Welcome to Maptime Boston!

What is Maptime?
For more info:
www.maptime.io/about

lyzidiamond.com/posts/why-maptime

"We realized that we wanted to become better mapmakers, but were frustrated with the lack of resources for learning how to make them."

Why Maptime

"organized community around learning and teaching geospatial open source"

Maptimes All Over the World

http://maptime.io/chapters/

Why Maptime

Maptime is about:

Helping each other
Learning from and teaching together
Making a safe space for learning
Making maps more democratic
Bringing the Geo community together
Having fun!

Why Maptime

Maptime is NOT about:

Being too technical
Sales pitches
Arguing
Violence
Judgement
Getting other people to do your work for free ←NO
Having no fun :(

Upcoming events

NACIS
October 16–19, Tacoma WA
https://nacis.org/
(North American Cartographic Information Society)

Thank you to Facebook for hosting and feeding us!

Please get in touch if you can help sponsor future events!

Thank you to members who have donated! Small donations help cover:
- Meetup.com fees, nearly $200/year! :(
- Food if not sponsored ($50+ per event)
- Occasional supplies (e.g. for hand-drawn map events)
Venmo: @awoodruff (Andrew Woodruff)
(^ Leave a fun note or emoji!)
or cash in the donation cups!