Dear all, We hill host a talk about the Missing Maps project and a humanitarian mapathon at Warwick University on 12 January 2017. It would be great to have the participation of experienced members of the OSM community to coach new mappers.
See details below and registration here: https://missingmapswarwick.eventbrite.co.uk Best regards João ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Porto De Albuquerque, Joao <j.po...@warwick.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 at 12:57 Subject: Fwd: [CIM Research] Science of Cities Seminars 2017 and Humanitarian Mapping Launch Event - save the date! To: jpo...@gmail.com <jpo...@gmail.com> Begin forwarded message: *From: *"Porto De Albuquerque, Joao" <j.po...@warwick.ac.uk> *Subject: **[CIM Research] Science of Cities Seminars 2017 and Humanitarian Mapping Launch Event - save the date!* *Date: *23 December 2016 at 12:14:52 GMT *To: *cim research <cimresea...@googlegroups.com> Dear all, As we go for a well-deserved Christmas break, please take notice of a last (but not least) announcement of the year: the relaunch of the Science of Cities Seminars in the Spring Term 2017, organised by the Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies and the GRP Sustainable Cities. We have a list of great speakers for the next term and a fantastic launch event with a talk about the Missing Maps project and a humanitarian mapping party (with pizza!). See details below and save the date - further details will follow in due course. Please forward this message and help to disseminate widely (and apologies for cross-postings!). I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a great new year in 2017! João *Science of Cities Seminars Programme - Spring Term 2017 * *Date: 12 Jan 4pm - **Special Talk and Humanitarian Mapping Event**: Missing Maps: putting the most vulnerable cities on the map* Speaker: Pete Masters/MSF/Doctors without Borders UK - Missing Maps Project Location: room OC1.04 (talk) / OC1.01 (mapping event) - Oculus building *Title: What’s the point of spending loads of my free time sitting at a computer drawing round little shapes on blurry satellite images in places that I will probably never go? * Abstract: Missing Maps is a crowdsourced mapping project, where 1000s of individuals dedicate hours of their time to tracing geographical features from satellite images. To an outside observer, it can look mind numbing, but these volunteers are providing NGOs and others with vital datasets that otherwise would not exist. For MSF, Missing Maps volunteers have directly contributed to the provision of occupational health services in Bangladesh, mass vaccination campaigns in the Democratic Republic of Congo, cholera readiness in Sierra Leone and much more. Find out how by coming to hear this imaginatively titled talk. After the talk, we will be mapping northern Nigeria together to support the MSF emergency response unit. Come, join us to learn how to help to produce maps from satellite images to support humanitarian work and have a lot of fun (and nice pizza too). As we have limited capacity, please register today for the event to secure your participation: https://missingmapswarwick.eventbrite.co.uk *Date: 19 Jan 4pm Speaker: Steven Rose/ Head of Strategic Research of Birmingham City Council Title: tbc * *Date: 2nd Feb 4pm Speaker: Jeremy Morley/Ordnance Survey Title: tbc * *Date: 16 Feb 4pm Speaker: Stephanie Bricker / BGS * *Title: Urban Geology - the Foundation for Cities* *Date: 9th March 4pm Speaker: Stephen Passmore/ The Ecological Sequestration Trust * *Title: Data, systems modelling and resilient city-regions *
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