Introduction to Humanitarian Mapping and OpenStreetMap
Thursday, January 31, 2019
10:00am to 12:00pm
East Learning Lab B 2113, Hill Library
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About This Workshop
OpenStreetMap is a free and open crowd-sourced map of the world that anyone can contribute to. In addition to being used by government and private companies for web applications, OpenStreetMap is used by many humanitarian organizations who need reliable information about the roads, buildings, and other information about regions experiencing crisis. In this workshop you will learn how to edit OpenStreetMap and contribute data to any region in the world! Together, we will improve the basemaps of Raleigh and other cities in North Carolina, adding sidewalks and information that will be used by apps designed to map accessible routes through our cities. This workshop will prepare you to participate in humanitarian mapping and introduce you to the open source web mapping community.
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Thursday, January 31, 201910:00am to 12:00pm
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2019-01-31 10:00:00
2019-01-31 12:00:00
Introduction to Humanitarian Mapping and OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a free and open crowd-sourced map of the world that anyone can contribute to. In addition to being used by government and private companies for web applications, OpenStreetMap is used by many humanitarian organizations who need reliable information about the roads, buildings, and other information about regions experiencing crisis. In this workshop you will learn how to edit OpenStreetMap and contribute data to any region in the world! Together, we will improve the basemaps of Raleigh and other cities in North Carolina, adding sidewalks and information that will be used by apps designed to map accessible routes through our cities. This workshop will prepare you to participate in humanitarian mapping and introduce you to the open source web mapping community.
East Learning Lab B 2113 at the
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East Learning Lab B 2113, Hill LibraryInstructors
Mia PartlowResource Sharing Librarian
Erica HayesFormer NCSU Libraries Fellow
Accessibility
If assistive technology, live captioning, or other accommodations would improve your experience at this event, please contact us. We encourage you to contact us early about this to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
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Mia Partlow