Missing Maps London Launch Party
7th November, 2014 | 18:00-22:00
The London launch for the Missing Maps Project will be generously hosted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and will include speakers from three of the four Missing Maps collaborators, a panel discussion and, of course, a mapping party.
The event streamed live
Although this event is at capacity, the talks and panel discussion will be live streamed.
And, as always, you can join us from home for the mapping - see below for tasking details and resources.
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Event details
Location: Keppel Street Entrance London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London.
Capacity: 50 mappers, plus guests. Unfortunately, this event is already at capacity!
Format:
1800 Registration in the Manson Foyer and then all proceed to the John Snow Lecture Theatre (second floor)
1815 Speakers
- Welcome by Pete Masters, Missing Maps Project Coordinator, MSF UK
- Chris Grundy, Head of GIS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Jorieke Vyncke, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
- Andrew Braye, British Red Cross
- Ivan Gayton, GIS & Technological Innovation Advisor, MSF UK
1845 Panel discussion
- Chair: Claire Bolderson, Journalist
- Dr Vanessa Lawrence, Co-chair of UN-GGIM, the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
- Yodit Stanton, Founder of opensensors.io
- Emma Prest, General Manager of DataKind UK
- Liz Hughes, CEO of MapAction
1915 Drinks reception in the South Courtyard Cafe (for guests) and mapping party in the Rose Rooms (for mappers)
1925 Mapping party introduction and tutorial
2030 Pizza fuel for the mappers
2145 End of mapping. Regroup at the Rising Sun pub
Mapping remotely
You are more than welcome, as always to join us remotely in helping to fill the gaps in the missing maps.
The tutorial for new mappers will start at approximately 1930 and will be broadcast via ustream- http://ustre .am/1iS6b - USE THIS LINK BUT TAKE THE SPACE OUT! If there are any tech problems, we apologise in advance - this is the first time we have used the service apart from testing...
Mapping tasks
Tasks for the night will include:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/729 (priority task, but for mappers with some experience)
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/736 (for new mappers)
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/749 (for new mappers - ROAD NETWORK ONLY)
Resources
The following links will help you get started and should answer a lot of technical questions you may have:
The HOT Tasking Manager
Mapping with iD (web-based and simpler, but slower and not as fun)
- Slideshow used by our Missing Maps tutor at the Guardian mapathon
- MapGive training video: Learn How to Map in OpenStreetMap
- LearnOSM section on using the iD editor
- Mapping your first square - the basics
Mapping with JOSM (JAVA software needed, but faster and way more fun)
- Download JOSM – how to guide
- How to use JOSM
- Tagging / Map Features
- Hotkeys and shortcuts list
- Mapping your first square - the basics
Support
If you want to get in touch, please do so with the hashtag #MissingMapsHelp and, if they are free, someone will get in touch.
Mapper survey
If you mapped for the Missing Maps today, we'd love to know more about you! It'll take less than five minutes to fill in this survey
Mappers attending
List possibly not complete as it was done near the end of the night.
james wjw
AndrewNorris
vir̠mugi
uyi̠isibor
EmmaPea
Adama Meniu
lauramcc2
CatMap007
lovelyjubbly
dustfromthestars
Ch̠foyer
dombo
annajgibson
RussWinch
Peter Kohler
mollymillions
AlexEco9
AndrewBlack
David Constantine
bluestarfish
TimHarris
LollyMay
Lisa Marie Owen
Iknowjoseph
ML5512
ctonne
UpsideDownDave
tberth01
russianrecords
rosaluna
RubyS
goldingn