Missing Maps

When: Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 6:00–8:00 PM
Where: King County GIS Center, 201 South Jackson Street, Suite 706, Seattle, WA

Meetup link:

https://www.meetup.com/maptimesea/events/239284036/

What to expect:

May is Missing Maps month! For those who may not have heard of it, Missing Maps is a joint venture between The American Red Cross, The British Red Cross, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Doctors without Borders with the stated goal of “putting the world’s vulnerable people on the map”. We’ll be joining volunteers of all levels to map remote areas of the world using OSM, from supporting malaria eradication efforts in Southern Africa, to possibly helping disaster relief efforts for the recent earthquake in Ecuador.

What to bring:

Be sure to bring your laptop! You won't need any special software for this tutorial, just a web browser. A USB mouse will also make mapping easier.

Target Audience:

Anyone interested in humanitarian mapping and OpenStreetMap. Beginners encouraged!

Can’t wait to get started? Check out the official Missing Maps websit (http://missingmaps.org)e, the monthly Red Cross announcement/signup page (http://tinyurl.com/MMSea), and upcoming events on OSM Seattle (http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/).

Where to go:

Someone will be waiting to let you in by the main entrance of the King County building. If nobody is there, please call 206-477-4593 and we'll send someone down.

About your instructors:

Beth Carpenter and Chase Stephens are Missing Maps Lead Volunteers for the local regional Red Cross chapter. Together with facilitators Tyler Black and Nathan Proudfoot, they run monthly mapathons in Seattle. Beth is a GIS coordinator for the City of Sammamish, and has been a HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) mapping contributor since the Nepal earthquakes in May 2015. Chase has been a co-organizer of the OpenStreetMap Seattle meetup group since 2013, and HOT mapping since the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014.