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Love it when a plan comes together. Great trnrnd OpenStreetMap Ghana UCC_Y🌍UTHMAPPERS

Interesting day PeoplesAssemblyCymru yesterday, with speakers from Future Gen Cymru and Centre for Alternative Technology . Aber Food Surplus Appreciated Ben/Tir Canol shoutout for our Food Deserts work Cwm Taf Morgannwg Research & Development, #CommunityMapping foodscapes, barriers, and community-defined 'wider determinants of Wellbeing'

Today sees the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society.

48 chapters offering detailed explanations of geospatial technologies and providing critical reviews and appraisals of their application in society.

routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

Massive!

Here is the latest mapping status and priority for the #OpenStreetMap #TurkeySyriaEarthquake response. Urgent projects: 14226, 14232, 14235, 14245, 14246.

Urgent projects in Syria have so far received less mapping and can use your attention!

Nadolig Llawen from the Ketch Sandpiper. @ Tilghman Island, Maryland instagram.com/p/Cml1TIfo9Ki/…

This looks like a meaty read! What a great resource.

Seems like my only hope of 'moderating' Musk is by deleting my twitter profile. So much for democracy... aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1…

Thinking of Ugandan #Ebola , remembering trying to track Sierra Leone vulnerability. Anglicised village names were locally duplicated, so we mapped community-voiced 'Village Name Meaning': 'Lions was in the land before the town was formed...' Ivan Gayton @msf_field Missing Maps

Bruno Latour. What a force. RIP

For all the public health/spatial designers I was hanging out with yesterday at Health Cities Design Congress 2022, here's a 3d OpenStreetMap visualisation of the venue: demo.f4map.com/#lat=51.525777…

Listening to Rachel Cooper talk about place-making for healthy lives and community health index mapping. She says it's too expensive. Not with Community doing mapping, it isn't: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/11322-a

Would be interesting to include this in some of the Healthy City Design Congress discussions.

In other news: celebrating 'participatory design' today. Presenting our work on DIY Community Mapping for Cwm Taf Morgannwg Research & Development at 'Healthy City Design' congress. Pioneering humanitarian field-mapping techniques for COVID/Food Deserts mapping in the UK. @nhswales Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team @WellbeingMerthyr

.Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is Activated for Hurricane Fiona, hotosm.org/disaster-servi…

Nice reflections. But I can't see when open mapping actually ISN'T anthropology...

Why drones, AI, and 'mapping every corner' won't necessarily save the world. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Chesapeake Magic of deer bouncing towards the island in the sunset. Pausing for a sweaty paint aching moment, in the thick of the boat brawling. #Covidneglect #fallout @ Tilghman Island, Maryland instagram.com/p/CgreGHGLf2h/…