Don’t Miss the Last Weekend for Earth As Art!

Come one, come all – to the final weekend of the Earth as Art exhibit.  Design on Main – 203 Main Street – Ames, Iowa Hours: Thursday 4-7pm Friday 2-5pm Saturday 11am-5pm Sunday 2-5pm

OSM Mapping Party *Canceled* Due to Icy Conditions

The weather outside is icy! We have decided to cancel today’s mapping event. Please stay inside and safe. However if you would still like to do some mapping below are some great videos to get you started.   https://mapgive.state.gov/why-map/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0YovjrMXk&feature=youtu.be (the last few mins is a repeat of earlier in the video) Here are some suggested tasks

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Discover the OSM World of Mapping: Teaching 4-H Youth to Digitally Map

Backstory Over the last year, the Iowa State University GIS Facility has hosted several mapping events to teach groups about the opportunities in online mapping, such as the volunteer efforts of the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT). In July of 2015, a 4-H seminar was hosted on our campus with the theme Dare to

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Happy Earth Observation Day!

This year Earth Observation Day fell on the Wednesday of our biennial Iowa Geographic Information Council Conference. We held a mapping party and worked on mapping Leon, Iowa and then participated in various projects through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap task manager.

IowaView MLK Day of Service was a success!

Over 40 people volunteered on January 19, 2015 at the Iowa State University GIS Facility for ISU’s part in the worldwide volunteer effort called Open Street Map that is creating a crowd-sourced map of the world that is open source, free and available for any use. The event was held in conjunction with Martin Luther

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