Jóhannes B. Jensson is in town. He’s the main organizer of OpenStreetMap in Iceland and the man behind MappingBotswana. Come have a drink with him and talk about mapping, local OSM organisations, etc.
Location:
Café De Markten, Oude Graanmarkt 5, 1000 Brussel http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/870247035
Time:
19:00
EGEA Brussels and the student organisation are inviting us for their Missing Maps MAPATHON on Tuesday November 15th!
All mappers welcome! There will be a training for new mappers.
Location :
VUB, Building E, Room E1.4 and E.17
Missing maps?
Each year, disasters around the world kill nearly 100,000 and affect or displace 200 million people. Many of the places where these disasters occur are literally ‘missing’ from any map and first responders lack the information to make valuable decisions regarding relief efforts. Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people.
IPIS, Missing Maps and OpenStreetMap Belgium organise another Missing Maps MAPATHON on Wednesday October 26, at the IPIS library!
IPIS Research and Openstreetmap Belgium invite you to come map for the Missing Maps project with us. By doing so, you will learn how to create the open maps that make the work of NGOs like Doctors Without Borders or IPIS Research easier. After the event, you will be able to continue helping by putting the world’s most vulnerable people on the map.
After an amazing State Of The Map in Brussels, let’s build a community with anybody interested in OpenStreetMap.
The targeted audience is everybody! From just heard the word OpenStreetMap a few seconds ago to the total expert
There will be someone you can discuss and have a drink with
So let’s join us!
Sus is my computer related nickname, on OpenStreetmap I use susvhv. In the early days of the PCs I always had problems with the ç of François, my real name (smiles). I was born in 1933, (I leave it to you to calculate my age) in Brussels and I was a technician at the Belgian Nuclear Research Center or SCK in Mol, where I live at the moment. I was sent on early retirement during a restructuring at the SCK. I have been enjoying home life for over 25 years since that moment. When I went to school, there were no computers. Luckily, I got the opportunity at work to spend time to learn about hardware and software and get familiar with microprocessors and microcontrollers. Until now, I have bought all my desktop computers as parts and assembled them myself. The last one runs Ubuntu. My laptop runs Windows 10. Unlike the desktops, I buy my laptops.
escada
The day before SOTM Brussels, there’s the HOT summit. You should go to both :) After the HOT-summit, their participants are invited to come map with us. So expect plenty mappers who are deeply involved in humanitarian mapping.
We will need volunteers to help out beginners, as we will open to the public too. But it is also your chance for some networking. And we will have a validating-focused session, so come prepared to take the next step in your mapping career.
What happens when you allow everyone to map the world, as they see fit, no questions asked?
You get a map that allows you to navigate any country in the world for free, to plan a vaccination campaign in the Kivu, help you find the nearest bar with wifi.
This is OpenStreetMap.
Joost Schouppe
This months mapper in the spotlight is Andy, mapping with the username: SomeoneElse
I’m Andy, and I live in Derbyshire, in England. Since leaving college many years ago I’ve been working in the computer software industry (mostly development and implementation). The “SomeoneElse” name came from the music site last.fm - it was just an alternate playlist to the normal one (as if literally “someone else”).
Marc Gemis
We’ll have a table, electricity and an internet connection. It’s inside the city hall, but there will be an exhibition about the new ‘circulatieplan’ for Leuven.
Location:
Stadhuis Leuven
Time:
9:30
Jorieke, a 28 years old Belgian, has spend a lot of time the past few years to support local OpenStreetMap communities all over the world. She worked on several projects in Africa, Europe and Asia to train people and to promote OpenStreetMap by local and international players.
I discovered OpenStreetMap at the end of 2010, “you will enjoy it”, and YES! I showed OpenStreetMap to my two brothers and together with them I mapped our village Wechelderzande Thanks to my student job as mailman, it was very easy, I knew half of the house numbers in the village by heart! Some time later, I discovered HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetmap Team, and Map Kibera. As social agoge, who had the ambition to work internationally and who was enormously interested in participation and spatiality, it simply had to interest me. My studies in ‘Conflict and Development’ gave me the opportunity to delve deeper in this type of mapping. I even got the chance to work for 6 weeks in Bangladesh for my master thesis. It gave me the possibility to talk with students and professors in architecture and spatial planning, the local OpenStreetMap community and a lot of people living in slums. And yes, it was them who really convinced me to use OpenStreetMap as a tool in humanitarian and development contexts. Precisely because they can put their neighborhood on the map themselves. After this project, everything went fast, a few months later I flew for the first time to Africa for the Eurosha project, in which HOT was one of the partners. And it never really stopped since then…
Marc Gemis