Hi John, Thanks for emailing. What you are doing sounds great. Thanks for organizing this and helping spread the word!
As you get slightly closer, you could email [email protected]. One of our team members will respond. We can find a project which needs the most help in the few days before the event. Tyler *Tyler Radford* Executive Director [email protected] @TylerSRadford *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, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:12 AM, John Bocan <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > This is the first time I'm posting to the group, but I've been an avid > reader of the list for almost a year. I am looking to have kind of a > mini-mapathon for Friday, May 6th. It will be actually a hands-on > workshop for the West Virginia GIS Conference. The maximum size is 23 and > we'll be using desktop machines in one of the computer labs at the > university (WVU). > > I've been reading the material on Missing Maps, especially that pertaining > to hosting a mapathon. There is the statement in a PDF to “Contact a > Development Relationship Manager or Missing Maps Coordinator with your date > and location so they can help you with the following....”; however, I seem > not to be able to find that contact info. I'm assuming that the > manager/coordinator would find an appropriate task to for us to do. I'm not > concerned about advertising the event since it's akin to the conference > only. Most of the attendees are GIS professionals like myself. I was > considerably impressed with what I saw and heard at State of the Map US in > NYC last year, having been an OSM contributor for a few years now. I didn't > even know of HOT until SOTMUS-NYC! And it was great to participate in the > mapathon on the last day. > > I will be presenting a session on crowdsource mapping which will emphasis > OSM, a bit of the National Map Corps but especially HOT. I figured, “since > I'm doing that, why not give them some hands-on work?”, so I decided to do > a mini-mapathon. Again, most will be GIS professionals but I'm assuming no > real experience with the OSM environments. I'll do a walk-through of > editing via iD and one of the videos as well. And of course, go over > squaring off the square buildings (hot topic lately, pardon the pun.) > > All in all, if anyone could direct me to “who” I need to contact, it will > be great! > > Best, > > John Bocan, GISP > Morgantown, WV > > OSM: JMBocan > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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