HI All, Tomorrow DataMeet Bangalore along with Citizen Matters and Mapunity are aiming to map the garbage blackspots. This is a kick off of a month long campaign to try to collect all 9000 estimated blackspots!
So far volunteer have collected 500 data points! See the data here: http://citizen-co-lab.mapunitygroups.com/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizen-co-lab.mapunitygroups.com%2F&h=SAQFOkcSg&enc=AZMqb_C97wujkvAPvOSR4j7hDbpSDfUMI0SR2buRKu3ZO7gd5VjeTOiKFuywt_piY9c&s=1> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcitizen-co-lab.mapunitygroups.com%2F&h=SAQFOkcSg&enc=AZMqb_C97wujkvAPvOSR4j7hDbpSDfUMI0SR2buRKu3ZO7gd5VjeTOiKFuywt_piY9c&s=1>We are having meetups in 5 locations around the city tomorrow morning to meet and take a walk and collect garbage sites I hope you can make it! Locations: Indirangar – Maanya – Meeting place MapBox India Koramangala – Nitin – Meeting place Sagar Fast Foods behind BDA complex Frazertown – Contact Nisha Thompson – Meeting place French Loaf by Richards Park. Bellendur - TBD - please respond to email for the meeting place. Sanjaynagar- TBD - please respond to email for meeting place. If you want to map your own ward please do! But let us know so we can keep track of the volunteers! Time is 9:30am to 12:30am - Sept 24th Saturday morning. 9:30am - Intro and app explanation 10 to 12 - Mapping 12 to 12:30 - Closing and Next Steps. All data collected will be made open on the OpenCity.in Urban Data Portal for download and use, and this data will be sent to the BBMP and followed up on. But more importantly we hope to have the most open and comprehensive map of garbage blackspots to highlight the scope and severity of the problem. Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/z701p2w1u5Jf0uoP2 Download the app and get mapping. Link to Mapunity Groups IOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/ in/app/mapunity-groups/id1094602497?mt=8 Link to Mapunity Groups Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=org.mapunity Read more at: http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/why -are-we-mapping-garbage-spots-in-bengaluru#sthash.qttMo7PP.dpuf -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org ni...@datameet.org skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.