<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>Hello,</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>Thanks for all that attended our Lagos Mapping party !!! We are finally a community !!!</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>Our Lagos mapping party was attended by 14 people. </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>People from University of Lagos, Lagos State Government (Science and technology Ministry), <a href="http://codefordevelopment.org">codefordevelopment.org</a>, utility companies and IT startups.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>One of our sponsors and partners (<a href="http://www.moriwo.com">www.moriwo.com</a>) had sent a streetview camera to capture Epe and we plan to use the panorama data to update openstreetmap.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>MoRiWo data had identified the OSM data had streets that no longer existed and also captured new streets. </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>From the streetview data, we also could identify street names.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>The edits are being processed in JOSM so will be uploaded sometime during the week.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>At the mapping party, some of the participants had actually been contributing to OSM but had stopped due to non availability of a local support community to ask questions and also seek assistance.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>The theme of the party changed to a community building discussion whereby issues were deliberated and solutions provided.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>We established the foundations of a Lagos community (not just OSM, but for all Osgeo platforms/products).</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>The attendance is expected to grow at the next meeting in March (which we all agreed will hold monthly).</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>I am working on the photos and videos of the event and will be uploading these to a blog during this week and will also share the links.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>Our Abuja mapping party may be impacted by the airport that is scheduled to be shut down this week for repairs. We are still trying to confirm.</span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span>The Ibadan mapping party scheduled for the 11th March will still go ahead, since the energy and feedback from Lagos was very vibrant. </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" style=""><span style="">Thanks once more for all those that could make it.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Ayo Akinseye</div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Lagos Mapping Party Reminder<br>
From: "Ayo Akinseye DSS" <<a href="mailto:ayoa@digitalspatial.com">ayoa@digitalspatial.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, February 24, 2017 1:31 pm<br>
To: <a href="mailto:geoforall-africa@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall-africa@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Hello,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">A reminder for all who have shown interest to attend our Lagos Mapping party.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva"><span><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lagos_Mini_Mapping_Party_2017">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lagos_Mini_Mapping_Party_2017</a>.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks for your interest so far and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Regards</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Ayo Akinseye</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br></div><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1" style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div id="wmQuoteWrapper"> </div> </blockquote></span>
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