Over the past few years the ISU GIS Facility has hosted a number of mapathons. Most of our mapathons have a time set aside for mapping in Iowa and then a time where we focus on international projects.
It is amazing what even a small group of mappers can do to add to the OpenStreetMap basemap in a small town in Iowa. Below are three examples of demonstrating how a mapathon event can add to the OpenStreetMap.
Join us this week, November 15-21, 2020, as we celebrate Geography Awareness Week. Throughout we will be posting various activities and videos from our friends at OpenStreetMap, National Geographic, and Esri to help you get engage and get informed. As a way to celebrate GIS Day and OpenStreetMap, we are encouraging everyone to go online
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is also celebrating this week as OSM Geography Awareness Week (#osmgeoweek.) It is a time for teachers, students, community groups, and map lovers, in the US and around the world to join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of the world. Over 132
Did you miss our mapathon or weren’t able to attend because you aren’t in the area? You can still contribute to the effort. 🙂
Register now: https://forms.gle/pDeEHbLY1eEV6Ejq7
When: Tuesday, October 15, 2019Where: GIS Teaching Lab, Room 248, Durham Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa This year the ISU GIS Facility in collaboration with IowaView will be celebrating Earth Observation Day. This year the theme is “Geoscience is Everywhere.” We have a great day planned. To start out our day at 10:30am, Professor
This year for Earth Observation Day we had a mini mapathon and a speaker. Our mapathon efforts focused on a project in Puerto Rico that was mapping features as part of the Hurricane Maria recovery efforts. Then Daryl Herzmann presented about the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM), a storehouse and distribution center for weather, satellite, and