Open Street Mapping for Social Scientists: Introductory Mapping Workshop

Dates: Wednesday 21st to Thursday 22nd April 2010

Times: Day 1 – 11.30am to 4.30pm; Day 2 – 9.00am to 3.30pm

Course Leaders: Dr Robert Berry and Dr Richard Fry, WISERD Data Team

Location: Training Room, 46 Park Place, Cardiff University

Overview

The purpose of the workshop is to provide researchers with the skills to enable them to map their localities/study area(s) using OpenStreetMap.  Using a combination of handheld GPS units and aerial photographs, researchers will be tasked with mapping a small urban area of Cardiff. Participants will learn how to capture spatial data in the field using GPS, transfer the data to a computer and use it to create new OpenStreetMap map data (roads, paths, buildings, points of interest etc).

Researchers will find these mapping skills beneficial for their own research – allowing them to map their own areas of interest and publish cartographic output in research papers free of any licensing/copyright headaches. Future Data Team workshops are planned for enabling researchers to build on these mapping skills and show them how they can analyse (spatially) the data that they have collected and mapped using GIS (Geographical Information Systems) software.

Participants are encouraged to read up on the background to Open Street Mapping before the event.

Fee Information

Workshop fee per day:

UK Registered Postgraduate Student - £30
Staff at Any UK Higher Education Institution - £60
ESRC Funded Researcher - £60
Registered Charity - £60
Other - £220

All fees include event materials, lunch, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.

Workshop currently full. Please contact WISERD.events@cardiff.ac.uk to add your name to the waiting list. You will be contacted should a place become available.

For further information please contact WISERD.events@cardiff.ac.uk