Thanks, John. We’ll discuss this at our June 8 planning meeting for the Sept 28
Durham Mapathon 2 event. Where municipal staff identify a policy challenge and
engage students in applying their local knowledge worked well on May 3. Maybe
Keith can share what he learned working with high school classes in Manitoba
using the BC2020i framework.
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:56 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Wikidata
I think it depends on what you are trying to do. There are two parts to
BC2020i the first is map the buildings the second is enrich the buildings with
tags.
The first part can be done best by importing Open Data if the licenses align
and at the moment few do and of those that do not all have accurate building
data suitable and even if they do it needs specialist knowledge to know all the
steps and to do the import.
It can be done with mapping from imagery but whilst mapping using the
building_tool plugin in JOSM does work well in a mapathon environment using iD
seems to give rise to data quality issues and you don't really want to offend
to many OpenStreetMap mappers too often.
Enriching the tags of existing buildings probably doesn't look so interesting
to students but it really is of value especially if its local since the sort of
number of levels of the building cannot be seen from imagery that we are
licensed to use. Even in Ottawa there are many areas where although we have
all the buildings we have many without tags saying how high they are etc. I'm
not even sure we have a list of what would be most useful. Streetcomplete an
Android app is very useful for adding data.
Locally we have houses that are split level, so a garage in the basement with a
room over the top but the rest of the house is single storey. I'm not sure how
these should be tagged. Is it documented anywhere?
What might be interesting is to get them to pull OSM data into R R.org and do
some analysis and that might be valuable in places like Africa where they have
the same problems but fewer resources.
Cheerio John
On 31 May 2018 at 10:44, Jonathan Brown wrote:
Has anyone thought of using Wikidata to enhance the BC2020i project work with
secondary and postsecondary students?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
How could structured, linked open data help municipalities and regions engage
students in collaborative research projects? We are exploring ways to build on
the Durham Mapathon event of May 3. At that event, Durham Region staff
collaborated with senior secondary school teachers and students from Clarington
Municipality on policy challenges. The Durham Region GIS staff provided the
technical support.
Jonathan
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