[Talk-ng] [FWD: Re: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017]

[Kazeem Owolabi]

Great, happy to be part of the movement.

I will map remotely.

Best regards.

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com>
wrote:

> FYI
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ayo Akinseye
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017
> From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, February 28, 2017 10:12 am
> To: Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com>,
> "geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>,
> "geoforall at lists.osgeo.org" <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>,
> "discuss at lists.osgeo.org" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>
> Ayo,
>
> Thank you for sharing the updates and great to see the community build up
> .  Great to see the community links of OSM and  OSGeo expanding rapidly
> both locally and globally. OSM is now truly the Global Mapping Agency and
> OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem.  What a great
> combination of synergies. Both just over a decade  old and have
> fundamentally changed the whole geolandscape. And this is just the start
> :-)
>
> Peter, Vyron and me are working on a paper on this and this is good
> example to highlight. I am sharing this with wider OSGeo community so we
> keep expanding synergies.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
> ________________________________________
> From: GeoForAll-Africa <geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on
> behalf of Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com>
> Sent: 27 February 2017 8:32 PM
> To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for all that attended our Lagos Mapping party !!! We are finally a
> community !!!
>
> Our Lagos mapping party was attended by 14 people.
> People from University of Lagos, Lagos State Government (Science and
> technology Ministry), codefordevelopment.org<http://codefordevelopment.org>,
> utility companies and IT startups.
>
> One of our sponsors and partners (http://www.moriwo.com ) had sent a
> streetview camera to capture Epe and we plan to use the panorama data to
> update openstreetmap.
>
> MoRiWo data had identified the OSM data had streets that no longer existed
> and also captured new streets.
> From the streetview data, we also could identify street names.
>
> The edits are being processed in JOSM so will be uploaded sometime during
> the week.
>
> At the mapping party, some of the participants had actually been
> contributing to OSM but had stopped due to non availability of a local
> support community to ask questions and also seek assistance.
>
> The theme of the party changed to a community building discussion whereby
> issues were deliberated and solutions provided.
>
> We established the foundations of a Lagos community (not just OSM, but for
> all Osgeo platforms/products).
>
> The attendance is expected to grow at the next meeting in March (which we
> all agreed will hold monthly).
>
> I am working on the photos and videos of the event and will be uploading
> these to a blog during this week and will also share the links.
>
> Our Abuja mapping party may be impacted by the airport that is scheduled
> to be shut down this week for repairs. We are still trying to confirm.
>
> The Ibadan mapping party scheduled for the 11th March will still go ahead,
> since the energy and feedback from Lagos was very vibrant.
>
> Thanks once more for all those that could make it.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ayo Akinseye
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Lagos Mapping Party Reminder
> From: "Ayo Akinseye DSS" <ayoa at digitalspatial.com<mailt
> o:ayoa at digitalspatial.com <ayoa at digitalspatial.com>>>
> Date: Fri, February 24, 2017 1:31 pm
> To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa@
> lists.osgeo.org <geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>>
>
> Hello,
>
> A reminder for all who have shown interest to attend our Lagos Mapping
> party.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lagos_Mini_Mapping_Party_2017 .
>
> Thanks for your interest so far and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ayo Akinseye
>
>
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*Kazeem Owolabi*
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