Training: Waterways Mapping in OpenStreetMap
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Training: Waterways Mapping in OpenStreetMap

Learn how to map agricultural waterways to support food security. All mappers, new and experienced, are welcome! Become a UN Mapper!

By UN Mappers

Date and time

Friday, June 20 · 3 - 4:30am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

About the Project:

Waterways play a key role in land suitability for agriculture. Combined with infrastructures, they are essential for water distribution and crop production.

UN Mappers is supporting FAO to produce an exhaustive, open-source map of waterways along the Senegal river in Mauritania. The mapped waterway network will serve as a foundation for:

  • Advanced spatial analysis
  • Identification of infrastructure improvements
  • Ongoing monitoring and updates by SONADER (e.g., water flow, presence of invasive plants, canal conditions)

About the Event

We invite you to our training and mapathon to map waterways and farm lands in OpenStreetMap! Bring your mouse for easier mapping.

The event will be recorded and will be held in MS Teams. You can either use your browser or download the MS Team app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app

Agenda:

1. Welcome and UN Mappers Introduction

2. Training: Waterways mapping

3. Mapathon

4. Closing

Our community collaborators: OSM ENSTP

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UN Mappers

The UN Global Service Centre (UNGSC) and three UN peacekeeping missions (UNSOS, MINUSCA, and MONUSCO) established in August 2019 the foundation of a global initiative called UN Maps, which aims to enrich the topographic and operational data in UN missions and other areas in developing countries with the goal to support the UN-wide activities in their field endeavors, such as peace, security, and logistics by providing its peacekeepers with topographic maps, search and navigation tools, imagery, and street-level base maps, 2D and 3D visualization that will help them in their tactical and operational activities.

In order to achieve the above goals, the UN Maps initiative is building a thriving community around the collection, validation, usage, and dissemination of geospatial data, called UN Mappers.

FreeJun 20 · 3:00 AM PDT