[HOT] OpenStreetMap brings world Championship to Ireland

[Rebecca Firth]

Awesome to read about, thanks for sharing!

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Ciarán Staunton <ciaran.staunton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just a quick shout to the mailing list about Portmarnock Community School
> who are Sage Global Entrepreneurship World Champions 2017.
>
> The champions are decided after a World Cup competition. This involved 32
> teams explaining their projects, and making competitive pitches. The whole
> thing was based on OpenStreetMap of course re-using the #MapLesotho data
> they had eagerly helped to create. They are just back in Ireland with an
> impressive looking trophy, and a small bit of prize money which they are
> donating to a school in Lesotho. Their project is called Global Citizens
> Mapping the Future and it is very creative in that it look for all kinds of
> new use cases for the data created. You can follow their handle on twitter
> or see a write up on MapLesotho - dot - com (sorry for the lack of
> hyperlink). Obviously a huge shout to those of you (you know who you are)
> who put the time in to validating the Lesotho HOTOSM tasks and generously
> giving specific feedback to them when they started in 2014-5. Watch out
> world, a bunch of kids have a huge database, and no end of creativity!
>
>
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