[HOT] OSM Geo Week

[Dale Kunce]

More updates on OSM Geo Week.

November 15th-21st is Geography Awareness Week, and last year Missing Maps
joined HOT, National Geographic, the U.S. State Department (MapGive),
USAID, the Peace Corps, and the World Bank’s GFDRR in inaugurating
OSMGeoWeek <http://osmgeoweek.org> (site will be updated soon), a global
series of events to highlight OSM and the importance of geographic
education.

OSM Geo Week presents a great opportunity for HOT community members to come
together and map to prepare communities for the next disaster. Represent
your school, community, or work during OSM Geo Week anytime between
November 15th-21st as we remotely map areas for projects by various NGO’s
working in the most vulnerable places around the world. We’ll even send you
some swag!

HOT and our Missing Maps partners would really like to support GeoWeek in a
huge way this year and get 100 mapping parties, mapathons, mappy hours and
mapternoons happening around the world to join with the rest of the
activities being planned by other groups and organizations.

Tasks are already being planned for Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Kenya,
Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa to name a
few, and will directly support forthcoming will directly support
forthcoming efforts of humanitarian and development partners on the ground.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in supporting, our
team can provide you with all of the materials and remote support needed to
host a successful mapathon.

If you have ever thought it might be fun to get together with co-workers,
friends, students and/or strangers to share your enthusiasm for the power
of maps and make a difference while doing it, GeoWeek is the perfect time
to do it. Events can be any size, some mapathons were as small as 10 people
and as large as a 150 people. Anyone can do it and we have all the
materials to help you host your mapathon.

Register to Host a Mapping Party <http://goo.gl/forms/bBI3pQ1IE6>

Once registered we will contact you with some follow up materials, tasks,
social media toolkit, etc.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me
<dale.kunce at redcross.org>, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> or Drishtie
Patel <drishtie.patel at redcross.org>.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Dale Kunce <dale.kunce at gmail.com> wrote:

> My name is Dale Kunce and I lead the International GIS Team at the
> American Red Cross and I am also a HOT Board Member.
>
> One of the projects that the GIS team supports here at the American Red
> Cross is the Missing Maps <http://www.missingmaps.org/> project - a
> collaboration between the Humanitarian OpenStreeMap Team, American Red
> Cross, British Red Cross, and Médecins Sans Frontières.
>
> *The objective of Missing Maps is simple: to map the most vulnerable
> places in the developing world so that local and international NGOs,
> communities and individuals can use the maps and the data to better respond
> to crises affecting the areas. *The project seeks to literally and
> figuratively put people, and their communities, on the map.
>
> Missing Maps will be celebrating it’s one year anniversary on November
> 7th, 2015. To date over 3,500 volunteers have attended mapathons in one of
> 11 countries, collectively making 12 million edits to OSM and putting 7.5
> million people on the map.
>
> *November 15th is OSM Geo Week *and presents a great opportunity for HOT
> community members to come together and map to prepare communities for the
> next disaster. Represent your school, community, or work during OSM Geo
> Week anytime between November 15th-21st as we remotely map areas for
> projects by various NGO’s working in the most vulnerable places around the
> world. We’ll even send you some swag!
>
> HOT and our Missing Maps partners would really like to do GeoWeek in a
> huge way this year and get 100 mapping parties, mapathons, mappy hours and
> mapternoons happening around the world.
>
> Tasks are already being planned for Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Kenya,
> Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa to name a
> few, and will directly support forthcoming Missing Maps efforts on the
> ground. If this sounds like something you would be interested in
> supporting, our team can provide you with all of the materials and remote
> support needed to host a successful mapathon.
>
> If you have ever thought it might be fun to get together with co-workers,
> friends, students and/or strangers to share your enthusiasm for the power
> of maps and make a difference while doing it, GeoWeek is the perfect time
> to do it. Events can be any size, some mapathons were as small as 10 people
> and as large as a 150 people. Anyone can do it and we have all the
> materials to help you host your mapathon.
>
> Register to Host a Mapping Party <http://goo.gl/forms/bBI3pQ1IE6>
>
> Once registered we will contact you with some follow up materials, tasks,
> social media toolkit, etc.
> If you have any questions please feel free to contact me
> <dale.kunce at redcross.org>, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> or Drishtie
> Patel <drishtie.patel at redcross.org> the American Red Cross Missing Maps
> Coordinator.
>
> --
>
> *Dale Kunce* | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead  | International
> Services |  American Red Cross
>



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