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Welcome!
Welcome!
Join us on Wednesday, November 19, as we celebrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This event is free and open to all! Members of the Five Colleges and the public are especially welcome.
Highlights
Highlights
Keynote talk by Garrett Dash Nelson
Faculty Slam
Silly Map Competition
Humanitarian Mapathon
Mappy Hour and Map Trivia
Schedule
Schedule
From Big Data to Big Evidence: Combining Ways of Knowing in Computer Cartography
Garrett Dash Nelson (President and Head Curator at the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library) will speak to us live from Boston! Join our watch party in Morrill 245 or hop on Zoom.
12:00pm – (Free!) Lunch and Social Hour
12:00pm – (Free!) Lunch and Social Hour
Join us for free pizza, coffee, and snacks! Make new friends and chat about all things geospatial.
A Map that Changed How I See the World
Each faculty member has 5 minutes and 5 slides to change how we see the world! The best presenter will earn glory and eternal fame.
Show off your silliest GIS map – creativity and goofiness strongly encouraged!
3:00pm – Humanitarian OSM Mapathon
3:00pm – Humanitarian OSM Mapathon
Contribute to disaster relief and create needed open data by teaming up to map a part of the world using the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Task Manager.
4:00pm – Esri Young Professionals Network
4:00pm – Esri Young Professionals Network
Crash course about Esri’s Young Professionals Network (YPN), a community for connecting recent GIS grads or folks new to the field.
5:30pm – Mappy Hour and Trivia
5:30pm – Mappy Hour and Trivia
In person – Hangar Pub & Grill, Amherst
Join us at Amherst's favorite brew-pub for a low-key gathering to recap the day's events, meet new mappy friends, and compete in a riveting game of map trivia for the chance to win prizes!
We'll meet in the dining room from 5:30 til whenever. If our Map Trivia whets your appetite, you hop to the next room at 7:00 for Hangar's own weekly trivia!
Hangar Pub & Grill, Amherst
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