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<p>Mikel</p>
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Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad@gmail.com>; <br>
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[Talk-in] OSM workshop in Mumbai tomorrow morning <br>
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<td valign="top"><div dir="ltr"><div>Since I'm in the city, I'm taking hand on session on contributing to OSM to those interested at the Homi Bhaba Centre for Science Education, Anushakti Nagar. Its open for public, but please RSVP to Amit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I expect to cover:</div><div>* Paper mapping using field papers</div><div>* Geo referencing and digitizing map scans</div><div>* OSM editing using iD</div><div>* Loading OSM data in Quantum GIS</div>
<div>* Creating basic visualization with QGIS</div><div><br></div>--<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">As a part of NUSSD Digital Literacy Trainers' Training Programme, Gnowledge Lab is organising a one day hands-on workshop on "Contributing to Open Street Map (OSM)" on 06-12-2013</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">OSM is community driven and an open data effort to build maps with data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. The project uses diverse methods for contribution from the people and also emphasises on local knowledge.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Local area mapping and contributing to OSM is one of the projects for the NUSSD Digital Literacy course. The workshop will cover the basics of mapping, and some advanced topics.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">For more information about the project please visit:</span></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The workshop will be guided by Arun Ganesh. Arun is an expert in mapping and has been contributing to the OSM project for a long time.</span></div>
<div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Time: </span><span class="" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="">10 am to 3 pm</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Date: 06-12-2013</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Venue:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Room No 217,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Tata Institute of Fundamental Research</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">V. N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Mumbai, 400088 INDIA</span></div><div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Please bring your laptops for the workshop.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Please forward this mail to people who might be interested.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Those who miss this workshop will be trained by those who attend this workshop.</span></div><div><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">RSVP: Amit Dhakulkar | </span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:damitr@gnowledge.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">damitr@gnowledge.org</a><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"> | </span><a rel="nofollow" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">9819350953</a></div>
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