Mapping Our World: Saving Lives

In this episode, Omowonuola explores the world of volunteering with Geoffrey Kateregga, who works with Humanitarian OSM as the Community Manager, East Africa Hub. He enjoys impacting the world through volunteering and mapping and encourages more local participation. Do you care about volunteering but do not know how to start? Join us as we share tips and tricks to get you started;

What to listen for :

 

Sign up on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org

 

Participate in humanitarian mapping: https://tasks.hotosm.org

 

Get tutorials on how to get started with OSM: https://learnosm.org/en/

 

Get OSM data at https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html

 

Get some data with the Overpass API: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

 

Get more OSM data using QGIS plugin - OSM downloader or Quick OSM

 

Start a youth mapper chapter in your university today https://www.youthmappers.org/on-boarding

 

To read more on the HOT's Audacious projects, visit https://www.hotosm.org/projects/audacious/

 

 

You can reach out to our guest via email at geoffrey.kateregga@hotosm.org or on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kateregga1

 

Happy to connect with you: https://twitter.com/Svelte_mo

 

 

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