MaptimePGH and the National Day of Civic Hacking on June 6

It’s been a while!

After our first session in February, we took a step back to see how we might better schedule with and support Open PGH, the local Code For America brigade. To that end, we are happy to announce that our next session will be integrated with OpenPGH’s hosting of the National Day of Civic Hacking (NDOCH).

MaptimePGH @ NDOCH Event Details

• What: MaptimePGH at the National Day of Civic Hacking
• When: June 6, 2015 - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (with the Maptime working session in the morning, beginning shortly after 10 AM)
• Where: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Homewood Branch: 7101 Hamilton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (40.455256, -79.899224
• Contact: @MaptimePGH, pittsburgh@maptime.io
• Thanks: Special thanks to OpenPGH for helping organize this event!

In the morning, we will:

• walk through a short introduction to digital mapping
• show you how to create spatial data
• work through a few short example mapping exercises using a few different tools

In the afternoon, you’ll use these skills and resources to work with real data on real challenges.

New to Maptime? New to mapping? Fear not! Maptime is geared for beginners, and the session will be interactive so that you have plenty of opportunities to learn!

MaptimePGH Feburary Recap

We had a great first MaptimePGH session on February 19 at the Carnegie Museum. The slides from that session are available here. We also got out and promoted the group at the Civic Tech Fair the coincided with Steel City Codefest February 22.