[HOT] #MapLesotho 24 Hour Mapathon

[Ciarán Staunton]

Pete Masters is always welcome!

Main lesson is put the time into showing someone and help them find a
purpose a la #MissingMaps then they will teach others.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Pete Masters <pedrito1414 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> 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, Ciarán 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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