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: <a href='https://www.openstreetmap.org'>https://www.openstreetmap.org</a>   Participate in humanitarian mapping: <a href='https://tasks.hotosm.org'>https://tasks.hotosm.org</a>   Get tutorials on how to get started with OSM: <a href='https://learnosm.org/en/'>https://learnosm.org/en/</a>   Get OSM data at <a href='https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html'>https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html</a>   Get some data with the Overpass API: <a href='https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API'>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API</a>   Get more OSM data using QGIS plugin - OSM downloader or Quick OSM   Start a youth mapper chapter in your university today <a href='https://www.youthmappers.org/on-boarding'>https://www.youthmappers.org/on-boarding</a> <p> </p> To read more on the HOT's Audacious projects, visit <a href='https://www.hotosm.org/projects/audacious/'>https://www.hotosm.org/projects/audacious/</a>   <p> </p> You can reach out to our guest via email at geoffrey.kateregga@hotosm.org or on Twitter: <a href='https://twitter.com/kateregga1'>https://twitter.com/kateregga1</a>   Happy to connect with you: https://twitter.com/Svelte_mo   <p> </p> Remember to Subscribe :) and share this podcast with a friend! <p> </p> Happy to connect with you!   Subscribe to our mailing list: <a href='https://mailchi.mp/431d1fc48f4b/africa-geo-convo-mailing-list'>https://mailchi.mp/431d1fc48f4b/africa-geo-convo-mailing-list</a>