[Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week #mapathon Nov 15 and 16

2014-09-16 Thread Alex Barth
For this fall's #mapathon we're joining National Geographic's Geography Awareness Week. Add your city on the map and host a #mapathon in your community + help spread the word: http://openstreetmap.us/2014/09/fall-mapathon/ Cheers! -- Alex Barth Secretary OpenStreetMap United States Inc.

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-02 Thread Alex Barth
I think this is an awesome idea. Are you just going to use Google Hangout and stream to youtube? If you need help on getting set up with this, let me know. It's easy. What's great with it hangout is that you get the youtube video for free http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU51Tfne9pEfeature=plcp -

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-02 Thread Jim McAndrew
Brian, Back in the day of the ambassadors, there was a pretty good presentation going around about the basics of OpenStreetMap. I know Kate Chapman and Tim Water have created a few presentations and put them up on slideshare:

[Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-01 Thread Brian DeRocher
Geography Awareness Week is November 11-17, 2012 http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek My goal is to create a 20 minute OSM introduction / presentation to fellows geeks at my company about OpenStreetmap. I'd like to make this presentation in a

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-01 Thread Martijn van Exel
I ran a workshop + mapping party at the University of Utah last year. Here's more: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geography_awareness_week On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Brian DeRocher br...@derocher.org wrote: Geography Awareness Week is November 11-17, 2012

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-01 Thread Kathleen Danielson
I'm working on planning an event with the Parisian OSM gang, since I'll be there on vacation, although I anticipate that just being a local OSM meetup, rather than an outreach event. Mostly because I don't speak French. (Meeting with the Dutch and Belgian, and maybe even the English mappers the

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week

2012-11-01 Thread Martijn van Exel
Oh! Say hi to my Dutch friends (Floris? Henk? Edward?) when you're in Amsterdam! I used to run that monthly meetup, it's a small group but they're a great bunch and I'm sure you'll love the venue. Bring an appetite for 'bitterballen'. ;-) On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Kathleen Danielson

Re: [Talk-us] Geography Awareness Week 2011

2011-10-06 Thread Martijn van Exel
Harry Wood created a wiki page for the GAW and I put in my work in progress to organize an OSM event on GIS day at the University of Utah. After tomorrow when I will sit down and talk with the UofU geography department people, I will be able to be more specific about the date and the type of