[Geo4All] [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

Sat Mar 4 03:36:48 PST 2017

Thank you Ayo for these updates from Lagos. Great work you all are doing.

Your article on  Open Source and Economic development is of wider interest to colleagues globally https://digitalspatial.com/blog/opensource-and-economic-development/

Open source has given a big boost for lot of startups  in countries like India and created lot of highly skilled employment opportunities for the youth.  Our OSGeo India colleagues are doing great work for getting this to next generation (high school students) . Ravi Kumar and colleagues have done a recent workshop for students might be of interest. One article from one of the newspapers on how this is creating lot of high skilled employment for local youth[1]  is really important . India has also good expertise in developing low cost  space technologies [2] ,and this a is good way to accelerate open innovation  ecosystem and opportunities for the startups around geospatial.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://plus.google.com/109741136460742479583/posts/52GH2nWxnxe

[2  http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2017/02/15/india-breaks-record-for-launching-most-satellites-from-single-rocket/

________________________________________
From: Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com>
Sent: 03 March 2017 7:13 PM
To: Anand Suchith; geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

Dear Suchith

Please find below a link to the summary you requested. I will be willing to provide a more detailed summary if you need it.

https://digitalspatial.com/blog/lagos-2017-mapping-party-summary/

Regards

Ayo Akinseye

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017
From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>>
Date: Tue, February 28, 2017 10:12 am
To: Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com<mailto:ayoa at digitalspatial.com>>,
"geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>" <geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>>,
"geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>" <geoforall at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall at lists.osgeo.org>>,
"discuss at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>>

Ayo,

Thank you for sharing the updates and great to see the community build up .  Great to see the community links of OSM and  OSGeo expanding rapidly both locally and globally. OSM is now truly the Global Mapping Agency and OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem.  What a great combination of synergies. Both just over a decade  old and have fundamentally changed the whole geolandscape. And this is just the start :-)

Peter, Vyron and me are working on a paper on this and this is good example to highlight. I am sharing this with wider OSGeo community so we keep expanding synergies.

Best wishes,

Suchith
________________________________________
From: GeoForAll-Africa <geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Ayo Akinseye DSS <ayoa at digitalspatial.com<mailto:ayoa at digitalspatial.com>>
Sent: 27 February 2017 8:32 PM
To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

Hello,

Thanks for all that attended our Lagos Mapping party !!! We are finally a community !!!

Our Lagos mapping party was attended by 14 people.
People from University of Lagos, Lagos State Government (Science and technology Ministry), codefordevelopment.org<http://codefordevelopment.org><http://codefordevelopment.org>, utility companies and IT startups.

One of our sponsors and partners (http://www.moriwo.com ) had sent a streetview camera to capture Epe and we plan to use the panorama data to update openstreetmap.

MoRiWo data had identified the OSM data had streets that no longer existed and also captured new streets.
>From the streetview data, we also could identify street names.

The edits are being processed in JOSM so will be uploaded sometime during the week.

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.

The theme of the party changed to a community building discussion whereby issues were deliberated and solutions provided.

We established the foundations of a Lagos community (not just OSM, but for all Osgeo platforms/products).

The attendance is expected to grow at the next meeting in March (which we all agreed will hold monthly).

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.

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.

The Ibadan mapping party scheduled for the 11th March will still go ahead, since the energy and feedback from Lagos was very vibrant.

Thanks once more for all those that could make it.

Regards

Ayo Akinseye

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Lagos Mapping Party Reminder
From: "Ayo Akinseye DSS" <ayoa at digitalspatial.com<mailto:ayoa at digitalspatial.com><mailto:ayoa at digitalspatial.com>>
Date: Fri, February 24, 2017 1:31 pm
To: geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org><mailto:geoforall-africa at lists.osgeo.org>

Hello,

A reminder for all who have shown interest to attend our Lagos Mapping party.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lagos_Mini_Mapping_Party_2017 .

Thanks for your interest so far and look forward to seeing you tomorrow!.

Regards

Ayo Akinseye

This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 

Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this
message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the
author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the
University of Nottingham.

This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an
attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your
computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email
communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as
permitted by UK legislation.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/attachments/20170304/6b8c2943/attachment.html>