From this friday on the first state of the map conference in Tanzania will be held in Dar es Salaam. The members of our GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the disastermappers heidelberg Marcel Reinmuth and Benjamin Herfort are participating and will organize a workshop on creating maps from OpenStreetMap data.
The state of the map in Tanzania is a unique event that brings together experts in the field of GIS, community mappers from rural tanzania and youthmappers from east Africa. It is organized by the OpenStreetMap community in Tanzania and Dar Ramani Huria.
If you would like to follow the conference have a look at Twitter: #SOTMTZ and @RamaniHuria.