Nice initiative Dale . We can arrange mapathon here in Dhaka too to objerve MissingMaps Anniversary and OSM Geo Week .
BEst Ahasan ..................................................................................... Ahasanul Hoque *GIS & Env. Data Mgt Specialist*MSc in RS and GIS | *AIT, Thailand.* MSc. in Env. Science| *KU, Bangladesh.* *Diploma in Disaster Mgt & Humanitarian Response* | *Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio& Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand.* *Contact: *[email protected]; [email protected] <[email protected]> | Web: *ahasanulhoque.com* <http://ahasanulhoque.com/> *Skype: *ahasan4u | *Linkedin: **http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp <http://tinyurl.com/njg3xsp> * Please, Consider the Environment before Printing this Mail !!! On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Dale Kunce <[email protected]> wrote: > My name is Dale Kunce and I lead the International GIS Team at the > American Red Cross and I am also a HOT Board Member. > > One of the projects that the GIS team supports here at the American Red > Cross is the Missing Maps <http://www.missingmaps.org/> project - a > collaboration between the Humanitarian OpenStreeMap Team, American Red > Cross, British Red Cross, and Médecins Sans Frontières. > > *The objective of Missing Maps is simple: to map the most vulnerable > places in the developing world so that local and international NGOs, > communities and individuals can use the maps and the data to better respond > to crises affecting the areas. *The project seeks to literally and > figuratively put people, and their communities, on the map. > > Missing Maps will be celebrating it’s one year anniversary on November > 7th, 2015. To date over 3,500 volunteers have attended mapathons in one of > 11 countries, collectively making 12 million edits to OSM and putting 7.5 > million people on the map. > > *November 15th is OSM Geo Week *and presents a great opportunity for HOT > community members to come together and map to prepare communities for the > next disaster. Represent your school, community, or work during OSM Geo > Week anytime between November 15th-21st as we remotely map areas for > projects by various NGO’s working in the most vulnerable places around the > world. We’ll even send you some swag! > > HOT and our Missing Maps partners would really like to do GeoWeek in a > huge way this year and get 100 mapping parties, mapathons, mappy hours and > mapternoons happening around the world. > > Tasks are already being planned for Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Kenya, > Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa to name a > few, and will directly support forthcoming Missing Maps efforts on the > ground. If this sounds like something you would be interested in > supporting, our team can provide you with all of the materials and remote > support needed to host a successful mapathon. > > If you have ever thought it might be fun to get together with co-workers, > friends, students and/or strangers to share your enthusiasm for the power > of maps and make a difference while doing it, GeoWeek is the perfect time > to do it. Events can be any size, some mapathons were as small as 10 people > and as large as a 150 people. Anyone can do it and we have all the > materials to help you host your mapathon. > > Register to Host a Mapping Party <http://goo.gl/forms/bBI3pQ1IE6> > > Once registered we will contact you with some follow up materials, tasks, > social media toolkit, etc. > If you have any questions please feel free to contact me > <[email protected]>, Blake Girardot <[email protected]> or Drishtie > Patel <[email protected]> the American Red Cross Missing Maps > Coordinator. > > -- > > *Dale Kunce* | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International > Services | American Red Cross > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
_______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
