Please join us for this month's online mapathon with an evening of humanitarian mapping. No previous experience required.

On Tuesday 6th April from 7pm-9:15pm, Missing Maps Cambridge and Missing Maps London will be teaming up for another joint online mapathon!

Our Missing Maps event will be in support of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). We will be working on high-priority projects as requested by the Red Cross and MSF which will be confirmed closer to the date.

Schedule

18:30: You will receive a setup email with a link to attend the event online.

19:00: Introduction to Missing Maps and practical information.

19:10: iD Training / JOSM Training / Validator Training

21:15: Wrap up

What is it?

The aim of the Missing Maps Project is to map the most crisis-prone parts of the world. With your time we can directly help humanitarian organisations improve the lives of some of the planet’s most vulnerable people.

Our now monthly event sees around 30 volunteers spare a few hours of their day to support projects ranging from helping end FGM in Tanzania to supporting the Clinton Access Health Initiative elimiate malaria through mapping regions in Zimbabwe and Guatemala. As of January, the Missing Maps Cambridge group has now made over 60,000 additions to the map!

No matter whether you're an experienced Humanitarian Mapper or have never done anything like this before, come along to learn more about OpenStreetMap, GIS and the Missing Maps project.

We will do an introduction on how to map and teach you how to edit OSM and work with the HOT Tasking Manager on mapping tasks.

What do I need?

Just a laptop (you must bring your own with you), a mouse and enthusiasm (mouse isn't absolutely necessary but makes the mapping A LOT faster).

No experience necessary. All tools are free and open source.

Where is it?

This month we'll all be mapping remotely!

We are also grateful to GeomniUK and 1Spatial for supporting the event.

See you online!