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[CrisisMappers] London HOT Congo Mapathon this Saturday

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Peter Burgess

Gmail Peter Burgess [CrisisMappers] London HOT Congo Mapathon this Saturday Harry Wood Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com

We're looking for more people to join in with the London HOT Congo Mapathon *this Saturday*. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team are working with MSF to map DR Congo. At this event you can get involved in contributing to OpenStreetMap, creating maps which will help this aid organisation with their life-saving work in the region. No experience necessary. Just bring your laptop

Date: Saturday 3rd May Time: 10:30 until 18:00 Location: The Open Data Institute. 3rd Floor. 65 Clifton Street. EC2A 4JE http://osm.org/go/euu6FOW7B-?m= Bring: A laptop & mouse

Details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_London_HOT_Congo_Mapathon

Sign-up: http://london-hot-congo.eventbrite.co.uk/

We're expecting this event to be a teaching workshop on OpenStreetMap editing, so it's a great event to come along to if you'd like to learn a new skill. If you're already an expert, come along to help teach others! We are also responding to a specific request from MSF to map a part of DR Congo where they are delivering vaccination programmes. We'll be digitising some data collected by teams of people on-the-ground in Lubumbashi.

-- Schedule --

• 10:30 - Arrive
• 11:00 - Intro to OpenStreetMap
• 11:15 - Talk about MSF and Congo mapping work.
• 11:30 - Demonstration of basic mapping
• 11:45 - Everyone get mapping!
• 13:00 - Lunch will probably be provided (seeking funding for this)
• 14:30 - Demo of 'field papers' data input
• 18:00 - Everyone to the pub!

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