[HOT] #MapLesotho 24 Hour Mapathon

Pete Masters pedrito1414 at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 3 15:11:43 UTC 2015


Amazing work, guys!

We're starting to also get a lot of interest from schools in Missing Maps
stuff. Be great to chat about how you've done it as it looks as if you're
way ahead on this....

Will pitch in for a shift tomorrow, too.

Pete

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:00 PM, CiarĂ¡n Staunton <ciaran.staunton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The Students at Portmarnock Community School  have come up with a novel
> idea to raise funds for their charitable and developmental endeavours in
> Lesotho and this is to spend an entire 24 hours doing #MapLesotho, having
> already gathered sponsors for the endeavour.
>
> Last year Anbhu, Colin and Oliver really mastered mapping on openstreetmap
> and are now demonstrating it to the fourth year group on a peer basis.
> These students have already had introductory sessions using the LearnOsm
> template, and tomorrow is the opportunity for them to map for a longer
> session. The group who are mapping will be travelling to Lesotho in
> February 2016 to hopefully put the finishing touches on a computer lab for
> the pupils at Ha Hlalele School, and of course (!) start teaching
> openstreetmap.
>
> The Mapathon kicks off at 08.00 GMT Friday and runs until 0800 GMT
> Saturday. Big cheers using the #MapLesotho hashtag as they begin and end
> their work validating on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1169#. Can you
> help out? You can validate, or hoover up invalidated tiles with fixes.
>
>
>
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