Hi Jo, Thanks for your line: I was not aware of this. We have been pretty busy today in Haiti and in Togo around the same activities: - mapping, - training on QGIS/Leaflet - preparatory work for Saturday 21-Nov 2nd African Edition of State Of The Map in Lomé and the end of our maptrek through a mapathon.
Excellent time to you and all Nicolas- On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Jo Walsh <metaz...@fastmail.net> wrote: > Remember that GIS Day is an ESRI trademark. > > Some of us prefer to celebrate PostGIS Day, which falls the following day. > > OSGeo4ever, > > > zx > > > On November 18, 2015 11:56:54 PM GMT, nicolas chavent < > nicolas.chav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from crisis mappers and hot >> this note for those still active mapping this GIS Day 2015. >> >> >> >> Sharing a short wrap up of how the GIS Day looked like for two >> collectives of mappers active in Lomé and Port Au Prince which might be of >> interest. >> >> >> "GIS Day" 08 PM (UTC), it's mid day in Port Au Prince (Haiti) and night >> time in Lomé (Togo) after long and happy working hours around OSM, GIS and >> opendata. >> >> In Togo at Université de Lomé UL (Lomé University UL): >> - 50 people working all day long on QGIS with OpenStreetMap data created >> through the first 4 days of the maptrek mivamapper (Come map Togo local >> language) in Anfamé (Lomé) but also with data from the OCHA Core >> Operational Datasets (COD) and Fundamental Operational Dataset (FOD) >> accessed via the Humanitarian Responses and the HDX platforms. >> - 20 people working half a day exploring, visualizing and retrieving >> geodata of all sorts (openstreetmap, opendata, gray-licensed data) with the >> IFL (Infrastructure de Données Spatiales Francophone Libre/ "Free >> Francophone SDI"-FFS) hosted in France at AgroCampus Ouest and maintained >> with the support of the GeOrchestra community. >> - The same 20 spent their afternoon reinforcing their grasp on the >> webmapping tool uMap with the same kind of data >> - Asides of this, the same people kept mapping Anfamé and Biu cities as >> the first targets set for the mivamapper maptrek experience started last >> Saturday 14-November (our 8 days-long mapathon) >> - Now that night fell over Lomé, the preparatory work for our second >> State Of The Map Africa, the SOTMTG 2015, is intensifying. >> >> In Haiti at the Port Au Prince base of Haiti Communitere, >> - a couple of Haitian experienced mappers are being taught OSM on a train >> the trainer program >> - The same with the ProjetEOF collective are also organizing for both >> remote attendance of the SOTMTG 2015 and the last day of mivamapper >> - They are also laying the ground for a mapathon that will take place >> this 21-Nov at HC's base and will focus on Areas Of Interest for local >> communities in Haiti >> - Like the days before, they'll finish their days joining in Western >> African mappers in the mivamapper maptrek. >> >> >> A rich GIS day like most of our days in Haiti ([1], [2]) and in Togo >> ([3], [4], [5]) over the past 2 weeks and likely of the coming 10 days >> throughout those two OSM and Free GIS capacity building missions designed, >> funded and co-implemented with the Digital Directorate of the Organisation >> Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and with our haitian partner Haiti >> Communitere >> >> >> Anyone interested on these initiatives and willing to join can follow >> blogs, wiki, mailing lists from ProjetEOF and local OSM groups from Togo, >> Niger, Mali, Burkina, Togo, Bénin and Sénégal as well as the FB and twitter >> accounts of those groups as well as the following hashtags #ProjetEOF >> #map4tg #mivamapper. >> >> >> Best, >> Nicolas >> >> >> [1]: >> http://projeteof.org/action-openstreetmap-2015-haiti-un-dispositif-dappui-technique-et-organisationnel-a-osm-en-haiti/ >> [2]: >> http://projeteof.org/action-openstreetmap-haiti-2015-an-osm-technical-and-organizational-support-initiative-in-haiti/ >> [3]: >> http://projeteof.org/action-osm-2015-togo-3-semaines-dediees-a-la-cartographie-openstreetmap-et-a-la-geomatique-libre-qgis-et-lids-georchestra/ >> [4]: >> http://projeteof.org/action-osm-2015-togo-recit-dune-semaine-de-formation-aux-techniques-de-cartographie-openstreetmap/ >> [5]: >> http://projeteof.org/action-osm-2015-togo-mapathon-mivamapper-et-state-of-the-map-2015-togo-durant-gis-day-et-geoweek/ >> >> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- Nicolas Chavent Projet OpenStreetMap (OSM) Projet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF) Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 Mobile (CIV): +225 78 12 76 99 <nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org> Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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