Charity
MapAction is a charity that provides life-saving information about disaster situations in the form of maps. Its highly-skilled volunteers play a vital role in helping to coordinate the national and international emergency response by gathering information. MapAction is the only non-governmental organisation (NGO) anywhere in the world with a capacity to deploy a fully trained and equipped humanitarian mapping and information management team, often within a few hours of an alert.
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MapAction's Midsummer Meridian Bike Ride
Twenty MapAction volunteers, friends and family are cycling from the Paris Meridian to the Greenwich Meridian in order to raise funds for the charity. MapAction are unique in providing mapping teams anywhere in the world within 24 hours of a natural disaster occuring. Recent deployments include the Japanese Tsunami, the Pakistan Floods and the Haiti Earthquake
The Route
The route will leave Paris heading west along the route of the Seine before heading north to Dieppe to catch the ferry to Newhaven, from here the route will closely follow the Greenwich Meridian north through the fine scenery of the Kent and Sussex Weald before arriving at the beautiful Greenwich Observatory for a celebration.
The Meridians
The Paris Meridian dates from 1634 and was in competition with the Greenwich until 1884 when Greenwich won out in at an International conference in Washington. However the French clung to the Paris Meridian as a rival to Greenwich until 1911 for timekeeping purposes and 1914 for navigation. To this day, French cartographers continue to indicate the Paris Meridian on some maps. The competition between the Paris and Greenwich Meridians is a plot element in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", published just before the international decision in favour of the British one (Wikipedia).
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Thank You!
Recent donors
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Kevin Cressy & Suzanne Noiret £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.08.11 Well done guys, fantastic effort. £2.7k and rising! |
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Anonymous £160.00 (+ £40.00 giftaid) 17.08.11 |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 22.07.11 Well done, great achievement! |
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Emma Dauben £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 19.07.11 Well done on completing your cycle ride. I hope you all weren't too tired or saddle sore afterwards! |
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Frank £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 14.07.11 Sorry its late! |
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Claire Byrne £400.00 10.07.11 In the immortal words of Porky the Pig... Th-th-th-th-that's all folks ...! |
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Nick G £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 07.07.11 well done Nick McW |
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Sarah £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 06.07.11 |
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Cathy £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 06.07.11 Well done Amelie! |
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Adam Yates £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 06.07.11 Well done Richard Smith and the wholle "Peloton" |
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Anonymous £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 05.07.11 |
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Alison Nicholson £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 03.07.11 well done Nick and team! |
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David E £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 01.07.11 Well done Lucy! |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 01.07.11 |
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Anonymous £20.00 01.07.11 |
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Anonymous £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 01.07.11 Congratulations all. |
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Matthew Banyard £5.00 (+ £1.25 giftaid) 01.07.11 Well Done Vickie & team |
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Lynne M £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 28.06.11 Well done Team MapAction! |
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Abi P £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 28.06.11 Well done everyone |
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richard £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 28.06.11 Well done..Lucy and team. |
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Sarah £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 28.06.11 Impressive! Well done Lucy... hope you will have enough energy for a float about later this week! |
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Jo £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 28.06.11 Well done Lucy, you're a star - very proud!! x |
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Jamie £100.00 (+ £25.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 Awesome ride - all for a good cause! |
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Hilary £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 A belated donation from me as I've been away. I hope it went ok and I look forward to hearing about it. See you soon? |
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Pete and Caroline £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 Good on you Becky and Andy! |
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Pauline Newton £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 Hope there was beer and chips for you after Matt!Fab, great achievement. |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 |
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Andrew B £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 27.06.11 We look forward to some pictures, once you have had time to recover! Well done! |
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Mike the Kit Man £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 27.06.11 To bring it up to the £2000 mark. It was a great effort everyone and good to see you all en route. Now you know that Sussex has HILLS! |
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Chris and Lily £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 27.06.11 Congratulations to everyone on completing the ride! Sorry we couldn't be there to see you reach Greenwich. |
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Sibloxxxxxooo £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 27.06.11 Hope you had fun and your bottoms aren't too sore..... |
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Annie Hawkins £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 27.06.11 Well done |
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Barbara and Anthony Anderson £50.00 (+ £12.50 giftaid) 26.06.11 Well done Lucy |
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Paul Miller £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 25.06.11 all the very best. One from the phrasebook..."Bonjour, mon wombat il est constipe' " |
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Andy Stobart £65.01 (+ £16.25 giftaid) 25.06.11 |
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Rachel £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.06.11 The mear thought of cycling from Paris to London exhausts me - Well done for doing it for real! |
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Anonymous £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.06.11 Good luck and hope you don't get too saddle sore! |
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Tony Phillips £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.06.11 Bon chance and enjoy the ride! |
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Sue Holmes £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 24.06.11 Good luck today Lucy. |
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Nigel Cooper £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.06.11 Your a glutton for punishment - but all for a good cause. Good luck |
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James Mead £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.06.11 Good luck, Nick et al. |
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Nigel Nonbark £150.00 (+ £37.50 giftaid) 24.06.11 Good luck everyone, great effort! |
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John Hartshorn, 1Spatial £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 24.06.11 It hurts just thinking about this - it's taken me the last 3 weeks to get over the 100km Oxfam Trailtrekker challenge. Best of luck everyone. |
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Anna £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.06.11 Bon Voyage team MapAction!! |
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Bronwen, Markus & Aino £20.00 23.06.11 Good luck, I hope you have nice weather. |
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Pat Quinsee £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.06.11 Good Luck |
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Helen C £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.06.11 Bonne chance mes amis! |
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Linda Logan £25.00 (+ £6.25 giftaid) 23.06.11 Bonne chance Lucy! Hope you enjoy the scenery and the challenge x |
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Roy Wood £20.00 (+ £5.00 giftaid) 23.06.11 Best wishes. Its not all that far really! |
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Phil Simmons £10.00 (+ £2.50 giftaid) 23.06.11 Good luck to JD, Smiffy and the Wookie. Allez! Allez! |
