Remember that GIS Day is an ESRI trademark.
Some of us prefer to celebrate PostGIS Day, which falls the following day.
OSGeo4ever,
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On November 18, 2015 11:56:54 PM GMT, nicolas chavent
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/
>
>
>
>--
>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
>
>Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com
>Skype: c_nicolas
>Twitter: nicolas_chavent
>
>
>
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