Afternoon,

I am having a lovely week on the Island of Malta and as part of the ENERGIC summer school we were asked to undertake a mapping party of the University and learn to download GPS data and digitise our dataset, in the hope to improve the location information.

Let’s see how it goes …

Learnt a great deal, but did not save the data as there were many duplications across the class.

Until next time.

S :)

I have managed to grab some more time on OSM and hopefully will be able to put aside more time to learn and ask questions about this service. Thank you to those who have responded to my first diary, any help is greatly appreciated.

Again, a very brief entry but this afternoon I have been editing possible footpaths in Nepal’s forest and surrounding areas. I have never previously had to look through dense forests on satellite imagery and trying to decipher where the paths are leading to was far more complicated than I envisaged. It also made me think that a lot of us take for granted delineated paths for pedestrians and motor vehicles that allows us to travel from A to B and B to A. In this area it comes to trying to locate these in the dense forestry makes you realise the task ahead for the emergency services within Nepal who have already had to face one challenge too many.

Thinking of all those affected once again.

SD

I have previous experience in identifying features in historic and modern maps and I didn’t know that I could us this skill as a means of helping … but I do now!

So here I am, I hope that I may be able to help in any little way that I can and I am learning so much in the process, what OSM is about and how it can be used to help.

This is a brief, but hopefully friendly opening to why I am here and my experience today.

SD :)