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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.
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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).
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