If you haven't yet seen it, I highly encourage you to check out OSM Nicaragua's campaign http://support.mapanica.net/
Great rewards - USB drives, t-shirts, jute bags, and of course - printed maps! *Tyler Radford* Executive Director email: [email protected] U.S. mobile: +1 617.285.2009 *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team* *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > You might remember Felix's email from a few weeks ago about the > project he and local mappers in Managua self-organized to map the > city's 380 km of bus routes. > > It is really an amazing story and accomplishment and will make a big > difference in the lives of well over 1 million people who depend on > the public transit system in Managua and never had a map of routes or > stops before now. > > He wrote up a blog post for HOT about it: > > > https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-01-07_a_crowd_sourced_public_transportation_map_for_managua > > And as you may or may not remember, now that they have the routes and > stops fully mapped, they need to design a printed transit map and > produce an initial run of 20,000 copies so the people of the city can > really benefit. > > 76% of the population of Nicaragua lives on less than USD $2.00 per > day, the only chance most of them will have to make use of this new > transit system map is if it is printed and distributed in the city and > on the buses. > > Felix and HOT are running a donation site to fund the design and > production of the printed maps with a goal of raising $7,500 for the > initial 20,000 print run. > > This is a great chance to directly affect the lives of over a million > people in a way that no one has been able to accomplish in years of > trying (see the blog post). OSM Nicaragua did it on their own, please > help them finish the job and get this map printed and into the hands > of citizens who need it: > > http://support.mapanica.net/ > > And please tweet the HOT blog post or retweet OSM Nicaragua's tweet: > > https://twitter.com/osm_ni/status/679963088884502532 > > Regards, > Blake > ---------------------------------------------------- > Blake Girardot > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Vice President, HOT Board of Directors > skype: jblakegirardot > HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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