Mapping event in DC!

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From: Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com Date: August 18, 2014 at 10:57:00 AM EDT To: James Hare james.hare@wikimediadc.org Subject: Fwd: [CrisisMappers] MapGive Ebola outbreak mapping Event

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lea Shanley" lashanley@gmail.com Date: Aug 18, 2014 10:54 AM Subject: [CrisisMappers] MapGive Ebola outbreak mapping Event To: "crisismappers" crisismappers@googlegroups.com Cc: mapgive@state.gov

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Just the messenger

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Friends and colleagues,

Will you be our crowd?

We are mapping in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Multiple aid organizations, including the Red Cross, have deployed medical teams to identified sites in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and additional detailed base map data is needed to assist in the response. We will focus on mapping the Joru area, covering parts of southeastern Sierra Leone and western Liberia. No prior experience is necessary, but we recommend that you sign up for an account ahead of time at www.openstreetmap.orghttp://www.openstreetmap.org, if you do not already have one. Not familiar with OpenStreetMap or the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Teamhttp://www.hotosm.org/? Check out the mapping tutorials and "Why Map?" video on mapgive.state.govhttp://mapgive.state.gov/ to learn about crowdsourced mapping. You can check out the task beforehand here.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/621

Logistics: The mapping event will take place from 2 pm to 6 pm next Friday, in the American Red Cross's Board of Governors Room at 430 17th St. NW., Washington, DC Don't forget to bring your laptops if you are planning to map, and a mouse if you have one (we will bring extras if you don't have a mouse). Food will be provided.

Please feel free to forward this invite or this MeetUp invitationhttp://www.meetup.com/MapGive-Mapathon/ to anyone who may be interested, and to pass along the attached flyer explaining MapGive's #map4ebola initiative. All volunteers are welcome. RSVPs to either this calendar invite or the MeetUp event are appreciated. If you can't make it in person, you can map the task with us on any computer with internet access.

Thank you again to everyone who joined us, in person and remotely, for our last Ebola outbreak mapathon when we mapped Kenema, Sierra Leone. We quickly saw the benefits of our edits - the Red Cross was able to print a city atlas of the Kenema area less than a week later. Together we can make a difference.

Hope to see you all there! The MapGive Team

-- CrisisMappers | The Humanitarian Technology Network http://www.CrisisMappers.net

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