[HOT] Call for papers on Humanitarian Information Management

2015-11-18 Thread Marc van den Homberg
The fourth World Conference on Humanitarian Studies is taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 5 to 8 March 2016, and the panel on *Humanitarian information management: towards exploiting the new data and information environment for a more effective response is *welcoming papers that provide bot

[HOT] Missing Maps Event success

2015-11-18 Thread Leon van der Meulen
Hi All, Great to see all the events happening this week, our event at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands last week was a great success, over 80 people helped out mapping South Kivu and Cape town. 17.000 objects and 72.000 nodes were added. We made a nice movie https://www.youtube.c

Re: [HOT] Missing Maps Event success

2015-11-18 Thread Pete Masters
Great video, Leon! Please pass on huge thanks to all involved from the Missing Maps team Pete On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Leon van der Meulen < leonvandermeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Great to see all the events happening this week, our event at the > University of Groningen in

[HOT] Today is GIS Day

2015-11-18 Thread Tyler Radford
All, Today is Day 3 of OSM Geo Week: GIS Day. I encourage everyone to take 10 minutes out of your day today to contribute to a project on tasks.hotosm.org. (Thank you to those who have already far exceeded this today!) I'm looking forward to doing this myself tonight at Médecins Sans Frontières in

[HOT] GIS Day in Lomé and Haiti in the middle of two OSM and GIS capacity building missions

2015-11-18 Thread nicolas chavent
Hi all, Apologies for cross-postings, I am resending from crisis mappers, 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"