5th OpenStreetMap West Bengal Mapping Party
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India
Beguntary More (Law College Gate)
The OpenStreetMap community of West Bengal invites everyone to its upcoming mapping party! Join us and...
* Meet new people!
* Explore new places!
* Learn how to use and improve this community resource!
📱 No laptop needed, just bring a working Android or iOS phone!
🗓️ Date - Saturday, 26th of July
🕙 Time - 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
📌 Location - Beguntary More (Law College Gate)
How do I join?
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Click the "Attend" button on the events you're attending. You will need to create an OpenStreetMap account, if you don't have one already.
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Join the OpenStreetMap West Bengal Telegram Group, or give us a call at +91-73842-71087
What will we be doing?
- 4:30PM to 5:00PM - Meet the people
- 5:00PM to 5:15PM - New participants learn what OSM is and a simple way of using it.
- Returning participants learn new ways of using OSM.
- 5:15PM to 5:30PM - New participants learn to edit OSM
- Returning participants learn new ways of editing OSM.
- 5:30PM to 6:40PM - We split into teams (if there are >5 attendees), and each team is assigned an area to map.
- 6:40PM to 6:50PM - We regroup (if split), and conclude the party.
- 6:50PM onwards - we grab some food and drinks together, sponsored by TomTom
We suggest bringing...
- a smartphone (preferably Android)
- a power bank
- a charging cable
- drinking water
- friends and colleagues - the more the merrier 🙂
Check out our other upcoming parties!
How do I learn about future mapping parties?
Glad you asked! We have a few different options.
Telegram
You can join OSM India Community on Telegram here, as well as the OSM West Bengal Community here.
Jabber/XMPP
If you're privacy conscious, Jabber/XMPP is just the right place for you! It's also a great place to meet other OpenStreetMap contributors and to learn from them, as well as getting informed about future mapping parties.
Install Quicksy (Play Store/App Store/F-Droid) or Prāv (Play Store/F-Droid), then click this link for OSM India - osm-in@conference.a3.pm, else this for OSM West Bengal
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