After a long time in the making, I am very glad to announce the first Uganda Mapping Day.
This exiting event will take place next Saturday, June 4th, at Mountbatten Offices. During the day we will map, upload our data to Openstreetmap, gather more publicly available datasources and create maps using free and open source mapping tools. There is a very limited amount of seats available for this free event, so register now (and do show up when you register). We are still looking for volunteers to mentor small groups of users. If you have an Openstreetmap account and have plotted at least 1 point on the map, your help during the day would be greatly appreciated. If you are familiar with a free GIS software package that you would like to demo (gvSig, Merkaartor, QGis, OpenLayers, Geoserver, Tilemill etc.) we could also use your help to show how we can create maps of Uganda. Please drop me a line at [email protected] The event is going to be extremely hands-on. There will be no lectures, no talks, no presentations. We will really make maps, by doing. If you can not join us physically, you can join us online too. We will open an IRC channel and build a Ugandan Geo-Portal which collects all possible geospatial datasources about Uganda. Online support with that track is also greatly encouraged. So, where do you register? right here: http://www.mappingday.com/ Hope to see lots of you June 4th. rgds, Reinier _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
