
More than 200 school students aged 12 to 18 attended this year´s
GIS Day in Salzburg. All of them joined seven interactive workshops - offering insights into current developments in Geography, GIS and location-aware technologies. The funniest part of the game: experiencing real-world applications such as
OSM. Cornelius Roth
(Z_GIS) and Rares Rotar, masterstudent of
Applied Geoinformatics at Salzburg University,
encouraged them to become mappers themselves. Most impressing for the visitors: Seeing how as mappers they could help in
crisis-situations. Such as Rares did in April 2015, when he first volunteered for HumanitarianOpenStreetMap (HOT) after the Nepal earthquake.


About
1.600 events were held at schools and organizations around the globe on this year´s GIS Day. The Salzburg event is organised by the departments of
Geography and
Geoinformatics (Z_GIS).