country is organizing in N'Djamena these 9 and 10-Mai 2014 the Free Software Days (JLL - Journées du Logiciel Libre ) [1] The JLL agenda feature an OSM mapathon that the Chadian OSM community (OSM TD - Communauté OSM Tchad) OSM Tchad and the HOT CAR Activation Team will animate. This mapathon will contribute to the Humanitarian response to the Central African Republic (CAR) Crisis and the mapping will target the border area between the two countries (map uMap [2] and HOT Taskin manager job 518 HOT [3]). Over this wide area, participants will be asked to map main roads, landuse areas and add place names from local knowledge or from the GNS database [4]. This will lay the ground for a more detailled mapping at locality level over the border area similar to what is on-going in parallel throughout the two territories. This effort will greatly help affected populations as well as the actors of this Humanitarian Response, it will help making of OSM in this country an essential cartographic asset (wiki CAR [5] and CARCrisis Activation update [6]). On 9-May, ADIL and OSM TD folks will start the mapathon in the form of a one day mapping held in N'Djamena at the National Library, they will alternate sessions over the following: - State of the OSM project in Chad, - The OSM TD way of growing as a community - Demos over survey and mapping practices (gps, walking/field papers, josm) as well as OSM resources, - Launching of the remote mapping campaign over the Chad/CAR border area. On 10-May, harnessing on the initial mapping work by ADIL and OSM TD, members of the OSM project are invited to join in this mapathon on the model of similar actions carried out by HOT, the local OSM DRC community and the Lubumbashi group with the implication of MSF_UK other local communities. As of today, the OSM projects from Sénégal, Togo and Burkina Faso are organizing to take part in this mapping initiative by OSM TD and the CARCrisis Activation Team. The HOT mailing-list (French and English threads) will allow for coordination over the two days. Mapping progresses throughout this cartographic sequence will be relayed over the twitter and facbook accounts of ADIL, OSM TD, HOT as well as accounts from OSM groups and individuals joining in the event. For OSM TD, CAR Activation Nicolas [1] = http://www.adil.td/ [2] = http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/central-african-republic_3868#6/8.255/24.653 [3] = http://tasks.hotosm.org/job/518 [4] = http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#GEOnet_Names_Server [5] = http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Central_African_Republic [6] = http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-04-10_hot_activation_in_central_african_republic -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Email: nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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