Awesome to read about, thanks for sharing! On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Ciarán Staunton <ciaran.staun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a quick shout to the mailing list about Portmarnock Community School > who are Sage Global Entrepreneurship World Champions 2017. > > The champions are decided after a World Cup competition. This involved 32 > teams explaining their projects, and making competitive pitches. The whole > thing was based on OpenStreetMap of course re-using the #MapLesotho data > they had eagerly helped to create. They are just back in Ireland with an > impressive looking trophy, and a small bit of prize money which they are > donating to a school in Lesotho. Their project is called Global Citizens > Mapping the Future and it is very creative in that it look for all kinds of > new use cases for the data created. You can follow their handle on twitter > or see a write up on MapLesotho - dot - com (sorry for the lack of > hyperlink). Obviously a huge shout to those of you (you know who you are) > who put the time in to validating the Lesotho HOTOSM tasks and generously > giving specific feedback to them when they started in 2014-5. Watch out > world, a bunch of kids have a huge database, and no end of creativity! > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- *Rebecca Firth* Community Partnerships Manager rebecca.fi...@hotosm.org <tyler.radf...@hotosm.org> @RebeccaFirthy Skype: rebeccafirth *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://donate.hotosm.org/> *Join us at the 2017 HOT Summit! <http://summit.hotosm.org/> | 14-15 September | Ottawa*
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