Uganda Mapping Day

After a long time in the making, I am very glad to announce the first Uganda Mapping Day. This exiting event will take place on Saturday, June 4th, at Mountbatten Offices.

During the day we will map, upload our data to OpenStreetMap.org, gather more publicly available data-sources and create maps using free and open-source mapping tools.

There is a very limited amount of seats available for this free event, so register now (and do show up when you register).

We are still looking for volunteers to mentor small groups of users. If you have an OpenStreetMap account and have plotted at least 1 point on the map, your help during the day would be greatly appreciated.

If you are familiar with a free GIS software package that you would like to demo (gvSig, Merkaartor, QGis, OpenLayers, Geoserver, Tilemill etc.) we could also use your help to show how we can create maps of Uganda. Please drop me a line at reinier.battenberg@mountbatten.net

The event is going to be extremely hands-on. There will be no lectures, no talks, no presentations. We will really make maps, by doing.

If you can not join us physically, you can join us online too. We will open an IRC channel and build a Ugandan Geo-Portal which collects all possible geo-spatial data-sources about Uganda. Online support with that track is also greatly encouraged.

So, where do you register? Right here: http://www.mappingday.com/

Hope to see lots of you June 4th.

Regards,
Reinier Battenberg