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.
>



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