The November Brno Missing Maps Mapathon at the Department of Geography
Brno, Czechia
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, MUNI
Come and support the work of Médecins Sans Frontières by helping to map places that are threatened by humanitarian crises in OpenStreetMap.
Members of Missing Maps Brno help out at various mapathons in the Czechia, Slovakia and elsewhere in the world. It's time for the mapathon to take place again on home turf - at Masaryk University.
Where are we going to meet?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/84965582
What will happen at the mapathon?
At the mapathon, we will create a map in OpenStreetMap of one of the places where Médecins Sans Frontières operates based on satellite images.
It doesn't matter if you don't have experience. You will learn everything on the spot and after a short training you will be able to map yourself. If you have experience, it is excellent. We will work in two groups:
• Mappers will have the opportunity to learn the JOSM program - a freely available editor for OpenStreetMap, which, according to our experience, allows mapping quickly and at the same time with high quality.
• Mappers in English
Of course, experienced users who no longer need any training and just want to map or validate themselves are also invited.
If you are already among the experienced and would like to join the organizing team, we will be happy to discuss this at the mapathon.
What do you need?
No previous experience is required. All tools are free and open source.
Mappers without their own laptop will be able to use the computers in the computer lab. If you want to work on your own laptop, you need to bring a mouse and have the JOSM program pre-installed.
A stable wireless Internet connection will be provided.
Should I prepare something?
If you don't already have an OpenStreetMap account, create one here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new.
We will map in the JOSM program, so it is necessary to have it installed in advance. It is freely downloadable at https://josm.openstreetmap.de. The program requires the Java programming language to be installed.
If you want to be in the group of validators, at least basic knowledge of the JOSM editor is an advantage. It is therefore ideal to first complete the mapathon in the JOSM group and at the next mapathon go to the validators.
The Department of Geography of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, the organizing team of the Brno mapathon Missing Maps Brno, the Geocommunity association, Médecins Sans Frontières, volunteers of Missing Maps Slovakia are looking forward to seeing you.
More information: Radim Štampach (stampach@mail.muni.cz)